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Qobuz reveals how much it really pays per stream, and I want to see more of this transparency to help us spend money more ethically (www.techradar.com)
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[–] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago (7 children)

This is great to see. I ended up moving to Tidal from Spotify, and even though there are some nice to have features missing from Tidal (an equivilant to spotify's sync between devices/speakers as well as a better Android Auto experience), it's a far superior experience.

Quobuz is also on my radar, but they've traditionally lacked in the music catalog space. I need to give them a try again now that it's been a few years.

That said, Tidal barely has Linux clients and I don't think I've seen much movement for Quobuz on Linux, unless I've just missed it.

[–] unnamedau@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 day ago

i love tidal so much <3 it's lacking a bit in japanese artists compared to spotify but that's not a dealbreaker for me

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago

I moved from Spotify to tidal as well. Tidal is fine except for their catalogue mess. They tend to group different artists with same name to a single artist. Here and there I feedback them, they correct it in a week or so but the first next album is wrong again. But I'm glad that at least it pays music owners better and doesn't throw money at shit podcasts and such

[–] Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

There is Tidal Hi-Fi on linux, but I suspect that's what you mean by 'barely'

[–] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yep! It's a good app overall, even has some improvements over what is shipped on macOS.

https://github.com/Nokse22/high-tide is new and promising for a better experience overall. I'd always prefer native over electron.

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[–] Mihies@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It works well, what do you want more? Sure, it's not official but the most of the important bits are official since at it's core it's a web app.

[–] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 day ago

Absolutely! It works fairy well. A little clunky since the Linux support is bolted on after, but it's not noticeably worse than the macOS experience. The extra options it offers over what tidal ships to macOS are also nice.

These non-native electron apps are all kinda junky for native music listening anyway. (This is a problem with Spotify's desktop app as well)

[–] j4yt33@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've moved to Deezer, love the HiFi audio! Also works well under Linux using Mellowplayer

[–] JbIPS@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm on th e verge of doing the same. Do we know how much Deezer pays artists?

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[–] JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What's wrong with just using tidal in a browser? Zen just added a media player widget too so it's almost like having a native app that's always controllable on screen

[–] d0ntpan1c@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 day ago

I'd rather have it in my desktop workspace than nested in a web browser, plus it can integrate better with native media API's for media buttons, notifications, and other items being aware of the audio, which the tidal web app doesn't do out of the box.

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Too bad they block VPNs

[–] ckai@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I use proton for VPN and qobuz works for me! I've had a couple of other bugs but streaming and downloading both work!

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I use Proton as well but it won't even let me sign up and explicitly says it's because of the VPN.

[–] Combateye@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I use Surfshark and don't have problems with it 99% of the time. I think you probably just have to have the VPN off for signing up and logging in (I've noticed zero issues when I'm already logged in).

[–] azalty@jlai.lu 2 points 1 day ago

Still a pain :( they’re too afraid we’ll use regional pricing?

[–] ckai@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

That's so strange. I've been using qobuz for at least a couple years now and I've always got a VPN on. Sometimes it takes me a second to load a new song if it's not downloaded already but other than I've had no issues. Are you on PC?

[–] Combateye@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Been using Qobuz for several months now. Pretty happy with it overall so far. You can get full audio quality via browser, which is great since lots of services have poor Linux support.

[–] trolololol@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Same here

I loved last FM when it came out, best recommendation engine in its days. Then they kinda died and reborn into you tube powered.

Moved to Spotify, then the paid bit rate was down graded.

Then moved to Deezer, but the buffering and errors after a few hours play are really annoying.

This week my qobuz trial was over, so I cancelled Deezer and I'm paying for qobuz.

Streaming services are kinda a commodity now, the catalogs are basically the same, except Pandora that had a better coverage for Nina Pastori than others. But this also changed from time to time.

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I'm pretty happy with Tidal so far; I tried Qobuz back when I was looking for an alternative to Spotify and I remember the Android app being borderline unusable. I might be misremembering things though.

[–] clmbmb@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago

Unfortunately they're not available everywhere.

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