If you use #Deezer, want categories and your are computer savvy, here is a script I created so you can arrange your favourite albums into categories. Enjoy!
Stefano Marinelli
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I got a #Bose #SoundTouch30 and I received this e-mail to inform me that they will stop to support the #SoundTouch products line. I will not able to play music from #Deezer neither use the radio service #TuneIn.
I will try to use my #raspberrypi model 1B as a #musicpd server then send the output to the speaker with AUX output. If it doesn’t work a will get soon a brick. I got all my CDs collection encoded in FLAC.
I will not bought another kind of these connected products anymore.
From: @theverge
https://flipboard.com/@theverge/the-verge-5hobbaa8z/-/a-IhjPzn69RxK5Q1wToGVYGA%3Aa%3A43611565-%2F0
I got a #Bose #SoundTouch30 and I received this e-mail to inform me that they will stop to support the #SoundTouch products line. I will not able to play music from #Deezer neither use the radio service #TuneIn.
I will try to use my #raspberrypi model 1B as a #musicpd server then send the output to the speaker with AUX output. If it doesn’t work a will get soon a brick. I got all my CDs collection encoded in FLAC.
I will not bought another kind of these connected products anymore.
From: @theverge
https://flipboard.com/@theverge/the-verge-5hobbaa8z/-/a-IhjPzn69RxK5Q1wToGVYGA%3Aa%3A43611565-%2F0
For a long time now I knew I had to say goodbye to #Spotify for Various Reasons... Today I heard that they're running #ICE ads in the US and that was just the final straw. Byebye Spotify, hello #Deezer! (And #PocketCasts for the podcasts... And still looking for an audiobook service because I sometimes also read an audiobook through Spotify...)
Why Deezer? Well, my short list was Tidal or Deezer. Tidal is American while Deezer is European so that gave the advantage to Deezer. What sealed the deal was that when I created my Deezer account, I was able to select "non-binary" as my gender. And as a bonus, their logo is a cute little purple heart 💜 what's not to like?
For podcasts, my shortlist was Podimo, TuneIn and Pocket Casts... Decided to go for Pocket Casts because my car also has an app for that and I usually listen to podcasts while driving.
All Europeans 🇪🇺
and 1 other
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So there are multiple issues with #Spotify. Donating money to #Trump, investing in AI weapon technology for #Israel (read genocide), very or no royalties for artist, etc.
I'm thinking leaving Spotify for a while now. There is one issue and that is my 14 year old son. He is completely in music and listens to a lot of (older) music I also like. He shares carefully curated playlists with me, like we shared mix-tapes back in the days. He uses Spotify to discover music, like we did in the recordstore or festivals back in the day.
So another streaming service with a comparable catalogue is something I can't get around I'm afraid. But all those are big-tech or smaller big-tech (middle-tech, how do you call that)? So I tried 3 options; #Qobuz, #Tidal and #Deezer.
* Qobuz: French. Owned by the British Xandrie SA (website has not https 🤔). Although having a large catalogue (all 3 options are comparable in that aspect), there are a few things holding me back. 1. not an updated (unofficial) #Linux app; 2. the #Android app is not that good IMO. Looks outdated; 3. the onboarding resulted in artists I don't know or don't like; 4. The prices are a bit higher as the two others. I'm on a budget.
* Tidal: >>>
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joene extra
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* #Tidal: Norwegian-US. Owned by the US based Block. A company owned by Jack FUCKING Dorsey 🤢. What is a shame, because Tidal looks good in all categories. Even the prices. And it has multiple (unofficial) #Linux apps and a sublime #Android app.
* #Deezer: French. But for 41% owned by the American Access Industries and a lot of smaller owners. With Deezer I get a discount with my Odido phone subscription. Also Deezer has a very decent actively maintained (unofficial) app (despite being Electron). The Android app is just as sublime as the one from Tidal. All apps are btw better than the #Spotify app.
So I created 3 trials. After an hour I ditched #Qobuz keeping Tidal and Deezer for more testing. For now it looks I go for Deezer. A few years ago I tested Deezer as well, but at that moment it was not good enough for me. They improved a lot. Deezer is mostly European, but it's still of course capitalist and vulnerable for #enshittification.
