I am surprised that people know what amazon music is.
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Soundcloud + Bandcamp and a 3rd party client like Newpipe is the only valid option for me.
Downloading music and playing it offline is better than streaming low quality audio on a subscription.
You are right offline listenting is better, but I have apple music and the audio quality is one the best among streaming platforms ( I turn Lossless audio on ).
Lol imagine being beholden to constant internet or having to pay for your music…
What’s a good way to financially support artists directly, without involving shady corporations, and without resorting to piracy?
paying for music subscriptions doesn’t help artist to much. Buying their merch or going to concerts is how they get most of their money
You can download songs/albums/playlist for offline listening…
Would’ve liked to see what percentage have none.
I’m still buying CDs to rip and having my music library as MP3s on my phone. No internet connection required, I have total control of the files, and a physical backup if needed.
Meanwhile, Deezer is completely unknown. No one in the comments even mentioned it. RIP.
Deezer nuts
I liked and used Deezer until they rebranded. I can’t get over the new look. Switched over to Tidal
I like Deezer. I’ve been using it and telling people about it since Spotify was insistent about being focused on chasing a politically charged content (over) investment instead of delivering quality, behavior driven content based on their algo.
The redesign is terrible…
But Deezer is great! I have been using it for years now, it’s missing a couple of songs here and there but the ability to import MP3s makes up for it.
Another Deezer user in the wild! Been a subscriber to it for years now.
No one’s mentioned Qobuz either. It’s like Spotify+iTunes except lossless.
How do you pronounce ‘Qobuz’? Is it ‘quo-buzz’?
Ko-buz
Can someone give me the rundown of Deezer vs. Qobuz vs. Tidal? I’ve been using Tidal and I like it well enough but I’m curious about the other lossless options.
Short summary: Tidal is the best overall.
Balancing the content, quality, and amount paid to artists, I put it on top.
I’m pretty sure I’ve read Qobuz has the highest payout of any streaming service, plus you can actually buy music. Also afaik Qobuz never jumped on the mqa scam train. Tidal wasn’t even giving you lossless music when you asked for lossless music for the longest time.
It’s true that Qobuz pays more per stream, although I’ve heard that they pay an amalgamated sum to the label instead of direct payment by artist.
Furthermore, while MQA was a bit of a bait-and-switch (basically lossy versions of much higher quality), Tidal always offered pure lossless as well.
Qobuz apparently has a better classical catalog, but worse customer support.
Basically, I’ve found Tidal to be - at this point - a bit ahead of Qobuz. Not a real complaint, just a “if I had to choose…” opinion.
Deezer is the best platform. Superior audio quality comparing trash services like Spotify and ytmusic
I don’t use deezer but I rip flacs from there
A criminal! Lock him up 🚓.
ikr. Deezer can’t be that unknown. Right?
I’m in the 23% on the American side of the chart that uses Pandora. I don’t see any reason to switch. I’ve been working on it knowing my preferences for like 20 years now.
Do they do music recommendations? If so, how is it? I use the daily mixes and other mixes on Spotify daily, and got to know plenty od artists that way
In my experience, it’s a lot of music that I already know I like. I don’t feel like I get much given to me that I wasn’t already aware of. With Pandora, you create stations that are based off of a specific band or song. If you are listening to a Rage Against the Machine station, you’re going to definitely hear Rage Against the Machine and then stuff that is similar. What I do is put it on shuffle for a group of selected stations and that gives me what I want.
Gotcha, will give it a try at some point. Thanks for the info!
I got YouTube music and YouTube premium because I needed more Google drive storage.
Loved isn’t the word I would use.
It’s adequate for day to day background noise that isn’t ad-filled garbage and music I hate.
Nobody needs more google drive storage my friend. Nobody does.
I did/do. I share gdrive stuff with friends and family for all sorts of reasons, bluntly, I don’t trust most cloud storage providers, and I certainly don’t trust them any more than I trust the big G… Not saying that the big G is without flaws, but I haven’t seen any major data breaches from them that were handled poorly, unlike a lot of other providers. Meanwhile, they’re one of the biggest online entities, making them prone to getting attacked.
As far as security of my data from bad actors on the internet, the big G seems to have it where it counts for security…
There’s obvious problems with them willingly sharing data to other organizations, but that’s a risk regardless of who you give your data to.
And please don’t start with the self hosted stuff. I can’t even begin to describe how tired I am with trying to get people to use anything that’s didn’t ship pre-installed on their phone. I have a handful of friends that could navigate a FOSS file sharing system, and a large number more that would need to have their hands held through the whole process every time they accessed it, which bluntly, I don’t have time for.
Plus, everyone in my circles already has a Google account for one reason or another, so they already have some idea how to use it, and access controls are made easy by that fact. I really don’t want to have to set each of them up with an account and guide them through the process of accessing it and everything. They are used to Google drive at this point and I’m not going to change that, since it took so much damned effort to get to a point where it’s actually functional for everyone.
