Meme: Amphibian creature labelled “Spotify” emerging from a body of water, but being pushed back. Captions read: “Stop them! Don’t let a single company rule them all. If you see a Horrid Beast monopolizing, push it back in.”

  • scripthook@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    Fed up with the algorithms and looming AI integration last November I ditched Spotify and downloaded songs through soul seek. All my albums are on my Mac and my iPhone which I play via VLC media player. I’ve never looked back. No one telling me who I should listen to next or what my top artist of the year is. No more streaming with bad cell connection.

    • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      No more streaming with bad cell connection.

      You know Spotify has an offline mode, right? I have many thousands of tracks downloaded using their offline mode.

      • 0ops@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Yeah like 50gb of my phones storage is just Spotify music

        • lud@lemm.eeEnglish
          11·
          2 months ago

          Didn’t you pirate the songs? I wouldn’t call that ownership.

          I just like Spotify and their discovery stuff. I wouldn’t enjoy having to find and download every single song I want to listen to. That would be a pain.

          Also, nothing is stopping me from pirating the songs whenever I want. It’s not like you “own” anything that I can’t also “own” the moment I decide to ditch Spotify.

          If you were actually buying CDs I would agree that you might have had a point (and a lot of cash because CDs are really expensive).