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I'm using Qobuz for music streaming. It's alright.
Last time I checked they pay artists more than the competition, they curate playlists and editorial content rather than pushing AI left and right, and my experience is generally good.
Minus points for lacking API and native Linux client. On desktop Linux the web app works well.
I like streaming music, I dont need to own it, but I have been struggling to find a good music streaming service.
I used Spotify for years but the amount of garbage they keep adding made me cancel my subscription. The last straw was when "smart shuffle" kept automatically turning itself back on.
First I switched to YouTube Music but the user experience is honestly trash and I moved on pretty quickly. The separation between video and music service was ridiculously inconsistent.
I used Tidal for a few months and I appreciated the simple UI. However, the recommendations are insanely bad. Not once have I found a new, good track on the daily mix to add to my library, it was driving me crazy.
I started using Qobuz only a few weeks ago. The track radio is honestly pretty bad so far. I start the radio on a lofi track and start hearing video game ambience noises 5 tracks later. Literally bird sounds with whitenoise from an OST album. I havent tried the daily/weekly queue a lot yet, but I hope its decent because I dont know what to try next.
I wish Spotify hadn't entshittified, it had the best recommendations/radios by far but its just not usable for me anymore.
Funny that i switched from YT music to Spotify for a while and found its recommendations much worse. The app was cool and flashy though, especially on tv
I think what helped my Spotify recommendations a lot was the option to "exclude from taste profile". I might listen to lofi for 12 h straight but I dont want any lofi recommendations at all, so that feature was nice.
Also I never pressed "like" on anything, I only ever disliked things in order to keep recommendations more open. It felt like Spotify understood the assignment while e.g. Tidal kept blasting me with a genre that I accidentally listened to one track of and kept "disliking" every single artists.
I'm content with tidal for now. I mainly listen to music on my desktop, and I like that it's just music. No podcasts or things I don't want to see.
Deezer is my streamer of choice, nearly identical with artists, OK discovery. Premium includes high def and you can currently stream to multiple devices, like, say, play on sonos for the Kids and listen to yourself without one device stopping
You can also rip music files from deezer into .flac
Spotify customers created a bigger evil
Just don't use the feature. Not everything is screech worthy.
That's a fair response to the original post. Made an edit to expound.
My problem with it is that I've never used Spotify messages, yet there's already a few threads on my account with dozens of "messages". My best guess is that the thread tracks unique links that I've sent to friends outside of the app and they've opened while logged in with their accounts. I don't like that.
Winamp died because the company that acquired it tried to turn it into an everything app.
Winamp died for our sins :(
Misread that as winamp died for our skins.
This as well.
Winamp died because pirating music mostly died. That's the only reason.
Winamp died because the jump from 2 to 3 (if memory serves) was a profound hit to system resources... Followed by the dev team apparently fucking off on anything that wasn't optimization (see above for likely reason.)
Add in a dose of music platforms figuring out streaming and you can put the final nail in that coffin.
So, I'm a bit of an enigma, so take my recommendation with a grain of salt. I use Tidal. It does the best, out of all my criteria.
All in all, I'm very happy with Tidal and I don't think I'm switching anytime soon.
spotify started with more social media feel
I had Tidal, but sending music to my home Sonos devices was too much of a pain in my butt so I reverted back to Spotify.
I'm so confused, if you don't want to use this feature, just don't use it?
Also for my money messaging has never been 'social media' otherwise we'd have to call MSN Messenger social media and that ain't right
That is a sound approach until they audiobook the shit out of it and suddenly there’s 90% of screen space showing it on the interface. So far it’s okay but there’s a growing trust issue between Spotify and myself as a user given their track record to make things shittier.
Idk that I'll use this feature but it makes a lot of sense. I end up sharing links to Spotify tracks across multiple different friend groups multiple times a week. They share with me too.
It's obvious that Spotify would like to encourage people to stay "within the walls" of Spotify more when sharing this stuff. Some people will love this feature I bet. Idk why anyone would be upset by an optional chat though.
It's that Spotify has obviously been tracking the songs I've exchanged with friends for a while now. I have never used the messaging feature, yet every album I've sent to friends is already in the messages thread. They've clearly been using unique links to track who sends music to who -- covertly, even outside of the app.
