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item09@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Just cancelled, have been a customer since 2015 or so.

I’ve said many times I would gladly pay more, if it were an elective extra cost that goes 100% to the artists you listen to.

So $11/mo to Spotify, then I could elect to pay another amount of my choosing that gets split up based on what I’m listening to and goes 100% to the artists. I don’t love it but it would be an acceptable solution to me.

A better solution would be for Spotify to be fair and pay artists accordingly from the start… buttttt Capitalism, and Spotify is publicly traded so no chance of that ever happening. I’m out.

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zaph@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Tidal is your friend

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- zelifcam@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  The nice thing about Tidal is the attention to detail about the music or album you’re listening to. You get writers, producers and recording musicians for all the tracks. Artwork.
  
  Apple had the right idea all those years ago when they were selling those enhanced digital albums. Almost felt like purchasing a vinyl or cd and getting all the goodies that come with it.
  
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- pressanykeynow@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  I wish. But it says it’s not available in my region. Which is really weird in the current globalized world.
  
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- khannie@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  (Note I’m not super familiar with Tidal)
  
  I had a look earlier in the year and I believe Napster pay very decent artist royalties and offer a Spotify migration service. I will be moving to them after this.
  
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  - zaph@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    This is why I went for Tidal:
    
    Tidal takes a look back at a HiFi Plus subscriber’s top streamed artist at the end of every month, and then allocates the direct payment to that listener’s most played artist. Qualified artists who enroll in the Direct Artist Payout program will be able to collect the payouts allocated to them on a monthly basis.
    
    But they recently changed their pricing and I’m no longer paying 20 so I’m not sure if they still do that or not. I have heard good things about napster too.
    
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nullPointer@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I cancelled too. they were resetting my password and forcing me to create a new one once or twice a week. all because i would use spotify on my desktop and my phone.

they only help they would offer was “you password is not secure”. yes, my 16character random generated password is not secure. fuck em.

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