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I’m back to pirating all of my music. I will buy CDs or pay for downloads for artists that I really like or smaller artists, but I am fucking through with the streaming platforms. They just enshittify more and more.
Wow is it still a thing? I had no idea. It always seemed to sit in this weird limbo between Spotify and YouTube Music (for people who just want to listen to music) and Qobuz and HD Tracks (for people who just want to listen to their new £250 power leads). Never sure what it was actually for.
Cheaper than Spotify for the number of users it gives you (at least where I live) and the app itself has functioned significantly better than Spotify’s has in my experience so far while not depriving me of any of the artists and albums I listen to regularly. Early on in its life it was big time selling snake oil, but at this point it’s just a solid alternative to Spotify and YouTube music which have both, frankly, gotten “too big to fail” and have begun enshittification because of it. Man we need more competition…
Ahhhh nothing like some good enshitification
Well peasants all split intro group of three because the bigger the daddy corp, the more “convenient” the service. So here we be 🤡
Flac Audiophile types with equipment and no desire to pirate?
HDtracks.
That being said if you’re buying FLACs from major labels for $40 while indie bands release albums in FLAC via band camp for $3, you’re a chump.
The members of Led Zeppelin that are still don’t need the money nearly as much, and even if they did most of it isn’t going to them anyways.
Their sound quality is just significantly better compared to Spotify. Even with my bluetooth earbuds I can hear the difference. Spotify and Youtube just sound muddy in comparison.
I’ve had a Tidal subscription for about a year. It’s recommendation algo is way way better than Spotify and there are none of those spammy 1 minute tracks that Spotify has because ‘artists’ have gamed the system.
They don’t have a Linux app but the PWA works fine. Minimize the window to reduce CPU usage (I know that sounds crazy but it actually works).
That is a package like “tidal-hifi” or something like that that can basically put the web app on your linux desktop ad an app.
Their UI is super slow. That’s why the CPU usage gets better. It’s slow in Safari too.
Same, it’s fine and no joke rogan
I hope it’s still the case as I have Tidal subscription, but they were the ones giving the most money per stream to the artist.
I wouldn’t want to move to another streaming platform unless they are even better for artists.
You could say… a wave of redundancies.
Like the tides, what went up will eventually go down.
What’s a Tidal?
A music app like Spotify founded by Jay-Z.
The proposal was to pay the artists more.
Sounds good, but I think the majority goes to the labels anyways, so it doesn’t change much for the artists.
The main issue is executives basically enslaving their artists with “360 deal” contracts.
Spotify actually pays 70% of the streams to the label, which trickles down to a bunch of nothing for the artist. Tidal wanted to change that and pay directly to the artist
How is that possible if the labels own the music and there’s a contract that sets the percentages.
All music streaming services say “paying the artist” in their communication.
Well, turns out Tidal has ended that program last year: https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2023/03/01/tidal-direct-payments-program-ends/
Now, weeks after partnering with Universal Music Group to develop a “new economic model for music streaming,” the Block-owned platform has officially ended the Direct Artist Payouts (DAP) program.
Yeah, they made a deal with the devil it seems
UMG is the main actor with the 360 deals for artists. And that’s just the top of the iceberg. The Diddy case might show the bottom.
A wave of layoffs.
Lol
Funny guy - they’re gonna fire you last. 😁
Streams flac. Good supplement to piracy. I might switch to Qobuz sometime, but it works well for now.
Dang. I would have supported this, until I found out Jay Z set this up.
Just cancelled my subscription when they killed Plex integration.
I’ve never understood the use case for this. How did you use it?
It seamlessly integrated your own local media with tidal. Instead of encoding or downloading, you could just add tidal music as if you had a physical copy of it. It could also be used for radio and plexamp mixes.
