You guys use spotify ?
It’s probably the most popular music streaming service at the moment.
Sure, for the morally bankrupt
Who is any better? Literally all are paying pennies to the artist per stream.
Tidal pays more than 3x what Spotify pays. Qobuz pays like 5-6x.
Although better, still very little in comparison to bandcamp
Sure, that’s true, though if you allow streams on Bandcamp, those pay $0, so in terms of “try before you buy”, any streaming service is better. It’s only if you actually sell an album on band camp (or AmpWall, a smaller indie service that does a lot of the same stuff) that you’d get paid, as an artist.
I say this as a musician who has put out several albums both independently and with a label.
Tidal doesn’t host far-right mouthpieces, offers much higher quality streams, and pays the artists far, far more per play.
Edit: Here’s a chart from 2022:
Or you’ve been using spotube and been doing this all along
Spotube doesn’t actually use the Spotify API. They used to use the Spotify API for their music database, but they stopped when they received a cease and desist.
They’ve updated the app and you can again! You just need to select an external metadata provider. If you use Sonic Liberation, you can log into spotify again just like before. https://spotube.krtirtho.dev/downloads/
Oh my, things have changed fast. I wasn’t aware there were other metadata providers. There I go spreading misinformation again.
Move to Qobuz which is more ethical
Qobuz vs TIDAL, go! (Curious to know more, if someone is willing to do a comparison that has experience with both, or either.)
Easy comparison. Tidal is not ethical. With investors like Black rocks …they’re devil financing wars and genocide.
I don’t know who Black Rocks is or whether or not they finance wars and genocide. I also couldn’t find anything regarding them investing in TIDAL. Can you confirm with sources for either claim?
BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager, overseeing trillions of dollars for governments, corporations, and individuals.
So I see. I still can’t find anywhere that says they invested in TIDAL.
But does that make TIDAL unethical? Does the poison run up the water stream or down?
https://fintel.io/so/us/xyz/blackrock
Bloc is the owner of tidal
So Block owns TIDAL, and BlackRock owns some shares in Block, and BlackRock does some shady investments.
I dunno man. I don’t know how far/many steps back I should take before I consider it far enough removed from the unethical practices. It’s not like TIDAL invests in war and genocide. Right?
Spotify is trash anyways.
cool, my “music” folder filled with mp3s could always do that
Spotify being nice? Absolutely not. There certainly is a hidden agenda behind this.
My theory is, since they’re releasing lossless audio for premium users, they had to make the free version more appealing to the casual user.
Winamp with a cool custom skin and downloaded mp3s was better than Spotify imo.
I know it’s cool to shit on spotify and streaming services on Lemmy, but personally I disagree. I loved Winamp and had tens of thousands of songs back in the day, downloaded on my zippy 56k dial up connection. But being able to search for and play virtually any song available instantly and share collaborative playlists, no matter where you are, is so much better.
Why would I decide what I like to listen to when am algorithm can do it for me?
I fully jumped on the Spotify bandwagon hoping the algorithm would decide what i listen to, I’d become stuck in a rut and hadn’t really listened to anything new for a good 15 years.
Well… After letting it figure my music tastes out, every single automatically generated playlist on there starts off with crap I just immediately skip before devolving into the same 5-10 songs I listened to pre-Spotify. So i guess it knows my taste well? But it has turned out to be useless for this too!
