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Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Who is any better? Literally all are paying pennies to the artist per stream.

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Tidal pays more than 3x what Spotify pays. Qobuz pays like 5-6x.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Although better, still very little in comparison to bandcamp

[–] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Sure, that's true, though if you allow streams on Bandcamp, those pay $0, so in terms of "try before you buy", any streaming service is better. It's only if you actually sell an album on band camp (or AmpWall, a smaller indie service that does a lot of the same stuff) that you'd get paid, as an artist.

I say this as a musician who has put out several albums both independently and with a label.

[–] FriskyDingo@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Tidal, Deezer and qobuz pay better and don't fund Slow Joe

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com -2 points 3 days ago

Are we talking about theBiden administration?

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Some people buy albums

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 3 days ago

Buying albums is great because you can host them on your own Plex server and use Plexamp.

(or something like Jellyfin, but IMO Plexamp is still the best app available for streaming your own music collection)

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Tidal doesn't host far-right mouthpieces, offers much higher quality streams, and pays the artists far, far more per play.

Edit: Here's a chart from 2022:

music streaming chart showing Tidal paying out three times what Spotify does

[–] jaschen306@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

If they had a better regional(Taiwan) music view, I would switch to them.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 3 days ago

The chart is neat.

But I could care less about (US) politics while listening to music.