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'Technofascist military fantasy': Spotify faces boycott calls over CEO’s investment in AI military startup
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What are the Spotify alternatives people recommend?
IIRC Tidal and Qobuz should be good alternatives
Thanks.
I was talking to my wife this morning about this thread and the Qobuz recommendation was just what she needed to replace and cancel Spotify. She was able to import her playlists from her Spotify account and she's been commenting for the past couple hours about how much better the audio quality is.
Qoobuz had the most horrific app I've ever experienced.
Couldn't even search a song in a playlist bad.
I feel it's been getting better. Like, it isn't perfectly smooth, but I like what I get on the Frontpage way more than what I did with Spotify.
Oh yeah, I feel qobuz has the right mentality and ethos to really break into the scene and disrupt.
I loved everything about the experience, but the app was shockingly bad. Like, if it just behaved as gen 1 iTunes it would have been an improvement. Really bad at just the basic things. Just bad. And I cannot stress that enough lol.
I'll keep an eye on them, but whoo-boy! I've never been scared off from an app so quickly
This is kinda funny to me because I was using Apple Music before, and I honestly feel it's less jank.
I will say I'm still rocking my samsung a71 so, maybe the tech just want up to it... but that experience was bad. Glad it works for you though
If might also just be a testament to how jank Apple Music on Android can be. Anyway, I just hope you find a solution that works well for you.
Qobuz is great. It's a french company, they pay the artists well and the music is in high quality
This is where I'd have recommended deezer, but they shit the bed on their mobile app.
+1 for tidal
If you're technically inclined, self-host navidrome or jellyfin.
If you just want music and don't care about the streaming part, bandcamp (although it does have some basic streaming I believe.
If you want streaming and aren't technically inclined, Tidal.
Napster, bearshare
Qobuz
Tidal is cheaper and better quality, Deezer is good, too.
Funkwhale
I have been using Deezer because it was local for me, France. At the beginning you could upload your own collection to share with others, it was fun. Now it's basically the same as the others, I think it pays artists a little bit more than Spotify. Also just learned that it is now majorly owned by some US investment fund. 🫠 At least it's not directly funding terminators yet?
I jumped to Tidal many years ago because Spotify could not be bothered to provide high quality output. Yes, you can ear the difference, even on shitty gear.
For the stuff I could not get on either platform I started buying CDs on Discogs and ripping them to FLAC.
Edit: ear, not eat.
Apple music believe it or not. Nice selection and interface. Works on Apple devices as well as android. Has a high bitrate and supports aptx on android. Don't think they have a native app for windows or Linux, though, so you'd have to use the web version.