I JUST signed up for tidal after dumping spotify wtf guys A LITTLE LATE
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Use spot tube
Oh fuck, I'm with Deezer... are there any options left?
I’m about to try Quboz from another comment I read somewhere. They’re a French company.
Spotube
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Yes, I do for pretty much everything but it's a bit of a hassle for new music discovery and to play everywhere
I only use spotify for discovering music.
I then download it (lucida.to is the best tool I have used so far) or buy it.
I got an mp3 player for like €13 on aliexpress, but that broke a day or so ago (rip).
Mp3 player
No SD card, no headphone jack.
it's definitely much more than €13, but if you're the right kind of nerd for that kind of thing, there's Tangara
I've seen a lot of good things said about tangara. I'll look into it, thanks!
If you want to support musical artists, pay to see them live and buy a t-shirt or something.
But for listening... Don't pay some disgusting corporation to trickle a fraction of a fraction of a penny to your fave artist. That's not actual support, just corporate propaganda. Instead download or watch on youtube (with ad blockers).
I'd love to see some of them live, but fuck all those bullshit ticketmaster fees. I'll stick to buying their vinyls.
~~Support by listening to them on a paid Spotify account~~ Trump supporter
~~Support by listening to them on a paid Deezer account~~ owned by some other big company
~~Support by listening to them on a paid Tidal account~~ owned by some other big company
~~Support by going to their concert~~ Ticketmaster fees and practices
~~Support by buying vinyls~~ ...
Everything is enshitified and overrun by late stage capitalism
Tidal is still the better streaming service, if you really need one, but it's starting to suck.... Bandcamp is the best of option to support artist.
My perspective may be off but is €150000 a lot? I'd be curious to know if they donated anything to other similar Democrat events (and in other countries). I'd be more sceptical seeing Spotify donate to Trump's actual campaign, but donating to the inauguration of a democraticly elected president doesn't seem insane to me, even if the president is as awful as Trump.
They did also resign joe rogan in 2024 to give him a $250 million dollar deal. He's played a huge part in radicalizing his listeners.
Much better example, thanks. I remember that deal really upset their staff.
- Doesn't matter if it's relatively a lot. It is objectively a lot of money. They could have donated it to a worthy cause like starving people.
- It's Trump. They should have donated $0.
- It doesn't matter if they're democratically elected or not. Being elected doesn't mean you're good.
I love every time this topic comes up folks be like "buy directly from the artist" or " use this other platform that is less evil" and the chads going on about "just pirate stuff, haven't payed for music in years ".
Hilarious. Myopic, limited, and / or dumb perspectives.
Would I love to pay directly to the artist? Sure, but their latest album costs as much as 6 months streaming in my country, and I only like a couple of songs, maybe. And let's not even go to the K-pop realm where I've seen a mini album with 5 songs cost as much as a year of streaming.
Pirate stuff? Well, excuse me for not dwelling in waters that may lead me to be drowned. Also, guess what? Some of us have niche or varied tastes that don't end up in some dark corner of the internet whilst most of these evil streamers have everything.
I prefer to wait every time one of these evil streaming sites puts up a 3 months free promotion or something like that and just use a new mail address with some fake info and enjoy.
the amount of money from your streaming subscription that actually goes to your favourite artist is negligible (especially with Spotify, as they won't even pay any money to niche artists before they reach a certain amount of plays). I'd rather get my collection stored for completely offline listening, available in a high quality format and playable through any music player that I currently fancy using instead of a clumsy streaming app that tries to shove podcasts in my face or doesn't know how to shuffle properly, and then every few months spend the equivalent of two or three months of Spotify on an album that I really like on Bandcamp, preferably on a Bandcamp Friday, when Bandcamp doesn't take any cut from the purchase.
A lot of albums on Bandcamp are "pay what you want". I just got 12 albums last friday (Bandcamp friday, all the money goes to artists) for around 15$. It's not much but it's way more then they would get from my streams on Tidal. I do this pretty much every month, and I have hundreds of albums. There's ton of way to support musicians, even with a few bucks.
Drown? Does you country seriously pursuit piracy that hard? Sorry, that sucks. Us Americans have it lucky being able to just vpn that kind of traffic.
If its on spotify - it can be downloaded.
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Serious question. Who’s the alternative to Spotify?
Spotube uses Spotify and gets the music from YouTube. It's a little slow.
The french Qobuz. Has close to perfect 1 to 1 match with content in my experience, and it has a service to help you transfer all playlists
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Lidarr, Jellyfin, and Music Assistant
Ok but serious question, I don't want to personally manage my music library on a server. For movies and TV this is fine, I consume a couple of these a day but if I want a steady stream of new music streaming apps have made all this very easy and very convenient.
When my 4 year old yells out in the car for a specific song, will these cover it?
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