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I Quit Spotify

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10 pointsblueridge15 comments

Spotify Is such a waste of time with their continuous banner, experiments, changes

I made the jump to Apple Music a few months ago and haven't looked back. Audio quality is excellent.

Have you used something to migrate your liked albums/songs and playlists to Apple Music?

It's definitely one of the reasons that keep me on Spotify - starting from scratch is not a very interesting prospect...

SongShift is the gold standard

Thanks, looks like this can do the trick. The constant UX changes for no reason other than some PM wanting to get a promotion are starting to get on my nerves.

Do they have community curated playlists like Spotify? Are they any good?

I save £120 each year for the past 19 years

Since 2006 I have saved £2280

new CD's cost on average £12 and buying them cheaper online I now have over 350 of my favourite CD's.

I then rip them and create my own music lists for free.

Load them on my phone, job done

From hendrix, zeppelin, nirvana to Ween to stevie Ray Vaughan to Uk garage, hard house classics and System of a down and everything in between.

They are all mine, I own them

Why would you pay any company to listen to music that you can buy and you own forever.

I can even leave them to my children. you cant do that with spotify

That sounds like a lot of inconvenience just to save $10 a month, and no easy way to make "sounds like" playlists out of them. It's hard to find CD drives in cars and computers anymore too. In fact I don't even know where to get CDs anymore either. Do they still sell them in stores?

I can get buying digital albums if owning is your thing, but why physical media? It takes so much time to rip and copy them across devices.

What’s the stack you use to rip/host/play? Looking to do the same (and with the same music haha)

Spotify isn't even able to keep track of it's media session for the player notification on my lineage device. The notification stays there, but doesn't update and quick controls like play/pause doesn't work but sound plays. It's fixed only by rebooting. It's been the case for several versions now and other apps like NewPipe doesn't have any issue. Ironic coming from an app whose sole purpose is to play music.

https://archive.ph/IsfUm

Am I the only one who has good experience with Spotify? It constantly offers me new music, artists with few thousands followers that are interesting and relevant. The UI is a mess, I agree, but every single one web based UI is a mess. That's the trend.

> It constantly offers me new music, artists with few thousands followers that are interesting and relevant.

Are they though? Is it not in spotify's best interests to stuff your discover weekly with cheap(to them) music?

I have been holding on to spotify and each monday I have been saving my DW playlists (120+ weeks and counting), but lately it has been filled with cover songs and songs that are not very relevant. I am hardly adding any songs to my favourites from the DW playlist these days, this is in contrast from earlier when I would generally favourite a few songs atleast each week from the DW playlist.

I'm on yt music now:

- I can search yt show and create playlists from it.

- this playlist is available on yt music to me.

- yt music searching and suggestion is crap too.

- best for finding good lives and new artists is YT now.

- as I have YT premium family, it turn to be a good one solution for my musics.

I moved to Plexamp

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