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

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    7 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

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      7 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.

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        7 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

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          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.

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            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

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

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        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.

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        7 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.