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well I'm responding to my own ask here about liberating your content from closed/locked ecosystems
and I have to un-recommend using an app to download music from spotify, because apparently after awhile they catch on and then send you an email that your account has been suspended and it turns out not just suspended but full on disappearedâcompletely goneâand you have no way of even logging in to admin the podcasts you manage, not to mention years of playlistsâbut then if you just got on chat with them and promise to behave and are polite, they'll resurrect it all, lazarus out of the tomb, and you'll be back in business, jamming like Fred and Kyle and Beck Bennett when SNL was on Covid lockdownâ"what's Fred jammin' on?"âbut anyway, you're back in business and jamming again
phew
though perhaps this was that sign I've been waiting for to ditch the spotify monster once and for all
anyway: don't do it
and I have to un-recommend using an app to download music from spotify, because apparently after awhile they catch on and then send you an email that your account has been suspended and it turns out not just suspended but full on disappearedâcompletely goneâand you have no way of even logging in to admin the podcasts you manage, not to mention years of playlistsâbut then if you just got on chat with them and promise to behave and are polite, they'll resurrect it all, lazarus out of the tomb, and you'll be back in business, jamming like Fred and Kyle and Beck Bennett when SNL was on Covid lockdownâ"what's Fred jammin' on?"âbut anyway, you're back in business and jamming again
phew
though perhaps this was that sign I've been waiting for to ditch the spotify monster once and for all
anyway: don't do it
Feb 11, 2025
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i canceled my Spotify account over the summer and have spent the last few months rebuilding my digital music library on a refurbished iPod Touch. reading critiques of the app (and itâs enshittification), i realized i wasnât even sure of my own musical tastes and preferences. i had stopped picking for myself, stopped seeking out new music, ceasing to know how to choose what i wanted or articulate what i like.
breaking free from the algorithm has been such a joy! iâm borrowing gobs of music from the library, rebuilding my old playlists, and consuming more music than i have in years. and better yet, my data isnât being tracked by Spotify and i own whatâs in my personal library. further, my receptors are more open when iâm out in the world exposed to music, searching for recommendations in an organic way.
breaking free from the algorithm has been such a joy! iâm borrowing gobs of music from the library, rebuilding my old playlists, and consuming more music than i have in years. and better yet, my data isnât being tracked by Spotify and i own whatâs in my personal library. further, my receptors are more open when iâm out in the world exposed to music, searching for recommendations in an organic way.
Jan 16, 2025
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đžIâve been talking for so long how I should quit using Spotify because of their exploitive model, so today I finially switched to Apple Music instead
you donât realize the chokehold the platform has had on your habits until forcing yourself to not open it as the first thing feels like saying hard & heavy no to a drunk cig
you donât realize the chokehold the platform has had on your habits until forcing yourself to not open it as the first thing feels like saying hard & heavy no to a drunk cig
Mar 15, 2025
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đ”I finally did it, because itâs evil. I will probably write a more comprehensive list of things that make it easier but for nowâŠ
1) literally just delete it before you do anything else. we adapt very fast to things.
2) accept that you will listen to different things in different contexts. I was like oh but i have records I donât own on download/cd so I wonât have them on my phoneâŠso what? i have records I listen to on record in the house, CDs I listen to in the car etc.
3) bandcamp! use your Spotify subscription fee to buy an album each month. Also you get three free streams of like every song if you like to try things out
4) soundcloud - if you still want to have a streaming service equivalent and know that even the alternatives are also evil, Soundcloud seems like the least evil
5) YouTube - for when youâre like âoh I really wanna listen to Barracuda by Heartâ one day
6) charity shop CDs
7) library CDs
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đthis is worthy of celebration:Â the lack of videoâautoplay video, noisy inane video, panicky video, algorithmic, dumb video, rabbit hole video, any videoâon pi.fyi is a good thing
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đ„Ÿthis is going to hurt â A LOT â but it's getting to the point where there's no other option
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