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Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents (www.soundguys.com)
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[–] Emptiness@lemmy.world 35 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Moved to Tidal. Reviews from some tech-site said "It's like Spotify 10 years ago." as if that's a bad thing.

Loving the FLAC quality and non-enshittification.

[–] ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website 20 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Tidal lost me immediately when it took 3 months for them to recognize my cancelation of my subscription.

[–] skisnow@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Umm

[–] ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Umm what? That I wasn't happy I got charged three months for a service I repeatedly cancelled?

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I think the confusion is that you basically said "Tidal lost me when they lost me."

[–] ThunderclapSasquatch@startrek.website 9 points 2 weeks ago

I canceled to shift my charge date originally. Then it became permanent

[–] placebo@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 weeks ago

A customer can come back in the future. But probably not after this.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago

It sounds like they lost you in 3 months, not immediately.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I moved to qobus. It's not owned by untied states capital.

[–] sexhaver87@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks ago

And there’s some great quality CLI applications that let you rip source quality FLACs!

[–] Waldelfe@feddit.org 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I love Qobus. I heard they also pay the artists more fairly. It's just unfortunate that some big artists are still missing. And from what I can see subscriptions only work via the Google Play store.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I subscribed on their web to skip Google tax.

[–] anythingdull 5 points 2 weeks ago

I tried Tidal but they have a glitch on their app where downloaded songs get stuck and playlists stop downloading. They’ve had a bug open about it for at least three years last I checked. It may sound niche, but I’m often traveling and use offline music regularly