• lepinkainen@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Apple Music pays multiple times more to artists than Spotify.

    Tidal pays multiple times more than Apple.

    You can influence things with your wallet.

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      5 months ago

      If you can, and they have it on there, buy your favorite albums on Bandcamp, then they are yours forever

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      5 months ago

      Tidal pays multiple times more than Apple.

      On paper. But in practice…

      On February 27, 2016, Yesh Music, LLC and John Emanuele from the band The American Dollar launched a $5 million class-action lawsuit that claimed Tidal had to compensate the band for any of the royalty payments accrued from the streaming of the band’s 116 copyrighted songs. The suit also accused Tidal of using faulty numbers to payout artists while also having undercut these same individuals by 35%. A response from Tidal stated that they were indeed fully up to date on all royalties for the group and had removed said intellectual property from their servers.

      Hollywood accounting and pirate profiteering undercut what artists would normally be paid.

      You can influence things with your wallet.

      You can influence how you feel about your consumer habits, but capitalists are still going to capitalize.

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        5 months ago

        I just switched to Tidal, any recent issues?

        Not loving the delay in Android Auto but the quality difference is truly night and day.

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        5 months ago

        I used TuneMyMusic when I moved from Apple to Tidal.

        Now this isn’t without its own stupid system.

        So to transfer all your music and not just a limited amount you have to sign up to pay for it. Now I’m fine paying a one off fee for this service as it was seamless, what in against it the only options being an annual fee or a recurring payment.

        It cost me like £3, maybe less in being lazy. But I had to sign up, do the transfer then immediately cancel. I understand some people might be bougie and use multiple services, but not having a one time fee irked me.

        If you go this route, as it is easy as tidal will send you there, please do what I did and send them a complaint afterwards about the ludicrous system and that they should add a one time fee to make it even easier. Heck I would have paid £5 for this as I have so many playlists and liked albums and songs etc.

        I mentioned it on here previously and someone alluded to free services but I can’t confirm.

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        5 months ago

        There were apps out there to help with this when I switched from Spotify to Tidal. I can’t remember the name anymore though. It just sucks up all your saved songs and playlists, matches them in the other service then adds them. Almost everything I had moved over without a problem. I do miss the social aspect of Spotify, being able to share links with friends. No one I know has tidal except the people on my family plan. There are services that will turn your song link into a linktree like page with links for Spotify, tidal, YouTube music, deezer, etc., but that’s clunky.