I am super conflicted about this, that despite the fact I saw this article when it was released, I did not share it.
The reason being, (Helsing) The company he is investing in is suppling drones to Ukraine.
Further more, while I highly recommend buycotting Spotify in general, due to their anti-consumer practices and their shitty treatment for the artists and their use of DRM, I can’t really stand behind and defend boycotting every defense tech investor.
Basically, I can call for boycotting investors who invest in defense tech companies that supply tech to the evil sides. I can’t really do the same for all the defense tech companies in the world.
Stream your own for only a few bucks a year (price for a domain name)
Navidrome + Feishin are a killer combo for replacing Spotify.
Symfonium provides a similar UX on Android.
(The only thing I’m lacking is playlist synchronization and, as far as I can tell, no such homelab software exists to do it.)
Feishin on pc
Amperfly on ios
Big fan of Feishin!
For iOS I’ve always used play:Sub, but will give Amperfy a try!
price for a domain name
Or host your own VPN on home network. Or use Tailscale VPN, that also works behind CG-NAT, and can usually get direct connection.
Tbh
I wish I could just make the music I hear in my head.
Then that would require learning one of those fancy sample things with keyboards and knobs and sliders and buttons I can’t remember the name of.
Course it doesn’t help that I can write music and all the fancy DAS stuff is basically magic.
Then I wouldn’t have to spend money to listen to music that just doesn’t hit right
Spotify has been garbage for so long. I left when the Joe Rogan stuff got so bad and artists were demanding to have their music removed from Spotify in response.
You can buy music and maintain your own personal collection. It was not as hard as I thought it would be and the quality is so much higher. Artists get more of the money as well from you.
Where do you buy music?
7 Digital and Bandcamp
People still buy music?
I’ve started buying music
I’ve noticed people haven’t been talking about it anywhere near as much in the last few years. I used them briefly, but at the time you couldn’t do things like download an album without making a playlist with that album in it.
It was very weird.
Like if keeping Joe Rogan and making donations to Trump wasn’t enough
