Comment on Spotify axes 17% of workforce in third round of layoffs this year

• Gamers_Mate@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What competitors do you recommend?
  I use soundcloud and have used Bandcamp but Bandcamp got sold to Epic.
  I have also heard of Faircamp which looks promising.

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  • KpntAutismus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    one of my friends uses deezer, there is actual lossless audio there.

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    • war@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Tidal sells snake-oil hi-fi, though. MQA is pseudo-scientific bullshit, and the fact that Tidal promotes it disqualifies them from serious consideration. Spotify's maximum sound quality is more than enough for all purposes. "Audiophiles" thinking they can tell the difference between V0 and lossless continues to be the biggest fucking joke in the universe. But hey, those are the same people who'll shell out $50K for an external DAC despite the technology having been solved to the point where a Chinese $5 DAC on a motherboard does the exact same thing.

      It's an absolutely fucking hilarious clown show where absolutely no one has any fucking idea about anything.

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      • KpntAutismus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        well, i am an audiophile myself and i do think having lossless out of principle is pretty reasonable, even if you can’t tell the difference. especially with how fast the internet has gotten, we don’t need to compress anymore. and with serious sets of headphones (even with DT770 pros) i can definetely tell a difference between an internal DAC and a 20€ external DAC. the better the components, the more expensive the product (plus audiophile tax).

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      • ChiefGhost295@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Tidal brought FLAC this year, so this MQA critique doesn’t really apply anymore.

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    • Gamers_Mate@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Nice I will give Deezer a try.

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    • deadly4u@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I switched to a TIDAL subscription a couple of months ago. The whole experience, apart from sound quality, is a downgrade from Spotify Premium. I still recommend it to people because supposedly they pay a better cut per stream to artists. The sound quality upgrade is quite noticable if you have good sound gear.

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  • BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Apple Music is also very good. Lossless at no extra cost.

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    • WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I like Apple Music and would use them if it wasn't so god damned difficult to upload my own music. I have an eclectic collection of music and though, to be fair, I haven't listened to a lot of it in a while, I would still like the option. Being on Linux there is no iTunes option and getting it to run under Wine hasn't worked for me. So right now I use YouTube Music because it's so easy. I may switch to Plex now that I have a decent internet connection.

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      • BorgDrone@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I like Apple Music and would use them if it wasn’t so god damned difficult to upload my own music.

        It’s easy enough, just add your music to the Music app on macOS.

        Being on Linux there is no iTunes option and getting it to run under Wine hasn’t worked for me.

        The Windows version of iTunes is terrible anyway. The Music app on macOS is much better. Can’t you hackintosh it?

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  • uzay@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Epic already sold off Bandcamp to another company (songtradr) and it’s probably not an improvement.

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