Music artists absolutely fucking hate music streaming services! It’s too big to not participate, and in a lot of cases, their record label won’t let them not do so. But the pay is absolute shit! If you care about tbe artist behind the music, buy their music. If you don’t want to have all your music stored on device because it takes too much room, there are self-host options.
Going solely with streaming is actively screwing artists over, especially in the case of Spotify, which pays out to the tune (pun intended) of 0.0001¢ per stream. Even an artist as well known as Weird Al barely makes enough to buy a sandwich from what Spotify pays! Other platforms are better, but not by much. I don’t say this to guilt trip; many big names make good money from record deals and will be just fine, while most of us don’t make much. Indie artists are the real losers here.
That said, music had gotten cheap! Most of your favorite indie artists will sell FLAC versions of their albums for $10 an album, or $1 a song on Bandcamp, and prices are between $10-20 for major artists on platforms like Qobuz. It might take time to build your library back up, but the average person can make a huge difference here by taking the money you would spend on Spotify or any other platform, and buying your music directly. You’d be paying the artist more than they’d get from you streaming nothing but their album every day all year, eventually you’ll be paying less in the long run by not being subbed to a greedy music platform, and you’ll get better quality!
I’m trying to get most of what I like on CD and then host a jellyfin server
There are also Faircamp and Mirlo, if you are looking for even fairer and progressive alternatives.
Currently streaming out of my Nextcloud server. Its nice. Does that count?
Anything that can work with Android Auto?
Excellent question! Qobuz should be and I believe TIDal /Deezer as well. But feel free to create a post on [email protected] for more exposure :)
Tidal does. Haven’t tried others.
A glance at this makes me happy to just keep playing my mp3s.
Can’t ungoogle myself this time. YT music has probably the best catalog of all and it’s easily moddable
If you’re paying for music, stay away from any music publisher that doesn’t give you the option of keeping a DRM-free copy for yourself that can be played back in perpetuity, unconditionally.
I tend to wear a special hat that allows me to consume music in any format or device I like.
and then go donate to, or purchase music directly from the artists that I like.
yar har har.
Which one has the biggest selection and highest quality audio, ad-free for $0/mo?
I use YouTube Music ReVanced, and while the audio quality isn’t the highest (because it’s YouTube), you can’t beat the song selection. Especially when it’s free and ad-free.
You’re likely violating the YouTube terms of service and can be banned at any moment. Also you’re stealing from musicians. Lemmy has multiple piracy communities that can probably give you more options
“Stealing” from billionaire record industry executives, you mean. Artists make the vast majority of their income from merch, autograph signings, and ticket sales. I couldn’t care less if a billionaire executive misses out on a few hundred bucks from me over my lifetime. And secondly, making a copy isn’t stealing.
ReVanced can also patch the Spotify app
Spotify has no music. I don’t like it.
(Seriously, it’s missing so many songs! But thanks anyway.)
No Qobuz on Linux afaik :(
I’d otherwise consider the switch
Though being part of a family plan, I’d either have to pay for it myself – an added cost to expenses – or somehow get whole family to move over.
I wonder also how they be with people living separately
I had no problem using Qobuz on Linux (firefox and chrome based browsers); unless you are mean you were expecting a separate app or something.
Yeah, I guess that could work. Downside is my browser isn’t exactly set to remember stuff. Not sure if it’s the cookies or what exactly. Having to log in every time I reopen my browser would maybe be a tad annoying, but I guess I could do it (especially with Bitwarden’s autofill making log in quicker and more convenient)
Naspers is a South African multinational internet, technology and multimedia holding company headquartered in Cape Town… did you mean Napster…? Did you generate this with AI or something?
Why would the largest music streaming service in the world be in the “other” category and not the “Big Tech Incumbents”.
Yeh and the blurb for splotifry reads like an ad, with not a negative word to say about this exploitative monster.
I mean, the “To Note” section includes information about their worse practices. The whole infographic is such a nonsense mishmash.
Tidal is owned by Block, the owners of Square, which is the biggest POS vendor in the US. If that’s not big tech I don’t know what is.
Part of the reason I just shifted to a fully self-hosted setup.
Left Spotify because of all the bullshit they pull, tried out Tidal because of the higher quality and higher artist pay, but even if it is a substantially better platform, its ownership is questionable to say the least.
I dusted off bandcamp and learned to use slskd to build a full local high quality library powered by a Navidrome instance.
I’ve been happy with Bandcamp. They got sold recently so their future is uncertain, but I downloaded all the music I bought.
They don’t really have an algorithm, but you can see who else purchased something, and they do blog posts about like “what’s new in [genre]” that’s worth reading. So far as I can tell it’s written by real people.
They also have regular “Bandcamp Fridays”, where they forego their 25% and give musicians 100% of proceeds for the day. It’s a good chance to directly support small artists.
Yeah, from the conversations I’ve had, they’re kind of the best of a bad bunch, all things considered.
192kbps? Is it the 2000’s again?
Are you talking about the 24 bit 192kHz part?
I thought so too, but can we really tell the difference?
