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Qobuz reveals how much it really pays per stream, and I want to see more of this transparency to help us spend money more ethically (www.techradar.com)
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[–] claymore@pawb.social 6 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

I feel I should mention Bandcamp, which gives 70% of a sale directly to the artist. In the music world that's a lot. All DRM free and in most audio formats you could want. My process when buying music is usually: bandcamp > qobuz (or similar) > if all else fails... use other means. I'll also skip step one and two depending on the artist :p

[–] cows_are_underrated@feddit.org 2 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Bandcamp is great. Especially the genres I like to listen too are usually on there. Only minor inconvenience is, that the mobile app doesn't allow you to download the tracks in a way, so you can play them in another music player.

[–] claymore@pawb.social 3 points 6 hours ago

If you really need to download the music on your phone you could use the website. I just organise everything on my PC then copy the files over.. But I agree that it would be nice to have DRM free downloads on the app

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah Bandcamp is great. They also do Bandcamp Friday events where all the revenue goes to the artist.

The problem is it's really hard to find any mainstream bands on there. Presumably most of them sign away those rights when they get a label.

[–] claymore@pawb.social 2 points 6 hours ago

Yeah, really depends on what kind of music you listen to. I guess I'm lucky in that regard, since most artists I listen to have their music on BC ^^