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.

  • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 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

    • vortic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      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.

      • Chadus_Maximus@lemm.eeEnglish
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        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.

      • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        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
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          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.

        • Rob@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          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.

          • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            5 months ago

            Yeah you can do the same thing as Spotify and change the output on the fly within the app

            • TeNppa@sopuli.xyz
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              5 months ago

              Does the switching really work? I’ve been eyeing Tidal since Spotify is shit at that. Too many times I get “can’t play this song” when switching from pc to mobile or vice versa. Sometimes it won’t even switch and I have to force close both, which is not possible when I’m outside and not near the pc.

      • Something Burger 🍔@jlai.luEnglish
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        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.