EDIT: The only reason why I still had it at this point was because I could use it with other apps. However, now that my Spotify Subscription is cancelled, it doesn’t work with anything. It’s mildly infuriating because today, I can’t still use it with other apps like I was able to yesterday.

Please don’t make the same mistake I made. No one should buy this.

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.worldEnglish
      201·
      2 years ago

      As a consumer, Spotify competes for my money with Bandcamp, who gave their cut to artists throughout covid.

      Owning things is always a better model than renting them (edit: exceptions exist, none of which I need to be @ed about)

      • 🍔🍔🍔@toast.oooEnglish
        41·
        2 years ago

        totally agree. and plus i kind of want to be charged money here. i want the musicians i listen to to get paid and be able to continue making music. i don’t know if the amount they get paid vs spotify’s cut is fair, but honestly if I wasn’t paying my monthly subscription id probably be paying $0 and listening to less music.

      • dingus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        2 years ago

        I have hundreds upon hundreds of songs in my Spotify music collection. The people telling me to just pirate my library are absolutely wild. I can’t even imagine how long it would take me to find and download every single song. And then I wouldn’t have a simple way to discover new music. Spotify is the one and only subscription service I find to be useful.

      • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        2 years ago

        I tried Tidal back when “Amazon Music HD” launched and I was on a hunt for the best lossless streaming. My only issue with tidal is their catalogue. It is laughably deficient. In the end I found zero good lossless streaming options and went back to ripping my own CDs.

        • Psychadelligoat@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          Compared to when I first tried them a few years ago their catalogue has gotten significantly better

          About 6 months ago I took my 750ish songs from Spotify over and only the FFXIV game tracks didn’t get imported in the move

          Compared to like 60 or so percent when I last tried I’d say it’s come a long way

    • nocturne213@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      even more incompetent and greedy

      even more incompetent ****or greedy

      Napster pays artists more, costs less… but the service was garbage.