Friendly reminder that Bandcamp puts money directly in the pockets of artists, and on the first Friday of every month (which for May is today), they waive their fees and 100% goes to the artist.
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ominouslemon@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Friendly reminder that Tidal costs the same, has a bigger catalog, does not pester you with podcasts, has lossless quality audio and it includes lyrics
ech@lemm.ee 6 months ago
ShunkW@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Bandcamp has been great but I fear the enshittification coming. Half the staff was fired by Epic Games last year and then it was sold to a music conglomerate.
GluWu@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Epic Games bought Bandcamp in March 2022 for $273 million
[Bandcamp co-founder Ethan] Diamond was not aware of Epic’s plan to sell Bandcamp to Songtradr until as soon as the night before the deal was announced.
During the weeks that followed, Bandcamp’s union, which represented about half of the company at the time, called on Songtradr to voluntarily recognize the union while it also negotiated with Epic over how the layoffs to union members would be handled. For example, the game publisher said that no employee who received an offer from Songtradr would remain eligible for Epic’s severance package.
The two companies agreed to an “asset sale” of Bandcamp rather than a “stock sale.” This meant that Songtradr was only acquiring the technology and platform, rather than the company as a whole, including its staff.
“Of those laid off, 40 were in the union bargaining unit out of a total 67 members,” it wrote. “None of the eight (8) democratically elected bargaining team members received a job offer…"
moonburster@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Small sidenote, tidal lossless is double the price
ominouslemon@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Nope. They have changed that. Lossless is now part of the basic plan
moonburster@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Oh wait what! I own a few headphones which actually benefit from it (ever so slightly, I know). Might be worth the switch
ominouslemon@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Yeah, on my good headphones the difference is quite noticeable
Codilingus@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Even their middle tier quality CD level HiFi 16bits@44100Hz sounds sooo much better than max quality Spotify. Which is also included in their now 1 single price plan. Spotify maxes as 320 kbps, and an average lossless CD quality is around 1000 kbps.
I can definitely tell the difference.
Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
They have a bigger catalog? I kinda assumed that Spotify had the biggest catalog by far because they’re the most popular one.
t0fr@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
YouTube Music has the biggest music catalogue since you can mix and match official and unofficial releases in your playlists.
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Some people think this is a desireable feature
I personally hate having 96kbps “live” recordings from someone’s cell phone suddenly injectef into my stream. But i havent used youtube music since shortly after they became youtube music
RIP google play music
t0fr@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Well ideally nothing gets injected and you control your playlists yourself so you can choose high quality releases
Resonosity@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Indeed, rip GPM
kratoz29@lemm.ee 6 months ago
The only way I can conceive this is useful is for OSTs and such.
seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
It also depends. I am listening to a very specific niche that will post on spotify but not youtube (Freeform trance)
t0fr@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
True. Either wah I personally download all my music in flac/mp3s so I can have exactly what I want regardless of which service its on or not.
kozy138@lemm.ee 6 months ago
For now… Do you really think they’re immune to enshitification if they become more popular?
ominouslemon@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I’ll bash them if and when they’ll start to do shitty stuff. Until then they are great
LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 months ago
Exactly. I mean come on ‘I can’t consider using another service other than my current shitty service. That other might become shit!’
stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
It is just a shame that none of the alternative services have a solution for Spotify connect or I would have moved long ago.
FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Shit services like Spotify is a reminder to vote with you wallet and do your research. It’s ok to switch up your subs.
Being a subscriber since day 1 does nothing for the consumer.
exanime@lemmy.today 6 months ago
I wish the “vote with your wallet” were real… It’s as effective a “recycle your plastics”
It’s only effective in deflecting responsibility to a party that is truly powerless to address the issues
FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Well think about if everybody do that at the same time. Canceled Netflix, stopped going to Starbucks, stop shopping a certain places.
Maybe just for one week. What if everybody had enough gas in the world they could skip a day or two of getting gas.
exanime@lemmy.today 6 months ago
Well think about if everybody did do that at the same time. Canceled Netflix, stopped going to Starbucks, stop shopping a certain places.
It’s impossible to organize… More importantly, the government would bail them out because they are too big to fall
Maybe just for one week. What if everybody had enough gas in the world they could skip a day or two of getting gas.
