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ccunning@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 20 hours ago

Massive Attack to take all songs off Spotify

www.bristolpost.co.uk

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Massive Attack to take all songs off Spotify

www.bristolpost.co.uk

ccunning@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 20 hours ago
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Spotify says the reasons why are 'misinformation'
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    20 hours ago

    Boycott spotify +1

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      Spotify: the company that continues to find ways to make YouTube play music not a horrible choice.

      Like… How the fuck.

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        I mean yeah, I have a Revanced yt music app so I don’t have to worry about ads or anything. It works damn near identical to Spotify too.

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          Mine stopped working last week. Did they release new patches yet?

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            Not sure, I’ve been using one from a year or two ago, and it hasn’t stopped working for me yet. I do get some prompts to upgrade to premium, but I can just ignore them.

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              I just upgraded to .52 it seems to be workable again.

              was probably just a specific patch level running on it.

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      I’m out of the loop. Why is there a Spotify boycott?

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        Likely because of that old military investment drama where a company making drones for Ukraine and EU defence did an investment round and spotify joined, which prompted every russian bot farm to attack spotify because of it. As an European, I feel like paying them even if I don’t use spotify.

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        20 hours ago

        The biggest band out of Bristol have told their record label to pull all their songs from music streaming app Spotify, in protest at its founder investing more than £500 million in a military AI company

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        They’ve been changing their terms of service over the past year with some shady stuff and have continuously screwed over creators. I’m planning on yanking my music out of there too.

        This explains a bit more

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          I’ve been a Pandora subscriber for years because it’s just a better service for music nerds imo. Their “radio” function goes way deeper into catalogs than Spotify ever did. Someone please tell me they’re not run by fascists

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            The parent company , XM Radio, donated to Trump and gives fascists a platform. Also their pay out to artists are among the lowest.

            Which is a real shame because I’ve discovered so many good non-mainstream artists thanks to Pandora’s algorithm.

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              D’oh!

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                There’s no ethical consumption under capitalism.

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                  This is just not true. If I buy eggs from my neighbor who raises chickens, how is that unethical?

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                    Have you seen your neighbor’s browser history? You sure you want to support that shit?

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                    The phrase’s intended use is to bring awareness to the exploitations of capitalism and to encourage critical thinking about where your money goes when making purchases.

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                    Thats not capitalism. Thats a person producing something and trading it for something else. Capitalism is borrowing capital from a person or entity that has more of it than you, for the promise of a share of the return if there is one. Ita a system of making money without actually working yourself. Its more nuanced than that and it has its pros and cons, but this is a lemmy comment and im just some guy

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                    Where did the neighbor get their chickens? How were the chickens raised, transported, cared for? How are the chickens fed, is the food source ethical? Have the chickens been given hormones to increase their egg output?

                    I’m sure there’s a million more questions you could ask that would lead to something being unethical, but there’s way more to it than simply buying eggs.

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        The issue for me is that AI generated music has ruined my experience with Spotify. It started recommending lofi beats (easy to generate with AI) and I didn’t want to spend weeks pushing the algorithm to not have it recommend me that crap.

        Other users have complained about the downturn in quality of the weekly recommendations, which is what kept me there in the first place.

        SoundCloud appears to have better recommendations for the type of music I like.

        https://community.spotify.com/t5/Music-Discussion/Half-of-the-weekly-playlists-are-filled-with-AI-generated/td-p/6288755

        https://mashable.com/article/spotify-ai-generated-songs-dead-artists-pages

        • t҉̠̙ǵ̣̞̄ͪ͜x̸̱͚̳ͫ͐̑̈ͯͣ̚n̒͌҉͉̦̜̝ͅ@lemmy.tgxn.net
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          Yeah, +1 for SoundCloud, depending on your tastes their reccomendarions/stations have been pretty top notch.

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        I’m not sure if you’d call this a “boycott”, but many people have also just never used Spotify because they care more about supporting musicians than convenience.

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