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.

  • Knowledgeable Yolk @lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    Try Metrolist for android. I don’t know what is available for pc in this manner. And if you’re one of the “If buying isn’t owning, then pirating isn’t stealing” people, then there’s option to save the mp3 files from both Spotify’s and Deezer’s database. Any telegram bot titling this kinda thing will do the job.

    • MichaelHawkinSnider@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Thanks for the recommendation! I explored the app (hopefully this is the project you were referring to), and I couldn’t find an option to connect to Spotify to save MP3s. Can you elaborate or point me in the right direction?

      • Knowledgeable Yolk @lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        Yes. This is the one.

        And for the telegram one, go to the searchbar and type : @DeezerMusicBot , then in the chat menu, /start the bot. Choose simple “search” and it’ll appear in inline mode. Then type any song title and wait 3-4 seconds for it to appear. You can type Artist’s name additionally if the song title is too much common.

        After you make the bot appear in inline mode for the fist time in its own inbox, then go to the “Saved Messages” section of telegram and just type @

        It should pop up the option to choose the entire bot. If it doesn’t, simply continue further writing as shown in the picture and you’re good to go.

        • ikt@aussie.zoneEnglish
          23·
          16 hours ago

          Lemmy summarised:

          When streaming services don’t pay independent musicians with 10 listeners per month a living wage: 🤬

          When Lemmy users pirate music and pay artists literally nothing: 🤓