DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature.
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And Stories. Don’t forget stories
Bring back the ruthless top 8 friends.
I just had my 8 variations of parodied Jesus.
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It'll be more popular than Twitter in a week. Not that it's hard...
wrote last edited by [email protected]That's absolutely insane that there's 3B+ people on Facebook. I honestly don't believe that number is accurate at all.
Am I underestimating how many people have phones/internet access at this point?
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They've had the first 3 for a while
What the hell!
I was just kidding/projecting on a shitty future...
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That's absolutely insane that there's 3B+ people on Facebook. I honestly don't believe that number is accurate at all.
Am I underestimating how many people have phones/internet access at this point?
Everyone. Damn near everyone has a phone at this point, Facebook even handed them out to keep the user numbers growing at one point
People who live in dirt floor huts walk to churches or other gathering places to charge them. The cheapest smart phones are essentially worthless, so there's no point stealing or selling them.
And cell service isn't all that expensive to run, so it's priced to what people will pay
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Everyone. Damn near everyone has a phone at this point, Facebook even handed them out to keep the user numbers growing at one point
People who live in dirt floor huts walk to churches or other gathering places to charge them. The cheapest smart phones are essentially worthless, so there's no point stealing or selling them.
And cell service isn't all that expensive to run, so it's priced to what people will pay
Huh. That's a wild strategy, as for the other stuff that's interesting, thanks for letting me know
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+1 for Qobuz! Tidal firing 100 employees did not inspire confidence in their app being less shit
I still don't understand why apps these sizes need that many people in the first place, what do they do!?!
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Not with that attitude! /j
lol u got me there
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36348361
You can connect to other people on Spotify?
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I still don't understand why apps these sizes need that many people in the first place, what do they do!?!
Half of them definitely just making PowerPoints and attending meetings. You'd probably end up with 5 devs actually doing something and a marketing/advertisement department, I guess
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36348361
Please let this be your sign to start ditching corporate platforms across the board. Enshitification will come for your pristine app experience eventually. Go spend your Spotify monthly bill on one album every month from bandcamp or something. Own your own media. Share it with friends. GET OFF CORPO AD PLATFORMS! I realize this is the fediverse, so people are already kind of on board, but I think music streaming is often given a pass, or sneaks by our focus when discussing these issues.
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Soon: reels, shorts, videos and second hand underwear.
Nope. AI chatbots. Can’t have chatbots without messaging.
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36348361
There's no room for growth! What are we going to do about it? IDK, so random shit that won't get adopted to placate the VCs? Give that man a raise! (TGIF gift cards only. We are going to be hemorrhaging cash soon).
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Please let this be your sign to start ditching corporate platforms across the board. Enshitification will come for your pristine app experience eventually. Go spend your Spotify monthly bill on one album every month from bandcamp or something. Own your own media. Share it with friends. GET OFF CORPO AD PLATFORMS! I realize this is the fediverse, so people are already kind of on board, but I think music streaming is often given a pass, or sneaks by our focus when discussing these issues.
I've been telling people for years to buy 1-2 albums a month, and then after a couple years you have a sizable library. Spotify is renting.
But spotify is easy and fast, and some people think they listen to way more music than they do. I wonder how many people are paying spotify $10/month to listen to the same 4 albums for years.
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/36348361
wrote last edited by [email protected]Just finished a Tidal trial and really liked it. Then I found out it's owned by Block who owns Square. Jack Dorsey is CEO of Block.
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I gotta ask - why not just play the music on your phone?
It's 6 years old and the battery isn't removable. Plus I can leave the mp3 synced to the speakers all day and not have to worry about calls or leaving the house interrupting it.
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I've been telling people for years to buy 1-2 albums a month, and then after a couple years you have a sizable library. Spotify is renting.
But spotify is easy and fast, and some people think they listen to way more music than they do. I wonder how many people are paying spotify $10/month to listen to the same 4 albums for years.
There’s something to be said for curated “auto” playlists, both for background and discovering stuff.
That being said, Pandora is waaaay better at this. So are free broadcasts/channels like Radio Paradise.
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Love that. How long did it take you?
In total, less than an hour of my time. Maybe 6 hours to copy the playlists and download all of them, but I only had to copy/paste and hit go on the software. Honestly, if I knew it was this easy I'd have do we it years ago.
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There’s something to be said for curated “auto” playlists, both for background and discovering stuff.
That being said, Pandora is waaaay better at this. So are free broadcasts/channels like Radio Paradise.
I don't trust spotify not to fill those playlists with AI slop, now. I also personally prefer to go deeper on a band, rather than thoughtlessly drift through a bunch of stuff I'll never hear again.
I do like bandcamp's "people who bought this also bought this" recommendations, though.
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All I wanted was cd quality audio (which I’m willing to pay for)…
You know you’ve screwed up when the lazy people (me) actually get off their butts to switch.
Ha same, just moved to quboz. The family plan is actually less
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Another updoot for Qobuz. Very happy with it, and the migration process was even better for me than as you describe it. Also, I didn't think I'd give a shit about it the higher-quality codecs but they're actually amazing. Big fan, A+++, would Qobuz again.
Yeah the high res masterings are fantastic
