European company and employs a lot of people in Europe
Seems like they donated to Trump’s inauguration, do people know how much?
They pay hundreds of millions to Joe Rogan, who was one of the vectors of getting young men into the far-right “manosphere” radicalisation pipeline. Were it not for him, and Spotify’s part in his reach, the US may now have President Harris.
They pay Joe Rogan, they pay Trump, they back “Europe needs AI” to lobby against the rights of EU citizen.
It seems the only people they don’t are the artists on their platform.
Switched to deezer and wrote that in the “why are you leaving us” section.
That will show em
I don’t use anything with DRM generally.
I am personally using and Qobuz and Tidal (because they complement each other in certain genres), but for my kids and wife we have a Spotify family subscription. They like all the crap songs on there, so I will probably have a hard time getting rid of Spotify.
In switched to tidal a while ago because Spotify was investing into other areas I don’t care for, hosting Rogan and other shit podcasts paying plenty of millions and finally because they poorly pay music owners.
They gave 100m to the antivaxxer Joe Rogan and have been caught red handed avoiding taxes.
Qobuz is way better!
I would recommend Deezer, because they are trying to pay artists in a better way, via its “artist-centric payment model”.
Tidal is probably paying music owners better (no service is paying artists directly unless they are independent).
Honestly, I use youtube music because of revanced.
I really liked it and the ability to discover new music (when that actually worked) but its price hike and how little they pay artists and the fact that you don’t own the music…
Well I moved over to soulseek, buying independent artists music either directly or via Bandcamp (a necessary evil I guess), put them all onto my Jellyfin which I connected to listenBrainz that then can recommend me fresh tunes just like Spotify did.
To get the recommended tunes I use then Explo which downloads from YouTube and pushes them into my music library.
Sold my shares, will close my account as soon as I decided for an alternative. On that topic: Anyone aware of an alternative with duo accounts?
Bought a LP player and started hunting for second hand LP’s and CD’s again after ~15 years of only streaming. Also buying digital albums from Bandcamp & trying out Soundcloud.
I stopped using it a month ago cause of the big label cartel, low payouts to artists per stream and using ai generated songs in big playlists to pay more money to the cartel. I’m with tidal now and it’s nice. Don’t give a damn about the extra quality even despite being an audiofool. I also have been using soundcloud all this time cause it has by far the largest song library and it’s full of underground stuff.
switched to tidal after spotify’s bullshit price hike, and since i have less than zero interest in audiobooks or podcasts. haven’t looked back.
I leech from a family subscription from someone that’s not gonna stop the subscription whether I use it or not. So I cost them money by using it, would never pay for it regardless.
Personally if I paid for spotify I’d just transfer over to Qubuz, they pay artists more AND have better music quality.
Nothing. Bad quality, Bad artist pay. The usual streaming shit. I prefer bandcamp and sync my mobile playlists with my vast MediaMonkey-Database at home.
