This is the problem with public listed companies that need to "maximize shareholder values" and look for infinite growth.

I just want Spotify for music (playlist, recommendation, lossless audio). I don't need their podcast, audiobook, ChatGPT, concert tickets etc. This just makes their app bloated for features I will never use.

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jmuguy an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Another reason to use Bandcamp and just buy music. Of course then you've gotta setup a whole stack to store it, make it available to your devices, etc etc. I dunno, Spotify certainly isn't going to get better at this point. Best we can hope is that they die and something better takes their place.

	▲	pavel_lishin an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Of course then you've gotta setup a whole stack to store it, make it available to your devices, etc etc. I have avoided building my own stack by uploading everything into Youtube Music (which used to be Google Music, which ... whatever.) It gets a little worse every day, and one day it'll get bad enough where the pain of sysadmining something new will be preferable to them.
	▲	Semaphor an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		My impression from the selfhosted sub is that most people looking to replace spotify are not into albums, and want a lot of popular music not available on BC.
	▲	galleywest200 an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		> Of course then you've gotta setup a whole stack to store it No you do not. Just use an external drive and an MP3 player like some kind of caveman. There are plenty of high quality models out there. Additionally smart phones will let you store music on them to listen to using the player app of your choice (VLC or something).

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crazygringo an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I understand not wanting them to expand into playlists and audiobooks.

But concert tickets, notifications, etc., seems like a no-brainer. That is firmly within the category of music.

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cassianoleal 11 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It also likely makes it harder for people ho are not users of Spotify to get tickets - which is almost certainly the goal.

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something765478 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I disagree; Spotify is good at serving up sound, so it makes sense for them to also serve audiobooks and podcasts; just like it makes sense for video streaming services to have both movies and tv shows. Similarly for concerts; people who listen to a lot of music are probably interested in going to see their favorite band live.

Mind you, I definitely have complaints about the app (like notifications interrupting music, their abysmal lock screen widget, and their "randomization" that always ends up playing the same few songs from a list of thousands); but I also understand why they want to expand.

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rmccue an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

At least concert tickets are somewhat aligned with listening to music, unlike autoplaying video podcasts on the homepage rather than showing my playlists.

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electronsoup an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You may need to move on to other services like Apple Music

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crooked-v an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's the newest version of Zawinski's Law of Software Envelopment:

> Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.

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dominotw an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

music listening has been falling for a while now. no company public or not will choose to commit suicide out of purity principle

	▲	skeeter2020 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Spotify is welcome to go into all those other businesses, but why do they have to destroy their one valuable resource in an attempt to leverage it for all this other garbage? Doing one thing really good - so good that people will pay you for it - is not a "purity principle". It used to be the fundamental reason for existence for many companies.