I like to keep my music as plain FLACs. Usually I get them via Bandcamp (for smaller artists), Steam (for game OSTs, if they have it) and, until recently, from 7digital (for larger artists).

But 7digital is seemingly not keeping up with their site. It had some link-rot when I first registered there, but by now it's borderline unusable. I send a mail to ask if they intend to do any upkeep which went unanswered for 2 weeks now. So I guess I'll have to find a better solution.

Are there any recommendations for a good provider? Bonus points if they are good with their artists and don't send any spam/ads per mail. ^^

(I searched for a short bit, but the top results are AI slop and the definitly human written ones are 4 years old. So I thought I might just ask.)

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[–] TotalSonic@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Check out: HDtracks - https://hdtracks.com/ AmpWall - https://ampwall.com/ Jam.Coop - https://jam.coop/ Mirlo - https://mirlo.space/ Subvert - https://subvert.fm/

[–] squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi 10 points 1 week ago

Qobuz provides DRM-free FLAC and many other formats. They pay the highest royalties to artists when it comes to streaming, I don't know what they pay for downloads though.

[–] gid@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It's still relatively new, but Subvert is worth keeping an eye on. They're like Bandcamp but collectively owned by members.

[–] PrinzKasper@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

HD tracks and Qobuz are probably your best bet

[–] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 1 points 1 week ago

Qobuz is my favourite

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe Tidal? I know it's advertised with focus on the quality, but haven't used it myself.

You might also consider buying the music on whatever service seems more ethical and then pirating the flacs. I've had to do that with some games that, comically enough, didn't run on my machine when installed from Steam, but did in pirate versions.

[–] rapchee@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

isn't tidal streaming only?

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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Reportedly they offer 96 kHz at 24-bit, but idk if there's a way to download it.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 1 week ago

7digital has been good to me too, but the nice thing is you don't have to be brand loyal to any if these providers

[–] SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 week ago

Buy CDs and rip