Tidal
This was an alternative to Spotify that I’ve seen being recommended. I’ve tried it during work as a way to try and escape Spotify’s onslaught of ads. However, after I created a playlist on Tidal of songs I wanted playing, all of them went for 30 seconds a piece. I couldn’t deal with it and ran right back to Spotify to have a functioning playlist.
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I wanted so badly to like Tidal (and Qobuz), but after using it for several months I discovered it had removed 5-10% of my music from my “liked” list. Presumably because the artists re-uploaded a higher quality version, but they didn’t give me any notification at all and there was no way to see what was removed.
People say Spotify does this too, but when I went back, my number of liked songs hadn’t changed in that same time frame.
Op, I don’t think you had an active subscription. You can’t expect to get ad free music at no cost to you and the artist be paid. You got to pick 2 of the 3. Edit: to also add an answer: any alternatives to Word or Adobe Acrobat, unfortunately.
Spotify gives me 30 minutes of ad-free listening time. They even allow limitless skipping which used to be barred by subscribing. It’s absolutely absurd and asinine that you would limit all songs to 30 seconds unless you’ve paid. That’s how you not get people to pay your shitty service.
If I’m preferring to deal with ads between a handful of songs at a time than having their songs cut down to 30 seconds, they can eat shit. Who the fuck does that?
Tidal gives you 30 days free if you sign up, then you can cancel. I haven’t seen any plan that is 30 seconds of music or free with ads or anything like that.
If you had a free trial and then that ran out and you didn’t pay, that might be when you hit the 30 second limit, if the stupid AI summary is to be believed.
Is that what you did? Had it free for a month and then didn’t pay for it?
any replacement for any software owned by a corporation imo is overrated… if I can’t self host it, then I’m just replacing a shit service for another shit service, even if the new shit isn’t full on shit yet… it will be.
Been using tidal for 2 years now, never had issues like that. Setting it up was easy enough, I could even convert my Spotify playlists over to tidal easily. Only issue was - one song on my playlists wasn’t available on tidal. So I am very happy using it. No ICE ads, no Israel ads, no Joe Rogan.
I tried the same thing and hit the same issue, it looks like free plans are all restricted to 30 second clips. I’m using Pandora now. It’s not good for listening to a particular song at a particular time, it’s really only for background sound and “ad silence” in f-droid works to mute its ads
For streaming music on my desktop I just use YouTube with an ad blocker and just look for playlists of artists I like. i don’t stream music from my phone so I don’t have any suggestions there.
In terms of the original topic: alternatives to adobe and office suite are too obtuse for me to use. This is more of a me problem—my productivity takes a hit from the learning curve and that isn’t worth it for me.
I use Transmit on my MacBook, which IMO is much better than CyberDuck and FileZilla. The UI for both of these programs are dated and confusing. I wish WinSCP can be ported to macos, but I highly doubt that’ll ever happen.
I much prefer the native terminal on macos than the alternatives that people use (e.g., iTerm2). I don’t get much of a benefit from switching to an alternative, so I don’t see the point. I’m sure someone with different needs finds them useful though.
The Apple mail also seems to be the most functional email client, but I’ve only tried outlook, eM, and thunderbird. I still use Outlook because I need to keep my personal and work email separate. On my Windows machine I use thunderbird currently but considering switching back eM…
There’s probably more that I can’t think of right now.
I am able to self host a solution but for convenience I just use revanced microG and yt music revanced, no ads and I can find almost all what I want, In desktop I use brave with the included AdBlock and I just install yt music page as a system app.
The quality isn’t the best honestly but as I’m not an audiophile the quality is enough. If you are on Android just look for Fiorenmas GitHub. If you are on iphone I don’t know about any solution as I have never used an iphone as a main phone.
