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Spotify made £56m profit, but has decided not to pay smaller artists like me. We need you to make some noise | Damon Krukowski (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Why is anyone still using Spotify?

They have money to pay Joe Rogan an absolutely obscene amount of money which could have made hundreds of artists life awesome apparently (which feels more like a bribe). So it is clear, they have the cash to pay others too. They just choose not to

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I hate the company but I haven't found another streaming service with a similar amount of music, sound quality and algorithm. I have a jellyfin instance, but it lacks the choice and algorithm.

Edit: I am currently in the process of switching to Tidal. It has pretty much all the niche artists that I usually listen to, the algo is pretty good (at least thats what other ppl say), the audio quality is very good and it has a really nice UI. Also, it pays Artists twice as much as Spotify.
It doesn't have a native App for Linux, but there is https://github.com/Mastermindzh/tidal-hifi, which is an electron wrapper for the web-ui that is also available via Flatpak and works well so far.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Tried tidal and didn't work well for me with Android auto. You can actually use something like tune my music to copy your playlists to every main service for testing.

I used apple music. I don't like Apple in particular, but they pay artists, and don't pay Joe rogan

I actually found the music suggestions were way better than Spotify which mostly just repeated stuff I heard