Music streaming services

Homegrove

People in my bubble are leaving Spotify in herds. People aren’t really doing it because of Rogan, but for many this Neil Young thing was just the final straw, and they were fed up with it before. I feel fashionable for switching to Tidal a month ago, instead of this week.

hugopal

Homegrove People aren’t really doing it because of Rogan, but for many this Neil Young thing was just the final straw, and they were fed up with it before.

Why were they fed up with it before?

303abuser

Homegrove how do you find the quality on tidal? i’ve read that their lossless is actually a compressed file, then converted to flac for streaming to save them bandwidth. and what’s their catalog like for more obscure electronic music?

the two reasons i dropped apple music were the lack of dub techno (and it’s a terrible app for finding new artists) and they constantly fucked with my local library, even though i opted out of every possible matching option.

i hate spotify, i just need a viable alternative.

Along_the_Wire

What’s the Neil Young thing?

Homegrove

Joni Mitchell now too, with rumors about Foo Fighters.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/you-cant-please-em-all-joni-mitchell-pulls-catalog-from-spotify-1292397/

Along_the_Wire

What’s the story here, H?

Edit - just read the article

Homegrove

hugopal they pay artists pittance, the CEO is investing in AI war technology (this made Skee Mask pull his catalog) and an asshole otherwise too.

Along_the_Wire

Every single person I’ve met from Spotify through work is a massive cunt.

Amps

None, fuck streaming.

Millsy

Pissed off this has removed Harvest Moon and Big Yellow Taxi from my Dad tunes playlist.

Along_the_Wire

Apple lossless is just that. When I stream on my phone, I get throttled after about 1.5 albums, the cunts.

Homegrove

Soundquality seems great. I’ve tested both on my Adam T8’s and on headphones. No idea about more obscure electronic albums, but there are some stuff Spotify didn’t have, like most of the older Fabric-albums. The recommendations are alright, but nowhere near as good as with Spotify. I’ve just moved the Recommended Weekly with tune my music every Monday. Spotify still updates it even if you’re not paying them premium anymore.

Mad_Cyril

Homegrove
Tidal is great, I found most of what I wanted off Bandcamp on there.

The only problem for me was that I couldn’t get key and bpm off them.

If they cracked that, or wanted to, would tick all boxes for me (stream/listen & stream/dj).

Until they do will be using Beatport Link / Apple Music.

Beatport Link lets me try tunes in mixes etc and saves me from buying loads of stuff I never use. The stuff I like 100% them gets bought and give a physical home.

Which is nice

Yant

I don’t bother with paying for any streaming service other than Amazon as I get it as part of my subscription. Between that, my own Apple Music library on my phone and what I stream via SoundCloud and Mixcloud that’s as much as I feel I need.

Most streaming services don’t really cater enough for EM IMO. Not that I’ve come across anyway.

Along_the_Wire

Yant Yant, you’ve posted some shit in your time (Porsche trabs), but this takes the fucking shit biscuit.

hugopal

Mad_Cyril Tidal is great, I found most of what I wanted off Bandcamp on there.

Why don’t you buy it off bandcamp?

Homegrove

I have no plans to use the DJeing aspect of Tidal outside of friend’s weddings and the like.

Mad_Cyril

Homegrove
Yes, but you and I are at different stages.

The Wi-Fi is strong in my office 😀

303abuser

has anyone tried deezer?

Mad_Cyril

hugopal
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