I have got to admit I canned Spotify subs years ago - but how are they managing to grow their subscriber base whn it is now going to be £11.99 in the UK? That is way, way too high for what it offers…

https://www.gbnews.com/tech/spotify-price-rise

  • sma3in@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Spotify has a become a shit show lately. I don’t like that the CEO is supporting a genocidal state, the platform is full of fake AI artists and playlists. Artists aren’t getting paid enough. the price hikes and the app just feels so bloated with unnecessary bullshit. Because of this, I switched to self hosting my own music server (Navidrome, and Lidarr) and I use the symphonium app on Android. Really happy with that solution

  • addie@feddit.ukEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Just saying; cancelling Spotify and changing to Qobuz takes five minutes. Sound quality is amazingly better, the curated recommendations are done by human beings that love music, and ‘just works’ with everything that Spotify does. (For us, anyway.) It’s French, rather than Norwegian-American like Tidal is, if you’re trying to stop spending money on everything US at the moment, too.

    • Nighed@feddit.ukEnglish
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      4 months ago

      They don’t have any other recommendations apart from those human made ones though? Couldn’t find what I wanted.

      The UI is awful and their artist pages are normally blank for indy artists.

      The migration is pretty seamless though, and they apparently pay their artists way better.