I am surprised that people know what amazon music is.
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I pay for YouTube music, but I definitely would not say I love it.
Where ever you listen to your music, in most cases you can hook it up with ListenBrainz, to save your listening data on a FOSS alternative for Last.fm. And to get all sorts of beneficial features, like for instance recommendations that are truly independent, and getting updates on new releases.
What percentage of us love pirating music and putting it on Plex?
Honest question, why should I be paying for a music streaming app when I already have YouTube premium? Also, does no one use Pandora anymore? I still use it occasionally.
Exactly. And Spotify for example is horrendous. I don’t understand how people can use an app that is so slow and buggy.
why should I be paying for a music streaming app when I already have YouTube premium?
You mean because that subscription includes premium YouTube Music?
I still use it, often. And no ads either with wireguard going to my pi-hole.
So Pandora stops playing for me if it can’t get ads, it wasn’t like that in the past but more recently it has become a pattern.
Would’ve liked to see what percentage have none.
I’m still buying CDs to rip and having my music library as MP3s on my phone. No internet connection required, I have total control of the files, and a physical backup if needed.
Lol imagine being beholden to constant internet or having to pay for your music…
What’s a good way to financially support artists directly, without involving shady corporations, and without resorting to piracy?
“Confused Jellyfin / Subsonic noises”
You know why I choose Amazon Music.? Because it allows me to purchase songs I like and then I can download them to my computer separate from their player. You can’t do that with Spotify. Of course recently I found songs on Amazon that are not available forsale which pisses me off, so if anyone knows a place I get those songs I would appreciate it.
Not that I want to pirate but if you don’t allow me ownership of the digital content then it’s what I am going do.
Wouldn’t you know it, there’s a wikipedia article for that. I personally have used 7digital and bandcamp, but qobuz has been mentioned several times in other comments and hdtracks seems like it might work after you create an account.
Thanks will check it out tonight.
Just pirate, it’s better than paying these companies to rip off artists. Support your favourite artists directly, streams are basically worthless compared to other forms of income like merch.
Why I only use it to purchase songs. Also why I use Bandcamp.
Qobuz is good: reasonably priced, you get the best quality audio (actual high resolution, not the MQA nonsense Tides was doing), a good catalogue and a decent UI, and it pays the artists a bit more than Spotify and others, and they offer a free migration tool. Plus they have actual full credits and even CD booklets and notes for the albums. And they do their own artist descriptions and reviews. It really feels like they’re making an effort to be good, not just throwing some record company catalogues online and waiting for the money to roll in.
Spotify is still a bit better for recommendations and automatic playlists.
Qobuz has been amazing. I tried almost all the music streaming platforms during the pandemic and thankfully found Qobuz!
SoundCloud: I was a long time user and a paying customer since 2016 and big advocate. Unfortunately things went downhill around that time as they started taking a lot of remixes and mixes off the platform. Then they introduced some arbitrary limits on the number of songs you could like/add to your library per day, and I kept getting banned from SoundCloud during the pandemic.
I kept threatening soundcloud support that I would cancel my plan but they didn’t care, it was a blanket decision and they accused me of making the community unsafe by liking too many songs. I didn’t care about their stupid social media aspect, I just wanted to discover new music and listen to what I liked by hitting the Like button to save songs to my library.
So eventually SoundCloud drove me off their platform and I ended up on Qobuz.
Even thought the Qobuz selection is more limited for the genres of music I listen to, its been an amazing few years on Qobuz with HiFi listening and I like how I can discover more music from the artists and labels that like or discover.
Qobuz migration progress: I found 1000 songs so far. I didn’t find 500 songs, mostly smaller artists or remixes. I still have another 1500 songs to sort through. But the great part about this journey is moving to high fidelity listening, and the process of discovering more music from my favorite artists or other artists on the same labels.
I ended up getting a bunch of gear from Schiit, DAC(Modi, headphone amp (Magni), speaker amp(Rekkr), desktop speakers, and a Beyerdynamic DT 1990 Pro. Been in HiFi heavenly bliss ever since getting pushed off soundcloud.
Meanwhile, Deezer is completely unknown. No one in the comments even mentioned it. RIP.
The redesign is terrible…
But Deezer is great! I have been using it for years now, it’s missing a couple of songs here and there but the ability to import MP3s makes up for it.
Deezer nuts
ikr. Deezer can’t be that unknown. Right?
I liked and used Deezer until they rebranded. I can’t get over the new look. Switched over to Tidal
No one’s mentioned Qobuz either. It’s like Spotify+iTunes except lossless.
How do you pronounce ‘Qobuz’? Is it ‘quo-buzz’?
Ko-buz
I like Deezer. I’ve been using it and telling people about it since Spotify was insistent about being focused on chasing a politically charged content (over) investment instead of delivering quality, behavior driven content based on their algo.
Deezer is the best platform. Superior audio quality comparing trash services like Spotify and ytmusic
Another Deezer user in the wild! Been a subscriber to it for years now.
“Loved” and “included with Prime” aren’t necessarily the same.
Neither is “loved” and “most subscribed to”
Most tolerable is far more accurate.
More difficult to cancel
Meanwhile I’m over here with my MiniDiscs.
There’s dozens of us!
People love Amazon music? It fucking sucks.
Dumbest music organizer I know of.
Paying for Amazon Music and using Amazon Music are two different things.
Spotify fucks over artists, stop using it.
The entire music industry fucks over artists lmfao
Honest question: what alternative doesn’t screw over artists?
I’ve been canceling streaming services for TV might as well cancel Spotify but what I have no idea what to use for music in its place.
I’m a huge fan of Tidal. Musicians actually get paid more, probably because they’re not wasting money on exclusive podcasts.
3 months ago I cancelled Spotify, following yet another price increase. I went to Tidal for the 2 month trial, and another month full price.
This month I cancelled Tidal, following their deprecation of Plex integration, my finding a couple tracks with bad meta data, and some other here-and-there’s where the service was lackluster.
I’m current on Apple Music.
I like that Apple Music has lossless, like Tidal did. The Apple Music algo seems a bit better so far, even comparing to Spotify or the last time I tried Apple Music (~3-4 years ago). And, one of the things I didn’t know I wanted, music videos for my morning jam time, are better with Apple Music.
I imagine I’ll be staying here for a while.
I liked tidal, until they doubled my subscription cost.
Did that happen when they rolled out HiFi for everyone? They actually lowered my HiFi family plan cost at that time, which was unexpected.
Yup. It’s also when they discontinued their Military and First Responder plans.
Made the switch to Tidal, and I only have a couple nitpicks: no console app and it does this weird thing on desktop where it plays a split second of paused music when other apps or windows are opened. They’re small things though, and I’m happy to be supporting artists more.
Sometimes I miss the Spotify “Radio” playlists. Also, having the desktop sync with mobile so I could just switch players and keep the same playlist was also nice. It’s been over two years though and I don’t miss it enough to go back, Tidal is mostly a comparable experience.
You can get a radio playlist of most songs I believe, it’s a context option, unless you mean a different type of radio playlist, but the feature I mentioned has satisfied that need for me
Yes, I use the Tidal playlists, artist radio and mixes as a replacement. I swear Spotify used to have genre based radio, but it’s been a while since I have used it.
