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The ads urge listeners to “join the mission to protect America” by becoming U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, but users of the music streaming giant have taken to social media and Spotify’s website to complain, and announce their withdrawal from the audio platform.

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[–] AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Well fuck. Spotify is going to be the most difficult to let go but there seems to be every reason.

Its such a convenient platform, but such a terrible business. They seem to believe they're untouchable.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Been self-hosting for months. Rebuilding my music collection has been an ardous but invigorating experience. I have been listening much more music than ever before with Spotify, with a way better user experience. Turns out I missed music.

[–] ChocolateFrostedSugarBombs@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's your tech stack look like for this? I've seen some guides on Lemmy here already for it. Always curious to see what other people come up with.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

My stack is:

  • Remote access: Bare metal Tailscale for the server and clients.
  • Mobile music streaming client: Substreamer
  • AndroidTV client: Chora
  • Streaming server: Navidrome
  • Fallback server: Jellyfin
  • Collection handler: Lidarr with plugins
  • Download handlers: Slskd, deluge
  • Container manager: Podman

All services configured in a single rootless podman compose file that runs on a laptop.

[–] ImADifferentBird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] TheMinister@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago

Tidal is excellent. Spotify only recently allowed lossless streaming, which tidal has been doing for a long time. There are apps you pay like $5 to and transfer your entire library. Which I cancelled same day. After it gets to know your music preferences, the recommendations are daily playlists instead of weekly, and in my opinion they’re much better.

Not to mention they pay the artists the most out of all streamers, which is why I initially changed.

[–] ubergeek@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

I moved to Tidal, and out of 10,000 tracks, I lost ~30 of them.

Other than missing the "Magic shuffle" which helps me discover new stuff, its a good enough streaming platform.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 5 points 1 day ago

I switched to Qobuz about six months ago after also trialling Deezer, Tidal, Apple Music and YT Music. Highly recommended. Their curated playlists are excellent and I can't believe what a different the higher quality and lossles bitrates makes. They pay artists way more than the other platforms though, remarkably, they're the only (major) platform to actually publish per-stream figures, even if they're only averages. Based in France if that matters to you. They only offer paid plans but do have free trials and provide users with a code for a third-party migration service to bring your playlists over.