Some of these services don't offer themselves in turkey (tidal)
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2025
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Is there a way to get a list of all the songs I like on spotify for archival purposes? Not the file, just a list. Like a shopping list.
If you are moving to deezer they will take over all your playlists. They have a third party service on teir website that does it. It moved thousands for me with minimal issues. A couple live tracks and very niche local sonfs missing. I would say easily 99.9% transfer accuracy and it listed the outliers.
The service works regardless of who you move to or from.
Can't ungoogle myself this time. YT music has probably the best catalog of all and it's easily moddable
I use Anghami myself
spotdl
Which one has the biggest selection and highest quality audio, ad-free for $0/mo?
I use YouTube Music ReVanced, and while the audio quality isn't the highest (because it's YouTube), you can't beat the song selection. Especially when it's free and ad-free.
I tend to wear a special hat that allows me to consume music in any format or device I like.
and then go donate to, or purchase music directly from the artists that I like.
yar har har.
If you're paying for music, stay away from any music publisher that doesn't give you the option of keeping a DRM-free copy for yourself that can be played back in perpetuity, unconditionally.
I'm trying to get most of what I like on CD and then host a jellyfin server
This graphic seems to put Spotify in a "less shit" category than the other big players based on national origin or something.
From a quality and fairness perspective Spotify is just as bad. A large list of credible musicians and content creators have detailed the poor compensation, shift towards fake artists and AI filler tracks, and other moves Spotify has made that harm the artists and provide a worse listener experience.
If you want to fairly compensate artists, you'd be better off pirating 100% of your streams using alternate frontends for YT music, then making a list of your top 10-20 artists and buying an album or T-shirt from each of their official websites. They will make a lot better margin on that and its better for their career than any amount of streams you can give as one individual. (Also go to shows when available locally)
Some of the categories for this infographic are arbitrary within the context of the music streaming market. Spotify is literally a more "incumbent" "monopoly" than the "big tech incumbents" if you only consider the segment of those companies' operations related to music streaming. Spotify is probably the worst choice of all, both using the ethos provided by the infographic and by other metrics too. Tech companies with 150B capitalisation are big tech regardless of how much bigger others are.
I've been considering this and although I'm not one to pirate anything (my skills for this stayed in 1999) I've been buying CDs out of thrift stores and ripping them :)
Qobuz rocks!
I tried them for a bit and really wanted to like them but their "modern" metal catalog, playlists, and discover-ability was so bad I had to begrudgingly go back to tidal.
A glance at this makes me happy to just keep playing my mp3s.
Tidal is owned by Block, the owners of Square, which is the biggest POS vendor in the US. If that’s not big tech I don’t know what is.
Part of the reason I just shifted to a fully self-hosted setup.
Left Spotify because of all the bullshit they pull, tried out Tidal because of the higher quality and higher artist pay, but even if it is a substantially better platform, its ownership is questionable to say the least.
I dusted off bandcamp and learned to use slskd to build a full local high quality library powered by a Navidrome instance.
i decided to self host my library in as high of a res I could using Navidrome/subsonic.
I had a FiiO X3 anyway so i already had a FLAC capable player.
in the end, even if i know it's not for everyone. selfhosting is the only way to never lose what u love. so many of my lesser known tracks are just gone on spotify.
Never lose as long as you have a good backup strategy.
Very True, that is one of the few things people don't realize enough when starting selfhosting. Backups and documenting what you did.
I have a raid NAS keeping my data in-house which has an encrypted backup in the cloud (Infomaniak kdrive) and my FiiO X3 SD card which is an additional portable backup. So on that front, I don't worry too much.
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Naspers is a South African multinational internet, technology and multimedia holding company headquartered in Cape Town... did you mean Napster...? Did you generate this with AI or something?
Why would the largest music streaming service in the world be in the "other" category and not the "Big Tech Incumbents".
Yeh and the blurb for splotifry reads like an ad, with not a negative word to say about this exploitative monster.
I mean, the "To Note" section includes information about their worse practices. The whole infographic is such a nonsense mishmash.
There are also Faircamp and Mirlo, if you are looking for even fairer and progressive alternatives.
I've been happy with Bandcamp. They got sold recently so their future is uncertain, but I downloaded all the music I bought.
They don't really have an algorithm, but you can see who else purchased something, and they do blog posts about like "what's new in [genre]" that's worth reading. So far as I can tell it's written by real people.
They also have regular "Bandcamp Fridays", where they forego their 25% and give musicians 100% of proceeds for the day. It's a good chance to directly support small artists.
Yeah, from the conversations I've had, they're kind of the best of a bad bunch, all things considered.
I switched from Spotify to tidal then deezer and finally landed on qobuz. While the app still has some problems and the music selection is not as massive as on Spotify (but mainly in super niche content), the higher artist pay and amazing soundquality are definitely worth it
Spotify to tidal then deezer and finally landed on qobuz
Steps out of Time Machine from 15 years ago
WTF
Poob has it for you.
Wipur is the next big deal, but Boodle is likely to replace it. Slove is already dying, but iMPUR and Doofz look promising as replacements.
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Anything that can work with Android Auto?
Excellent question! Qobuz should be and I believe TIDal /Deezer as well. But feel free to create a post on !PurchaseWithPurpose@lemmy.world for more exposure :)
Tidal does. Haven't tried others.
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