I am surprised that people know what amazon music is.
Paying for Amazon Music and using Amazon Music are two different things.
The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms.
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Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Armand1@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Meanwhile, Deezer is completely unknown. No one in the comments even mentioned it. RIP.
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 1 month ago
No one’s mentioned Qobuz either. It’s like Spotify+iTunes except lossless.
jsh@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
How do you pronounce ‘Qobuz’? Is it ‘quo-buzz’?
thesystemisdown@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I like Deezer. I’ve been using it and telling people about it since Spotify was insistent about being focused on chasing a politically charged content (over) investment than delivering quality, behavior driven content based on their algo.
Deezer is represented globally, but the subscriber count is less than I would have expected. This is about a year old:
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Deezer nuts
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 1 month ago
The redesign is terrible…
But it’s great! I have been using it for years now, it’s missing a couple of songs here and there but the ability to import MP3s makes up for it.
notthebees@reddthat.com 1 month ago
ikr. Deezer can’t be that unknown. Right?
ggnoredo@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Deezer is the best platform. Superior audio quality comparing trash services like Spotify and ytmusic
Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Another Deezer user in the wild! Been a subscriber to it for years now.
codenul@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I liked and used Deezer until they rebranded. I can’t get over the new look. Switched over to Tidal
yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t use deezer but I rip flacs from there
Armand1@lemmy.world 1 month ago
A criminal! Lock him up 🚓.
paf0@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m a huge fan of Tidal. Musicians actually get paid more, probably because they’re not wasting money on exclusive podcasts.
BeardedBlaze@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I liked tidal, until they doubled my subscription cost.
paf0@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Did that happen when they rolled out HiFi for everyone? They actually lowered my HiFi family plan cost at that time, which was unexpected.
br3d@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Interestingly, my family subscription more or less halved a few months ago, which I was NOT expecting, but which was very welcome
whynotzoidberg@lemmy.world 1 month ago
3 months ago I cancelled Spotify, following yet another price increase. I went to Tidal for the 2 month trial, and another month full price.
This month I cancelled Tidal, following their deprecation of Plex integration, my finding a couple tracks with bad meta data, and some other here-and-there’s where the service was lackluster.
I’m current on Apple Music.
I like that Apple Music has lossless, like Tidal did. The Apple Music algo seems a bit better so far, even comparing to Spotify or the last time I tried Apple Music (~3-4 years ago). And, one of the things I didn’t know I wanted, music videos for my morning jam time, are better with Apple Music.
I imagine I’ll be staying here for a while.
Hazmatastic@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Made the switch to Tidal, and I only have a couple nitpicks: no console app and it does this weird thing on desktop where it plays a split second of paused music when other apps or windows are opened. They’re small things though, and I’m happy to be supporting artists more.
paf0@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sometimes I miss the Spotify “Radio” playlists. Also, having the desktop sync with mobile so I could just switch players and keep the same playlist was also nice. It’s been over two years though and I don’t miss it enough to go back, Tidal is mostly a comparable experience.
akilou@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
What percentage of us love pirating music and putting it on Plex?
kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 month ago
too much fucking hassle.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Honestly, I think this is the biggest reason that music subscriptions are popular.
Nobody cares enough to curate their own music collection anymore, even if it’s entirely legal, it’s just too much damn work for most people.
Unless you have a special interest in music, eg, audiophiles, then it doesn’t matter enough to spend any time on it. As long as you can listen to what you want, when you want, who cares?
deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Some consider it a hassle, others of us obsessively enjoy manually downloading and sorting our files into our folder structure.
I’ve got a collection going back to a 128k MP3 from a Napster download in 2000. Hundreds of gigabytes of lossless music.
Bandcamp is great, but I use Redacted for those I can’t easily find.
baronvonj@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s nice when it works, but Plex has so thoroughly enshitified themselves now it needs internet access to stream on the home network! (Yes, I have read the KB/wiki pages and done the setup but it loses user management when connecting that way by IP).
spookex@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Meanwhile me with a 1500 YouTube music video playlist of liked music and a pile of CDs that I bought used, featuring the artists in that playlist
yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I do have a jellyfin server but I just store my FLACs on my phone. They are 15 GBs anyways which is pretty much nothing
kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 month ago
They weigh a total of 15 GBs anyways which is pretty much nothing
That is something, for my 128 gb Android phone without SD card slot.
