• HEXN3T
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    68 months ago

    Meanwhile, TIDAL lowered prices and pays artists way more.

    • @[email protected]
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      8 months ago

      I’m using TIDAL HI-FI on Linux and it’s really swell.

      For $2 I was able to get a month trial of the Tidal HiFi Plus plan.

      Have to give my midlife crisis/birthday present seinheisers something to work for.

  • @[email protected]
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    8 months ago

    Spotify being as cheap as it is, has always been a temporary tactic to destroy competition, not an indicator of how cheap Spotify will be once competition was utterly destroyed.

    Prices will keep going up and up, but the normalization of artist’s labor being worthless will remain unchanged and the only artists that get a share of Spotify’s increasing profits will be artists that make specific deals with Spotify.

    The music industry has been utterly destroyed, this is the fail state, the worst case scenario, especially given the fact that Bandcamp is functionally dead as a force for musicians after it was bought by Epic.

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      28 months ago

      Spotify can’t destroy their competition. Their competitors are among the richest companies in the world. If anything, Spotify will be destroyed or acquired, not the other way around.

  • @HootinNHollerin
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    8 months ago

    I’ve used an service that was like $5 for 1 month to migrate music between streaming services before canceling. Believe it was called soundiiz. Got songs and playlists from pandora, prime music, SoundCloud, etc all over to Spotify. Now might do again away from Spotify.

    Edit: had to look up here’s link https://soundiiz.com/

  • @HootinNHollerin
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    8 months ago

    FYI YouTube premium includes YouTube music. Pretty cool to start a music video or live set video then switch to music only and put my phone in my pocket and keep listening, then turn back in the video portion at a certain song. I know lemmy hates YouTube but whatevs

  • @MrJameGumb
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    -48 months ago

    I didn’t think anyone used Spotify for anything besides listening to Joe Rogan these days which was enough to get me to leave them forever lol

      • @MrJameGumb
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        28 months ago

        I use Prime Music for most stuff now which I’m sure some people will make a face about but it works really well for what I need. The only issue I’ve ever had with it is some albums disappear as rights to it change