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.

    • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      3 days ago

      I hear people saying Tidal is unethical because of where its finding is coming from, and the ties its investors have.

      Qobuz seems to be the shit as the next alternative.

      • VolumetricShitCompressor@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        Hm, I watched Fantanos streaming service tierlist and from what I’ve seen, they seem to be on the better side businesswise. And I do like the product much more than Spotify nowadays, but I’m one of those weird people that listen to whole albums and not to algotorial playlists to study/relax/makeyourtaxes to.

        • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          Fantanos streaming service tierlist

          I’ll have to check that out. 👍

          I’m one of those weird people that listen to whole albums

          Same, bro. Me too. ❤️🎶