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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The apology was at least nice.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is Tidal's fault bro.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm never going to take a corporate apology as genuine.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well what are they supposed to do?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Tough luck fuckers!" Would be objectively funnier, so that I guess?

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Well, I was about to start using tidal. But I guess this is just about who is doing the billing.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Look at Qobuz. It's French-owned, and the owner does not seem to be publicly traded. Those two should decrease the likelihood of explosive enshittification. Plus they're a small player.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I wish there could be some legal guarantee that they will not go publicly traded – otherwise it's a ticking timebomb. It would give a certain demographic of customers more confidence in the service.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

No guarantee. Existing publicly traded bombs have less time left on their timers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Depends, they might be running without any profit on VC money and hoping to be acquired but run out before they do.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 months ago

You may be asking "What's Tidal?" 😂

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

Well shit I signed up because it worked on plex...

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is a bitch. I really like this integration. Sad day for me, I guess

Edit to add the my end date is October 28, 2024 unlike OP

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I cancelled mine a while ago, got on that $2 per month Ugandan VPN subscription 👌

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That still work? I was on Argentina subscription but they stippeed that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Mine’s going strong.

My YT premium from Pakistan is getting shutdown soon tho.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

@scrubbles nooo 😭

I guess this will be a good impetus to acquire all the music I was getting through Tidal by other means, which I was kind of meaning to do anyway

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was on the verge of starting a subscription to try out the AI generated playlists in PlexAmp. I hope they provide a similar integration with another service provider.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can do it with your own media now, down side is you pretty much have to have everything, but it helps for recommendations

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I was hoping to have it expand my tastes a little. Oh well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I tried it, and it’s a real nice way to discover stuff. I’m coming off the Tidal 2 month trial, and part of me wishes I hadn’t tried this functionality (because I will miss it).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

As a Plex user and a Tidal subscriber, I didn't even know this existed.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I asked Tidal to expand on the why. Not the most satisfying answer, but I thought this was a fun sentence:

We can confirm that since your account was activated with TIDAL Direct billing, you can still use the Plex app, and since the partnership will be concluded at some point, it won't work any more.

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