You guys use spotify ?
It’s probably the most popular music streaming service at the moment.
Sure, for the morally bankrupt
Who is any better? Literally all are paying pennies to the artist per stream.
Tidal pays more than 3x what Spotify pays. Qobuz pays like 5-6x.
Although better, still very little in comparison to bandcamp
Sure, that’s true, though if you allow streams on Bandcamp, those pay $0, so in terms of “try before you buy”, any streaming service is better. It’s only if you actually sell an album on band camp (or AmpWall, a smaller indie service that does a lot of the same stuff) that you’d get paid, as an artist.
I say this as a musician who has put out several albums both independently and with a label.
Or you’ve been using spotube and been doing this all along
Spotube doesn’t actually use the Spotify API. They used to use the Spotify API for their music database, but they stopped when they received a cease and desist.
They’ve updated the app and you can again! You just need to select an external metadata provider. If you use Sonic Liberation, you can log into spotify again just like before. https://spotube.krtirtho.dev/downloads/
Oh my, things have changed fast. I wasn’t aware there were other metadata providers. There I go spreading misinformation again.
Move to Qobuz which is more ethical
Qobuz vs TIDAL, go! (Curious to know more, if someone is willing to do a comparison that has experience with both, or either.)
Easy comparison. Tidal is not ethical. With investors like Black rocks …they’re devil financing wars and genocide.
I don’t know who Black Rocks is or whether or not they finance wars and genocide. I also couldn’t find anything regarding them investing in TIDAL. Can you confirm with sources for either claim?
BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager, overseeing trillions of dollars for governments, corporations, and individuals.
So I see. I still can’t find anywhere that says they invested in TIDAL.
But does that make TIDAL unethical? Does the poison run up the water stream or down?
https://fintel.io/so/us/xyz/blackrock
Bloc is the owner of tidal
So Block owns TIDAL, and BlackRock owns some shares in Block, and BlackRock does some shady investments.
I dunno man. I don’t know how far/many steps back I should take before I consider it far enough removed from the unethical practices. It’s not like TIDAL invests in war and genocide. Right?