I get stuff like spreadsheets shared with family where they can input stuff like their bills and stuff (for tracking payments and trends), and sharing pictures and video, to keeping backups of important files. I can build a FOSS file depot for that, but once I move everyone over to it, I need to spend even more making it redundant with offsite backups and shit…
I’d rather pay the $5/mo and just not worry about it. I’m on one of the lowest “Google one” plans and I don’t see a reason to upgrade or change what I’m doing. I work in IT, I manage enough already, both for my work, myself and for my family. I don’t want to add to that burden because “big G bad”.
Most of the people around me have long ago given all their data to Google, Meta, Twitter, tiktok, etc (or some combination of those). I don’t think they care about having more data in the “cloud”.
Plus, I can share my Google one benefits like YouTube premium, and YouTube music, with my family, so individually it works out to maybe a bit more than a dollar each per month. It’s truly not a bad deal.
+1, I only have a yt music sub because it’s grandfathered in with my yt premium subscription and extra drive storage. YT music recommendations are mildly terrible compared to Spotify, but I’m not throwing $15/mo at Spotify when I only use it a few times a year.
Where ever you listen to your music, in most cases you can hook it up with ListenBrainz, to save your listening data on a FOSS alternative for Last.fm. And to get all sorts of beneficial features, like for instance recommendations that are truly independent, and getting updates on new releases.
“Loved” and “included with Prime” aren’t necessarily the same.
I’ve got prime but I’ve never even heard of amazon music before.
Some people say indifference is worse than hate, but that probably doesn’t apply to graphs.
I thought Amazon Music was a small up-charge on top of prime?
I honestly kinda did to, but I double checked here in Canada and it’s included. Search results did have me think that it may vary though in other regions.
I did take one for the team here and log in. It looks like it’s included, but there’s also a premium for $12 making me think you gotta pay to make it comparable to Apple/Spotify.
Neither is “loved” and “most subscribed to”
Most tolerable is far more accurate.
“Americans voted for Biden, they must love him!”
More difficult to cancel
It’s like saying Microsoft Windows is the most loved OS on PC. People just go with the option in front of them. Spotify is the biggest streaming service now, Amazon Music ties in with Alexa.
People love Amazon music? It fucking sucks.
Dumbest music organizer I know of.
Been happy buying music from Bandcamp and not having a subscription. Didn’t even make it onto the chart :(
I’m pretty sure if you’re paying for it, that’s not love.
Some people love to dry hump strangers on a crowded bus or train, is that more like it?
Some people love to dry hump strangers on a crowded bus or train, is that more like it?
I have to admit I don’t understand what connection this has with paying for music apps.
No love for Deezer? It’s a streaming service that doesn’t shove algorithms down your throat…
Honest question, why should I be paying for a music streaming app when I already have YouTube premium? Also, does no one use Pandora anymore? I still use it occasionally.
Exactly. And Spotify for example is horrendous. I don’t understand how people can use an app that is so slow and buggy.
why should I be paying for a music streaming app when I already have YouTube premium?
You mean because that subscription includes premium YouTube Music?
Yes. I see people with multiple subscriptions, including like yt and Spotify, and I don’t understand why. Lol Do the offer services offer something other than just ad free listening that you wouldn’t get with yt music?
There’s definitely differences in the catalogs. If there’s a particular genre that isn’t well represented on YouTube Music that is well covered on Spotify. Maybe they just got YT Premium as a family subscription because the kids are on YouTube all the time. I personally can’t imagine switching to a service that doesn’t have a digital locker for me to upload my existing library like YouTube Music does (though I’m still mad at the uploads being less integrated than they were in GPM).
Well, I had been happy with YouTube music for years, but I’m frustrated by this at the moment:
I still use it, often. And no ads either with wireguard going to my pi-hole.
So Pandora stops playing for me if it can’t get ads, it wasn’t like that in the past but more recently it has become a pattern.
Idk, worst I get is about 5 seconds of silence
I bought a few mp3s off amazon (but it wasn’t amazon music, i think) and they had no DRM, just a unique ID3 tag. If it’s still like that, I can recommend it.
Yep, amazon Mp3s are drm free. I get most of my music on bandcamp but amazon is pretty decent for stuff that’s not on bandcamp.
Spotify fucks over artists, stop using it.
The entire music industry fucks over artists lmfao
Honest question: what alternative doesn’t screw over artists?
I’ve been canceling streaming services for TV might as well cancel Spotify but what I have no idea what to use for music in its place.
No steaming service is great but Tidal and Apple Music give artists the best cuts.
My understanding from the other comments here is that qobuz is a good option, and Tidal also. Might want to check those out.
Thanks stranger I will!
