Spotify is trash anyways.
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2025
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Move to Qobuz which is more ethical
Qobuz vs TIDAL, go! (Curious to know more, if someone is willing to do a comparison that has experience with both, or either.)
I trialed Tidal and thought it was fine. Just Fine. I’m trying Qobuz right now. It seems like all the things I like from Bandcamp but there’s also a paid streaming service. The audio sounds great on Qobuz and I like the option of buying HiRes albums for my local media server. I’m an iOS loser, and they just updated Apple Music with finally some good crossfade. I’m a simpleton and that appeals a lot to me. I can’t find crossfade setting on Qobuz for iOS. I feel like I would pick Qobuz over Tidal just for the ease of downloading my music to my Zune/iPod/subsonic/jellyfin.
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Easy comparison. Tidal is not ethical. With investors like Black rocks ...they're devil financing wars and genocide.
I don't know who Black Rocks is or whether or not they finance wars and genocide. I also couldn't find anything regarding them investing in TIDAL. Can you confirm with sources for either claim?
BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager, overseeing trillions of dollars for governments, corporations, and individuals.
So I see. I still can't find anywhere that says they invested in TIDAL.
But does that make TIDAL unethical? Does the poison run up the water stream or down?
https://fintel.io/so/us/xyz/blackrock
Bloc is the owner of tidal
So Block owns TIDAL, and BlackRock owns some shares in Block, and BlackRock does some shady investments.
I dunno man. I don't know how far/many steps back I should take before I consider it far enough removed from the unethical practices. It's not like TIDAL invests in war and genocide. Right?
You give money to Tidal, that gives money to investors that use this money to finance wars.
When you put it like that, yeah... 😕
Yeah unfortunately in some ways we're financing that if we don't take actions. Fortunately for streaming the switch is super easy and the transfer of songs and artists automated
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When I was making money, I'd buy albums from bands I liked. Built up a nice library.
I'd love to buy the entire discographies of all the hundreds of artists I follow on Spotify. 💀 Simply not feasible.
That's why I originally went Google music. I thought Spotify was garbage and didn't have that shit I wanted, still true today 🤣
Move to Qobuz which is more ethical