Comment on Spotify fans threaten to return to piracy as music streamer introduces new face-scanning age checks in the UK

• Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Unfortunately most of the major players are involved in some sort of evilness as far as I am aware. Spotify/Google/Apple are all pretty unethical companies. Personally, I have made the decision to cut out the middle man and sail the seven seas while also supporting the artists I like by being a vinyl wanker and going to gigs.

  As for streaming services (I am very happy to be corrected here because I am not certain) AFAIK both tidal and qobuz are good alternatives. Qobuz is based in France so your data will be safer but Tidal is a bit cheaper.

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• davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Soundcloud lets you play any song you want at any time, even on the free tier, and when you ask it to play a playlist, it only plays songs on the playlist.

  You can have recommendations from an algorithm if you choose, but it’s encouraged rather than enforced.

  There are a lot more independent artists on it, and fewer big labels, or at least it feels that way because it doesn’t seem to prioritise big labels over some person I’ve never heard of.

  Spotify has an annoy-users-until-they-pay model. Soundcloud just has ads.

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  • Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I like the random recommendations from time to time

    I’m a bit afraid that their algorithm is shit

    to be fair at this point I’m mostly on youtube music because it allows playing youtube videos as well, which sometimes is the only way of playing some musics

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    • davidagain@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      YouTube music won’t play in the background though, so it’s a pain whilst driving and navigating traffic or routes. Some of my friends make playlists on there and share them, so I do use it sometimes.

      But absolutely use the service that brings you joy, not the ones that I prefer!

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      • Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        YouTube music won’t play in the background though

        It does for me though? Unless you don’t pay I guess? On android you can patch this with revanced, or use custom players

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• dynamoMaus@feddit.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I am trying the following services the next few months: Tidal, deezer, qobuz and pirating

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  • rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I heartily recommend the last two.

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  • raglan@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve been on tidal for a few months now. It’s not as feature rich as far as integrations and sharing a link to a track for your pals is hit or miss but it seems to have all the music i listen to and sounds a little better than spotify for the artists that upload max quality.

    I did the import from spotify using their suggested vendor and only like 20 out of 8000 or so songs didn’t transfer because they didn’t have the artist on tidal.

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  • Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    keep me updated!

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  yt-dlp --extract-audio --audio-quality 3 --audio-format ogg

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  • Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Fails sometimes, I’ve had issues downloading many musics, and it doesn’t have recommendations and stuff

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• megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You can probably get a pirate hat online for a few bucks. And there are plenty of discoverability systems not based on integration with a subscription service.

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  • Electricd@lemmybefree.net ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d love something nicely automated

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    • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      lidarr.audio

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