When Neil Young asked us to switch to Tidal, I went along and loved that it paid the artists 10x more per stream.
But Tidal is American owned, spotify isn’t…
I’m struggling on this one, a lot of the lil punk bands I love could really use the revenue but, y’know, trade war etc.
Anyone have any thoughts to assuage a guilty conscience on this one?
Qobuz. It’s French and it pays more than Tidal. It’s a privately owned company. You can also actually buy music from it in addition to streaming. Fuck Tidal.
If you buy music from there, does it include DRM that prevents you from playing it without their online service?
24-bit FLAC.
https://github.com/vitiko98/qobuz-dl
Very nice! Thanks!
Does that just require a subscription?
I haven’t used Qobuz in the past so take that with a grain of salt but I believe the downloader works with the streaming subscription. You can purchase album properly in FLAC, and even some in DSD and DXD.
Oh super cool, I will definitely check it out! Thanks!
Deezer is also french
Another option, I love it! Thanks!
And it also has a reputation for paying artists better than other platforms (at least better than Spotify, amazon and the like).
That’s great to hear!
I just switched to Deezer! It is pretty good so far, and they seem to have even relatively obscure Canadian music. Good francophone content, if you’re into that sort of thing.
Ive heard qobuz limits downloads so you end up not being able to actually own every song you paid for
Haven’t seen that yet but I also haven’t bought that many. Several albums so far. Would be pretty odd but I haven’t looked into it so I can’t reject it.