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Even as an American software engineer, I’ve been working hard to ween myself off as much American software and services as possible. I’m currently using Deezer for a music streaming service. I initially thought their music discovery features were fantastic but starting to realize the mixes and flow pretty much just play the same set of songs in a different order most of the time. The app I’ve loved most for their pay scale to artists and audio quality is tidal but we would consider that American big tech, right? Do I sacrifice the rule when it comes to supporting the arts? I would love opinions.

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[-] Libb@jlai.lu 16 points 4 months ago

A few years ago I used Qobuz, it was nice. And French ;)

[-] shinynewnuisance@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

I Really like Qobuz, they do a lot of curation. I have found a lot of interesting music that way. And the quality is great as well.

[-] petrescatraian@libranet.de 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Mind everyone that, despite being European, Qobuz still lacks support for many countries out there, so not a great alternative to established streaming platforms if you're not in one of them.

Soundcloud seems like it's bigger.

[-] sherlock@feddit.nu 7 points 4 months ago

Spotify’s Swedish

[-] Bezier@suppo.fi 16 points 4 months ago

If the point is to make more responsible choices, I think switching to spotify violates the spirit of it.

[-] torrentialgrain@lemm.ee 4 points 4 months ago

They’re kind of a shitty company but yeah their discovery algorithms are still the best in the business for now.

[-] snuggledick@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Haven't used it myself yet so can't talk about it their recommendation algorithm, but Qobuz has been recommended several times here, it's French and apparently has a very good payout to artists per play compared to others.

[-] statelessai@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

I should have mentioned that I tried Qobuz and had trouble finding a lot of the music I enjoy. Their quality and artist payments are top tier though. Maybe I should give them another shot.

[-] OrlandoDoom@feddit.uk 3 points 4 months ago

I also had a look at Qobuz, but their tagging system is terrible, as a bandcamp user I'm kinda spoiled when I can look at and follow all the weird subgenre tags, Qobuz has "Metal" but no subgenres, and there's a whole bunch of "Metal" that just fuckin sucks, which makes discovering new stuff very difficult.

[-] Coffeegrinder@feddit.nl 4 points 4 months ago

Checkout soundcloud

[-] drspod@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 months ago

See also this recent thread: https://feddit.uk/post/26520101

[-] brrt@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

SoundCloud is awesome for me and from Germany 🇩🇪

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