RE: https://mastodon.social/@jonhicks/115662466196992390

I know #Tidal isn't perfect (and buying physical media or band merch is better, but hey, that is situational, I will only buy an album after I already like it), but this sort of thing makes me feel vindicated in choosing not to use #Spotify.

my kids like Christmas, I like Jazz, this is an acceptable compromise.
"Cool Yule: Jazz Christmas" on #Tidal
https://tidal.com/playlist/9977e837-f071-4c82-93eb-c82f27a7decb

@jonhicks wow, well, as a #Tidal user, that's a bit vindicating. i have always wondered whether it's *actually* significantly different from Spotify for artists, or essentially the same when the check comes. still probably the lesser evil, though?

RE: https://mastodon.social/@jonhicks/115662466196992390

I know #Tidal isn't perfect (and buying physical media or band merch is better, but hey, that is situational, I will only buy an album after I already like it), but this sort of thing makes me feel vindicated in choosing not to use #Spotify.

Whilst everyone is sharing their #SpotifyWrapped, the band Los Campesinos! shared how much they made from streaming services for their album All Hell:

🔗 https://loscampesinos.com/heres-how-much-money-los-camp-make-from-streaming/

#Music #MusicIndustry #Streaming #Bandcamp #Tidal #AppleMusic #Spotify #YouTube #Amazon

@darkcoffee8 Although #Tidal and especially #Deezer also have their problematic issues. See https://todon.nl/@joenepraat/115271096054608824 (2 posts)

Look who joined the party.
#buildinpublic #spotify #soundcloud #tidal #macosdev #daftmusic #applemusic

Look who joined the party.
#buildinpublic #spotify #soundcloud #tidal #macosdev #daftmusic #applemusic

#PhD project with me, using numerical modelling to study how large-scale #tidal #energy farms will affect one another.

Open to UK and international students.

Details and application info at https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/flow-interactions-of-tidal-stream-energy-understanding-how-large-tidal-farms-will-affect-each-other-based-in-orkney/?p190312

Or contact me on simon.waldman@hw.ac.uk with questions or for an informal chat.

Please send to anybody appropriate, & circulate to networks!

#FindAPhD #renewables #marine

#PhD project with me, using numerical modelling to study how large-scale #tidal #energy farms will affect one another.

Open to UK and international students.

Details and application info at https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/flow-interactions-of-tidal-stream-energy-understanding-how-large-tidal-farms-will-affect-each-other-based-in-orkney/?p190312

Or contact me on simon.waldman@hw.ac.uk with questions or for an informal chat.

Please send to anybody appropriate, & circulate to networks!

#FindAPhD #renewables #marine

I've been using #spotify and lately #Tidal (superb quality), but #selfhosting #music with direct donations to local bands my be better option. So I started playing with #Navidrome via @yunohost .
I'm using #Tempo client installed via @fdroidorg.
It works great, you only need to reset password, because SSO authentication doesn't work for direct login (random password is generated) https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/navidrome_ynh/issues/101#issuecomment-1590007175

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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* #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.

2/2

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

My music adoring boyfriend is leaving #Spotify after relying on it most of his life. He is leaning towards #Tidal (in part because Qobuz is not available in his region).* Anyone have tips on Tidal?

*I myself entered my address for a Qobuz trial & never heard back. Same thing happened to me with PeerTube instances & my Pixelfed account. I can't figure whether my email isn't receiving everything or if the non corpo web is overwhelmed.

#askfedi#musicStreaming

My music adoring boyfriend is leaving #Spotify after relying on it most of his life. He is leaning towards #Tidal (in part because Qobuz is not available in his region).* Anyone have tips on Tidal?

*I myself entered my address for a Qobuz trial & never heard back. Same thing happened to me with PeerTube instances & my Pixelfed account. I can't figure whether my email isn't receiving everything or if the non corpo web is overwhelmed.

#askfedi#musicStreaming

Okay, trying #Tidal. I've been trying to find a good replacement for #Spotify that also properly works on Linux.
I've not found any, but it seems that Tidal is one of the better music streaming services.