I have got to admit I canned Spotify subs years ago - but how are they managing to grow their subscriber base whn it is now going to be £11.99 in the UK? That is way, way too high for what it offers…

https://www.gbnews.com/tech/spotify-price-rise

  • killeronthecorner@lemmy.worldEnglish
    113·
    3 days ago

    Ditched Spotify and bought myself a galleon and a tricorner hat instead. Haven’t looked back.

    Lidarr + Navidrome + Feishin + Metube

    Mullvad for acquiring, TailScale and Symfonium for listening while away from home

    This sounds like a lot of setup but probably took a few hours in total to set up the various docker images and get them working together.

    I spend my saved money on vinyls, official merch, and SoundCloud or BandCamp purchases for my local library.

    • Emptiness@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Yarrr! hello there fellow matey! 🏴‍☠️ Sounds good but, do you also set this up individually on your wife’s and kids phones and devices and keep them updated?

      • killeronthecorner@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        I mostly don’t! The kids are too young, the wife has Home Assistant, Symfonium and has web shortcuts for the arrs. Haven’t had any complaints since I got 2FA and external domain mapped for Hass.

        My friend has had good results with jellyseerr with his wife and kids though haven’t got to the point of needing it myself.

    • cosmicrookie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      121·
      3 days ago

      A few hours, when you know what you’re doing. A few month when you have to figure it out, and maybe even then, it won’t work, or you’ll have lost a lot of money trying.

      This should be a lot easier to do, than it is

      • killeronthecorner@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        Fair, I should clarify: the few hours is for the music parts only. The homelab set up could easily stretch to months … And I’d still recommend doing it to most, it’s great fun setting it up!

    • shoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 days ago

      Out of curiosity, what is your experience/usage like with this? Spotify is very easy to justify if you heavily use some of their features because there’s not a way (that I know of) to replicate them. For example:

      • Shared playlists
      • Universal links directly to songs
      • Playback control from a second device
      • Group listen/jam
      • Zero overhead for search and discovery. From someone mentioning a band you can find, sample, and add to a playlist in 30s or less
      • Public playlist discovery
      • Easy crawling. Eg. browsing from Song -> Featured Artist -> Album -> Record label -> Related Artists etc…

      From my usage, sacrificing a majority of those is a non-starter because my Spotify usage has become more than mp3 hosting and organization.

      • killeronthecorner@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        I scrobble with Last.FM for music discovery.

        I don’t really use social features and not sure if they’re popular in homelab land. Some people I know share a Plex server.

        I’m not a purist about these things tbh, I have an Xbox live subscription, among others, to use social features for pretty much the same reason you’re using Spotify. I might have stuck with them if I was using them more.