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My perspective may be off but is €150000 a lot? I'd be curious to know if they donated anything to other similar Democrat events (and in other countries). I'd be more sceptical seeing Spotify donate to Trump's actual campaign, but donating to the inauguration of a democraticly elected president doesn't seem insane to me, even if the president is as awful as Trump.
I only use spotify for discovering music.
I then download it (lucida.to is the best tool I have used so far) or buy it.
I got an mp3 player for like €13 on aliexpress, but that broke a day or so ago (rip).
it's definitely much more than €13, but if you're the right kind of nerd for that kind of thing, there's Tangara
I've seen a lot of good things said about tangara. I'll look into it, thanks!
If you want to support musical artists, pay to see them live and buy a t-shirt or something.
But for listening... Don't pay some disgusting corporation to trickle a fraction of a fraction of a penny to your fave artist. That's not actual support, just corporate propaganda. Instead download or watch on youtube (with ad blockers).
I'd love to see some of them live, but fuck all those bullshit ticketmaster fees. I'll stick to buying their vinyls.
~~Support by listening to them on a paid Spotify account~~ Trump supporter
~~Support by listening to them on a paid Deezer account~~ owned by some other big company
~~Support by listening to them on a paid Tidal account~~ owned by some other big company
~~Support by going to their concert~~ Ticketmaster fees and practices
~~Support by buying vinyls~~ ...
Everything is enshitified and overrun by late stage capitalism
Tidal is still the better streaming service, if you really need one, but it's starting to suck.... Bandcamp is the best of option to support artist.
I love every time this topic comes up folks be like "buy directly from the artist" or " use this other platform that is less evil" and the chads going on about "just pirate stuff, haven't payed for music in years ".
Hilarious. Myopic, limited, and / or dumb perspectives.
Would I love to pay directly to the artist? Sure, but their latest album costs as much as 6 months streaming in my country, and I only like a couple of songs, maybe. And let's not even go to the K-pop realm where I've seen a mini album with 5 songs cost as much as a year of streaming.
Pirate stuff? Well, excuse me for not dwelling in waters that may lead me to be drowned. Also, guess what? Some of us have niche or varied tastes that don't end up in some dark corner of the internet whilst most of these evil streamers have everything.
I prefer to wait every time one of these evil streaming sites puts up a 3 months free promotion or something like that and just use a new mail address with some fake info and enjoy.
the amount of money from your streaming subscription that actually goes to your favourite artist is negligible (especially with Spotify, as they won't even pay any money to niche artists before they reach a certain amount of plays). I'd rather get my collection stored for completely offline listening, available in a high quality format and playable through any music player that I currently fancy using instead of a clumsy streaming app that tries to shove podcasts in my face or doesn't know how to shuffle properly, and then every few months spend the equivalent of two or three months of Spotify on an album that I really like on Bandcamp, preferably on a Bandcamp Friday, when Bandcamp doesn't take any cut from the purchase.
A lot of albums on Bandcamp are "pay what you want". I just got 12 albums last friday (Bandcamp friday, all the money goes to artists) for around 15$. It's not much but it's way more then they would get from my streams on Tidal. I do this pretty much every month, and I have hundreds of albums. There's ton of way to support musicians, even with a few bucks.
If its on spotify - it can be downloaded.
Drown? Does you country seriously pursuit piracy that hard? Sorry, that sucks. Us Americans have it lucky being able to just vpn that kind of traffic.
Some of us have niche or varied tastes that don't end up in some dark corner of the internet whilst most of these evil streamers have everything.
As far as this is concerned, you can always use Spotify/deezer downloaders. Websites like squid.wtf work well. They even come with metadata.
The fact that the company that owns cash app also owns a music streaming service makes me laugh.
I'm sure in a few years some Block exec is going to make hay by selling it for a loss to focus on their core tenants which is being slightly better than PayPal.
To be fair, I have a buddy who works at square. He said that the CEO is actually really passionate about Tidal.
Serious question. Who’s the alternative to Spotify?
Qobuz !
Not available in my country (eu)
🏴☠️
Soulseek
The french Qobuz. Has close to perfect 1 to 1 match with content in my experience, and it has a service to help you transfer all playlists
Lidarr, Jellyfin, and Music Assistant
Ok but serious question, I don't want to personally manage my music library on a server. For movies and TV this is fine, I consume a couple of these a day but if I want a steady stream of new music streaming apps have made all this very easy and very convenient.
When my 4 year old yells out in the car for a specific song, will these cover it?
Buying from, and supporting the artist directly, IMO.
Many European metal bands host their own webshop selling their merchandise, records, cassettes and CDs; many small and independent musicians sell their songs on Bandcamp (US based website that does take a cut from each payment, 15% I believe goes to Bandcamp, so that is something to keep in mind)
Honestly, the benefit of streaming services is not being able to listen to music legally. It's discovery. Playing a song I like and getting recommended a similar song turn an artist I've never heard of has introduced me to a lot of great music. That's not something you can replicate by going to the webshop of your favorite band and buying their newest album.
That's something you could recreate with a scrobbling service like last.fm (don't use last.fm though, they are owned by CBS).
A quick Google search leads me to ListenBrains, which is also American, but operated by a non-profit.
I've used neither service and my music listening habits never relied on algorithmic recomendations, so I could totally be talking out of my ass here. But it could be worth a look.