Sorry, I couldnt find a specific enough instance for this so here goes:
What have you guys been using instead of spotify? For me, I haven’t had it for years and have been using bandcamp, the archive, and just youtube with ublock among a few others, as well as my large home music collection.
My SO has had a spotify/Hulu bundle for a long time (which we hardly even use, Hulu and all streaming is shit now) and they of course want to raise the price. I said now is the time to drop that shit and have 0 streaming.
I have always hated Spotify for their shitty practices, and now they want to start shoving garbage ai music in our faces. Hell no. All SO cares about is their playlist, which i can export, and they do like the discover stuff but its not totally necessary (imo, not a fan of these algorithms controlling what we listen to but whatever).
Are Tidal and Quobuz really the only choice? I do “self host” but they would want more than whats in our music collection. Plus hdds are fucking spendy now. Man I miss the old days of cheap hardware.
The other caveat: it really has to run on their spyware locked down win 11 laptop for work (we are forced to use it). Work will block any site that seems scary. Or potentially their phone, but they have their computer hooked to their office speakers and prefer listening that way.
Not ideal for the PC but I can offer a solid phone solution.
ArchiveTune has all the power of YouTube music, none of the ads or subscriptions.
Not sure how you’re going to import that playlist, but it can sync playlists from YouTube, which might work for you.
And if all they care about is their playlist, playlists can be downloaded, so even if it breaks later, you’d still have it.
Thanks !! Also been using metrolist lately too
Looks sweet! Will check it out myself!
Sorry for the necrobump, I don’t know why my client keeps showing my stuff from 4/5 months ago.
Maybe some sort of ban or defederation shenanigans going on~
No problem nothing wrong with old posts imo
Radio Garden or other Internet radios are an option too
I discovered I actually prefer Internet radios entirely to song dna streaming type stuff
there’s a site called TuneMyMusic that helps transfer spotify playlists to other sites, and gives you a list of sites to choose from.
edit: revoking my recc pls see the reply!
i dont use it anymore but Deezer was very easy to move to back when i tried it, and had some quite solid staff-curated playlists. don’t know what it is like now tho, i am just using my local files & SomaFM via musicbee these days.In another thread on here, people are saying that there is some serious spam issue with Deezer. I imagine the thread to be generally helpful for you, OP. https://piefed.social/post/1672033
Deezer CEO, Len Blavatnik was also part of this story, according to Washington Post: US billionaires joined Whatsapp group to ‘change Israel narrative’
Last month, members of the chat, including billionaire Len Blavatnik , held a Zoom call with New York City Mayor Eric Adams, at a time when a pro-Palestinian encampment was taking place at Columbia University in the city.
During the call, attendees spoke about making political donations to Adams, and about how the business leaders could urge Columbia’s president and trustees to permit the mayor to send police on campus.
Some members of the chat offered to pay for private investigators to help police during the protests.
As I’ve written in the other thread. Tidal is ultimately owned and controlled by billionaire Jack Dorsey, Twitter co-founder and Bsky founder, etc. FYI.
I think the Quobuz is the best choice.
YouTube premium has the benefit of removing YouTube ads in addition to access to the music.
You have the same feature with just Newpipe. And the pro is: You dont give oligarchs money for making a service less miserable.
I switched to Qobuz, their playlist migration process from spotify was seamless. However, i’m finding the recommendations and discovery lacking, and there’s not any kind of “radio”. On spotify I would just hit play and let it do its thing with Qobuz I have to be much more deliberate in finding music, when an album or playlist ends it just stops playing and it’s back to searching around for what I want to listen to next.
With all that said it’s still a solid option, their catalog is pretty large, they seem to have a lot more genre diversity, anything lossless sounds great, and their editor curated playlists have introduced me to some good music. It’s worth doing a trial run to see if it’s right for you.
I’m necroing the post but I’m happy to tell you that I changed to qobuz a while ago and they definitely have radios now. You can pick a song and create a radio from it. Also, what I think you want I autoplay, where when the playlist finishes it keeps searching similar songs. That works in quobuz now, I listen to the weekly or daily recommendations and it just keeps playing. The recommendations are still not that good since it’s only been a month of not using it daily, but they are getting better.
