The AI portion had the better summary, “challenging the status quo and fighting for what is right.” I'm mainly playing politically left-leaning songs, hoping to train it on Marxism so the system can turn on the tech bros
Do you think Apple Music isn't also full of AI slop? Spotify may have their own AI slop shit going on, most of the services people use to distribute music do so on both, so the AI slop is being distributed everywhere.
I just bought a couple of songs (Sudan Archives) on iTunes and man did it feel good. I’ll still stream but I like having songs to play at a moment’s notice
Many people like to think
Apple pays more to artists
That maybe so
for bigger established ones
but smaller artists get
more in dollar terms
from Spotify
Because Apple doesn't promote
smaller artists
apple music replau this year was good, they don’t try to do too much they just give you cool insights in a pleasant & shareable format. that’s all I’ve ever wanted from a “wrapped” kind of feature
Just because wrapped is bad? The thing you spend 2 minutes on at the end of the year? Apple music is vastly inferior in everything actually music related, and wrapped is your reason to switch?
Apple Music undeniably has better sound quality and a larger catalog of music. Even spotify users agree music on AM is better. Spotify just has more features that not everyone needs.
This was my take a couple years ago when I got fed up with Spotify and tried Apple Music. It was like a cleaner Spotify with even worse suggestions. Played nicely with all my Apple stuff tho
I’m using it rn, but only because I got a fairly lengthy free trial. Def going back to deezer next month (imo easily the best out of the major streaming platforms I’ve tried).
i'm worried apple music is kind of a lateral move in terms of Evil Music Streamers, but i can't deal with spotify's aggressively bad AI shit, them demonetizing 80% of artist's songs on the platform, and their CEO investing in military tech
I’ve completely ditched music streaming and returned to CDs and putting my music in a flash modded iPod. No one can take my music and no one can pause it but me
Do you mind explaining what a flash modded ipod is? Ive been making the switch to CDs as well and have considered getting some type of mp3 player but havent got one yet sue to lack of knowledge on them so I still have spotify unfortunately.
I’d recommend looking up videos on flash modded iPods. It’s basically a modification where you can replace the hard drive with a SD card to expand the storage
In 2019, I did a trial of Spotify. My account was somehow picked up by hackers and several people were using it. I got some worldwide music education, but stopped using Spotify that week.
Spotify's interface is so loud to me. Like, almost everything is offensive to the senses. Apple Music is so zen in comparison. Audio quality is also better and works wonderfully even with my shitty wired earphones.
Also better sound quality. Though obligatory reminder that even if Tidal pays the best it's still very little and if you wanna support artists you need to buy their merch and music directly off their personal stores or bandcamp.
The world’s greatest Burger King is in Lee’s Summit, Missouri right off I-70. Seems weird because it’s attached to a gas station but it’s ran like a Japanese one because the long time manager is REALLY good. If you’re ever traveling through the middle stop there.
I didn’t make excuses. Owning any smartphone is supporting the exploitation of workers in a capitalist regime. Choosing Spotify over Apple is supporting the Nazification of our society vs. not doing that
I've just had YouTube premium for years at this point (you get YouTube music with it). It's never let me down. Though I'm sure Apple music is great as well.
No kidding. This post is wild. OP is either seeking it out in some way or has in the past, directly communicated to the app that's what they want to see, or they aren't actually letting the app do its job and recommend them stuff based on what they like. 😂
I absolutely get the outrage behind AI generated content. What I don't get is when people engage with it regularly and then get really angry that it's being recommended to them. That's how social media works...it shows u things it thinks u like.
Like even if ur engaging with the content negatively, the platform does not care. I thought this was a commonly-understood fact about any kind of media service like this that tailors things to what u engage with.
TLDR, monitor your shit, you have control over what social media and other similar services show you. Please utilize that autonomy ffs. 🫠 I dont get people sometimes.
(Also lol I'm not salty over OP saying they're going to another music streaming platform. Good for ya! If u like it better use it ofc! It's just frustrating seeing points like this where I'm just like "nah man I think I know the common denominator here LOL and u aint seein it."
Love to see it. Their CEO pushed me over the edge when he said he didn’t anticipate the impact of laying off 1500 people. It had become totally useless for finding new music by the time I cancelled
There are lots of online or downloadable converters out there, but I mainly use mp3-convert.org and I also use https://soundcloudme.com to download songs from Soundcloud. I occasionally even record music and sounds with Audacity.
become a jam band enjoyer all their shits free. on Android there's apps like robophish and grateful Dead archive. if noodling guitars isn't your thing do drugs until they are. simple as
FYI it’s a command line tool. It works well, you can set it to download in real time so you can’t get banned. Basically records the audio to a fake external device from spotify, original quality
One of my favorite producers from years ago who is inactive now had his Spotify hacked and hijacked to pump out daily AI slop. Spotify responded to a ton of us submitting reports by forking the old music to a new account and letting the spammer keep the one with 100k followers.
Spotify prefers to facilitate identity theft (and literal financial theft in terms of plays revenue) rather than miss out on the plays that were generated by someone taking over a large inactive artist account and tricking people into listening to auto-generated content.
Oh, wait, and for anything I don't feel like downloading, there's a patcher for Spotify on Android that gets you all the features of premium except online play.
I switched back to using my own old music collection. Jellyfin to make it available when on the go and (as I use android) the app Symphonium to stream it.
All my top songs and artists from 2024 are the Top 100 garbage Spotify kept populating into my stream after the playlists were done. Definitely not keeping it after the trial based on that alone. They put Africa by Toto in my top three, you guys. AFRICA.
As someone who’s been on Apple Music for years, I’ve always felt very left out of the fun this time of year. I won’t say I’m glad it sucks because that would make me sound very bitter but like that’s all, I’ll just avoid saying it
yep! you can access your replay playlist all year but just today they released the year-end recap that's very similar to wrapped. you just have to log in and it'll give you all the stats and a highlight reel
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I dodge the Spotify nonsene.
what'd you have on there, drake?
Apple pays more to artists
That maybe so
for bigger established ones
but smaller artists get
more in dollar terms
from Spotify
Because Apple doesn't promote
smaller artists
i'm worried apple music is kind of a lateral move in terms of Evil Music Streamers, but i can't deal with spotify's aggressively bad AI shit, them demonetizing 80% of artist's songs on the platform, and their CEO investing in military tech
too much bad shit
Don't try to start excusing now
Ill go back just using a modified adfree YouTube music client.
https://revanced.app/
Apple Music will also have AI on it, I couldn't imagine not monitoring my music.
But not what I care about.
(in minecraft)
Luckily, there's a patcher to crack spotify. (xManager)
theres another modded version around but it has some problems
money sucking company
on the planet?
Apples mission is to
take as much $$ from U
that you can pay
That's why they're
the wealthiest
company on Earth
Who's evilest?
Capitalism offers choice
I choose to be free
Not locked in to one eco-system
Another commentor called me Daniel Ek CEO of Spotify, When in fact I subscribe to 6 streaming platforms. Apple included
Buying a t shirt gives artists more money than streaming their shit for a year.
It's a good service. I just kinda stopped using it like a decade ago for no particular reason. Good to be back.
Cons: last fm is sometimes garbage at tagging artists.