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 1 month ago
Been happy buying music from Bandcamp and not having a subscription. Didn’t even make it onto the chart :(
pmc@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Where’s “directory full of FLACs bought from Bandcamp and ripped from CDs”?
spyd3r@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Directory full of flacs from alt.bin.lossless and what.cd here.
baronvonj@lemmy.world 1 month ago
From the 5 services shown in the graphs, that would be YouTube Music which lets you upload your library (yes, even FLAC).
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Important to note that they don’t stay in FLAC after being uploaded.
Also, I’m pretty sure you can’t do this anymore.
kevincox@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Yes, but in my experience it is pretty trash. Unlike Google Play Music which matched the music to known tracks and shuffled it in with recommended playlists and other features on YouTube Music the uploaded songs are basically completely isolated. At that point why use a streaming service?
WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Apple and Spotify let you do that too.
nobleshift@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Spotify fucks over artists, stop using it.
cm0002@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The entire music industry fucks over artists lmfao
StinkySocialist@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Honest question: what alternative doesn’t screw over artists?
I’ve been canceling streaming services for TV might as well cancel Spotify but what I have no idea what to use for music in its place.
KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No steaming service is great but Tidal and Apple Music give artists the best cuts.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
My understanding from the other comments here is that qobuz is a good option, and Tidal also. Might want to check those out.
hobovision@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Bandcamp seems decent but it’s got a small and niche catalog.
smiletolerantly@awful.systems 1 month ago
“Confused Jellyfin / Subsonic noises”
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You know why I choose Amazon Music.? Because it allows me to purchase songs I like and then I can download them to my computer separate from their player. You can’t do that with Spotify. Of course recently I found songs on Amazon that are not available forsale which pisses me off, so if anyone knows a place I get those songs I would appreciate it.
Not that I want to pirate but if you don’t allow me ownership of the digital content then it’s what I am going do.
Sasha@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Just pirate, it’s better than paying these companies to rip off artists. Support your favourite artists directly, streams are basically worthless compared to other forms of income like merch.
ltxrtquq@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Wouldn’t you know it, there’s a wikipedia article for that. I personally have used 7digital and bandcamp, but qobuz has been mentioned several times in other comments and hdtracks seems like it might work after you create an account.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I got YouTube music and YouTube premium because I needed more Google drive storage.
Loved isn’t the word I would use.
It’s adequate for day to day background noise that isn’t ad-filled garbage and music I hate.
seaQueue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
+1, I only have a yt music sub because it’s grandfathered in with my yt premium subscription and extra drive storage. YT music recommendations are mildly terrible compared to Spotify, but I’m not throwing $15/mo at Spotify when I only use it a few times a year.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Nobody needs more google drive storage my friend. Nobody does.
MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I did/do. I share gdrive stuff with friends and family for all sorts of reasons, bluntly, I don’t trust most cloud storage providers, and I certainly don’t trust them any more than I trust the big G… Not saying that the big G is without flaws, but I haven’t seen any major data breaches from them that were handled poorly, unlike a lot of other providers. Meanwhile, they’re one of the biggest online entities, making them prone to getting attacked.
As far as security of my data from bad actors on the internet, the big G seems to have it where it counts for security…
There’s obvious problems with them willingly sharing data to other organizations, but that’s a risk regardless of who you give your data to.
And please don’t start with the self hosted stuff. I can’t even begin to describe how tired I am with trying to get people to use anything that’s didn’t ship pre-installed on their phone. I have a handful of friends that could navigate a FOSS file sharing system, and a large number more that would need to have their hands held through the whole process every time they accessed it, which bluntly, I don’t have time for.
Plus, everyone in my circles already has a Google account for one reason or another, so they already have some idea how to use it, and access controls are made easy by that fact. I really don’t want to have to set each of them up with an account and guide them through the process of accessing it and everything. They are used to Google drive at this point and I’m not going to change that, since it took so much damned effort to get to a point where it’s actually functional for everyone.
