I JUST signed up for tidal after dumping spotify wtf guys A LITTLE LATE
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
☠️?
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 accountTrump supporterSupport by listening to them on a paid Deezer accountowned by some other big companySupport by listening to them on a paid Tidal accountowned by some other big companySupport by going to their concertTicketmaster fees and practicesSupport by buying vinyls…Everything is enshitified and overrun by late stage capitalism
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.
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.
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.
Qobuz is a great French alternative
Serious question. Who’s the alternative to Spotify?
Qobuz !
Not available in my country (eu)
It’s french so that’s weird, what is your country?
Yeah, I was surprised as well, I’m in Hungary. Based on their TOS it’s not available in a lot of eastern EU countries unfortunately.
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
I’m looking at the reviews and they’re not good. Apparently tracks just disappear from one day to the next, searching doesn’t work, bad UI, hi res downloads often don’t work, cancellations are being ignored, etc.
Funny, because I have all those problems with Spotify! I mean, search works, but only for well known music, and every once in a while one of the tracks in my playlist will just be grayed out and unplayable.
Qobuzz?
I can survive using a different service for my podcasts. So this sounds like a good shout. But I’m impressed by the fact they supposedly have as many tracks as Spotify.
Will chase this down.
I think using anotger service for podcasts is important Podcasts are free, but Spotify has been trying to hijack the scene and ruin it for everyone.
Personally I like AntennaPod.
