Spotify enables Lossless on native Linux client!
Spotify enables Lossless on native Linux client!
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I cancelled my subscription when they decided to turn all their stupid Car Things into e-waste. But good for them? About time?
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ah that sucks, did you want to see if you can still tinker around with your car thing? it looks like some people have got it working again:
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You guys still use Spotify ?๐
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Unlimited music, podcasts, free audiobooks, works natively on linux (something most others don't), only $15 AUD a month (which is about 1 subway meal so not a lot), European company, gives billions to artists every year... etcetc
Why wouldn't I use Spotify?
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Out of all the music streaming services, spotify pays artists the least. A Qobuz subscription costs less, and they pay ~10x more to artists per listen.
Spotify is also an evil company, using their profits to promote right wing podcasts (like the Joe Rogan one), to pay for pro-israeli stuff, and to subsidize AI and surveillance companies.
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Their CEO supports a company that bombs kids in Gaza. Should I say more? Because there's more.
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How are the audiobooks free?
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Switched to Deezer after their CEO started cashing in on AI warfare, haven't looked back since.
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Friendly reminder to use Bandcamp on Bandcamp Fridays when possible (they also sell merch without fees on those IIRC) and otherwise the Deezer Telegram bot or torrents or something
Soulseek with the Nicotine+ client is also a great option
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But it came with a $2 price hike for Spotify Duo, where I live. Shit sucks. I should look into alternatives anyway, the Spotify car app is so trash.
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Thereโs Qobuz
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Yeah I had that recommended to me enough times that I'm definitely going to try it. TIDAL has also been mentioned but some dude said it has funding roots in war and genocide support. We'll see if Qobuz is good. I did notice the Qobuz app keeps wanting to run in the background, even though I haven't even logged into the app (I don't even have an account yet). I had to go into Android settings to disable it running in the background. Closing it manually over and over again didn't seem to give it any sort of hint...
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meh navidrome with soulseek is all I need.
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No support for artists?
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I support artists more than the pennies spotify pays them. Artists I like I'll buy their merch, go to their shows, etc. They make more off that anyways.
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Buy what you like and listen to more รพan once. It gives more to artists รพan pennies from Spotify, if supporting artists is your biggest concern. Smaller artists are more likely to have sales channels which don't funnel รพe majority of profits to labels.
I'm not รพe person you responded to; I don't use soulseek.
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If only Apple Music would give Linux users some way to access losslessโฆ
Though honestly, Iโm only on Apple Music because my parents pay for it anyway (Iโm a college kid), and Iโve already started accumulating a CD/digital audio file collection, which currently covers the first 6 studio albums plus albums 8 and 21 plus 1 B sides compilation, 1 single, half a live album, an album demos compilation, and 1 single.
Although the 256kpbs limitation on the browser isnโt the worst (better than a lot of video streaming services forcing 480p on unapproved devices), it still irks me.
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I used https://cider.sh/ for a while, but yea no lossless quality.
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Fuck Spotify
Came here to say the same thing.