There are plenty of controversies surrounding Spotify, but what really made me cancel my subscription was the fact that they ran recruitment ads for ICE. Boycott Spotify!
There are plenty of controversies surrounding Spotify, but what really made me cancel my subscription was the fact that they ran recruitment ads for ICE. Boycott Spotify!
Just download and build an offline music collection like before 🙌
Spotify has shit audio quality anyways.
Do this or use Qobuz. Qobuz also allows purchase and digital download of the wav files for permanent offline storage.
Not a good look. Any way around this on Android without Google Play Services?
You might be able to open the website in a browser. I have Graphene and run sandboxed Google Play for Qobuz.
The webapp for the Qobuz music player itself explicitly doesn’t work on mobile.
Damn. that’s annoying. Sorry for the bad suggestion.
Using wav files when flac exists seems like a waste of space and bandwidth
Wav or flac*
My point being lossless original files*
Do they have more music in the streaming plan than in the download store? I searched for one of my favorite artists and they only have two songs in the store.
Their library isn’t as big as Spotify sadly, but that’s the artists fault. It’s like $35 total to distribute to most streaming services and an extra $5 to include Qobuz, tidal, deezer, and a handful of others.
Spotify provides lossless streaming nowadays actually.
24-bit/44.1kHz (2117kbps)
CD quality, not lossless.
And build your own streaming infrastructure, with Navidrome for example.
Im using my already setup Jellyfin Server for that. Symfonium to access the libary on my phone and Jellyfin-TUI on PC. The customizability of Symfonium is amazing!
Navidrome is sooo nice, highly recommend
Amen. Not sure if it’d be right to say that it’s never been easier, but between supporting artists you like through Bandcamp and getting music you want through Soulseek, it sure is easy.
Like the before times, eh? Gonna need a pack of cheap earbuds, some silly bands, and a lack of care for my future hearing capacity.