I opened Spotify this morning to be greeted by a modal popup with a “sponsored recommendation”.

Why am I seeing ads if I’m already paying for the premium plan!? 😑

  • CIWS-30@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Shit like this is why monopolies and oliglopolies don’t work. I hope people complain AND jump ship in big enough droves for this to change. Self-hosting and the old fashioned “buy your own music permanently” option are good too.

    I don’t use streaming services, I just buy MP3’s (or AAC’s on iTunes or whatever they’re using nowadays, it’s been a while) and keep them locally and on the cloud. Never liked most Streaming Services’ recommendations anyway.

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      1 year ago

      Mp3s are fortunately in a really good place with them being DRM free. Was why when Google Music shut down I was still able to download my music purchases and keep them for myself. It’s one of more widespread consumer friendly digital options out there compared to all the DRM and account based digital options that exist for other products.

    • theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      Meh, for not very much a month I can pay for premium Spotify and rip 320 mp3s to my hearts content, for anything that is more obscure or just not released on Spotify I buy through bandcamp. I used to buy a lot more but being much poorer now I’m going to take advantage of saving so much money and still being able to have files that I can hold on to and use how I like.

      • Gamey@feddit.rocks
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        1 year ago

        Juat rip thr files, Spotify pockets most of the money so if it’s about supporting artists it’s a bad solution anyway!