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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 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:
Tidal, Deezer and qobuz pay better and don't fund Slow Joe
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)
-Sent from my iPhone built with slave labor and suicide nets at foxconn factories
Samsung doesn't build in China. How do you know he's not using a Galaxy, or something similar?
hell no
Sailing the high seas ,is the way ,yep
No, it's not. Even more so if you like your artists.
Buy their merch rather than feeding the beast
Even if that was ok, I'm sure people who pirate buy a ton of merch from all the artists they pirate, that's why all those artists get a ton of money.
I'm sure that small to medium artists don't get fleeced by Spotify and get a ton of money from a service that almost everyone in the west is using. /s
Some more things I'm sure of include that Spotify exists for the artists and won't sneakily replace them with Suno-generated shit at first opportunity or fuck with people's legacy of holy playlists or make the interface more cumbersome to alter users' habits, or increase the price until the frogs start jumping out. It's allowed to exists through the graces of biggest publishing conglomerates whose C-suite and shareholders get the lion's share. Fuck fucking Spotify.
I'm sure they are on Spotify (which is shitty anyway) and other streaming services by choice. And if you are against streaming services, feel free to buy their albums.
There are bands that I legit can't buy the MP3s from.
I use bandcamp to throw some cash at them, it's a fair offer and ok price.
Sure, bandcamp is a very good option to buy albums. But that doesn't give one the right to pirate.
What if Margaret Mead, at her age, smoked grass
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.
YouTube, but yes it's insanely popular and an excellent value.