The ads urge listeners to “join the mission to protect America” by becoming U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, but users of the music streaming giant have taken to social media and Spotify’s website to complain, and announce their withdrawal from the audio platform.
I rarely listen to a whole album nowadays.
Pretty much since streaming music has been made easy I’ve seen people make playlists of thousands of artists. I don’t see how you can easily achieve this by pirating or buying the albums.
Making playlists on youtube I guess, but it’s not nearly as polished an experience.
There was Spotube that did a very commandable job at making a Spotify-like UI for that, but it was still way jankier than using the real thing. And it stopped working (might be back up)
I’m not trying to be a contrarian, but I see comments saying there are good alternatives all the time and I have yet to find one
You can pirate Spotify directly.
Other than that, I prefer albums because the songs are part of a whole. Giant playlists are convenient, but often vacant of connection or meaning, which I think is what is important about art.
As far as pirating directly, thats not difficult to do but you do have to download everything on purpose so it takes work at first.
Personally, I think artists will more and more simply sell their own music without middlemen. The big pop acts will probably always sell out though, but thats not really music if it can’t be played live without prerecorded tracks.
On desktop I use Spicetify, it simply removes all ads (among other things)
Are you referring to an Android app? Last time I checked it had stopped working, I should check again.
For downloading there’s deemix also
Its mixed bag for sure reliability wise. Thanks for the link to the desktop one though thats better anyways.