This is literally the only reason to fork over cash to spotify, are they insane?
Amazon does it, YouTube does it. Everyone will do it eventually. Greed has no threshold
I went back to Winamp last year and don’t regret it at all.
Where do you get the media from, though
Remember CDs? Actually owning stuff?
Yarr matey!
I posted this when Youtube was doing it by ‘mistake’ too…
If you are paying to not receive ads, and you receive an ad by mistake, they should pay you whatever they earned on the ad. Now… I doubt they’ll actually pay you dollars, but lets say at minimum 1 day of free extended service per ad, but if they earn more than 1 days worth via the ad, then it should be whatever that is.
From HN comments:
This is just the latest in a series of vibe-coding caused bugs, Spotify famously claimed their best devs were no longer writing any of their own code:
I’ve been using YT music anyway, but I recently started using my Navidrome server by just yt-dlp’ing albums + tag with MusicBrainz picard and boom. A bunch of songs I can own until my server burns down.
I feel a little bad about pirating, but I’m a college student who hasn’t even gotten a job yet… But I will be buying merch or music off bandcamp in the future when I know I have the budget for it!
I recommand monochrome(.)tf, it’s basically Tidal for free so it has much better quality than YouTube
Qobuz, Tidal, Deezer.
