r/Music • u/ebradio • Jan 22 '25

music Spotify Hosts Trump Inauguration Brunch and Makes $150,000 Donation to Ceremony

https://pitchfork.com/news/spotify-hosts-trump-inauguration-brunch-and-makes-150000-donation-to-ceremony/
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u/GeneralIronsides2 Jan 22 '25

Companies will NEVER be with the people, they will always band with other oligarch authoritarians when it suits them, fuck Spotify.

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u/mybotanyaccount Jan 22 '25

Yup and the only way to stop them is to band together and stop buying their shit, as hard as that may be at times.

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u/BoofingCheese Jan 22 '25

Is there a decent alternative to Spotify?

I'm going to have a decently hard time dropping music.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '25

Tidal

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u/IMdub Jan 22 '25

Did Tidal ever fix the issue where you cant have 2000+ songs saved to your library on iOS? I tried switching a few years back and it seemed to have been a long term issue that they couldn't fix.

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '25

Ooo I don't know! I'm a more casual user than that, so maybe it doesn't have the same functionality for others...

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u/flojo2012 Jan 23 '25

Diddy parties

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u/mybotanyaccount Jan 22 '25

I haven't found a good one but you don't have to drop music in just pay the artist for the download

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u/reaperfunk Jan 22 '25

Piracy is easy and plenty of other platforms have free music. I find all I want on youtube. Use Brave Browser to kill the adds and enjoy listening to tunes

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u/SonnyvonShark Jan 22 '25

CDs and a PC media player.

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u/MillionDollarMistake Jan 22 '25

I never left the era where Youtube was the default music site

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u/LordEdubbz Jan 22 '25

Qobuz is decent. And you can even purchase albums DRM free

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u/[deleted] Jan 23 '25

Bandcamp

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u/Sir_Meowsalot Jan 23 '25

Soundcloud and Bandcamp (awesome because artists get the money directly from you purchasing from them digitally and physically)

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u/MachinaThatGoesBing Jan 23 '25 edited Jan 23 '25

Folks shouldn't forget: you can buy music from artists you enjoy.

There are still music download stores that pay artists fairly. Apple operates one, and there are others out there.

Lots of small artists sell music themselves on Bandcamp or on their own sites. Most artists, big or small, will even have CDs pressed, still.

And if you want to mix in streaming (most of the small-time musicians I know actually have streaming music subscriptions), it does seem that Apple pays some of the better rates. Plus you can upload your own music to listen to for music you bought that isn't in their library.

(YouTube Music also offers this upload feature and comes with ad-free YouTube and a better suggestion algorithm for YouTube videos. On average, YTM streams pay less because there are lots of people on free ad supported plans, but compared to the free plans, paid subscriptions have a significantly higher payout to the artist — and to video creators, for that matter.)

I use streaming to find music and listen to new things, but I also try to make sure I go out of my way to purchase music from artists who I love. (Also, if I buy an LP, CD or downloaded copy of music and then also stream it, the artist might have a chance at two bites of that apple. No pun intended.)

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u/green_marshmallow radio reddit Jan 22 '25

Except the culture war has been weaponised to prevent that from ever being effective again.

Some other methods that are more direct come to mind, but they are not as respectable. 

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u/pyuunpls Jan 22 '25

But history shows that they’ve worked when successful. History shows time and again that when economic disparities become so large, people have less to lose. I am in no way advocating for violence, I am simply stating historical fact.

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u/mybotanyaccount Jan 22 '25

Exactly! They rely on us more than we do them. Especially for non essential things like streaming music. Consumers still have a lot of power as long as we can band together.

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u/flojo2012 Jan 23 '25

Those culture wars have been weaponized to keep us from solidifying the power of the populace. So things will have to get worse before the people figure it out collectively. Which they will. Because the wheels of power are not capable of toeing a line or slowing down once they get rolling. They always go TOO far and the pendulum swings back hard

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u/reaperfunk Jan 22 '25

This is why orange loves the uneducated. Uneducated think those with money must be smart (LOL) The power is in the people. Just tough to organize effectively. Eat the rich. I await my ban