I’m getting fed up with Spotify because all the usual reasons and now the CEO calling music “content” with “nearly no production costs”. Fuck that, time to vote with my wallet after being a user after an early beta invite.

What I want is a service that

  1. pays music creators decently,

  2. that has a comparable catalogue outside the charts

  3. and that works well with a good UI on Windows, Linux, Android

  4. and either headless on a RPi or has a integration with Kodi with high bitrates or even lossless.

Searching for comparisons drowns me in click baits and auto-generated content. I’d appreciate some real world experiences.

  • blargbluuk@sh.itjust.works
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    9 months ago

    I also recently switched to Tidal, the windows app works fine (I usually have it running all day). The only weirdness with it I’ve noticed is sometimes if I pause a track for a long time, when I return to play it again it just starts the song from the beginning. Otherwise the only thing I’m missing from Spotify is the ability to start playing by talking to our Google Home speakers - have to start it from the app to cast.

    Edit: I also like that Tidal appear to promote smaller/newer artists in their Tidal Rising program