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As soon as Tidal or Qobuz add a couple real key functionalities that Spotify has but they don't I'm switching right over
Or, be part of the user base to increase their numbers and be part of the wave that provides user feedback so dev teams can prioritize those features.
Not that I trust Tidal not to turn to shit eventually, probabaly some time after an IPO.
I know Apple isn’t popular with Lemmy users, but Apple Music feels like more of a safe home for that reason. Apple’s business model is very established, unlike Tidal which could change rapidly with an IPO. At the end of the day, nothing is safe that isn’t self hosted, but there are only so many hours in the day to self host services.
I already did this. I joined both, paid them money and then found out they were lacking these features after doing so. I gave them the feedback. Unfortunately the lack of them really gets in the way of how I like to listen to music. I'm sure others will be feeding back the same
Yeah I also saw that Tidal had announced they'd be scaling back the amount of funding on development fairly recently before I tried them out. Which didn't fill me with much hope. But I've not written them off at all. It's not like Spotify is really raising the bar at all these days anyway
Wikipedia: "Tidal is now majority-owned by Block, Inc., the owner of the point-of-sale system Square."
Yo, hard pass. Corporate platforms are just enshittification waiting to happen. And Jack Dorsey can suck my balls in particular.
Same deal. Just a matter of time before all your music disappears because of some geoppolitical or corporate billshit
if it can be opened up to a country, it can be blocked just as easily.
Ok but I'm not sure personally what my other option is? Of course there's buying the music directly, which good on people for doing that. It is the best and most ethical way. But something I always find kinda frustrating about the "just buy your own music" comments that are always all over these posts is I have a very wide music taste and really like to keep up with new music too. I have over 12,000 songs saved on Spotify. I'm also broke, jobless and homeless. I'm sorry but doing that isn't a viable option for me. I would love to be able to support all these artists but the best I can do is play their music a lot on Spotify and spread the word about them to others. I also go to a lot of gigs but so many acts that I like are big enough that they play big venues and are very expensive to see because of it.
Download all you can. You can always stream from audio to a WAV or MP3 and keep that. Or download from YouTube.
Once you actually have a copy of your music you have options. But while it is all inside some asshole's walled garden, you are at their mercy
What about Deezer?
I believe their founder (or CEO?) also has his own controversy. Based on what I've seen so far, Quboz is the best choice if you really need to use a streaming service.
A few months ago I was looking for a Spotify alternative and tried out Deezer, Tidal, and Qobuz. Deezer would have no idea what song I was just listening to on my computer if I switched to my phone. That was a deal breaker. Tidal was pretty good, but lacked collaborative playlists. I landed on Qobuz and am pretty happy with it. The one slightly annoying thing is I've seen a few cases of bands having albums mapped to them that aren't actually them, but some other band/artist with the same name. Not a deal breaker for me, just slightly annoying and something that will hopefully get cleaned up over time.