European company and employs a lot of people in Europe
Seems like they donated to Trump’s inauguration, do people know how much?
They pay hundreds of millions to Joe Rogan, who was one of the vectors of getting young men into the far-right “manosphere” radicalisation pipeline. Were it not for him, and Spotify’s part in his reach, the US may now have President Harris.
They pay Joe Rogan, they pay Trump, they back “Europe needs AI” to lobby against the rights of EU citizen.
It seems the only people they don’t are the artists on their platform.
Switched to deezer and wrote that in the “why are you leaving us” section.
I just looked into Deezer, but seems that they don’t pay artists well either. Have you considered Qobuz?
Still on Apple Music myself, but exploring option.
That will show em
They subsidised years of huge losses with blood money from oil company investors from the Middle East just to gain market share and they screw over artists. Horrible company.
I use Tidal which is sadly American but does have their ethics a bit better. Bandcamp is best for artists but it’s still American and partly owned by Tencent which is Chinese so part government.
Am I the only one carting around a downloaded music library? You can usually buy stuff from your favorite bands directly if you’re worried about financially supporting them. Or just go to their shows and buy merch if you can.
They severely underpay artists while continuously raising subscription prices because of some contract loophole involving podcasts bundled to subscriptions. Avoid if possible.
What do you use?
Tidal. The company is Swedish-Norwegian, but an American company owns the majority of the stakes. They supposedly pay artists more fairly, which I believe holds more weight. Their music library is similar, but they don’t serve podcasts. The mobile app is just barely acceptable, but streaming quality is good even on the lowest tier subscription. The biggest drawback is the lack of a proper Linux desktop app – all we have is an Electron wrapper around the web app.
Switched to Deezer yesterday after I learned Spotify sponsored Trump. Apart from that their music recommendations really suck in my opinion.
Same, switched to Deezer on the spot.
I’ve never heard of Deezer but you like their trump support?
Spotify gave $150k to the Trump inauguration. I believe that is what OP referred in the previous statement.
It probably should have read “I switched to Deezer when I found out that Spotify donated to our Lord and Savior Trumpus Christ.”
Goddammit. Now I have to leave Spotify . Thanks (not being sarcastic, corporations are just trash)
I switched to Tidal.
I may look into self hosting something. The maintenance on all this stuff can get to be a lot, I’m just tired of paying people that end up being shitty.
Haha yes that came out wrong there.
Switched to Qobuz (French). Works well although I miss some features from Spotify. A quick search and saw that their payout to artists is the largest among the big streaming services. A large margin down to Spotify.
Also switched to Qobuz. They pay their artists better and the music is high quality.
I don’t use anything with DRM generally.
They gave 100m to the antivaxxer Joe Rogan and have been caught red handed avoiding taxes.
Qobuz is way better!
In switched to tidal a while ago because Spotify was investing into other areas I don’t care for, hosting Rogan and other shit podcasts paying plenty of millions and finally because they poorly pay music owners.
I am personally using and Qobuz and Tidal (because they complement each other in certain genres), but for my kids and wife we have a Spotify family subscription. They like all the crap songs on there, so I will probably have a hard time getting rid of Spotify.
I would recommend Deezer, because they are trying to pay artists in a better way, via its “artist-centric payment model”.
Tidal is probably paying music owners better (no service is paying artists directly unless they are independent).
🏴☠️⛵+bandcamp
Squid.wtf or Nicotine+ for me to download FLACs. CEO of Spotify can go FUCK himself. He is a prick and is really convinced he is above anyone. Spotify has become very aggressive with commercials. They don’t let artist/creators generate reasonable wealth through its platform. And I don’t think they will benefit current artists in the age of AI either.
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Bandcamp. You can pay the artist or indie label directly. Sure, you might not find really big name artists on there but you wil find a lot of classics from yesteryear. For example, Mastodon’s (the band) first two albums from they were signed to Relapse Records. Plus you can download in high quality formats like FLAC and WAV.
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Physical media like CDs and vinyls. Super high quality but three things to consider: money, space and patience
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Ad-silence. Works with both Spotify and Tidal. There’s also xmanager but that only works with Spotify.
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My personal favorite: Sailing the high seas.
Ublock origin also blocks Spotify ads on desktop.
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Honestly, I use youtube music because of revanced.
I stopped using it a month ago cause of the big label cartel, low payouts to artists per stream and using ai generated songs in big playlists to pay more money to the cartel. I’m with tidal now and it’s nice. Don’t give a damn about the extra quality even despite being an audiofool. I also have been using soundcloud all this time cause it has by far the largest song library and it’s full of underground stuff.
Just signed up for a trial of Tidal. So far, it has some really good, obscure tracks that I couldn’t find on other services.
