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Spotify is pretty fucking bad too. They don't get a pass for not being Google.
Yeah that rec shocked me. Bandcamp surely if possible is best for the artist.
I have heard about certain creators disliking Bandcamp and wanting to not use it anymore, but I don't know why that is.
I mean, I've heard criticisms about literally every form of digital musical storefront.. I don't know what criticism there would be for Bandcamp that Spotify doesn't do worse for musicians. Music availability notwithstanding.
On Wikipedia it says Epic Games bought them in 2022, then in 2023 Songtradr bought Bandcamp off Epic. Songtradr then fired half of Bandcamp staff.
Eh.. they're still doing Bandcamp Fridays this year where they take no commission. I just had a look and this year it's:
May 2nd
August 1st
September 5th
October 3rd
December 5th
Seriously. They donated millions to the trump campaign and barely pay artists pennies.
The music space is one of the biggest things we're lacking platforms for right now for sure. I've shifted over to Tidal for the time being, but I swear I'm just tempted to go back to local files at this point.
NewPipe works if you're desperate
Spotube is decent for playing Spotify playlists you come across or people send you
I'm slowly moving back to local files. Though that gets expensive very quickly so you know what that means.
Yep, and I hate that because I want to support the artists and mostly listen to more obscure shit these days. Plus bandcamp is owned by Amazon I believe so even though the artists get more out of it, there's still a Bezos tax.
Then there's figuring out how to stream it remotely while driving or whatever. It's a whole thing.
I do genuinely really like Tidal so far, but I'm not familiar with their company's political stances or anything, and of course it's not FOSS at all. Spotify is dead to me though.
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I quit Tidal after they dropped the Plex integration
Yeah spotify is fucking vile. I hear my peers praise it for its alleged ability to perfect tailor playlists and recommendations for music discovery- because I guess we can't be bothered to figure out what music we like anymore. And them of course, it behinds spoonfeeding its users their own ai-generated slop that they don't have to pay licensing fees for.