Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK
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Do you have any other good alternative to recommend? Nice quality, not too much tracking, low/fair price, nice recommendation algorithm, has lots of musics...
I am trying the following services the next few months:
Tidal, deezer, qobuz and pirating -
Do you have any other good alternative to recommend? Nice quality, not too much tracking, low/fair price, nice recommendation algorithm, has lots of musics...
Soundcloud lets you play any song you want at any time, even on the free tier, and when you ask it to play a playlist, it only plays songs on the playlist.
You can have recommendations from an algorithm if you choose, but it's encouraged rather than enforced.
There are a lot more independent artists on it, and fewer big labels, or at least it feels that way because it doesn't seem to prioritise big labels over some person I've never heard of.
Spotify has an annoy-users-until-they-pay model. If you deliberately piss me off, you're not getting any of my money. Soundcloud just has ads.
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yt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-quality 3 --audio-format oggFails sometimes, I've had issues downloading many musics, and it doesn't have recommendations and stuff
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I think they just cannot live without an algorithm to recommend new music to them
Oh, piss off. I just want to financially support artists for making something beautiful I enjoy. Streaming is the easiest because of space constraints. I still buy the CDs of my most favourite albums, but I cannot stress enough how great it is to NOT have to rip the MP3s every time, make sure the tags are good, etc.
It's convenient.
If you don't like Spotify's new ID check, kill your Spotify account and use an alternative - Tidal and Qobuz are both excellent.
I think if you send like a dollar to everyone on your playlist, it would end up being like 100 times more than they get from the system.
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You can probably get a pirate hat online for a few bucks. And there are plenty of discoverability systems not based on integration with a subscription service.
I'd love something nicely automated
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I am trying the following services the next few months:
Tidal, deezer, qobuz and piratingkeep me updated!
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yeeesh. I realize now that getting artists paid is obviously way less important to you than having somebody to verbally spar with. this is reductive and overall pretty naive to the actual experience of being in the workforce or trying to consume ethically.
instead of shouldering the responsibility of being your debate partner, I'm going to bow out and bid you a good life
perhaps somebody else here would like to take turns quote tweeting and making character assessments with you.I realize now that getting artists paid is obviously way less important to you
That's a very interesting take considering I'm against piracy and pro direct purchases from bands. Please, do explain how you ended up at that conclusion.
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Flat out piracy is the best of all available option. Boycott the major and support local independant artists insteas
Why would I support local artists if an artist from abroad makes the music I love?
And, if their music is not available locally, nor they have a Bandcamp/similar account, how do I support them if not through streaming services?
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Soundcloud lets you play any song you want at any time, even on the free tier, and when you ask it to play a playlist, it only plays songs on the playlist.
You can have recommendations from an algorithm if you choose, but it's encouraged rather than enforced.
There are a lot more independent artists on it, and fewer big labels, or at least it feels that way because it doesn't seem to prioritise big labels over some person I've never heard of.
Spotify has an annoy-users-until-they-pay model. If you deliberately piss me off, you're not getting any of my money. Soundcloud just has ads.
I like the random recommendations from time to time
I'm a bit afraid that their algorithm is shit
to be fair at this point I'm mostly on youtube music because it allows playing youtube videos as well, which sometimes is the only way of playing some musics
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LOL 'Spotify fans' buch of losers
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I realize now that getting artists paid is obviously way less important to you
That's a very interesting take considering I'm against piracy and pro direct purchases from bands. Please, do explain how you ended up at that conclusion.
nah we're done. I already said but you don't listen. have a good night
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You're mostly supporting the industry that encouraged your favorite artists to kill themselves once they're not profitable anymore. Why do you think they keep blowing thelself up? The music industry is inherently exploitative.
Not to even mention all the corruption (payolas) going on.
Why do you think they keep blowing thelself up?
I have honestly no clue what you mean. Could you explain?
You’re mostly supporting the industry that encouraged your favorite artists to kill themselves once they’re not profitable anymore
Which is why I'm actively searching for the best possible options.
When I learned that Spotify is fleecing artists, I moved to Tidal.
Then I learned about the French Qobuz, which pays artists even more, and I switched.
I support artists on Bandcamp. I buy physical CDs and will soon fire up a vinyl collection.
I'm aware that 100% of the money I spent on art doesn't go to the artist, but even if it's 10%, it's going to be 100% more than if I resorted to piracy.
Supporting piracy to show corpos the finger is the equivalent of stealing CDs from a music store, because the store price includes the store's margin, transport costs, manufacturing costs, and only a (relatively) small percentage goes to the artists.
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Thanks for recommending Navidrome. It looks really interesting.
I was using Spotify, but switched to Spotube. After Spotube was crippled, I was kind of aimless. I really liked having my music available on my cellphone and desktop. It looks like Navidrome will fill the gap perfectly.
You'd mentioned ripping CDs. Would you have some software, you'd recommend (Windows or Linux)? Preferably in FLAC.
I haven't looked at ripping software in a few years, but it was kind of tedious to set up and very manual to get the proper metadata, genres, and cover art. I've got a hundred CDs and that'll take awhile....
Don't know if it's still what's recommended, but I use foobar2000 for ripping CDs to FLAC.
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tf is spotify "fans"? more like spotify "users"
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I am trying the following services the next few months:
Tidal, deezer, qobuz and piratingI've been on tidal for a few months now. It's not as feature rich as far as integrations and sharing a link to a track for your pals is hit or miss but it seems to have all the music i listen to and sounds a little better than spotify for the artists that upload max quality.
I did the import from spotify using their suggested vendor and only like 20 out of 8000 or so songs didn't transfer because they didn't have the artist on tidal.
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tf is spotify "fans"? more like spotify "users"
Fans of things that are provisioned by Spotify.
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If I am paying for my account personally, with a card in my name, what more do they need?
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I don't mind giving my date of birth to all the services I already pay for with credit card but face scanning? That's just creepy. Fuck off.
It is 1970-01-01 like me, no?
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Tidal is pretty good these days. Qobuz too
And Bandcamp
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what's even the point of age gating "explicit" music?
"oh no! "Speak To Me" by Pink Floyd has the fuck word in it! can't let my kids hear it!"
Just get me the kid bop version
