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. 🎛️

You weren't lying when you said moving from Spotify to Tidal was quick and easy.

It's all there. I transferred all of my playlists of weird and wonderful music, and there was only 1 song not available.

And with my student status, it's cheaper than Spotify as well.

Let's see how the 30 day free trial goes.

#spotify #tidal

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I know #Tidal isn't perfect (and buying physical media or band merch is better, but hey, that is situational, I will only buy an album after I already like it), but this sort of thing makes me feel vindicated in choosing not to use #Spotify.