Switched from #Spotify to #Tidal. 🎉
Reason? Spotify is the biggest player, but rips off artists the most. And now they generate AI crap to rip off artists more. 🤑
It took me a year or so from decision to actually doing it. It's cool that favourites and playlists can be migrated using #TuneMyMusic for few dollars. But I had shared playlists with several people, I used the jam feature from time to time etc.. The social aspect of any service is always the best way to lock users in a one platform, and It worked on me also. But this situation of being a hostage somewhere is uncomfortable for me so much, that I did the switch finally. 🫂
Now I am in phase of discovery of the Tidal service. Maybe I will find some missing killer feature and I will return, but I am fully decided to give it proper trial. 😅
Spotify as a mainstream service has advantage of wide device support, that could be one of the challenges. 🤷
On the other hand I immediately liked, they have a DJ plan to allow you mix the music in supported DJ software. Sadly my favourite software @mixxx is not supported. 🎛️
Jiří Eischmann
in reply to Štěpán Škorpil • • •The audio quality is a big plus of Tidal. If you have a good DAC and speakers, you can hear the difference.
Štěpán Škorpil
in reply to Štěpán Škorpil • • •By the way, what also helped a bit with the switch is, that all podcasts started to monetize, thus on spotify there is always only a short preview version of the podcast. Full one is usally available as a user specific rss link. This pushed me to find separate podcast solution and I am much happier with the solution I found:
#NextCloud + Gpodder sync plugin as synchronization server
NextCloud + Podcasts plugin for web browser listening on desktop
#AntennaPod for on the go listening on Android
It's #selfHosted, it's #openSource and that's what I like.