I use Napster. I choose it was back when Spotify paid for the Rogan podcast, from a list of platforms that pay artists more. I’m not sure if that’s true any longer, but look out up! I’ve been really happy with their service. (And it’s really full circle for me, since I used there original service decades ago.)
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fpslem@lemmy.world 4 months agoI really wish there was a better alternative to push my friends to. I do use Bandcamp, so at least I know more of my $$$ are going to the artists and I can take the music with me, but I’m not sure about the platform long-term.
jennwiththesea@lemmy.world 4 months ago
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 4 months ago
How does this compare to Tidal?
jennwiththesea@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Resonosity@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I just downloaded Bandcamp, and after searching for my favorite artists, almost none are on the platform aside from 1-2. Did a search on like 20-25. This is why I use Spotify. Maybe if artists started acknowledging Bandcamp as a legitimate alternative to Spotify, then of course I’d listen there. But right now most stuff by my favorite bands are either covers or remixes.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
Chicken and the egg, be the change you want to be, but also I am not absolutist about using Spotify.
I just think Spotify and other streaming services are vehicles of class warfare against musicians that also happen to play music. I understand if you like the playing music part!
CandleTiger@programming.dev 4 months ago
Is Pandora any better than Spotify at paying artists?
MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Qobuz
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
As a musician and composer it really took the life out of me as a musician was seeing an alternative to bandcamp never really form and then one day waking up to it bought by Epic.
I didn’t cry that day, but I might as well have, it made me extraordinarily sad to see that headline and I imagine there are actually countless talented musicians out there who will never actuate on their creative vision because the environment for music production is at this point, downright hostile towards artists and musicians.
It takes an obscene amount of work to take a song from something that has promise to being as polished as listeners demand nowadays, and they won’t even give your song a change on actual speakers. You have to twist and warp your music so it sounds good on essentially monophonic phone speakers with shitty frequency coverage or otherwise nobody will give it a try on speakers for actually listening to music.
🙃
LarryTheMatador@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
floofloof@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
Ah yes, and unsanctioned art will be classified as a form of terrorism.
Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 4 months ago
And most people will be perfectly happy to consume that and nothing else ever.
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
100% where we are headed with this backwards capitalist approach to ai. Make bots churn out art, films, music, anything creative really, so the proles have more time for mindless manual labor
deranger@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Not sure if this is exactly good news, but Epic Games doesn’t own it anymore, it was sold to Songtradr.
can@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Doesn’t sound too good to me. Bandcamp used to be where I could get music from smaller artists who couldn’t afford clearing samples (as they weren’t making money) and I worry a lot of that will be lost.
deranger@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
Still is, for now. I run a small vaporwave tape label via Bandcamp. No significant changes under Epic Games or Songtradr that I’ve noticed. That could change, though.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 4 months ago
🤷♂️ not really, none of these corporations are real in any sense that matters other than sucking up actual companies that actually make the world a better place and mining the goodwill out of them until they are cynical, worthless husks that corporations to bamboozle consumers into buying products from before they get the memo and realize their favorite company/brand is dead now.
ozymandias117@lemmy.world 4 months ago
As bad as Epic is, probably worse…
Even though Bandcamp was profitable the new CEO said this after buying it
So they’re probably looking for any way to cut costs. They fired half of the staff on day 1, including anyone who tried to unionize
SexualPolytope@lemmy.sdf.org 4 months ago
How about qobuz.com ? I’ve bought some flac files from them.
best_username_ever@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
You can’t use Qobuz if you’re behind a VPN. It makes me sad because I wanted to try this.
kiku123@feddit.de 4 months ago
It seems that ampwall.com may come sometime as an alternative to Bandcamp? Time will tell…