Comment on 'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup

criss_cross@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Quazatron@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I jumped to Tidal many years ago because Spotify could not be bothered to provide high quality output. Yes, you can eat the difference, even on shitty gear.

  For the stuff I could not get on either platform I started buying CDs on Discogs and ripping them to FLAC.

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• steal_your_face@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Apple music believe it or not. Nice selection and interface. Works on Apple devices as well as android. Has a high bitrate and supports aptx on android. Don’t think they have a native app for windows or Linux, though, so you’d have to use the web version.

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• FriskyDingo@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is where I’d have recommended deezer, but they shit the bed on their mobile app.

  +1 for tidal

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• Lanske@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Qobuz is great. It’s a french company, they pay the artists well and the music is in high quality

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• vividspecter@aussie.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If you’re technically inclined, self-host navidrome or jellyfin.

  If you just want music and don’t care about the streaming part, bandcamp (although it does have some basic streaming I believe.

  If you want streaming and aren’t technically inclined, Tidal.

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• avidamoeba@lemmy.ca ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Qobuz

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• Codilingus@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Tidal is cheaper and better quality, Deezer is good, too.

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• oce@jlai.lu ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have been using Deezer because it was local for me, France. At the beginning you could upload your own collection to share with others, it was fun. Now it’s basically the same as the others, I think it pays artists a little bit more than Spotify. Also just learned that is now majorly owned by some US investment fund. 🫠

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• NotProLemmy@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Funkwhale

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• Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Napster, bearshare

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• 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  IIRC Tidal and Qobuz should be good alternatives

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  • Jonnynny@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Thanks.

    I was talking to my wife this morning about this thread and the Qobuz recommendation was just what she needed to replace and cancel Spotify. She was able to import her playlists from her Spotify account and she’s been commenting for the past couple hours about how much better the audio quality is.

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  • FriskyDingo@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Qoobuz had the most horrific app I’ve ever experienced.

    Couldn’t even search a song in a playlist bad.

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    • VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      searching in a playlist in qobuz

      I feel it’s been getting better. Like, it isn’t perfectly smooth, but I like what I get on the Frontpage way more than what I did with Spotify.

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      • FriskyDingo@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh yeah, I feel qobuz has the right mentality and ethos to really break into the scene and disrupt.

        I loved everything about the experience, but the app was shockingly bad. Like, if it just behaved as gen 1 iTunes it would have been an improvement. Really bad at just the basic things. Just bad. And I cannot stress that enough lol.

        I’ll keep an eye on them, but whoo-boy! I’ve never been scared off from an app so quickly

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