Since we are on this topic I would incentivise everyone to take a look at resonate.

They are, AFAIK, the only music streaming service where artists, workers and listeners are owners (aka it's a cooperative)

Uuuugh shit, I liked Deezer. :(

Ok, so, Qobuz then?

Edit tired of jumping ship all the time. Going to try going back to local rips and jellyfin server.

None of the online music streamers are ethical. Every single one, to varying degrees, robs the artists and enriches their CEO's and shareholders.

Do the ethical thing.

Don't use them, and instead, use a Youtube-to-MP3 converter and steal the music.

I've been buying mostly mostly from Bandcamp. It's worked out well. I have a big library, and the people making music got paid.

I am buying music as much as I can, and build my own streaming service with Jellyfin. To this day, Bandcamp is were you can find the most music for purchase but not all artists are there. Often, I don't find any place to purchase albums from artists, then I pirate as a last resort, sorry for that. I'll go to the concerts when I get the chance, to make up for it.

Blavatnik was a member of a WhatsApp group chat that existed from November 2023 until early May 2024 involving some of the United States' most powerful business leaders with the stated goals of "chang[ing] the narrative" in favor of Israel and "help[ing] win the war" on U.S. public opinion following Hamas's October 7th attack on Israel.

Ah, every single rich person. So predictable at this point it's like a Tinder profile. It's what most billionaires are and what most right-wing idiots want to become.

50m (I just spent 50 million dollars for a party for rich people)

Likes: Tyranny, Autocrats, Colonialism, Wealth Gaps, Kids (Yeah like that 😉), Abrahamic Religions, Unobstructed Hypercapitalism

Dislikes: Unions, Social Progress, Clean Air & Water (except for me lol duh), Equality, Regulation, The EU, "Other Races"

Fuck streaming. Pirate all the things!

Tidal was originally European but DayZ Jay-z bought it up so it's technically American now; Qobuz is french but it doesn't have a "brain-dead radio mode". Both have unofficial Linux clients.

Rn I use tidal because it's on the top 3 of the ones that pay the most to artists iirc(quobuz is up there too) and it hasn't had a huge American influence that I know of, but do your own research on the alternatives to see which suits you the most, there are tons of articles about them all.

I don't know if it's any better than the other options out there, but I like tidal.

He also owns Warner Music, so revenue from that David Bowie or Charli XCX track you stream goes to his empire.

Qobuz is awesome and still 100% french. Also the platform which pays artists better then spotify

I switched to Deezer because I found reasons why all of the others were unethical. What would you suggest for a streaming service whose services are ethical?

Dammit, I was pretty happy with it :(

I've been on Tidal for some time but noticed that Qobuz has released a connect service that seems to work like Sp*tify Connect so that you can remote control one instance from another. Like, playing music on computer connected to amp can be controlled through the phone.

I'd appreciate if somebody using Qobuz could confirm?

I literally switched from Spotify yesterday…

Everyone says bandcamp is a good alternative but the main added value from streaming services, for me, is discovery. I don’t think I can afford the time to go on bandcamp and download every song I like one by one. I would also be lost when in need to discover new music.

YSK he's ukrainian and has since decades lived in the west, US/Shitrael.
He's a jewish zionist POS.
So he's a western oligarch, but don't let facts keep you from blaming 'the Russians'

Hi, I’m interested to know what you’re using now!

you guys need to understand that there are no goodguy rich folk

Get Tidal instead

Or better yet buy directly from the artist

I don't understand the mental gymnastics some people do to reach the conclusion that piracy is the "ethical thing" to do. What about the artists? How is that any better for us? If you all pirate then we go from getting peanuts to getting nothing.

In fact, piracy sort of birthed streaming in the first place. There were Limewire and Napster, then streaming platforms came along to basically legalize piracy... Hell, the Spotify CEO used to be the CEO of uTorrent

People used to upload pirated music to YouTube. So you know what happened? YouTube came up with their song detection system that now pays artists when their track is streamed, even if it was uploaded by someone else. Even if it plays in the background of a vlog. See what I mean? Legalized piracy.

PS: I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed