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mcc
@dryad.technology

I am once again begging you, if u must stream music, to consider any of the competitors from the chart below that pay artists better than Spotify. "According to a shocking new book, Spotify has been promoting so-called 'ghost artists' so it can avoid paying its piddling royalties to real artists":

futurism.comSpotify Employees Say It's Promoting Fake Artists to Reduce Royalty Payments to Real OnesAccording to a shocking new book, Spotify has been promoting "ghost artists" so it can avoid paying piddling royalties to real artists.
mcc@dryad.technology

Hey so if you still use Spotify: Streaming services are bad for artists but have you noticed yours is *the worst*?? Their rates are consistently under everyone AND for 85% of the music on the platform they don't pay out at all. Tidal, Deezer, Napster, Apple pay 2-3 times as much. Qobuz is like 4x.

mcc
@dryad.technology

In my experience, Tidal is a 100% replacement for Spotify functionality-wise EXCEPT the IOT support is not as good. The phone apps are at parity tho. Also: - Audio quality is better - Recs are slightly better. *Daily* song recs used to be better, now they are worse; daily album recs still good.

dark 🏳️‍⚧️
@darkswordsman.com

I'm reading some reviews in the past few months. It seems that the music quality is there, and of course they pay artists better, but apparently the user experience is horrendous. I may give it a shot, but it would be hard to move over. There are so many features I rely on with Spotify.

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mcc
@dryad.technology

I do not find the user experience worse. *Except* on the Apple TV app, which is inexplicably far worse than the phone app. (The Samsung Tizen app used to be excellent, but they discontinued it.)