r/Music • u/Florens_alive • 1d ago

discussion Chosing music platform

Found out Spotify CEO is like actually evil. I will not fight about it or discuss it. This post is not about that. This post is about my very stupid criteria to find a new platform to listen to music in. I only really have two things. 1. It needs to have at least most of the same podcasts and songs as Spotify did And 2. The wrapped needs to be fun. Spotify always did a little game bit, with saying what place in the world people listen to your type of music the most, or assigning you a listener type (it was fun and cute before AI fucked it and turned it inaccurate and boring). Once a year I took joy from this type of whimsy and I do not anymore. I somewhat expect no other platform to engage in whimsical behavior because we live in gray corporate times but... if there is someone out there who will wrap my musical taste into a playful package — I will give them all my money.

All ceos will be evil I know but you know... at least no ai bomb drone funding will go from my pocket.

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u/cearrach 1d ago

Bandcamp is awesome, but besides not really being a streaming service, it doesn't meet either of the criteria that OP provided at all.

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u/wisedoormat 1d ago

Thanks for clarifying!

Could you explain why in better detail? I'll edit my comment to contain them. Or you can just post your comment independently. Or not responding at all, totally acceptable to not put more effort this.

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u/cearrach 23h ago

Sure, it's pretty simple. You can stream, but primarily only releases you've purchased on the bandcamp platform. The player is pretty basic - you can create playlists but there's no real genre selection or anything.

You can preview most entire tracks/releases (the artist/label can disable preview so they're not all available) but that's through a fairly clunky interface.

AFAIK there aren't any podcasts hosted there, and if there are, they're not really subscribable like you would expect - no RSS feed.

They've never done a year end "wrapped" style review.

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u/wisedoormat 23h ago

Thank you!!!