Tidal is not yet enshittifified as far as I can see, but with Dorsey and other tech-bros we all know it won't take that long. Plus it is American. The Norwegian part has nothing to see AFAIK.
On-topic comments welcome.
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👣 Maïtané :empoleon:
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* #Tidal: Norwegian-US. Owned by the US based Block. A company owned by Jack FUCKING Dorsey 🤢. What is a shame, because Tidal looks good in all categories. Even the prices. And it has multiple (unofficial) #Linux apps and a sublime #Android app.
* #Deezer: French. But for 41% owned by the American Access Industries and a lot of smaller owners. With Deezer I get a discount with my Odido phone subscription. Also Deezer has a very decent actively maintained (unofficial) app (despite being Electron). The Android app is just as sublime as the one from Tidal. All apps are btw better than the #Spotify app.
So I created 3 trials. After an hour I ditched #Qobuz keeping Tidal and Deezer for more testing. For now it looks I go for Deezer. A few years ago I tested Deezer as well, but at that moment it was not good enough for me. They improved a lot. Deezer is mostly European, but it's still of course capitalist and vulnerable for #enshittification.
Tidal is not yet enshittifified as far as I can see, but with Dorsey and other tech-bros we all know it won't take that long. Plus it is American. The Norwegian part has nothing to see AFAIK.
On-topic comments welcome.
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Epilogue: After checking the by far largest owner of #Deezer, Access Industries, I decided to give it up. Access Industries is also the owner of Clal Industries, an Israeli industrial investment group. They are guilty for at least building on the Westbank and much more. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_Industries) And this is just one aspect of their portfolio. #AccessIndustries is very big and therefore evil.
Besides owning things, they also invest in companies including Snapchat, Square, Yelp, Alibaba, Gett, Spotify (!), Zalando, DigitalOcean (!) and of course Deezer.
What I'm going to do is this: I keep Spotify only for my son's playlist (we have a family account, so only a few euro's per month) and I am going to start exploring real alternatives like #Funkwhale in parallel.
End of session.
So there are multiple issues with #Spotify. Donating money to #Trump, investing in AI weapon technology for #Israel (read genocide), very or no royalties for artist, etc.
I'm thinking leaving Spotify for a while now. There is one issue and that is my 14 year old son. He is completely in music and listens to a lot of (older) music I also like. He shares carefully curated playlists with me, like we shared mix-tapes back in the days. He uses Spotify to discover music, like we did in the recordstore or festivals back in the day.
So another streaming service with a comparable catalogue is something I can't get around I'm afraid. But all those are big-tech or smaller big-tech (middle-tech, how do you call that)? So I tried 3 options; #Qobuz, #Tidal and #Deezer.
* Qobuz: French. Owned by the British Xandrie SA (website has not https 🤔). Although having a large catalogue (all 3 options are comparable in that aspect), there are a few things holding me back. 1. not an updated (unofficial) #Linux app; 2. the #Android app is not that good IMO. Looks outdated; 3. the onboarding resulted in artists I don't know or don't like; 4. The prices are a bit higher as the two others. I'm on a budget.
* Tidal: >>>
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* #Tidal: Norwegian-US. Owned by the US based Block. A company owned by Jack FUCKING Dorsey 🤢. What is a shame, because Tidal looks good in all categories. Even the prices. And it has multiple (unofficial) #Linux apps and a sublime #Android app.
* #Deezer: French. But for 41% owned by the American Access Industries and a lot of smaller owners. With Deezer I get a discount with my Odido phone subscription. Also Deezer has a very decent actively maintained (unofficial) app (despite being Electron). The Android app is just as sublime as the one from Tidal. All apps are btw better than the #Spotify app.
So I created 3 trials. After an hour I ditched #Qobuz keeping Tidal and Deezer for more testing. For now it looks I go for Deezer. A few years ago I tested Deezer as well, but at that moment it was not good enough for me. They improved a lot. Deezer is mostly European, but it's still of course capitalist and vulnerable for #enshittification.
