Post #2764261
2025-12-03 19:28 UTC
Replies (11)
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@mawr@plush.city 2025-12-03 19:30
@hazelnoot@void.lgbt Apple Music, YouTube Music, Deezer. Edit: and Qobuz! Edit: and Tidal!
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@tezoatlipoca@mas.to 2025-12-03 19:40
@hazelnoot@void.lgbt @mawr@plush.city after the ICE ads were the last straw for us we found Qobuz: > musicians receive approximately €0.018 per stream on Qobuz .. which is one of the better ones we found (GF did all the research) and so far I haven't found anything from my Spotify lists that isn't also in Qobuz.
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@astronema@social.translunar.academy 2025-12-03 19:52
@hazelnoot@void.lgbt @mawr@plush.city tidal
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@RaffKarva@sunny.garden 2025-12-03 20:48
@hazelnoot@void.lgbt @mawr@plush.city Assuming £13 p/m for subscription, after 10 years you’d have spend £1.5k. After those 10 years you’re left with nothing, you need to keep paying for subscription to listen to music. If instead you were to buy and rip CDs or buy digital downloads straight from musicians, assuming £10 per album, same amount would give you 150 albums. Assuming an average of 12 songs per album and 5 minutes per song, after spending £1.5k you’ll have 150 hours of music to listen to. An average person listens to music for 19 hours per week. That’s almost 8 weeks of not a single song repeating, or, to put it differently, hearing the same song not more than six times per year. Plus, after those 10 years you don’t have to spend a single penny and are still left with 150 albums / 150 hours of music that you own. You can also buy CDs in charity shops where one CD costs around £1, which will multiply my calculations x10. Streaming is infinitely more expensive compared to buying. Not to mention all the points made in the initial post.
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@iouring@ice.stellaris.fyi 2025-12-04 12:38
@hazelnoot@void.lgbt @mawr@plush.city we use tidal
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@snow@beasts.life 2025-12-04 12:43
@hazelnoot@void.lgbt @mawr@plush.city I mean there's apple music if you have a iPhone
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@kat_cal2@ck.catwithaclari.net 2025-12-04 15:37
@hazelnoot@void.lgbt @mawr@plush.city tidal is a good one
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@kleines_z@queer.group 2025-12-04 18:03
@hazelnoot@void.lgbt @mawr@plush.city I think all the alternatives are smaller than Spotify and have fewer songs. Then again, do you really need every song that was ever published?
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@bjarne@social.bvoigtlaender.de 2025-12-05 15:40
@hazelnoot@void.lgbt @mawr@plush.city There's Qobuz. As long as you wont miss having the ability to select a custom playlist cover art. There are some missing songs. But you can submit those and they do get added after a while. (I would assume as long as there are no weird licensing shenanigans going on).
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@wheeljack@weird.autos 2025-12-05 19:57
@hazelnoot@void.lgbt @mawr@plush.city Quite a few. Apple Music, Tidal, Youtube Music, Qobuz, and there's a handful more I can't think of off the top of my head. Tidal s'posedly has the best pay for artists, but they did MQA so I don't trust them. No service has every piece of published music (including Spotify). Apple, Spotify, and Youtube have the largest libraries. I mostly use Apple Music and records/CDs as I can find them.
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@ansishh@toot.lv 2025-12-14 21:03
@hazelnoot@void.lgbt @mawr@plush.city I've been using Tidal for quite some time now.