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everton137

I listen mostly to classical music, and I'm looking for an alternative for Amazon Music, which I find almost anything I want and with a high definition sound, including Dolby Atmos.

I found two potential alternatives, Qobuz (French), and Idagio (from Berlin). Both seem quite good options. I'm tempted to choose Qobuz, because sometimes we listen to other genres at home, but Idagio looks like a paradise to classical music lovers.

A few years ago, I tried to find alternatives before subscribing to Amazon. What a good surprise now, I can even choose!

P. S. Amazon Music cancelled.

#boycottamazon#amazon#qobuz
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Jörgi

So, cancelled my Spotify subscription.

What are you using to stream music and podcasts?

- Apple Music?
- Tidal?
- Amazon Music?
- Napster?
- youtube music?

Anything else?
I will try most of these apps for a month to see what makes me happy.

But happy to hear about your opinions, especially how good the UI/UX of the (Android) App is.
Oh and it should work on Linux too.

#spotify#spotifyexit#spotifycancel
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Sven 🛌

I just saw a video of an artist responding to a fan who asked if they should stream their music on Tidal rather than on Spotify. The artist's answer: If they got all their Spotify streams on Tidal, they would earn around 4'500 $ instead of 800 $. With Apple Music, it'd still be around 2'400 $.

The numbers vary a bit, but looking up payout rates, this seems to be the right ballpark. I didn't find a handy table, so take the attached AI summary with a grain of salt.

There are almost no network effects on Spotify, but they're the biggest player, so artists can't afford not to be there. But if you care about their revenue – or even just sticking it to a de-facto monopolist –, consider switching your app. It's just a small inconvenience, but others will benefit from it. :)

Table of different streaming services and their payouts per stream. Napster $0.019 - $0.021 Tidal $0.012 - $0.015 2 Qobuz $0.0136 8 Apple Music $0.007 - $0.01 Amazon Music $0.004 - $0.005 Spotify $0.003 - $0.005 Deezer $0.0064 Pandora $0.00133 YouTube Music ~$0.00069
#Music#Spotify#Tidal
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CheapPontoon

#Spotify banned me a couple of years ago for illegally downloading songs so I've been trying to train Amazon #music

#AmazonMusic should ask me why I click ❤️ on a song but I skip it the next time it comes up.

I'm not fickle. I just don't want to hear the same damn songs again. I want to hear songs LIKE that song.

For me, we'll have achieved #AGI when Amazon figures that out.

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Cat Lady Kydia Music 🇺🇦

As suspected, Spotify is using generic stock Muzak bought from production libraries so they don’t have to pay royalties to artists.

Not surprised, since CEO Daniel Ek refers to music as “content” and thinks it takes little effort to create. 🙄

This is one of the ways “content” hurts the arts and severs the relationship between artists & their audience.

harpers.org/archive/2025/01/th

In a Slack channel dedicated to discussing the ethics of streaming, Spotify’s own employees debated the fairness of the PFC program. “I wonder how much these plays ‘steal’ from actual ’normal’ artists,” one employee asked. And yet as far as the public was concerned, the company had gone to great lengths to keep the initiative under wraps. Perhaps Spotify understood the stakes—that when it removed real classical, jazz, and ambient artists from popular playlists and replaced them with low-budget stock muzak, it was steamrolling real music cultures, actual traditions within which artists were trying to make a living. Or perhaps the company was aware that this project to cheapen music contradicted so many of the ideals upon which its brand had been built. Spotify had long marketed itself as the ultimate platform for discovery—and who was going to get excited about “discovering” a bunch of stock music?
Artists had been sold the idea that streaming was the ultimate meritocracy—that the best would rise to the top because users voted by listening. But the PFC program undermined all this. PFC was not the only way in which Spotify deliberately and covertly manipulated programming to favor content that improved its margins, but it was the most immediately galling. Nor was the problem simply a matter of “authenticity” in music. It was a matter of survival for actual artists, of musicians having the ability to earn a living on one of the largest platforms for music. PFC was irrefutable proof that Spotify rigged its system against musicians who knew their worth. In 2023, on a summer afternoon in Brooklyn, I met up with a jazz musician in a park. We talked about the recent shows we had seen, our favorite and least favorite venues, the respective pockets of the New York music scene we moved through. He spoke passionately about his friends’ music and his most cherished performance spaces
#Spotify#IndieMusic#MusicBusiness
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Matthias Rex🐱

In #enshittification news:

After giving my samsung phone a badly needed factory data reset, I have discovered that I can no longer use #AmazonMusic to download songs that I paid for and use them as ringtones.

This seems like it should have been a completely reasonable use for a piece of media that I supposedly own.

More and more, I am learning that if I don't own a physical copy of something I don't really own it.

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