Tidal is not yet enshittifified as far as I can see, but with Dorsey and other tech-bros we all know it won't take that long. Plus it is American. The Norwegian part has nothing to see AFAIK.
On-topic comments welcome.
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So there are multiple issues with #Spotify. Donating money to #Trump, investing in AI weapon technology for #Israel (read genocide), very or no royalties for artist, etc.
I'm thinking leaving Spotify for a while now. There is one issue and that is my 14 year old son. He is completely in music and listens to a lot of (older) music I also like. He shares carefully curated playlists with me, like we shared mix-tapes back in the days. He uses Spotify to discover music, like we did in the recordstore or festivals back in the day.
So another streaming service with a comparable catalogue is something I can't get around I'm afraid. But all those are big-tech or smaller big-tech (middle-tech, how do you call that)? So I tried 3 options; #Qobuz, #Tidal and #Deezer.
* Qobuz: French. Owned by the British Xandrie SA (website has not https 🤔). Although having a large catalogue (all 3 options are comparable in that aspect), there are a few things holding me back. 1. not an updated (unofficial) #Linux app; 2. the #Android app is not that good IMO. Looks outdated; 3. the onboarding resulted in artists I don't know or don't like; 4. The prices are a bit higher as the two others. I'm on a budget.
* Tidal: >>>
1/2
@isaaclyman @codinghorror If only Deezer fixed their last.fm integration I would switch. They're the one app I know of that actually does have a report button.
@Gargron @isaaclyman @codinghorror#Deezer has a report button but you get zero feedback if you make a report. Feels like shouting into the wind. Reported a fake single from #DorianElectra that's been up since July with an obviously not the artist album cover. Crickets so far.
All Europeans 🇪🇺
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Attendez, #Deezer propose toujours d'envoyer ses propres MP3, même après toutes ces années ???
Je pensais que cette fonctionnalité n'était qu'un reliquat de feu Blogmusik pour palier au manque de catalogue des débuts et qu'elle avait été depuis abandonnée !
Attendez, #Deezer propose toujours d'envoyer ses propres MP3, même après toutes ces années ???
Je pensais que cette fonctionnalité n'était qu'un reliquat de feu Blogmusik pour palier au manque de catalogue des débuts et qu'elle avait été depuis abandonnée !
jaz :twt: :wales_flag:
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Afternoon, Twters.
Having been somewhat disillusioned by #Spotify lately, I've decided to make the switch to #Deezer and it turns out it's really easy to transfer all your playlists etc. Took like 5 minutes. If you're having ethical issues with Spotify, now might be the time to make a change. I'm not naive enough to assume Deezer is free from sin, but it'll do for now. They also have a one month free trial at the moment.
Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
Afternoon, Twters.
Having been somewhat disillusioned by #Spotify lately, I've decided to make the switch to #Deezer and it turns out it's really easy to transfer all your playlists etc. Took like 5 minutes. If you're having ethical issues with Spotify, now might be the time to make a change. I'm not naive enough to assume Deezer is free from sin, but it'll do for now. They also have a one month free trial at the moment.
Thank you for coming to my Ted talk.
Tommi 🤯
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https://musically.com/2025/06/20/deezer-now-tagging-ai-generated-music-on-the-platform-which-is-now-18-of-uploads/
So, Deezer say 18% of its content is AI-generated. Even though AI-generated content gets flagged, I'd love to know how Deezer knows what's AI-generated. I wonder how many per cent of content has to be AI-generated for a track to be flagged as AI content.
I can't help but wonder: how much of Spotify's content is AI-generated?
#BrokenRecord#music#Deezer#AI#ArtificialIntelligence #spotify #MusicBusiness
https://musically.com/2025/06/20/deezer-now-tagging-ai-generated-music-on-the-platform-which-is-now-18-of-uploads/
So, Deezer say 18% of its content is AI-generated. Even though AI-generated content gets flagged, I'd love to know how Deezer knows what's AI-generated. I wonder how many per cent of content has to be AI-generated for a track to be flagged as AI content.
I can't help but wonder: how much of Spotify's content is AI-generated?
#BrokenRecord#music#Deezer#AI#ArtificialIntelligence #spotify #MusicBusiness