@spotify well, spotify has shit the bed again.

"Try our new widget now, because you'll have no choice - the old one is going to be deleted soon."

The new one shows less information, is harder to read, and generally displays the wrong information.

A company literally could not be worse at their core business than Spotify,

#spotify #spotifysucks

Made a blog post about how to discover new music if you’re moving away from Spotify or other streaming services. There are a ton of posts around about how to own your music, but not as many about how to keep hearing new stuff, so I thought this might be helpful:

www.thefrugalgamer.net/blog/2026/05/06/the-music-discovery-problem/

#blog #blogger #blogpost #indieweb #music #musiclistening #musicdiscovery #ownyourmusic #quitspotify #spotifysucks
The Music Discovery Problem – The Frugal Blog

Spotify Experiments With New Artist Payment System By Replacing Monetization With Integrated Quiznos 'Free Sandwich' Menu Button.

Spotify streamlines their "Successful Songs For The Price Of A Sandwich" business model through new Quiznos partnership. (Satire.)

Gaslighted’s Substack

You’ve taken your music off Spotify, but now what?

It's time for a fun music place. Be part of something that's collaborative, open source, worker-owned and easy to set up, with no subscriptions or waitlist.

Create your artist or label page now and let's organise the kind of future we want for music, together. 🖥️🐦‍⬛

#Mirlo #Music #SpotifySucks #IndieMusic #MusicIndustry #Musicians #NewMusic #BoycottSpotify #Coop #Coops #IndependentArtist #DIYMusician #MusicWithoutSpotify

Found another CD from a favorite band of mine for the anti-streaming collection.

#anberlin #lowborn #altrock #alternative #rock #music #cd #spotifysucks

Helsing & Co: In diese 4 Startups investiert Spotify-Gründer Daniel Ek

Spotify-Gründer Daniel Ek hat sein Portfolio inzwischen weit über die Musikindustrie hinaus ausgebaut. Hier sind 4 spannende Investitionen.

Business Insider

Another AI & #Spotify fuck up:

https://www.thefader.com/2025/07/22/spotify-ai-generated-blaze-foley-song

Blaze Foley made great music during his short run. It's insane that this can happen.

Sorry for the strong language, news like this really make me mad.

#BlazeFoley #OutlawCountry #SpotifySucks #TheFader #AiSlob

Spotify responds after AI-generated song appears on late country singer’s profile

Blaze Foley’s label manager has criticized the platform after after new music was uploaded to the country singer's page, despite him being dead since 1989.

The FADER
Spotify artist accounts have no identify verification requirement. ANYONE can upload ANY SONG to ANY PROFILE. Hiatus Kaiyote's Paul Bender shares how this *keeps* happening to him.
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DJvslYNz-Ay/
#spotifysucks
Hiatus Kaiyote on Instagram: "@spotify @spotifyaunz @spotifyforartists SORT IT OUT"

2,496 likes, 134 comments - hiatuskaiyote on May 16, 2025: "@spotify @spotifyaunz @spotifyforartists SORT IT OUT".

Instagram

It has also been a year since I quit Spotify and started buying music the old way.

Other than an initial bump in setting up local storage and buying/retrieving previously bought music, it has honestly been pretty smooth sailing. I love supporting musicians with more than 0.000005 or whatever per stream AND turns out the sense of urgency in consuming more new things is completely fabricated. Who would've thought

#spotifysucks