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You guys use spotify ?
It's probably the most popular music streaming service at the moment.
Sure, for the morally bankrupt
Who is any better? Literally all are paying pennies to the artist per stream.
Tidal pays more than 3x what Spotify pays. Qobuz pays like 5-6x.
Although better, still very little in comparison to bandcamp
Sure, that's true, though if you allow streams on Bandcamp, those pay $0, so in terms of "try before you buy", any streaming service is better. It's only if you actually sell an album on band camp (or AmpWall, a smaller indie service that does a lot of the same stuff) that you'd get paid, as an artist.
I say this as a musician who has put out several albums both independently and with a label.
Some people buy albums
Buying albums is great because you can host them on your own Plex server and use Plexamp.
(or something like Jellyfin, but IMO Plexamp is still the best app available for streaming your own music collection)
Tidal, Deezer and qobuz pay better and don't fund Slow Joe
Are we talking about theBiden administration?
Tidal doesn't host far-right mouthpieces, offers much higher quality streams, and pays the artists far, far more per play.
Edit: Here's a chart from 2022:
The chart is neat.
But I could care less about (US) politics while listening to music.
If they had a better regional(Taiwan) music view, I would switch to them.
hell no
Sailing the high seas ,is the way ,yep
No, it's not. Even more so if you like your artists.
Plexamp.
Yeah. Just started my self hosting journey a few months ago, looking to replace Spotify at some point. I got a NAS with Jellyfin set up, my next step is replacing Google photos with Immich probably.
I do appreciate Spotify will be adding lossless music soon, but they have so many other issues.
Mostly for random song discovery considering my previously liked songs, I regularly download/obtain those songs I like for offline reproduction and preservation... online stuff has short lifes