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...So I Finally Quit Spotify (oliviarafferty.substack.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 100 points 11 months ago (2 children)

So OP has posted this everywhere, even getting it flagged on Hacker News. Article is weak sauce:

I would agree with author that there are many problems with Spotify but concentrating on the artist revenue per stream and then publishing your top hits of the year as YouTube links? Really? Go and find out what the artist share per stream is on YouTube (regular YouTube video) for soundtracks. I'll wait. Hint: there's a reason that soundtracks using unauthorised copyrighted work get muted or taken down rather than revenue being redistributed.

Recommending a paid desktop MacOS music app for local content? There are hundreds of local music players but OK... but none of the criticisms of Spotify were about the client! Foobar2000 (mentioned for mobile playback) supports Spotify streaming...

Article seems to boil down to 'I got tired of Spotify recommendations and I am an aspiring musician at an early stage in my professional career so I am recommending Bandcamp and soap boxing about artist revenue share' . There's a reason that people, some with local music libraries in the TeraByte range listen to Spotify. There's also all the competing services - Apple Music; YouTube; Deezer; Tidal; Amazon; etc...

Recommendation to OP: If you are trying to persuade people on something, then decide what point you want to concentrate on, consider the pro's and cons for your position, and make your point based/reinforced on that. Don't meander around a bunch of inchoate personal gripes and affections that don't really relate to one another or any particular point.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Adding our Boys Qobuz to the list of competing services Paying in 2018 13 times more than Spotify And yu get to own the musics you buy on Qobuz and can put it on your NAS for example

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've been using Qobuz for a while now and it's pretty good. Good sound quality, good library, all that. I used Tidal before and it has good quality too, but it didn't have as many albums or artists that I listen too, it seems more geared towards hip hop.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Sadly Tidal doesn't have Rammstein which is my second most listened group so it's a no for me, if I'm not wrong Tidal was made by Hip Hop artists