Even as an American software engineer, I’ve been working hard to ween myself off as much American software and services as possible. I’m currently using Deezer for a music streaming service. I initially thought their music discovery features were fantastic but starting to realize the mixes and flow pretty much just play the same set of songs in a different order most of the time. The app I’ve loved most for their pay scale to artists and audio quality is tidal but we would consider that American big tech, right? Do I sacrifice the rule when it comes to supporting the arts? I would love opinions.
I’m American too and chose Tidal even though it’s American. Qobuz recommendations are awful, the Deezer Android app is really frustrating to use, and Spotify kept pushing MAGA/Musk content which was why I left it in the first place. Stingray is a Canadian one I haven’t tried, but it’s more of a Pandora-like service which doesn’t interest me.
I should have mentioned that I tried Qobuz and had trouble finding a lot of the music I enjoy. Their quality and artist payments are top tier though. Maybe I should give them another shot.
I also had a look at Qobuz, but their tagging system is terrible, as a bandcamp user I’m kinda spoiled when I can look at and follow all the weird subgenre tags, Qobuz has “Metal” but no subgenres, and there’s a whole bunch of “Metal” that just fuckin sucks, which makes discovering new stuff very difficult.
SoundCloud is awesome for me and from Germany 🇩🇪
A few years ago I used Qobuz, it was nice. And French ;)
Mind everyone that, despite being European, Qobuz still lacks support for many countries out there, so not a great alternative to established streaming platforms if you’re not in one of them.
Soundcloud seems like it’s bigger.
I Really like Qobuz, they do a lot of curation. I have found a lot of interesting music that way. And the quality is great as well.
Haven’t used it myself yet so can’t talk about it their recommendation algorithm, but Qobuz has been recommended several times here, it’s French and apparently has a very good payout to artists per play compared to others.
Swedish but the owner Daniel Ek has donated to trumps campaign
Yes but they pay artists the worst out of all streaming services on a per song basis
Isn’t spotify subsidising one of the biggest propaganda spreader in the English speaking world? Joe Rogan ruined so many of my of my work colleagues, they can only talk about the most evil of things and the most brain rotted conspiracies
Checkout soundcloud
Spotify’s Swedish
If the point is to make more responsible choices, I think switching to spotify violates the spirit of it.
They donated money to Trumps coronation
They’re kind of a shitty company but yeah their discovery algorithms are still the best in the business for now.
See also this recent thread: https://feddit.uk/post/26520101
