DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature.
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Why does everything have to constantly increase profits?
I think that's the nature of publicly traded for profit companies. The shareholders don't care about the product. They just want their portfolio's value to go up.
The leadership doesn't care much about the product. Not in the long term. They get paid a big salary, and the higher-ups have equity they want to go up in value. So long as they cash out before the product dies, they're golden.
The actual labor building the product might care. Some are just working for a paycheck. (I knew a guy who worked at spotify, actually. He didn't personally care much about music. He was just a database guy). But the ones who do care don't have any power.
So most of the forces that would push the company towards being long term good don't have power. The forces that want more profits, now, do.
Yeah, I know how capitalism works, unfortunately... I'm just ranting into the void at this point.
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Huh. That's a wild strategy, as for the other stuff that's interesting, thanks for letting me know
Sure thing, and for the record I'm a primary source. I've seen this directly, going back more than a decade
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Soon: reels, shorts, videos and second hand underwear.
UK identity verification will finally make sense
~/s~
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Sure thing, and for the record I'm a primary source. I've seen this directly, going back more than a decade
I've read recently that llms are starting to effect how recently discovered tribal people operate and it's fucking up there social structures, that was interesting to
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I've been a happy Tidal user for years fwiw. The app is great as is music availability and discovery. I went back to Spotify for a while because I was missing its discovery features like discover weekly, but Tidal has greatly improved since then, and now features a daily discovery playlist (10 tracks, which I greatly prefer to Spotify's weekly 30), plus 8 custom mixes based on genres you listen to. Track radio is also solid.
Also, it's maybe the only subscription service that instead of creating new tiers, merged the two it had before into one, keeping the upper tier's features at the lower one's cost
Listenbrainz is the best for discovery no matter what platform. Its opensource last.fm
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When you see things like this remember that you're paying for this. Stuff like this is why the price has gone up again.
They had a good thing near perfect but they kept adding useless features and bloating the app and price. I need to cancel this shit but my grandma loves it.
Once they brought on Podcasts and wouldn’t stop shoving Joe Rogan on every screen I absolutely cancelled. I never listened to a single podcast on there yet they were the overwhelming majority of my recommendations. I was also getting annoyed with the random pop-ups of ‘hey wanna try this band that sounds absolutely nothing like anything you’ve ever listened to on our platform before?’…nope! Didn’t need Audible either. The price just kept going up…like guys, I want a music app. That’s it. Nothing else.
Uninstalled Spotify over a year(or 2 or 3?) ago…don’t really miss it.
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36348361
Introducing Messages, A New Way To Share What You Love on Spotify with Friends and Family — Spotify
Recommendations have always been at the heart of the Spotify experience. Friends and family share their favorite music, podcasts, audiobooks, and more from Spotify millions of times each month. That’s because word of mouth is one of the most powerful ways for people to discover their next favorite track. Spotify users have told us they...
Spotify (newsroom.spotify.com)
People will use every one of these horrendous messaging subapps but scoff at the idea of downloading signal or even whatsapp.
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Wooooooot? How did I miss that during my research?
Access Industries is owned by Leonard Blavatnik and has a 41% stake in Deezer.
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People will use every one of these horrendous messaging subapps but scoff at the idea of downloading signal or even whatsapp.
It's a good thing that people refuse to download Whatsapp/Meta crap
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When you see things like this remember that you're paying for this. Stuff like this is why the price has gone up again.
They had a good thing near perfect but they kept adding useless features and bloating the app and price. I need to cancel this shit but my grandma loves it.
I am not paying for this
you shouldn't either
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Listenbrainz is the best for discovery no matter what platform. Its opensource last.fm
I wish there was a better way to scrobble from Tidal to Listenbrainz on Android. I know that the Listenbrainz app itself can read system notifications and get song info from them. But the fact that you need to give permission to it for all types of notifications is not an easy decision to make.
