• PineappleProdigy@lemmy.zipEnglish
    2·
    6 hours ago

    I dont see anyone recommending any decent free options. To my knowledge tidal and qobuz are paid services. I usually use Pandora but it kills my battery hard.

  • Lanske@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    8 hours ago

    Been boycotting them for 1,5 year or so. Went to Qobuz but mainly buy vinyl in recordshops or via bandcamp. Also buy a lot of digital albums during bandcamp fridays

    • Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      9 hours ago

      Spotify has shit audio quality anyways.

      Do this or use Qobuz. Qobuz also allows purchase and digital download of the wav files for permanent offline storage.

    • partofthevoice@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      9 hours ago

      Like the before times, eh? Gonna need a pack of cheap earbuds, some silly bands, and a lack of care for my future hearing capacity.

    • alien_observer@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      10 hours ago

      Amen. Not sure if it’d be right to say that it’s never been easier, but between supporting artists you like through Bandcamp and getting music you want through Soulseek, it sure is easy.

  • geneva_convenience@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    2·
    6 hours ago

    How dare they invest into oppression against the precious American people, don’t they know that oppression is only for brown intervention abroad?

    • Ostrichgrif@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      7 hours ago

      I don’t support giving Joe Rogan any money either but I honestly think the Spotify deal helped move him out for the spotlight. I would say his peak was a few years ago before the Spotify deal, I definitely don’t hear as much out of him now as I used to.

  • abc@suppo.fiEnglish
    2·
    8 hours ago

    Investing in Helsing is bad? What the fuck.

    That said, I switched from Qobuz to Spotify when Qobuz fucked up the only Linux client out there. Spotify has easily the best Linux support of all the streaming services, and it has a pretty decent selection of audiobooks too.

  • chilicheeselies@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    12 hours ago

    Music streaming is amazing. I love it. It’s so much easier to find new music.

    That being said, best way to support the artists is to go to their shows, and buy their merch. Specifically, buy the album. There is no guarantee it will still be available for streaming forever, so best to have a physical copy and rip it to mp3 for archiving and digital use

    • holy_scroller@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      9 hours ago

      Tidal pays artists 4X more per stream than Spotify.

      Apple Music 2X more.

      Spotify is the biggest problem with artists making no money.

  • Carighan Maconar@piefed.worldEnglish
    1·
    8 hours ago

    Working on it. Me and my family group tried PocketCasts + Tidal as a replacement, and while it kinda worked, it didn’t work well enough to make it to a switchover. :<

    We still want to switch, but we need to wait until some service does proper integration into as-sold sonos systems (Home Assistant is also an issue, but a solvable one). Tidal has it on their backlog, at least.