I wish more bands I like were on bandcamp
this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2025
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Tidal HiFi is really good, better sound quality, has most music.
They also pay the artists better.
Its also cheaper, somehow.
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TBH if you're an artist you'll probably make more money by NOT being on streaming platforms and having people buy your music directly - spotify in particular pays fuck all, you might as well have your music on The Pirate Bay. Hell, putting your own music on pirating platforms is probably better for discovery, and people who like your music will buy the albums.
As soon as I need to subscribe to multiple services to find my music I'm going back to piracy. Fuck that anti consumer shit.
You should already be going back to piracy. Spotify is scamming you and artists.
fun fact:
Jellyfin works for music (and audio books) just as well as it does for movies and TV shows!
And being open source, there are apps specific to certain use cases. Like on ios there's Finamp for music and Plappa for audio books.
It also streams in FLAC quality!
Plex also has Plexamp which works great for music, if you’re like me and got the lifetime Plex pass long ago.
Lifetime Plex Pass here too. I got it long ago.
I still migrated my server and uninstalled it once I tried Jellyfin for a few days because of the performance difference alone.
yee, so far I haven’t found anything close to Plexamp on features that I want, that lifetime license paid for itself a long time ago
Is there a FOSS music discovery service? I like to listen to 1920' to 1960', and the radios and discovery in those era on Spotify work extremely well.
I'm not sure. In my case with Jellyfin it's fully self-hosted and not connected to any kind of discovery service.
I appreciate the value of automated music discovery services. I listened to so much last.fm in the early days of it. But like I have posted about before, I have been trying the old fashioned way lately and liking it a lot. I search for the best bands, best songs, best albums of a certain genre or period. It gives me some listicles on music websites and some discussions between what seem like real people, etc.
So then I just start downloading entire albums or discographies, and then work those in to listen at work. Maybe listen to albums as albums, or shuffle play all songs from the artist, or make a playlist, or just shuffle play my entire library.
When a song really jumps out at me, I'll generally add it to my ever-growing playlist.
The piracy service still sucks compared to Spotify.
Another annoying part about this is how well everything is integrated.
- I can switch my playback between mobile phone, PC, and living room sound system at any time
- I can join a playback session on a Bluetooth speaker that a friend started to skip or queue songs
All of that is driven by monopoly which is bad, sure, but shit's convenient af
Yeah I've trying to get away from Spotify for years. I still pay for Tidal and yt music too but Spotify service is unmatched by anything out there. It's not even close.
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tbh you can get by with skipping whole pirate thing and just listen to local and internet radio there's still a lot of good things out there
Boy, this band's name sure made this headline confusing.
I didn't realize this was band related until your post
I'm only vaguely aware of them because one of their songs was used as the House theme, and I still thought the article was describing an upcoming cyber attack on Spotify.
Because fuck'em, that's why!
Boycott spotify +1
Spotify: the company that continues to find ways to make YouTube play music not a horrible choice.
Like... How the fuck.
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I had friends try to get me into Spotify, never liked it.
I use antennaPod for podcasts, highly recommend
Yeah an amazing podcast app
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Ohhhh that’s a band’s name
Great band.
Mezzanine is a masterpiece. It could've been released yesterday. The sound is timeless.
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I develop kew (a terminal music player), so I'm biased, but I started kew because I rejected Spotify many years ago.
I think that kew (or other private/offline music players) together with flacs from Qobuz are actually a great alternative to Spotify. Throw in some Bandcamp albums in there for great justice. Once you have a decent collection, you will feel liberated.
I especially think that Qobuz needs more exposure.
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I've been using bandcamp for years, and I feel pretty good about it. I'd spend about $10/month and get 1-2 albums, and now I have a pretty big collection. I've been unemployed so I haven't bought new music, but my library is still here and ad-free.
Bandcamp might enshittify, since it's privately owned, so make sure you download the drm-free copy of anything you buy.
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good
Spotify must die
Have you guys read the article ? Spotify is denying the claim of massive attack and other platforms as misinformation, they are claiming that the firm the CEO invested in is only working towards military defense of Ukraine against Russia's invasion. I don't know what is true and don't have the time to check, but it looks to me like a decent response if true.
Not saying Spotify isn't problematic, but that might be overblown misinformation.
Then again, if you want to cancel Spotify, good, I'm all for it, I don't like the enshitification they are undergoing. But this reason might not be the one you should put on the resignation form, it might not send the right message to Spotify.
The company, Helsing, pledges to only sell towards democratic governments. I think it's a very slippery slope. In my opinion, once you've taken a step towards the military industrial complex, you are the military industrial complex.
I'm not sure how much funding came from the profits of Spotify. It could have come from other investments. Ultimately, you have Spotify leadership involved in a defence company that makes drones. Ethically, I don't like my money going towards someone who invests in this.
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Good. Streaming is for cowards
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