Technology

We left this month, wife is moving to YouTube premium as a way to ease her out of straming services and I'm building our collection of music every month through self-hosting so when she's ready there's a large library for her.

It's been great buying music from artists and listening to whole albums which is not something I normally do.

Spotify doesn't support their artists as far as I'm aware, what money they do spend on creators it's people like Joe Rogan, and they continue to increase the price every month. I'm tired of paying for techno fascist's next Yacht (or election) and this is just one way we're slowly pulling away from subscriptions.

They still scam artists and support war drone manufacturers.

I think they saw that their premium users are now cancelling their subscription and moving to other streaming services, also bands like KGATLW is removing their catalogue from there, so they pulled this move. Not until Spotify start paying artists fairly, moderate the AI music bullshit, stop jacking up the prices, stops supporting the genocide against Palestine, improve their discovery algorithm and the list goes on; Spotify can go fuck itself

99% of people are going to use Bluetooth headphones but insist they hear the difference.

And they still exploit artists

I've been meaning to look back into spotizerr and now I'm curious if it'll give me lossless.

You're like 10 years late to the party pals: qobuz, deezer, tidal, ...

So you can hear their ai slop music more clearly.

Gotta say I'm surprised to see Spotify adding something people actually want. It must be getting rough for them.

I failed the npr test so I dont think I need it. Either im to old or use shitty Bluetooth headphones... Or both!

There is no such thing as lossless audio. 44kHz is bad

Fuck Spotify

Are they going to switch to a reward system that doesn't allow botfarms to steal money from legitimate artists?

No?

That would reduces apparent user volume?

Oh noo...

Cool, I'll still be using Tidal, as they pay their artists the most, I believe.

Can't wait for my new hard-drive to arrive so I can further expand my lossless music collection even more.

Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately?) I can't hear a difference between lossless and reasonable bitrate compressed files, so...