I get stuff like spreadsheets shared with family where they can input stuff like their bills and stuff (for tracking payments and trends), and sharing pictures and video, to keeping backups of important files. I can build a FOSS file depot for that, but once I move everyone over to it, I need to spend even more making it redundant with offsite backups and shit…
I’d rather pay the $5/mo and just not worry about it. I’m on one of the lowest “Google one” plans and I don’t see a reason to upgrade or change what I’m doing. I work in IT, I manage enough already, both for my work, myself and for my family. I don’t want to add to that burden because “big G bad”.
Most of the people around me have long ago given all their data to Google, Meta, Twitter, tiktok, etc (or some combination of those). I don’t think they care about having more data in the “cloud”.
Plus, I can share my Google one benefits like YouTube premium, and YouTube music, with my family, so individually it works out to maybe a bit more than a dollar each per month. It’s truly not a bad deal.
96VXb9ktTjFnRi@feddit.nl 1 month ago
Where ever you listen to your music, in most cases you can hook it up with ListenBrainz, to save your listening data on a FOSS alternative for Last.fm.
carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 1 month ago
People love Amazon music? It fucking sucks.
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Dumbest music organizer I know of.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Would’ve liked to see what percentage have none.
I’m still buying CDs to rip and having my music library as MP3s on my phone. No internet connection required, I have total control of the files, and a physical backup if needed.
Flamekebab@piefed.social 1 month ago
Meanwhile I'm over here with my MiniDiscs.
Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.ee 1 month ago
There’s dozens of us!
n3cr0@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Soundcloud + Bandcamp and a 3rd party client like Newpipe is the only valid option for me.
Downloading music and playing it offline is better than streaming low quality audio on a subscription.
codeddji@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You are right offline listenting is better, but I have apple music and the audio quality is one the best among streaming platforms ( I turn Lossless audio on ).
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Honest question, why should I be paying for a music streaming app when I already have YouTube premium? Also, does no one use Pandora anymore? I still use it occasionally.
baronvonj@lemmy.world 1 month ago
why should I be paying for a music streaming app when I already have YouTube premium?
You mean because that subscription includes premium YouTube Music?
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Yes. I see people with multiple subscriptions, including like yt and Spotify, and I don’t understand why. Lol Do the offer services offer something other than just ad free listening that you wouldn’t get with yt music?
terminhell@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I still use it, often. And no ads either with wireguard going to my pi-hole.
Avg@lemm.ee 1 month ago
So Pandora stops playing for me if it can’t get ads, it wasn’t like that in the past but more recently it has become a pattern.
bibliotectress@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well, I had been happy with YouTube music for years, but I’m frustrated by this at the moment:
You_are_dust@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I’m in the 23% on the American side of the chart that uses Pandora. I don’t see any reason to switch. I’ve been working on it knowing my preferences for like 20 years now.
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 1 month ago
No love for Deezer? It’s a streaming service that doesn’t shove algorithms down your throat…
floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Qobuz is good: reasonably priced, you get the best quality audio, a good catalogue and a decent UI, and it pays the artists a bit more than Spotify and others. Spotify is still a bit better for recommendations and automatic playlists though.
lurch@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I bought a few mp3s off amazon (but it wasn’t amazon music, i think) and they had no DRM, just a unique ID3 tag. If it’s still like that, I can recommend it.
SARGE@startrek.website 1 month ago
Lol imagine being beholden to constant internet or having to pay for your music…
yournamehere@lemm.ee 1 month ago
i am suprised UK has relevance. or is this because of gdpr? uk & us seem to give a shit about privacy so statista can get data on the users in those countries without consent?
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 1 month ago
“Loved” and “included with Prime” aren’t necessarily the same.
Wootz@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Neither is “loved” and “most subscribed to”
dustyData@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Most tolerable is far more accurate.
lunarul@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It’s like saying Microsoft Windows is the most loved OS on PC. People just go with the option in front of them. Spotify is the biggest streaming service now, Amazon Music ties in with Alexa.
wick@lemm.ee 1 month ago
I’ve got prime but I’ve never even heard of amazon music before.
Some people say indifference is worse than hate, but that probably doesn’t apply to graphs.
padge@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I thought Amazon Music was a small up-charge on top of prime?
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I honestly kinda did to, but I double checked here in Canada and it’s included. Search results did have me think that it may vary though in other regions.
I did take one for the team here and log in. It looks like it’s included, but there’s also a premium for $12 making me think you gotta pay to make it comparable to Apple/Spotify.
yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
The Unlimited tier is extra but the regular tier is included