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YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* by M137@lemmy.world to c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world

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The company is Access Industries and the Founder and Owner is Leonard Blavatnik

Along with what's in the title, he is accused of reputation laundering against Ukraine and has been personally sanctioned by Volodymyr Zelenskyy. He was also part of a WhatsApp group involving some of the United States' most powerful business leaders with the stated goals of "changing the narrative" in favour of Israel and "helping win the war" against Gaza.

Everything is in the linked Wikipedia article about him, mostly under the "Controversies and disputes" part.

I switched to Deezer after seeing it recommended as a better Spotify alternative here on Lemmy, but after finding all this I immediately stopped using it. It's as bad as the shit Spotify does and has done IMO. I'm not here to recommend or push an alternative, but if I can give info on what I use now if someone asks.

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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

I've been just pondering between tidal and spotify, and I primarily use Linux and Android. Tidal's client doesn't seem to support outputting to devices like Wiim in Linux. The Spotify client does.

Spotify's client can be installed via AUR (a repackaging of that DEB essentially) on Arch Linux.

FWIW, both tidal-hifi and the official spotify client are available in NixOS's repository.

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[–] fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Yeah I know of the AUR package, in fact I checked right before writing xD, that's the "user built stuff" I mentioned, since the AUR is the Arch User Repository after all.

About the Wiim, I'm reading about it for the first time but it seems like it's a LAN based audio device, right? I bet there's some Linux application that is able to connect to it and create a virtual output device you can pick for the tidal app, or any other audio.

Me from the future before posting the comment: Yeah no, I checked, there isn't. That's weird because Wiim does have an open API to send an audio stream into it so you should be able to create an audio stream from any app and then link them... Like, an app that creates a local audio streaming server, links any app output into that server and then sends it to Wiim via its public API. It should be doable and offer a lot more flexibility, but I guess there's not enough interest for someone to bother doing so. The one doing it should have a WIIM device to test too and the overlap between the people able to do this stuff and the people with a WIIM might not be that big give that's a device that does a lot of stuff for you in theory.

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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

I bet there’s some Linux application that is able to connect to it and create a virtual output device you can pick for the tidal app, or any other audio.

Yeah I should've been more clear what I'm looking for. Obviously I can stream via Bluetooth or perhaps even something like Airplay. But the native Spotify client uses Spotify Connect also on Linux, which means that the device can independently play the music. I just issue it commands from the client.

A similar thing exists for Tidal: Tidal Connect. But unfortunately the Linux client does not support it. Android, MacOS and iOS do, though.

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[–] fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Okay, understood, so the idea is that the device connects to the streaming service independently and the PC client acts as a glorified remote. Sad that it doesn't work.

Would it work with the mobile tidal app? Just curious, since that might be better as a "remote" than a static desktop pc.

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