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The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms.
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I am surprised that people know what amazon music is.
Meanwhile, Deezer is completely unknown. No one in the comments even mentioned it. RIP.
No one's mentioned Qobuz either. It's like Spotify+iTunes except lossless.
How do you pronounce 'Qobuz'? Is it 'quo-buzz'?
Ko-buz
Can someone give me the rundown of Deezer vs. Qobuz vs. Tidal? I've been using Tidal and I like it well enough but I'm curious about the other lossless options.
Short summary: Tidal is the best overall.
Balancing the content, quality, and amount paid to artists, I put it on top.
I'm pretty sure I've read Qobuz has the highest payout of any streaming service, plus you can actually buy music. Also afaik Qobuz never jumped on the mqa scam train. Tidal wasn't even giving you lossless music when you asked for lossless music for the longest time.
It's true that Qobuz pays more per stream, although I've heard that they pay an amalgamated sum to the label instead of direct payment by artist.
Furthermore, while MQA was a bit of a bait-and-switch (basically lossy versions of much higher quality), Tidal always offered pure lossless as well.
Qobuz apparently has a better classical catalog, but worse customer support.
Basically, I've found Tidal to be - at this point - a bit ahead of Qobuz. Not a real complaint, just a "if I had to choose..." opinion.
I haven't tried to use Qobuz' customer support, so I can't comment on that. As for paying the musicians directly vs paying the label; that's good to know. I hadn't thought about the fact that labels like to take massive cuts; so even if the cut is larger, the fact that it's being filtered through the label means the artist themselves gets a smaller cut.
As far as MQA, I've heard that's kinda half-true? Iirc, if a song had an MQA version, then Tidal played the MQA version when you asked for lossless. However, if it didn't have an MQA version, then you got true lossless. I've heard they've fixed it now, but when I was looking at streaming services a few years ago it was just after the MQA controversy erupted, and the MQA thing took Tidal off my list of services I was interested in so I never actually tried it out. I might check it out again at some point and see what the library is like.
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 nuts
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.
ikr. Deezer can't be that unknown. Right?
Another Deezer user in the wild! Been a subscriber to it for years now.
Deezer is the best platform. Superior audio quality comparing trash services like Spotify and ytmusic
I liked and used Deezer until they rebranded. I can't get over the new look. Switched over to Tidal
I don't use deezer but I rip flacs from there
A criminal! Lock him up ๐.