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Spotify's new Showcase tool lets artists pay to promote their music in the Home feed | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

submitted 1 year ago by small44 to c/technology

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Another reason to never listen to anything recommended by spotify

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[–] Phegan 15 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I hate Spotify so much, but every other attempt I've made to move away failed.

I used tidal for a bit, but it seems to break frequently from any privacy tooling I would use. I know they give artist a better payout, but if you don't work with my privacy method, it's a non starter.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I just download or copy all the music/audio I want to have, and put that all on my phone. Then I listen to it anywhere, anytime.

500GB SDcard is <100$

[–] LavaPlanet 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yeah, that's a great option, but then the artist who created the music gets definitely zero for their product. It's not like Spotify really pays fairly for the product, so it's become pretty similar. The money grabbing Spotify does sounds like it'll pump up business (making artists pay to promote) but I would be so hugely behind a streaming app that actually paid their artists fairly and promoted new unknown stuff, just because. The novelty alone!