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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 30 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Bandcamp

https://blog.bandcamp.com/2026/01/13/keeping-bandcamp-human/

And unlike streaming sites, you own what you buy, and the artist gets paid much better; you'd have to stream the same song 200+ times with a premium Spotify account to generate the same profit for the artist as just buying the song outright on Bandcamp.

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[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 20 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Yeah, but Bandcamp isn't an alternative to Spotify.

It's an alternative to streaming.

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[–] Telorand@reddthat.com 12 points 4 months ago

Sounds like it's still an alternative!

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[–] Blibly@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago (6 children)

I'm using Qobuz. Seems alright so far, unless someone knows something I don't (totally possible lol)

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[–] bluemite@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I've been using Qobuz for a few months and it's pretty good. They had a rough bug a couple of weeks ago where some songs would stop playing and skip to the next one, but it seems to be resolved.

If you go into settings, you can hook it to last.fm and get lots of cool listening stats.

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[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Qobuz still had a lot of music slop 2 months ago. They promised to clean that up but I'm not sure if they really did it.

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[–] bluemite@lemmy.world 1 point 4 months ago*

I haven't really encountered it, but I generally stick to my daily/weekly Q and saved playlists. At least they're aiming to clean it up. Spotify is adding a "verified" flag on non-slop.