nano, 1 month ago

who would win

• $12 a month for spotify, artist gets $0.010 per stream, all of it goes away as soon as you cancel your subscription
• $4 for an album on bandcamp, artist gets all of the money, you keep the music forever and can also share it with friends

samxavia, 1 month ago

@nano I personally pay for it through iTunes as you get the same benefit of DRM free but there's so many more artists.

nano, 1 month ago

@samxavia maybe take a look into qobuz, the artist gets a higher cut and the downloads are lossless

Haijo7, 1 month ago

qobuz seems cool, but they have a lot of negative reviews on trustpilot.
i made an account once, but i couldn't log in after creating the account.
i've heard stories about artists not being able to remove their music from the platform, though i'm not sure if they are true

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samxavia, 1 month ago

@Haijo7 I'll keep that in mind. Thank you.

Haijo7, 1 month ago

I usually buy CDs locally, then copy the contents to a computer with lossless compression (flac).
I've heard that some people burn the copies they made of CDs to new CD-Rs as this somehow makes it easier for some CD players to read. I doubt it has an effect on the audio quality though, maybe it can prevent skips on some specific older players

sirlan, 1 month ago

@nano
step 1: have ad blocker and media downloading extensions on pc browser
step 2: install revanced or vimusic on phone
step 3: rejoice with free youtube music

Haijo7, 1 month ago

that works, but youtube uses very lossy compression for its audio.
most people wouldn't consider this a great listening experience

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