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[–] 21 points 1 year ago (65 children)

Is there another music streaming service around, so I can leave? I use it damn near everyday and the accessibility is what I crave.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I switched to Tidal a couple years ago and I'm happy enough with it. It's cheaper than the comparable membership tier I was paying for with Spotify. The higher fidelity streaming is nice and supposedly it pays artists the most over any other steaming service. Their recommendation algorithm doesn't index so heavily on your favorite tracks like Spotify's does, so I'm discovering new music a lot more.

    The UX isn't quite as smooth as Spotify's. I can't cast from the browser app and it doesn't remember what I'm listening to between devices. When I first switched there were a lot more bugs but I haven't noticed as many over the last year.

    After Tidal inevitably succumbs to corporate rot, I'll be switching to owning my own collection and self-hosting. But until then, I'm happy with Tidal.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Tidal is owned by Square (the mobile payment app/company), and I think Jack Dorsey (Twitter founder) owns that. So, probably safe to say it's already pretty corporate.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Have you tried Qobuz? It's french.

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    I jumped on Qobuz from a lemmy thread. Really happy with it. The artist selection is pretty broad and the Playlist are decent. But honestly, I haven't disliked anyone from the recommended home page which says a lot. I was on yt music before and it would always loop the same five artists no matter what radio station I started. It was really weird.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    Honestly thata the issue I ran into. Napster and tidal were both in the running for a minute, both were more expensive, tidal is ran by Jay z and Napster is owned by a tech bro. Honestly, I'm more inclined to go back to cd.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Its such a massive PitA to self-host things. Dont get me wrong I love the idea of it, it works in theory, and then you get an update for one of the multiple services you have to run to make it work ex-prem, or your isp does some funky stuff and drops out. There is such a massive time sink into self hosting that its not a reliable answer for 90% of people.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    That's kinda the opposite of what I have found, once I get something to work it usually just works. Although I'm in IT so I'm pretty used to keeping 'in production' servers going. It absolutely is more work, because you aren't paying somebody else to do it, so you really need to decide if that's worth it to you. For many people the trade off in control and privacy aren't worth the extra work and paying somebody else to use their computers instead is far more convenient.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    Ive worked in IT before. If things ran as smoothly as you claim, I dont think you would have much of a job. I have had a pi-hole brick itself during an update, routers crash, home PCs just stop working.

    You and I have the necessary skills to accomplish what needs to be done, just the basics of reverse proxy or ssh tunnels are damn near magic to most people. Hell, could you imagine walking your tech-illiterate neighbor through the process of it all and then expect them to keep it up without contacting you all time. I can not, which, is one of the reasons why I dont work IT anymore.

    For real though, I believe that self-hosting is the only future for most of what are talking about here. I thought it was the most logical next step after everyone had libraries of music and movies at home in the 90s. I had assumed most people would want to keep those and would digitize.

    The process to make that happen, and the hardware, are just not accessible to others outside our field. I would like to see a closer to all-in-one-solution become available. A system one could purchase with software ready to go all where you have to do is load it with content. Hell, call it a Spoopify Box or something equally ridiculous and you could VC angel funding in a week in SF.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Be the change you wish to see in the world, I guess. But I don't see a commercial product like that taking off, simply because the MPAA and RIAA will fight it. They will use the media to convince the public that it is a piracy tool. I also don't think it's fair to demand FOSS volunteers to cater to tech illiterates. These projects are a labor of love, not a product. Self hosting means you are taking the responsibility of hosting something, and that comes with pros and cons. I think expecting a black box solution to remain stable and secure in the long run is a hard sell for me, it doesn't line up with my personal and professional experience.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I use a combination of Bandcamp, Qobuz and Jellyfin atm. It gives me the combination of using their apps or my own self hosted. The chances of everything going down at the same time is pretty slim I figured.

    I also have all my purchased music stored in a Nextcloud instance so in a pinch I can play the local flac/mp3 files from my computer.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Yep, I’ve started buying all my media again, even music. Don’t want my copy of a movie to get censored, don’t want my music to get delisted.

    The only exception is games. Damn you, steam, for being so awesome in every way except ownership.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Tidal pays the highest per play amount to artists, and Apple Music also pays high (second highest for mainstream artists after tidal last I checked), and they have a massive library -but obviously they’re an evil megacorp so use your best judgement.

    I personally use Apple Music but then I’m fully ensconced in the Apple ecosystem, so it works for me.

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