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 disappeared—completely gone—and you have no way of even logging in to admin the podcasts you manage, not to mention years of playlists—but 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 lockdown—"what's Fred jammin' on?"—but 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 it’s enshittification), i realized i wasn’t 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! i’m 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 isn’t being tracked by Spotify and i own what’s in my personal library. further, my receptors are more open when i’m out in the world exposed to music, searching for recommendations in an organic way.
Jan 16, 2025
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I’ve 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 don’t 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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for one, they're horribly corrupt and their billionaire CEO is a POS. this is not the focus of my rant, though; my bigger beef is this: he owns one of the biggest music companies in the world and doesn't even care about audio quality! the absolute BEST quality you can get on spotify is a LOSSY MP3 EQUIVALENT and is the same as the LOWEST quality apple offers. Listening to music in lossless on apple compared to spotify's "high resolution" is like night and day.
i get people enjoy it for the social aspects but apple has all that too. okay sure you won't know if you're a top .0001% listener of jimmy buttfuck but jesus christ do we need to stat farm this hard
i hope spotify dies i will see to it
rant over tl;dr spotify sucks and literally anything is a better option if you remotely care about listening to music
Mar 26, 2025
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this is worthy of celebration: the lack of video—autoplay video, noisy inane video, panicky video, algorithmic, dumb video, rabbit hole video, any video—on pi.fyi is a good thing
Oct 5, 2024
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this is going to hurt — A LOT — but it's getting to the point where there's no other option
Mar 11, 2025