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36348361
Introducing Messages, A New Way To Share What You Love on Spotify with Friends and Family — Spotify
Recommendations have always been at the heart of the Spotify experience. Friends and family share their favorite music, podcasts, audiobooks, and more from Spotify millions of times each month. That’s because word of mouth is one of the most powerful ways for people to discover their next favorite track. Spotify users have told us they...
Spotify (newsroom.spotify.com)
NSFW bots sending you spam links and crypto scammers. Yea !!!!!
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what alternative did you end up going with?
I had a script to convert my main Spotify playlist (5000+ songs) to download from soulseek but...yeah that would take a VERY long time and I really didn't feel like being a soulseek asshole going that route.
If there was something out there where I can take my spotify playlist and just convert it and use it on another/better platform I'd switch right now.
YMusic listen YouTube video in background - Android
Listen to your favorite music video in YouTube without consuming addition data for loading video stream
(ymusic.io)
use ymusic with no ads for youtube
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36348361
Introducing Messages, A New Way To Share What You Love on Spotify with Friends and Family — Spotify
Recommendations have always been at the heart of the Spotify experience. Friends and family share their favorite music, podcasts, audiobooks, and more from Spotify millions of times each month. That’s because word of mouth is one of the most powerful ways for people to discover their next favorite track. Spotify users have told us they...
Spotify (newsroom.spotify.com)
every platform becomes TikTok at the end.
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36348361
Introducing Messages, A New Way To Share What You Love on Spotify with Friends and Family — Spotify
Recommendations have always been at the heart of the Spotify experience. Friends and family share their favorite music, podcasts, audiobooks, and more from Spotify millions of times each month. That’s because word of mouth is one of the most powerful ways for people to discover their next favorite track. Spotify users have told us they...
Spotify (newsroom.spotify.com)
Thanks, but I would rather gnaw of my own feet
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Apple music. High bitrate and aptx on android. And they pay artists more than Spotify. I moved over a while ago but I used some website to transfer over all my music.
Edit: looks like apple music might have the ability to transfer your music built into it now?https://www.macrumors.com/2025/08/26/apple-music-transfer-tool-6-more-countries/
+1 for Apple Music. I know, “boo Apple!” And all that, but it fits well within the Apple one subscription and they pay artists well. Sound quality is good, discovery is good, supported everywhere.
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Apple music. High bitrate and aptx on android. And they pay artists more than Spotify. I moved over a while ago but I used some website to transfer over all my music.
Edit: looks like apple music might have the ability to transfer your music built into it now?https://www.macrumors.com/2025/08/26/apple-music-transfer-tool-6-more-countries/
I'm a Linux–Android user and Apple Music is the closest I've found to Google Play Music's library management (the best there ever was). So it's what I use.
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36348361
Introducing Messages, A New Way To Share What You Love on Spotify with Friends and Family — Spotify
Recommendations have always been at the heart of the Spotify experience. Friends and family share their favorite music, podcasts, audiobooks, and more from Spotify millions of times each month. That’s because word of mouth is one of the most powerful ways for people to discover their next favorite track. Spotify users have told us they...
Spotify (newsroom.spotify.com)
And they still don't offer 2FA.
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Listenbrainz is the best for discovery no matter what platform. Its opensource last.fm
The last loop I'm trying to close is notifications for new releases from artists I subscribe to.
I found this, but it has no documentation so I haven't tried it yet: https://github.com/provokateurin/musicbrainz-rss-generator
Edit: Nevermind, I somehow missed the Explore page in ListenBrainz that does this automatically (and has its own RSS feed).
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I've been a happy Tidal user for years fwiw. The app is great as is music availability and discovery. I went back to Spotify for a while because I was missing its discovery features like discover weekly, but Tidal has greatly improved since then, and now features a daily discovery playlist (10 tracks, which I greatly prefer to Spotify's weekly 30), plus 8 custom mixes based on genres you listen to. Track radio is also solid.
Also, it's maybe the only subscription service that instead of creating new tiers, merged the two it had before into one, keeping the upper tier's features at the lower one's cost
Plus Tidal songs are easily downloadable in full FLAC quality for your personal archive.
