The money still has to come from somewhere. Unless they start charging $50 a month as a base price, it’s never going to match album sales.
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spotify gang
so when i saw that part, that was honestly a game changer to me for my thinking. it’s true, i’ve spend so much money on my speakers, headphones, amps and then i look at how much music i buy and it really made me reconsider my thinking. That was pretty eye opening
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I don’t disagree at all… I just think it could be better… I really like what bandcamp does which is a decent number of free plays to get a feel for an album or song then you can choose whether or not to purchase at which point you can download and or stream (streaming could be much improved though).
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i too find bandcamp to do it best. BUying physical albums and chooseing the format to download ur tracks in.
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I ran a music related forum for about a decade. Most of them were music lovers who owned hundreds of CDs and would buy dozens of CDs a year (often more). Their music collections were worth thousands or tens of thousands. Only one or two of them had more than a few hundred dollars invested in their audio systems. They mostly listened to their iPods, earbuds and computer speakers.
Different music lovers have different priorities.
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yeah for sure, evidently they mostly cared about finding new music and were not that interested in gear. can respect that for sure. Personally THat’s actually my next step, with the gear i have i am completely satisfied and was telling mon yesterday that now i’m going to focus on building my music collection. Not digital since i have 1499 songs, but physical. planning to buy some of my favorite albums and really make a collection
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My folks have me on a family plan for some of Google’s services, and that includes Play Music. I really enjoy the large amount of songs that are available on it. Considering I’m still having trouble discerning the quality between streaming music on PM over the lossless stuff I have locally, I personally don’t mind it too much. Still sounds good to me honestly.
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Which do you think has better quality, Amazon Music (Non HD) or Spotify Premium?
Amazon is the best deal. What I use now. Quobuz sounds best, (by a slight amount) Tidal just doesn’t have a large enough catalog, and is way too expensive. Spotify just sounds terrible…
Ive used Spotify for years but recently decided to try qobuz out again. Nice that’s its cheaper now and seems to have much more of a selection. So I made the switch. Canceled my Spotify premium subscription and have qobuz synced to Uapp and all is good. I do think the quality is better and I like how you can actually see what bitrate it’s playing at vs guessing with Spotify.
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I’ve used just about all of the streaming services from time to time. Spotify, Google Play Music, Apple Music, Tidal. They were all just fine in my experience.
But in the last year I canceled streaming music and have returned to CD’s and picked up on the vinyl hobby too.
I just rip the CD’s into flac with Asunder, tag the files with Kid3 and on my main computer, I use the terminal application CMUS for playback. Also use the terminal app VIS as a visualizer. (also in the pic is the podcast terminal app Castero)
In the office, I’ll just use Rhythm Box for playback. I don’t get all fancy-pants on my work computer like I do at home.
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Quick question: I’m spending 20 cad a month for tidal hifi (the masters are available to me) but I do not have an mqa dac… so I’m wasting my money correct?
yeah, and MQA is a lossy codec. i use Amazon Ultra HD and Qobuz.
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No qobuz north of the wall unfortunately… I’ll check out Amazon thank you
Np, which wall is that?
I’m in canada… that was a bad game of thrones joke…
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You get the first unfold on MQA, so it’s technically better than raw CD quality, you just don’t get the subsequent unfolds or the custom filters.
I object to MQA on principle, it’s another format trying to fragment the market, it’s clearly all about water marking and control and not higher quality.
I use Amazon HD Music, a lot of 96/24 and some 192/24, no exclusive mode which is annoying, interface is also not as crisp as tidal, but it’s good enough.
You also get the Masters used for MQA which also factor into the better SQ.
The stuff on tidal that isn’t ‘master’ is comparable to spotify then? 320?