Being a millennial I remember conversations about what a scam record label deals were to artists because they’d only give bands a few dollars for each CD sold. This is of course old news to gen X and older who had known earlier that record deals were a scam usually heavily slanted in favour of the label.
Then Spotify came out and it was reported that it gave ~$0.003-0.007 per stream to labels (then artists would get a smaller cut of that), and I dismissed it as a hilariously terrible deal.
But I was wrong and most people seemed very happy to give up their mp3 & physical collections so they could stream a wider library, I guess it’s unrealistic to expect most people to choose ethics over convenience. There does seem to be a swing back to rolling your own micro server hosting something like Navidrome or Plex and streaming your own music, which is great to see.
P.s. I’m a KGatLW fan and have a couple albums on Bandcamp, this is gonna make me buy a couple more in support. Great group of people
Preach, dude… I’m sadly guilty of this and need to reestablish a good local collection of music again like back in the iPod days.
That should be rightfully recognised as 21st century payola aka payola 2.0.
my favorite part of my home lab server is being able to listen to the music I own without guilt
i just wish it was easier for more people to do
A few dollars per CD. I think it was less then that.
Another reason, beyond Joe Rogan, to drop Spotify.
I wonder if there’s a list of artists that dropped out; Neil Young, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, who else?
edit: oh, Deerhoof too! Yay!
Didn’t Neil go back though?
Looks like it. *sigh*
“My decision comes as music services Apple and Amazon have started serving the same disinformation podcast features I had opposed at SPOTIFY. I cannot just leave Apple and Amazon, like I did Spotify, because my music would have very little streaming outlet to music lovers at all, so I have returned to Spotify, in sincere hopes that Spotify sound quality will improve and people will be able to hear and feel all the music as we made it. Qobuz and Tidal, where my music is presented, are all High res as well.”
At least he was on the right side of history during the pandemic.
Cool. I’ve been off Spotify for years. Buying music from Bandcamp and similar has worked out. (Though now that I’m unemployed I’m not spending any money, but like I always say if capital wants me to spend money they have to pay me some first)
Quick note for anyone going this route: take note of when Bandcamp Fridays happen and buy your music then. They waive their cut and much more of your payment goes directly to the artists! I take those days to go through my follow list and buy any new albums that have come out since the previous Friday.
I put them on my Plex server and use Plexamp to stream them. Jellyfin has Finamp that I hear is also good.
Good call. Useful site for those who take advantage of bandcamp Fridays regularly: https://isitbandcampfriday.com/
Qobuz ftw
I must be one of the only millennials to never use Spotify. I used Deezer for a while because I got that for free for year with a Samsung phone many years ago. I still have boxes full of actual CD’s in the basement…
I still burn CD’s to listen to them in my 2009 car.
Love this band, and it makes Spotify less useful to me that they’re off it
Well… it looks like they achieved their goal 😅
Try Tidal? I was told an endless amount of times that it wouldn’t have all the music I like, but so far I’ve found absolutely everything I needed.
Gizz on the right side of history as always.
Nice. Spotify sucks ass. I just use Tidal nowadays but there are other, better alternatives.
I’ve been looking into migrating to Tidal, what other better alternatives are out there?
The only reason I stuck with Spotify for so long is because I don’t really pay for it (long story short, a family member gets a free family plan through her job)
I’ve started using Qobuz which is not USA owned and has not sponsored Trump (like Spotify which granted is not USA). It has been ok!
Been alternating between Deezer and Qobuz and it’s hard picking between the two. Deezer has basically the same library as Spotify while Qobuz is missing notable classics like Cornelius and etc. But Qobuz UI and sound quality is so much better.
Been using Tidal for a while myself, tbh its not great. Music quality and selection are fine, the UI is just… not there. Really basic music player things like setting things to shuffle or loop by default or on an individual playlist basis just don’t exist, its solely a global on/off setting.
Same here. You literally can’t keep the ‘loop’ function on in the mobile app; you have to turn it on every time. I have to believe most people want to loop their playlists by default. Just dumb.
Similarly, while i do want to shuffle most of my playlists, there are albums (mostly pink floyd) i do not want to shuffle
I moved from Spotify to Tidal and am very happy with it. Much better sound quality, good recommendation algorithms, bigger catalogue, pay artists much better. I like it.
Plus they don’t offer shitty content like right wing or adult podcasts or lets-play videos so I can let my kids use it without having to monitor it so much.
For shame. I know lemmy isn’t the place to support this opinion but I do not want another streaming subscription.
Maybe I’ll just have to take their advice and “bootleg it”.
Right? The band makes a great point and fuck Spotify and everything, but they expect things to be slightly less convenient for me? What absolute monsters, I’m going to side with the tech bros on this one.
/s obviously
