• garbagebagel@lemmy.world
      2·
      19 hours ago

      Oh I’m about to cancel my spotify but was worried about some of the music I like which I couldn’t transfer over to qobuz. Didn’t even think that an ad block would work on it… Does it work with something like Rethink for the app or are you talking browser only?

    • Pandasdontfly@slrpnk.net
      121·
      2 days ago

      I so so so want to but if you listen to ANY amount of underground music there are a lot of artists that ONLY drop music on Spotify. I’ve tested tidal and qobuz and I’d lose like 60%~ of my library

      • Turret3857@infosec.pubEnglish
        111·
        2 days ago

        They don’t release on YouTube Music at all?

        If they don’t, thats odd. It’d be very limiting for reach to only release on one platform, and if they’re that underground you could always ask them to make their music purchasable on sites like Bandcamp. Doesn’t mean they will but it doesn’t hurt either.

        There’s also other ways to obtain music, but don’t do anything illegal :p

      • Turret3857@infosec.pubEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        SpotDL will download youtube music equivalents to Spotify tracks in 128kbps or 256kbps if you have YT premium

        Spotify Import for Jellyfin will import your Spotify playlists to Jellyfin (provided the songs already exist in your Jellyfin server)

        Lidarr allows you to import Spotify playlists. (I do not endorse piracy, use Lidarr in ways legal to your local laws and regulations ;p )

        as for a direct conversion of a Spotify playlist to an importable CSV or JSON file, I am unsure. I never looked for one.

    • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      I appreciate the list. I’m on my families subscription and (due to some personal issues) we can’t cancel for the next ~6 months, so we’re gonna weigh the pros/cons then

      • Turret3857@infosec.pubEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        They’ll easily catch on and ban the account that has 8 different IP addresses that are on at the same time, and that’s still financially supporting them. None of the software Ive shared financially supports the abusive aspects of the industry in any meaningful way.

        • REDACTED@infosec.pubEnglish
          1·
          13 hours ago

          Do elaborate. Me, an European, and everyone around me, fully knows that nordic countries have better privacy and social laws, which is why many use VPN to ie. Norway, not France, where you will likely get interesting letters. The only exception here could be Switzerland.

          Western Europe is also currently pushing for age verification laws and messaging surveillance.

  • PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de
    61·
    2 days ago

    So, what are the best spotify alternatives that actually pay the artists? Does that exist? The only semi-viable alternative I know is Deezer. Tidal apparently is for audiophiles

    • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world
      1·
      19 hours ago

      I just use YT music in brave browser on my iPhone cause it blocks all Ads and I had a app that did that for Android revanced I think, works for now, someday I’d prefer to setup my own self hosted music server and then only use YT music, Spotify etc to discover new songs

    • TerHu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      9·
      2 days ago

      im using tidal because it supposedly pays more than spotify, deezer and apple music. (also because of privacy concerns with spotify) i’m not an audiophile and tidal works a little different to spotify, but it’s good.

      just know that there’s no hand-off or remote controlling of different sessions (i.e. spotify plays through your browser and you control it from your phone), unless devices are specifically built for that (like speakers with tidal support)

        • Übercomplicated@lemmy.ml
          1·
          8 hours ago

          I think it’s pretty much on par with Spotify. Classical recordings take a hit, not in availability, but simply because it’s more difficult to search for them. There’s also some very, very obscure music I did lose. But where talking like my second cousin once removed released something with ~2 monthly listeners level obscure.

          Apart from that, depending on your experience the audio quality is perceivably better than Spotify and Tidal Connect works flawlessly. I’m on a family plan, and everyone seems to be happy. I quite like the algorithm as well, almost more than the Spotify one.

    • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      I’m ditched Spotify for Qobuz and am having a good time so far.