neonfire

Idk, I haven’t paid a dime in over 12 years and never saw an ad (with blocking). Never received spam or had features removed or shitified. Lastfm is one of the few places to have done it right imo. Don’t get me wrong, self hosting is great, but self host the music before you care about the stats

What’s wrong with last.fm? I’ve used them since 2007 and imo they’re way better than something like Spotify. Lastfm is free.

maybe in the UK, but US radio is trash.

Ditch Plex and get Jellyfin. Use Symfonium to play your music on your phone.

The radio is not an answer. I stopped listening to it in 2006 when I installed a new car radio that had an AUX input for my iPod. I recently had to use a car that didn’t have BT audio and was forced to use FM. It was horrific. The same playlists from 2006, but with longer and more frequent ads. I tried every station I could find and it was the same deal.

Symfonium has been amazing! The only thing I was sad to lose from Plex when I switched to the superior FOSS alternative Jellyfin was Plexamp. There was a Finamp app but it was missing a lot and didn’t work too well. Symfonium on the other hand has been a dream come true.

This isn’t reddit, read the whole post before suggesting just another streaming service.

Spotify just shows you want they want you to listen to, just like any other streaming service. I’ve found more cool music within the past few years thanks to music communities than I ever did from Spotify, not to mention the giant amount of music that isn’t even on Spotify to begin with.