Again, impossible to organize and completely useless… By the end of the week the oil companies would be whole anyway. What do they care if they have a revenue dip for 3 days followed by a revenue bump as everybody ran out of gas and had to fill up again ?
rbits@lemm.ee 6 months ago
The app also doesn’t let you add your own music, though… Very annoying, cause some songs aren’t on streaming services
mindlight@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Cool. Where can I read up on the catalog of Tidal?
magic_lobster_party@kbin.run 6 months ago
Spotify also includes lyrics. It’s just not in free tier anymore.
moon@lemmy.cafe 6 months ago
If you actually looked at the article this post is about, it says that it’s still there just with a monthly limit.
Lightborne@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Can I upload my own music like I could with Google music?
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 6 months ago
No, Tidal never had that. Deezer might still allow it, they’re the last I know that did.
Technically you can still do it with iTunes, but I don’t think those files will play on the Apple Music app.
RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Yes they do play in the Apple Music app, but if you upload in bulk only 50% will actually be uploaded
YourAvgMortal@lemmy.world 6 months ago
All the songs I have copied to iTunes get uploaded, but if you have the lossless versions they get converted to normal quality on other devices, or if you remove the local original copy.
Music doesn’t support flac, though, you have to convert them to alac first.
I also use a Mac, I don’t know if it’s different on windows
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Oh interesting. I was actually about to verify that myself, opened the app to find apparently Apple has starked blocking Apple Music on rooted Androids.
Just in case that’s a consideration for anyone else.
metasaval@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
for anyone curious, YouTube Music definitely has this, I’ve recently used it. looks like a holdover from the Play Music days.
metasaval@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
YouTube Music allows you to do this fyi
Lightborne@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Yeah but I hate yt music for different reasons haha
datavoid@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
I’ve spent the last 3 days deleting old google play music uploads from YouTube music, one song at a time. Would not recommend uploading anything to their interface even if it is possible.
nasi_goreng@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
*Has bigger catalog if you were fans of mostly Western and European music.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 months ago
Too bad (for me) it doesnt have most of my library.
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Isn’t Tidal owned by Kanye West though?
e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 6 months ago
According to Wikipedia he left in 2017. Majority owner is a Jack Dorsey company called Block, Inc.
Plopp@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Daniel Ek, Kanye West, Jack Dorsey, Epic Games… What a great list. We need to start from scratch yall.
Meltrax@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I believe someone debunked the claim of lossless audio. But otherwise I think that’s all accurate.
ominouslemon@lemm.ee 6 months ago
What has been debunked was the whole story regarding MQA audio, which now they have abandoned. Now it is truly lossless
njordomir@lemmy.world 6 months ago
And the Tidal app has an amoled dark mode, which I don’t think Spotify has. Sometimes the little quality of life things make a big difference.
havokdj@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Tidal does not always have lossless quality audio, I personally recommend deezer
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
I did also get some suspicious audio from Deezer. It depends on what the publisher provides.
Tidal also goes above CD quality, if you’re into that. Some songs go up to 192kHz at 24 bits.
havokdj@lemmy.world 6 months ago
True, though I will say that deezer is a lot more consistent with it, downloading from deemix a lot of the the audio bitrate is atleast 900 kbps vbr up to 1411.
Of course, the best for that is going to be quboz, but quboz also has a very limited selection of music
stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca 6 months ago
Red book is perfectly fine for all listening applications as it already exceeds human listening ability. Higher bit depths are useful to the people actually making the music while higher sample rates are just useless data.
AWittyUsername@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Also works with Rekordbox
dustyData@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Is there a Tidal linux player? Or a Tidal for Roku? Those are the two things I couldn’t find that made me choose Spotify.
ominouslemon@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Re: tidal on Linux, if you use Arch there are a couple of options in the AUR. I don’t know about other distros.
I’m confused about this one, lol. I did not know that Linux is a browser
dustyData@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I’m just as confused as you are. No idea why they decided to list Linux specifically on the list of web browsers and only to mention it is not supported (in an otherwise list of supported things).
kautau@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Is it github.com/Mastermindzh/tidal-hifi? That gives you get lossless audio on Linux through electron if you support widevine, among other features
exanime@lemmy.today 6 months ago
“Support” is a strong word for Spotify … They support extends to other clients offering help and assisting each other in forums
The only time I seemingly got to a Spotify support person was just because I was cancelling and they wanted to convince me otherwise
kuneho@lemmy.world 6 months ago
neither the folks at Tidal, ot seems