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‘Death to Spotify’: the DIY movement to get artists and fans to quit the music app
(www.theguardian.com)
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Try Tidal. At least it pays artists more and has better sound quality. Allegedly. The downside is that their catalogue is more messed up like albums from different same named artists grouped together.
Does Tidal offer trials or is there a way to explore the library without buying/ playing the music?
Sorry, I have no idea, but I see there is a trial option, so I'd say yes to former at least.
They have a 30 day trial yeah, you can also move your playlists over as well.
To clarify, the import is through a 3rd party. I paid like 2 extra bucks to subscribe to them for the 1 month minimum, took a few more clicks to import my entire playlist library. Really easy and high-value for the effort it saved, easy to unsubscribe, it did what it said on the box. But it threw me off since it was unexpected.
Also, about 95% of the library made it over, but a small percentage either aren't on Tidal yet or didn't have that exact version of a song with like 4 out there. A few songs got replaced by karaoke or covers as well, but they were few and far between. Just a heads up it can happen though. Just had to track them down and replace.
But as a listener and user, my experience has been almost entirely unaffected otherwise. And I have relatively niche taste in music, so I was surprised. They have curated playlists to explore and expand my taste, almost identical playlist creation features to Spotify, lossless playback, lyrics, artist info/bio, etc. Recently added custom pictures for playlists like Spotify has. Do not regret the switch at all.