And no “AI” was involved…
I’ve been a Spotify subscriber since 2012 and every year it has gotten worse and worse in term of UX.
I think this is the year I quit and go back to buying and ripping CDs.
Tidal is pretty good except for the lack of podcasts. AntennaPod replaced that feature for me and made the switch easy.
Hehe I switched to the exact same things last year. Didn’t regret it.
Programmatic advertising should be forbidden on state level. It is a vector in malvertising and misinformation (and thus is a danger to democracies) and makes the user-experience worse in everything it touches.
malvertising and misinformation
You pretty much described most ads. What is the difference?
That your “most ads” are programmatic advertising.
We gave up Winamp for this.
Before you comment I’m begging you to take the parent comment in the general spirit of digital “ownership” having taken over the culture and not point out that Winamp technically still exists.
I’ve been using bandcamp and normal music playing apps. Always hated Spotify.
Therefor we got Finamp now, which is really good and about to get even better.
Yeah I use foobar and it works fine, but it still sucks and still affects us that the culture is streaming based. It’s better when your habits aren’t niche and you’re not always fighting against the norm.
I only use foobar2000 and soulseek
it’s only gotten better. now you can run it in your browser and play local files
Plexamp is fantastic. Sweetfades and radio/mix features, which can also include songs from shared libraries, are dope as hell. One of my favorite audio players of all time. Bridges the gap between old school local library playback and modern algorithm stuff really well.
Plex is all aboard the enshittification train too.
Yeah, might be switching to Jellyfin eventually, but I want to milk my lifetime plex pass for a bit longer. The enshittification hasn’t reached terminal levels for me yet. I’d have to talk all my non-nerd friends through setting Jellyfin up as well, so there’s a significant effort barrier to switching there.
Plexamp is awesome. Got a couple of playlists and coupled with the dj options to add other songs in between I can just let my playlists play, or do the same with genres or decades. Works wonders for me.
I went back to curating my own library
Fuck these parasites… Deny them profit and engagement
You guys get ads on Spotify? HahahaYarrrr
So glad I canceled my sub holy fuck.
