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.

  • vortic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    26·
    5 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
      211·
      5 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·
        5 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·
          5 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·
        5 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.

    • Something Burger 🍔@jlai.luEnglish
      6·
      5 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
      1·
      5 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.