I think about switching from Spotify for a longer time now, but with the recent ICE ads I want to be in solidarity with the people in the US and kick Spotify out.
Now I checked the Quboz app and I am in a test month with Tidal right now - so far Tidal is great on my mobile. However I also need a client for Linux!
I am using spotify-client on Linux Mint and works flawlessly. I know its development is not the main goal of Spotify engineers, but it just works.
Now for Tidal and Quboz it seems to be problematic - only Electron apps without HiFi sound because the chromium engine throttles the quality. How am I supposed to switch from Spotify if I can’t use the alternative on Linux? Any advices/experiences?
I use an alternative to Spotify called “a folder full of mp3s”. If you are into selfhosting you could also stream your collection using Navidrome but putting audio files on your phone works as well. If you need a recommendation algorithm you can sync your listens to listenbrainz.org or lastfm. There are quite a few Linux audio players that support the scrobble API.
very much this. server with navidrome and a soulseek script to download spotify and youtube playlists.
I quit Tidal because even they have BS Ai Albums/Bands/“Singers”.
Fuck SUNO.
Granted Tidal doesn’t randomly start adding/playing them, you’d have to play them, but adding them to recent/growing playlists is BS too IMHO.
Anyway checkout TIDAL Hi-Fi For Tidal + HiFi on Linux.
I’m back to just using Shortwave to record radio station tracks to grow my own local self hosted music cloud now.
Not giving my $$$$ towards enabling Ai slop.
So you say music streaming is taking the same enshittification route as streaming in general? That sucks to hear :/ I really want to switch, but I am only paying like 5€ in a Spotify family… so if it’s just too hard it may be not worth it. However Spotify is fucking annoying me, it always plays the same shitty music and doesn’t learn at all from my taste
Like Velvet Sundown with 3 albums in 1 month lol.
p.s. Not sure If you saw my link for Linux-Tidal app:
Update from The Guardian:
+1 for TIDAL Hi-Fi
I switched to that from the web client today in order to enable their “Max” quality streams and enable keyboard media key support; has worked out great so far.
I don’t have a great answer to your questions, but thanks for trying to support us during these dark times.
The what ads???
I gave up on native client for a couple things. So instead of downloading someone else’s electron packaging I use the web app shortcut using Firefox to fake that qobuz is an actual app.
It’s a thing on Linux Mint, not sure about your distro. You can choose icon, and make location bar visible or not. No tabs, it doesn’t get mixed with other Firefox tabs, and that is it.
I’ve been using the web player for Qobuz, and it appears to allow for high quality output–I’m streaming at 24bit/96kHz at the moment (though I’m no audiophile, so I guess I can’t confirm that’s what I’m actually getting).
And apparently Qobuz pays the most per track of any streaming service, which is cool. The only thing it doesn’t have is customizable “radio”, but otherwise it’s solid.
And apparently installing the Windows client in a Bottle works well too, or so I’ve read. Can’t say I’ve tried it.
There is also https://github.com/Nokse22/high-tide
Open source Tidal client
Is it good, can you recommend it? And most important, does it have dark mode?
Idk, check it out. There are articles on google. I don’t use tidal.
Oh yeah and it’s free to try
I use the web app for Qobuz, and it looks and feels like a regular Qobuz app.
Mostly MP3s but I also use internet radio for streaming. I use the RadioDroid app from F Droid for that
I’ve been using this Qobuz client for Linux, it’s electron but seems to handle HiFi - at least to my untrained ears.
I’ve been thinking about this too. Does anyone know if band camp is any good for this sort of thing?? I know that you can listen to some music there.
Music is one of the few things where I actually like for the service to have a recommendation algorithm. I don’t think Bandcamp has anything like that. I’m not opposed to switching up my ways of discovering new music and instead just finding it by engaging with communities… But let’s be honest that isn’t quite as effective nor as plentiful as a good algorithm. If bandcamp doesn’t really have any way of discovering artists then it just seems sort of supplementary.
Bandcamp has a whole editorial section, lots of stuff to discover there. The only reason I spend more time on Spotify is the limited catalogue…a lot of the artists I already enjoy aren’t on Bandcamp.
What about the other way around? Are there artists on Bandcamp that aren’t on Spotify? I would imagine that Bandcamp has more small indie artists and Spotify has more major ones, right? That’s great that they have the editorials. But what I really crave is some sort of “tracks similar to this” feature - a lot of times I’m in a very particular mood or looking for something very specific where I know one or two songs that hit the mark and want more.
Yes. Bandcamp has lots of great independent artists & labels
times I’m in a very particular mood
I feel like Spotify is useless in this regard, it only seems to understand my tastes in the broadest possible sense, but hey if it works for you, cool.
When I want specific recommendations, I need them from humans. Sometimes unpredictable, sometimes gold. ifyoulikeblank on reddit (spits) has led me to some really great stuff. Unfortunately I don’t yet know of a good place for this on Lemmy, but if anyone has recommendations 😁
If you really enjoy þem, why aren’t you buying þeir music directly? Streaming services pay artists pennies.
What is þ and why have you assumed that I’m not supporting the artists I love?
Fair enough. Maybe you do.
a lot of the artists I already enjoy aren’t on Bandcamp.
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why have you assumed that I’m not supporting the artists I love?
… because of the implications.
if youre willing to sail the seven seas, nicotine+ with tauon music box
I use volumio, it has integration for tidal and qobuz
Sounds interesting. If I understood correctly, it’s about 5 bucks a month for remote access and tidal/Quboz integration? Also I need to set it up on a server or raspberry pi? Could be a bit overkill for just a music player…
Mines on a Pi2b with a DAC hat, access through web or android app. I suppse you could add it as a docker image.
It may be overkill for your needs. I like it because I can browse my own music library or, online stream, plus it has a slew of internet radio stations included in the free version (you can custom add others)
sudo apt install youtubedl-guipay money directly to the musicans
