They brick you because they can

I use tidal, and the only thing I miss from Spotify is the ability to transfer the music I'm listening to the PC or smartphone

I have many friends that complain about these things, that noticed the exact same pattern as you.

And yet, every last single time I've ask them "Have you looked into using a different service? Maybe try one?" they mumble out a noncommittal response and never do.

if you aren’t trending, you make no money

What now?

I switched to Tidal a few weeks ago, primarily because of lossless streaming, but also fuck Spotify for your price hikes. Not going back.

What happens at the y-axis is pure magic.

Can also recommend Qobuz which allegedly pays even more than tidal. And it also has real losless audio, instead of whatever Tidal is doing.

And you can even buy FLAC files from them, without DRM. Or use tools which you can find on the internet, where you can download the flac files 'for free' (you still need a subscription).

No wonder deezer lacks most of my beloved artists.

Or, continue to use Spotify but use xManager on android and spicetify on pc. This will give you the premium experience (and more!) without paying a single penny.

What? Only 150? Is it some unoptimized list of their in-house song objects? I don't understand how it can be the inefficient. Please tell me they just need to use an array and this isn't them doing that.

Spotify tends to think my tastes are more indie than they are, meanwhile YouTube Music (ReVanced) tends to to think my tastes are more mainstream than they are.

I haven't tried any other services yet, but if anyone knows of one that provides good balance of well-known and not so well-known music, and is free (and commercial free; modded/hacked apps are preferred), please let me know.

Buying an album every month and ripping it for mobile is literally cheaper than Spoofy. No pirating required and there’s a real chance the artist might get a share!
Edit: I do mean a CD, or vinyl if that tickles your fancy.

The feature itself is fine, the fact that it's literally in between you and turning regular shuffle on and off is incredibly irritating

Bro so, Spotify is trippin on me. In my discover weekly it hit me with some bullshit called No cock like horse cock.

It started recommending gay playlists. Now I'm straight but I'm far from homophobic. Realized an artist I was listening to was gay so I let off. Then I got hit with another. And traced that one back to another artist. This one wasn't so bad but it hit the chorus and went from a chill song to talking bout nuts slapping nuts.

I have to listen to their music outside of Spotify because honestly the recommendations are atrocious.

I listen to a meme song cause it's stuck in my head and now what? The degeneracy of the Internet is my backyard. Featuring balls in my jaws, the Christmas edition and many more.

I often listen to my music while driving, and sometimes I just scroll and don't look at song titles until something catches my attention.

Don't mind the work truck. Also here's my wrapped. Jake Hill I learned was a culprit lol.

I like getting recommendations, but that's what the DJ is for. When I choose a playlist there's usually a reason for it and adding random songs to it is not it.

Streaming services can only be inspiration for new music. Once something has me hooked, it goes into my permanent local library. No subscription based service should be relied on for anything that can't be replicated in 30 minutes.

Why would you leave tempo control in tge hands of a soulless machine? #beyourownconductor

Do you and I live on a different planet? I grew up when you downloaded actual poor quality music. I stream Spotify at the highest bitrate it has, and it sounds fine. I have a nice system at home.

You talk about features and whatnot, and admittedly I am a simple user. I have albums I like, I turn on album and listen through cover to cover. I throw on Smartless, because for some reason I find Jason Bateman and Will Arnett's abuse of Sean Hughes to be endearing.

As per usual, people on Lemmy seem to make up problems, and it ruins any sort of argument against anything. Spotify's audio quality is not the issue. The issue is obviously the artist remuneration. To create this fake argument is to dilute any worthwhile argument, but Lemmy and Reddit before it seems to take this tack wherever possible.

I have discovered numerous artists because of Spotify. Spotify has linked me to their tickets (albeit Live Nation and fuck them) and merch stores, and I've bought their shitty tshirts and vinyls. I would say that's a benefit. And I like some obscure nonsense.

Is it perfect? I don't like how Spotify has handled its personnel. I think they can make their business model related to plays a little more friendly, but holy shit, the idealism here is ridiculous. You have people demanding perfection, without recognizing the alternative is nothing.

I never want to turn it on, but I do swap from shuffle to regular (depending on whether I want to listen to just the newest stuff I've added), which means I have to click through smart shuffle now too.

Which wouldn't be a huge problem, but if you do it too fast, smart shuffle appears to be off, but the songs it has added are at least partially still in the queue.