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Spotify has updated the desktop app with plenty of visual improvements and new features, like a “now playing” view that gives you immediate access to merchandise and tour dates.

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[–] Bistro@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago

Seeing this makes me realize how little I actually use Spotify. Not to say the Desktop redesign looks bad but my only usage of Spotify is through their mobile app on Android. Since I never used the Desktop app before the redesign I can't say if its bad or not. Most, if not all, of my music listening is through either SoundCloud or Youtube.

[–] amotoohno@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Yay! Another enshittified product to replace with a federated one! @funkwhale here I come …

[–] holgersson@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Dont forget that Spotify abuses its market position by basically milking smaller artists dry.

Does anybody know of a good alternative that doesnt involve either storing hundreds of albums on CD or piracy?

[–] zakomo@beehaw.org 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bandcamp is a nice alternative, but much more limited to smaller artists and labels.

[–] Pilirin@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

i have made a point of paying for music that i DJ with for over a decade. bandcamp as a website has been a huge part of that. it's bloody amazing.

[–] kukkurovaca@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Qobuz and Tidal are less evil than Spotify and support higher quality audio, but also have smaller selections. Where practical I'll buy albums I like on FLAC from Bandcamp or HDtracks but it is also nice to have a streaming service for discovering new stuff.

[–] miracleorange@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

7digital is a pretty good DRM-free digital music store, and they even have lossless music. They don't have everything, but their catalog is pretty huge.

Admittedly you would have to be pretty rich to buy all the music you want to listen to, but if you have an Android phone, I'm pretty sure there are apps you can use to stream from YouTube Music or Spotify without a subscription.

Personally, I'm poor and lazy, so I just stick with Apple Music. Anything they don't have, I just upload to my library.

[–] bigoofn@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago
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[–] wafer@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It gets worse every update

[–] Thalyssa@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spotify is peak change for the sake of change. They like tinkering with the UI for no discernible reason.

[–] niktemadur@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Fidgety corporate ADHD. Constantly breaking things that used to work and now they don't, all across the extended ecosystem (such as Alexa). Some assholes trying to justify their salary as the clueless and mesmerized suits go along with it, this is "metrics" anti-culture they've created. High-fiving themselves and giving themselves bonuses, for making things palpably enshittified.

It also sounds kinda like Lucas with the Original Trilogy.

[–] hightrix@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Yep! I left a while ago and moved to Tidal. I've been relatively happy with it so far.

[–] woodenskewer@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

i deleted my spotify account after the ticktok update on mobile. my friend had me on his family plan, it was so bad i would not use it for free. i have a tidal sub now. it's ok but the playlist generator is lacking. spotify used to randomize a playlist after listening to an album. tidal plays the same playlist seemingly every time after an album and its kind of annoying. everything else is good though.

[–] Thalyssa@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

My desktop client is busted as it's stuck in the previous iteration of the UI.

I really despise their constant UI updates.

Anyone from r/truespotify here? Lol.

[–] NeMeSiS187@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great to see some improvements. Hopefully it doesn't overly clutter the UI. On a side note, has anyone found the new AI DJ useful? Mine keeps playing k-pop even though I rarely if ever listen to k-pop. I've found myself just going back to daily mix 1.

[–] Joe@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I'm loving the DJ! It does go off the rails a bit if you leave it on too long

I listen to a lot of different genres but I'm bad at sorting them so they're all just in a massiv playlist. The DJ plays them in little batches of similar genres which flows a lot better than the random shuffle

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

I like it. It looks much cleaner.

[–] Obesity@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

So tired of Spotify changing shit up constantly. I would’ve switched to Apple Music a long time ago if they’d just implement Chromecast support on their damn iOS app (doubt it will ever happen). Everyone on my family plan is too invested in Chromecasts/Google Speakers to swap over to AppleTVs/HomeHubs

[–] kalanggam@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I have a lot of mixed feelings about Spotify's UI choices, but I guess this is what Spicetify is for. 😅

[–] metacolon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds like a good time to switch to resonate. There's (sadly) not that many artists there yet, but the pricing model is really cool (and doesn't exploit tne artists as much). And I guess the only way a platform like this will get more artists, is if it gets more listeners :)

[–] DidacticDumbass@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

I have a resonate account. I keep forgetting about it. I will try to use it more often now.

[–] CorrodedCranium@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

One of the reasons I stopped using Spotify was the rather regular UI changes

[–] Newby@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can someone explain why Spotify desktop doesn’t support the new episodes playlist for podcasts? Biggest annoyance I have using it.

[–] rustyspoon@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

And can that same person explain why social features are completely missing from the mobile app?

[–] miniu@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

I'll add to the minority that likes those changes. I don't use the desktop version that often and was pleasantly surprised :D I like having the library on the side. Especially that I do have quite a wide screen.

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