After 4 years being wireless, I'm going wired again. I dusted off my old AKG K550 headphones and bought a new #DAC. The #HiBy FC4 sounds great with MQA from #Tidal. It also works fine with Linux.
Just started free* trials of Qobuz and Tidal. They both offer up to 24-bit, 192 kHz streaming. Even so, I think I prefer Qobuz's quality.
The drawback is that Qobuz does NOT HAVE LYRICS. This is a major drawback for me as a hearing impaired person and also a songwriter (I want to know for sure what the lyrics are)! Qobuz is slightly cheaper if you pay annually rather than monthly.
*free but you give them payment info and the subscription kicks in if you don't cancel
I honestly think #Spotify has missed the boat on this one. Those who care about #Lossless will already be on #AppleMusic#Deezer or #Tidal; and those who don't care won't pay the extra to get it. The fact the aforementioned three services all include lossless in their base subscriptions while it will be an extra tier on Spotify won't help matters. #Music#Streaming
If they'd gone lossless a year ago it might have mattered. Now, not so much
Spotify lossless audio said to be close to launch, with third branding
Verden trenger gode musikkanbefalinger på tvers av sjanger og geografi i en tid med maskingenererte anbefalinger i strømmetjenestene. Hvor finner jeg det? Eksisterer det fortsatt gode musikkanmeldere? Tips mottas med stor takk 🙏 #Norsktut#musikktut#tidal#spotify
I'm wanting to leave Spotify (there are so many reasons for doing so) and I've read that Tidal is the streaming service distributing the biggest share to artists (probably after Bandcamp, but that's a different kind of service).
Has anybody experienced Tidal and seen drawbacks? Or do they somewhat have weaker values than Spotify's CEO and I didn't catch that information?
I read a thread on here which said #Napster pays artists (presumably they mean labels) the best, so I downloaded the app to see what it's all about in 2024 because I know it's going to be very different to the Napster I remeber of 2000. :crystal_ball_fb:
And it seems on the surface like a competent streaming app. :face_smile_fb: There's not that much difference between #Spotify / #Tidal / #Deezer / etc. these days to be honest.
But I think I'm sticking with #AppleMusic. :face_sunglasses_fb:
I've been with #Spotify for 10 years, but I'm now considering switching to #Tidal. I don't like the way Spotify is going: shifting focus to podcasts, paying shit to musicians... I'd rather see my money go to them than to Rogan.
But it's not just about me, I have my whole family on our family plan. I have to be sure about it and convince them. If you have made the switch, what had been your experience?
Where do y'all buy #music , specifically CDs and 16bit flac? Currently I'm using:
a) #Tidal for streaming,
b) #discogs for rare NM+ CDs,
c) amazon?? for mainstream CDs,
d) https://us.7digital.com/ ?? for #FLAC -- purchased downloads.
e) Does anyone use other streaming services, like iDJPool?
f) (I already know how to pirate and how to buy mp3s.)
I'm especially looking for (d) -- alternative sources of FLAC purchases -- because 7digital won't have everything (nothing does).
New blog post! Free #accessibility consulting for #tidal! #music recommendations from yours truly! #ScreenReader testing! Click here and find out how #NVDA clearly wins this iteration of the series:
I’ve started testing out alternatives to #Spotify as they’re putting their prices up yet again! £20pm for Family plan now. 🙄
I’ve started with #AppleMusic as I had a 2-month free trial, but the Windows app is trash. It keeps telling me playback has stopped on another device. It wasn’t playing on another device in the first place. Also songs just randomly stops playing or starts from the beginning again. 🤦♂️
I’m having a go with #Tidal’s free trial since the upcoming new price for CD-quality streaming audio is looking pretty good, and I like how they pay artists better than many other services. The first track on their “welcome mix” for me is one of my favourites and it sounds awesome, so we’re off to good start: #CHVRCHES’ cover of “LOVE”: https://tidal.com/browse/track/200230668?u
Good news: Just got this e-mail from Tidal. HiRes FLAC audio quality will be available for every subscriber starting April 10. They are finally getting rid of the former "Hifi Plus" plan which costs almost twice as much as the regular sub.
This is great news for music lovers and brings the Tidal plans more on par with Qobuz HiRes. I've just been testing both streaming services and both are great Spotify alternatives but with slightly different pros and cons.
#Tidal fusionne ses offres Hifi et Hifi Plus pour une offre unique au prix du Hifi. Ceux qui s'offraient le service Plus vont voir le prix réduit, ceux qui avaient l'offre Hifi vont accéder à la qualité du Plus.
Je suis chez Tidal depuis plusieurs années, après avoir vu circuler les taux de rémunération des artistes sur les plateformes de streaming musical. Tidal paie plus que d'autres plateformes comme Deezer, Google Music, Apple... il paie 4 fois plus par stream que Spotify !
Les applis web et smartphones sont très bien, je n'ai rien perdu au change en quittant Spotify. J'ai changé pour une meilleure rémunération.
Auf @gnulinux ist eine Artikelserie zum Thema Musikstreaming gestartet. Vielleicht könnt Ihr da neue Optionen entdecken und/oder Eure eigenen Erfahrungen beitragen?
Folgende Artikel zu dieser Serie sind bisher erschienen, oder sind geplant:
@ralfhersel würde sich "sehr freuen, wenn ihr das Thema dieser Serie aufgreift, und selbst einen Beitrag zu einem der oben genannten Aspekte von Musik-Streamern schreibt."
Außerdem sind natürlich Eure Rückmeldungen und Ergänzungen als Kommentare zu den Artikeln sehr willkommen! @musik
I'm really enjoying #Tidal with #Plex. It's an even better way to play music from Linux, Windows and Android thanks to Plexamp and the Plex web app.
It's not perfect, and my main annoyance with it is that if I pause the music for too long while playing a PlexAmp station, it will start over.
The #PlexAmp app has the ability to control the Sonos speaker volume using the phone volume rocker, but unfortunately this means it will set it to 0 if I turned it down to avoid loud videos playing.