Introducing Messages, A New Way To Share What You Love on Spotify with Friends and Family — Spotify
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Recommendations have always been at the heart of the Spotify experience. Friends and family share their favorite music, podcasts, audiobooks, and more from Spotify millions of times each month. That’s because word of mouth is one of the most powerful ways for people to discover their next favorite track.  Spotify users have told us they...

I’ve done it. I’ve finally reached my “old man yells at cloud” moment. Why, why, WHY is Spotify adding features straight out of the social media playbook?

Anybody have recommendations for alternatives?

In my head there’s:

YouTube music (google, gross)

Apple music (no way they’re not on a similar trajectory)

Bandcamp (limited, but at least bands see some money from it)

SoundCloud (weird reputation, though haven’t come back around to it in a good 10 years)

Tidal maybe? Would love to hear some recommendations.

Edit: I neglected to mention why I don’t like the messaging feature. I’ve never used it, yet with a few of my friends there are already dozens of song exchanges in the thread. It’s clear that spotify has been using user-specific links for a while now to track who sends what to who. That’s a pretty clear anti-feature for me, and is enough to make me jump ship.

  • waddle_dee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    So, I’m a bit of an enigma, so take my recommendation with a grain of salt. I use Tidal. It does the best, out of all my criteria.

      1. Friendly privacy policy. It’s very straight forward, and from what my lawyer friend said, it’s pretty solid.
      1. Hi def streaming. It’s a must for me, as I have some nice cans and speakers I wanna listen through.
      1. Payout to artists. Although they don’t pay as much as Qobuz, they pay a substantial amount relatively, and the aforementioned points make up for the rest.
      1. Ease of use. The app is really great and it’s easy to use and I find that after curating my music for awhile, I get solid recommendations and the radio stations always hit well. Although, I do wish there was more variety in the stations. Sometimes, it plays the same tracks across stations.

    All in all, I’m very happy with Tidal and I don’t think I’m switching anytime soon.