@matt Might have missed it but I didn't see any way to buy their music there other than vinyl. 🤔
@aanee Ooops, you're correct. Sorry about that. I guess #Qobuz is a good alternative then: https://www.qobuz.com/us-en/interpreter/honningbarna/1891881
Testing #Qobuz as a replacement for #Spotify:
- Signup was a bit wonky, prices vague
- Listening to the same album on Spotify & Qobuz. I might be imagining it, but Qobuz HiRes version does seem to sound a bit better.
- How many of my playlists, tracks, artists & albums from Spotify are available on Qobuz?
Using #Soundiiz, offered for free by Qobuz to find it in Qobuz catalogue. This will take some time...apparently I have at least one playlists with 10K songs 😬
Andrew Wooldridge 🎆
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Good guide on leaving Spotify: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-complete-guide-to-quitting-spotify
I can also recommend #Qobuz! Have been using it for a while now. 👌
#FckSpotify
I'm currently using Apple Music but I started testing out Qobuz today and so far it's pretty good, but I'm not sure if it's good enough to switch. Both are leagues better than Spotify at the very least though.
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https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-complete-guide-to-quitting-spotify
How to quit Spotify: a guide from Brian Merchant.
He's gone with Qobuz, a platform that I'm also running with. I'd love to try Coda, as they claim to give artists the most money; I've listed my favourite music-streaming platforms on a page: https://garden.pivic.com/music/music-streaming-platforms - please let me know if I've missed a good platform that treats musicians like human beings.
While places like Spotify and Tidal are overrun by AI slop, Qobuz feels *clean*.
#BrianMerchant #spotify #BrokenRecord #Björk #Qobuz #capitalism #greed #DanielEk
Meanwhile, the company declines to label the AI songs that are overrunning the platform and even boosts them into Discover Weekly playlists, incentivizing their spread. Founder and CEO Daniel Ek used his Spotify fortune to invest in a lethal military tech startup, prompting the most recent round of artist boycotts from the platform. I could go on, but that will probably do—Spotify is everything that’s wrong with Silicon Valley’s engagement with culture and labor condensed into a single platform.
The pop star Lily Allen says she makes more money selling pics of her feet on OnlyFans than she does from Spotify royalties. Meanwhile, Spotify just raked in nearly $700 million in quarterly profits. It’s rank exploitation. Don’t take it from me, take it from Bjork. Earlier this year, she succinctly described Spotify as “probably the worst thing that has happened to musicians,” thanks to how the company, and the streaming model it normalized, have so completely corroded artists’ incomes over the last decade or so.
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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Good guide on leaving Spotify: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-complete-guide-to-quitting-spotify
I can also recommend #Qobuz! Have been using it for a while now. 👌
#FckSpotify
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/a-complete-guide-to-quitting-spotify
How to quit Spotify: a guide from Brian Merchant.
He's gone with Qobuz, a platform that I'm also running with. I'd love to try Coda, as they claim to give artists the most money; I've listed my favourite music-streaming platforms on a page: https://garden.pivic.com/music/music-streaming-platforms - please let me know if I've missed a good platform that treats musicians like human beings.
While places like Spotify and Tidal are overrun by AI slop, Qobuz feels *clean*.
#BrianMerchant #spotify #BrokenRecord #Björk #Qobuz #capitalism #greed #DanielEk
Meanwhile, the company declines to label the AI songs that are overrunning the platform and even boosts them into Discover Weekly playlists, incentivizing their spread. Founder and CEO Daniel Ek used his Spotify fortune to invest in a lethal military tech startup, prompting the most recent round of artist boycotts from the platform. I could go on, but that will probably do—Spotify is everything that’s wrong with Silicon Valley’s engagement with culture and labor condensed into a single platform.
The pop star Lily Allen says she makes more money selling pics of her feet on OnlyFans than she does from Spotify royalties. Meanwhile, Spotify just raked in nearly $700 million in quarterly profits. It’s rank exploitation. Don’t take it from me, take it from Bjork. Earlier this year, she succinctly described Spotify as “probably the worst thing that has happened to musicians,” thanks to how the company, and the streaming model it normalized, have so completely corroded artists’ incomes over the last decade or so.
I am celebrating the holidays by switching from #spotfy to #qobuz via https://soundiiz.com/ to migrate all my playlists and stuff. It was painless. And Spotify has become evil and mistreats it's musicians.
The bitrate display in Supersonic brutally reveals which songs in my library are still from... previous eras. 🏴☠️ 😅 😇
Guess I'll try Qobuz for the first time to acquire a higher bitrate copy of this track.
Djoerd Hiemstra 🍉
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I've finally moved from Spotify to Qobuz. I wrote up my experience and the caveats I hit. Hopefully that will motivate other people to do the jump!
https://tim.siosm.fr/blog/2025/10/26/moving-from-spotify-to-qobuz/
hypebot
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Anyone stream #music but looking for a more ethical platform?
I’ve got a link for a 2 month free membership of #Qobuz. It’s a French music streaming platform that pays artists better. The sound quality is lovely and you can easily import your music from other streaming platforms.
Here it is if you’re interested:
https://www.qobuz.com/redeem/3655F43B
Comment if you redeem it so I know when it’s been used (3 people max). I don’t get any benefit by sharing this - I just genuinely think it’s a good service
Anyone stream #music but looking for a more ethical platform?
I’ve got a link for a 2 month free membership of #Qobuz. It’s a French music streaming platform that pays artists better. The sound quality is lovely and you can easily import your music from other streaming platforms.
Here it is if you’re interested:
https://www.qobuz.com/redeem/3655F43B
Comment if you redeem it so I know when it’s been used (3 people max). I don’t get any benefit by sharing this - I just genuinely think it’s a good service
I've finally moved from Spotify to Qobuz. I wrote up my experience and the caveats I hit. Hopefully that will motivate other people to do the jump!
https://tim.siosm.fr/blog/2025/10/26/moving-from-spotify-to-qobuz/
All Europeans 🇪🇺
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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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