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Spotify axes 17% of workforce in third round of layoffs this year (apnews.com)
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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (11 children)

What competitors do you recommend?
I use soundcloud and have used Bandcamp but Bandcamp got sold to Epic.
I have also heard of Faircamp which looks promising.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

    one of my friends uses deezer, there is actual lossless audio there.

    tidal is also supposed to be good, but i heard horrible things about the app.

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  • [+] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    well, i am an audiophile myself and i do think having lossless out of principle is pretty reasonable, even if you can't tell the difference. especially with how fast the internet has gotten, we don't need to compress anymore. and with serious sets of headphones (even with DT770 pros) i can definetely tell a difference between an internal DAC and a 20€ external DAC. the better the components, the more expensive the product (plus audiophile tax).

    edit: i read up on it and it turns out a properly compressed file is basically indistiguishable from an uncompressed one. (emphasis on "properly") so you may have a point, but if the people want FLACs, why not let them have them? and if you spend little money on audio equipment, good for you if you like it that way, but people are allowed to spend money on stuff.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I switched to a TIDAL subscription a couple of months ago. The whole experience, apart from sound quality, is a downgrade from Spotify Premium. I still recommend it to people because supposedly they pay a better cut per stream to artists. The sound quality upgrade is quite noticable if you have good sound gear.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Apple Music is also very good. Lossless at no extra cost.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I like Apple Music and would use them if it wasn't so god damned difficult to upload my own music. I have an eclectic collection of music and though, to be fair, I haven't listened to a lot of it in a while, I would still like the option. Being on Linux there is no iTunes option and getting it to run under Wine hasn't worked for me. So right now I use YouTube Music because it's so easy. I may switch to Plex now that I have a decent internet connection.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    I like Apple Music and would use them if it wasn't so god damned difficult to upload my own music.

    It’s easy enough, just add your music to the Music app on macOS.

    Being on Linux there is no iTunes option and getting it to run under Wine hasn't worked for me.

    The Windows version of iTunes is terrible anyway. The Music app on macOS is much better. Can’t you hackintosh it?

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