There are plenty of controversies surrounding Spotify, but what really made me cancel my subscription was the fact that they ran recruitment ads for ICE. Boycott Spotify!
I need to sit down and set up self hosting for music
this post was submitted on 11 Nov 2026
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- Scrobble to ListenBrainz for discovery (subscribe to your new releases feed in an RSS reader to get notifications)
- Bandcamp (with a side of Soulseek) for aquisition
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I just throw it all on the drive connected to jellyfin, with all my other media.
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They're also not exactly known for paying musicians decently.
Yeah no one ever seems to give a shit about that one and continue to use the service. It’s fucking infuriating
Working on it. Me and my family group tried PocketCasts + Tidal as a replacement, and while it kinda worked, it didn't work well enough to make it to a switchover. :<
We still want to switch, but we need to wait until some service does proper integration into as-sold sonos systems (Home Assistant is also an issue, but a solvable one). Tidal has it on their backlog, at least.
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FYI you can request your data too.
That's what I did after I left and put the money I saved into buying everything I'd ever listened to on Spotify as used CDs, month by month building my collection.
Im at about 80% ownership of what I was listening to after a year now and the test is mostly one off listens I don't want to buy anyway.
Wouldn't have been possible without the data dump.
I used Sunnify for Linux to convert my Spotify downloads to mp3 so now I have all the songs I listened to on Spotify.
https://www.sunnypatel.net/projects/sunnify
- Edit: looks like we gave the website the Lemmy hug of death. Here's the GitHub.
I just buy high quality FLAC files from Bandcamp.
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I get most of my music from Bandcamp, on bandcamp friday's. It sucks they sold out and are probably circling the drain, but for a long time they were a solid independent source.
Buying directly from the band at a show or through their label is also cool.
It's more of an up-front cost, but after years of doing this I have a large drm-free library.
On another note Spotube 6 beta is out now and supports ListenBrainz as a library/recommendation backend
It’s crazy how often the companies I’m already boycotting do something to make me want to boycott them further…
Woah thats bad
I was already.
Why would I use any optional platform with ads? I'd rather go without music than hear ads.
There was someone who was sharing alternative options for the usual, does anyone know where they went, or which sub they post to? I was too unfamiliar with Lemmy to make note of it. I wish you could follow people.
I don't know, sorry. But here is a list of alternatives:
TL;DR:
- Tidal
- ~~Apple Music~~
- Deezer
- ~~Amazon Music~~
- ~~Youtube Music~~
- Qobuz
- Soundcloud
- Edited to cross off the alternatives that donated to Trump's inauguration
And Apple, Amazon, Google all paid money to Trump's inauguration fund. Boycotting is tiring, but I still try.
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what about Bandcamp?
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Sucks that I'm paying my government to pay ad agencies to shit up my ear-holes with ICE ads but at least it's being wasted on me instead of getting served to someone who would consider joining.
I did the same with Pandora. Fuck 'em.