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.

    • Farid@startrek.websiteEnglish
      7·
      25 days ago

      For music something like Navidrome is much better, IMO. But you could easily host it in addition to the former two, not instead.

      Oh, and you can combine the subscription to Tidal with yar har by umm… permanently caching the songs offline by means of 3rd party tools. It might seem pointless at first glance, but having the music stored on your server ensures you’ll keep having it, while you still can spontaneously explore new stuff on Tidal.

    • Yggstyle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      25 days ago

      I’d steer away from Plex. Their devs have clearly been headed in the wrong direction. Enshittification inbound.

      Obligatory I miss what.cd 🥲

      • CallMeAnAI@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        25 days ago

        Until jellyfin isn’t garbage, and has basic functionality like using a remote compatible interface that’s going to be a no dawg. My lifetime membership has been worth its weight in gold.

        • Yggstyle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          25 days ago

          I feel you on the interface - genuinely. I also got the lifetime… But honestly they are becoming more and more “disconnected” from their roots. The latest ui changes would embarrass a first year art student and make a ui/ux developer weep. As a developer it’s infuriating watching the decisions these people make.

        • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
          1·
          25 days ago

          Kodi using the plugin to sync your jellyfin library. Works a treat.

          If we are talking mobile, I use Finamp for playing music from Jellyfin and it does the job.

          Come to think of it, I don’t use any of the official jellyfin apps, there are plenty of options because it’s all open.

        • Yggstyle@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          25 days ago

          I’m still of the mind that what got taken out because it was starting to support artists better than their labels / streaming platforms did. Losing it was a catastrophic blow to music preservation.