If its something you use very often keep it. But check settings such as email, password and privacy settings.
Spotify is more of a way to discover new music and such, not as something be relied upon. If there’s an album or track you like then buy from Discogs, Bandcamp, Junodownload or wherever you get your music from. wiki.musichoader.xyz would be a better resource to look at for additional info.
Tbh, spitify’s algorithm is quite bad when it comes to discovering new musics…
Are any of the big streaming services good in that regard, though?
In my experience, SoundCloud is the only one that’s passable in terms of recommending stuff that sounds remotely close to what you’re listening to, but that’s only for niche electronic mixes and live sets.
I currently use Apple Music (as part of Apple One) and it’s, at least for the music I listen to, utterly useless if you’re the type that searches using record labels.
Check out Nuclear for desktop apps: GitHub - nukeop/nuclear: Streaming music player that finds free music for you
I like this for music discovery and acquire the mp3 contraband however I may (sometimes Apple Music sometimes direct for indie artists, otherwise torrents + band merch).
I try to avoid feeding the music industry as a musician. My fam uses Spotify for spanish speaking artists from their country. Trying to find better alternatives so we can get off it entirely.
That looks interesting.
I remember and miss Ex.FM which was awesome as it picked up and found music track files on website blogs.
I use Rimusic that is Frontend YouTube Music, I tried to try Innertune but it didn’t work out and apparently doesn’t stay as updated as Rimusic.
Has anyone tried Funkwhale or Audius? They are the only platforms I know to upload music that are decentralized and open source, Funkwhale is integrated with the Fediverse and Audius is based on blockchain. I think you’d be more private alternatives to Spotify, though I haven’t used them.