Ek said Spotify employees were doing too much "work around the work" as he laid off 17% of the group's workforce in December.

Ek said Spotify employees were doing too much “work around the work” as he laid off 17% of the group’s workforce in December.

  • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
    751·
    6 months ago

    Once Spotify changed their entire UI to focus on engagement instead of a good UX, I switched to another service. I wish the best for those employees that were laid off, and the worst for a CEO driven by profit above all else

    • vortic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      6 months ago

      May I ask what service you switched to? I’m tired of my music app being cluttered with podcasts and audio books. I use other services for this things and don’t need them in Spotify.

      • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
        242·
        6 months ago

        I switched to tidal. Recently had a huge price drop to compete with Spotify and Apple Music. It’s not perfect, but it has lossless audio, and works well for my needs

        • VieuxQueb@lemmy.caEnglish
          5·
          6 months ago

          I started using Tidal when I learned they where the ones who pay the artists the most. I don’t know if it’s still true today tho.

          • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            Yeah that was part of my motivation as well. I’m unsure how that will change now with their significant price drop, I was happy paying the previous prices, as it was like the cost of buying 3 $10 CDs a month, and I listened to considerably more music than that

        • Rob@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          Does tidal have the feature Spotify does where you can transfer what’s playing from one device to another? I use that somewhat frequently.

          • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            Yeah you can do the same thing as Spotify and change the output on the fly within the app

            • TeNppa@sopuli.xyzEnglish
              1·
              6 months ago

              Does the switching really work? I’ve been eyeing Tidal since Spotify is shit at that. Too many times I get “can’t play this song” when switching from pc to mobile or vice versa. Sometimes it won’t even switch and I have to force close both, which is not possible when I’m outside and not near the pc.

              • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                6 months ago

                Hmm, I don’t use the feature frequently, but it hasn’t failed on me. I can say that I use CarPlay frequently, and Tidal’s CarPlay implementation is a thousand times more reliable than Spotify, so when it comes to device based implementations they seem to have done a great job.

                Looks like they offer a free trial, https://offer.tidal.com/ so I would say probably best to pilot it with that and see if it suites your needs

                EDIT:

                Testing on my app, it doesn’t seem to do what you want to do. You can select different output devices seamlessly, but you can switch between two clients the way Spotify can, sorry for the misunderstanding. Hope you find something that works for you

      • Something Burger 🍔@jlai.luEnglish
        7·
        6 months ago

        I use Deezer. It also has podcasts but they don’t shove it up your face, in fact I just checked and I don’t even see them on the app’s home screen. I have to specifically search for them.

      • Chadus_Maximus@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        6 months ago

        Qbittorrent LMAO. Also some Russian music hosting sites that appear as quickly as they get taken down.

        Newpipe for when I don’t need 320kbps, such as podcasts.