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Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers (news.ycombinator.com)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I'm using Tidal, but i can't say i really like it. They seem to randomly decide what songs and artists are not available, and their search function is really bad.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (2 children)

    That's not up to the streaming service but the record company.

    Personally I switched from Tidal to Qobuz this year and I like it much better.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    That's not up to the streaming service but the record company.

    That doesn't really matter for the end user as they're in a relationship with the streamer not the record companies. I hate this drive to obfuscate responsibility in corporate America.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Dude, you are the one obfuscating.

    Qobuz and Deezer are French, Tidal was originally Norwegian, Spotify was originally Swedish and record companies are from all over the world.

    If record companies make exclusive deals with platforms for some releases and pull distribution for others, then blaming the streaming services excluded is just plain fucking stupid.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I used Tidal for a few months, then found out it had silently removed ~10% of my music from my “liked” list. Completely unacceptable. They should at least keep a list of titles so I can go back and fix it. People say all services do this, but I’ve been keeping an eye on it and Spotify hasn’t done it since I hopped back.

    Qobuz was painful to use and new music discovery was hopeless. No idea if they were removing tracks too.

    Bandcamp seems cool, but I prefer to listen to music via song-based-radios, so that’s a no go.

    Not sure what I’ll do if I have to drop Spotify again over ads.

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