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Even as an American software engineer, Iโ€™ve been working hard to ween myself off as much American software and services as possible. Iโ€™m currently using Deezer for a music streaming service. I initially thought their music discovery features were fantastic but starting to realize the mixes and flow pretty much just play the same set of songs in a different order most of the time. The app Iโ€™ve loved most for their pay scale to artists and audio quality is tidal but we would consider that American big tech, right? Do I sacrifice the rule when it comes to supporting the arts? I would love opinions.

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[โ€“] statelessai@lemm.ee 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I should have mentioned that I tried Qobuz and had trouble finding a lot of the music I enjoy. Their quality and artist payments are top tier though. Maybe I should give them another shot.

[โ€“] OrlandoDoom@feddit.uk 3 points 18 hours ago

I also had a look at Qobuz, but their tagging system is terrible, as a bandcamp user I'm kinda spoiled when I can look at and follow all the weird subgenre tags, Qobuz has "Metal" but no subgenres, and there's a whole bunch of "Metal" that just fuckin sucks, which makes discovering new stuff very difficult.

[โ€“] brrt@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

SoundCloud is awesome for me and from Germany ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช

[โ€“] Libb@jlai.lu 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

A few years ago I used Qobuz, it was nice. And French ;)

I Really like Qobuz, they do a lot of curation. I have found a lot of interesting music that way. And the quality is great as well.

[โ€“] petrescatraian@libranet.de 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Mind everyone that, despite being European, Qobuz still lacks support for many countries out there, so not a great alternative to established streaming platforms if you're not in one of them.

Soundcloud seems like it's bigger.

[โ€“] snuggledick@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Haven't used it myself yet so can't talk about it their recommendation algorithm, but Qobuz has been recommended several times here, it's French and apparently has a very good payout to artists per play compared to others.

[โ€“] 0x0@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง 7digital
๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Qobus
Ain't Spotify Swedish?

[โ€“] Liljekonvalj@feddit.org 4 points 15 hours ago

Swedish but the owner Daniel Ek has donated to trumps campaign

[โ€“] statelessai@lemm.ee 3 points 22 hours ago

Yes but they pay artists the worst out of all streaming services on a per song basis

[โ€“] jnod4@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago

Isn't spotify subsidising one of the biggest propaganda spreader in the English speaking world? Joe Rogan ruined so many of my of my work colleagues, they can only talk about the most evil of things and the most brain rotted conspiracies

[โ€“] Coffeegrinder 4 points 1 day ago

Checkout soundcloud

[โ€“] sherlock@feddit.nu 4 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[โ€“] Bezier@suppo.fi 16 points 1 day ago

If the point is to make more responsible choices, I think switching to spotify violates the spirit of it.

[โ€“] tflyghtz@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

They donated money to Trumps coronation

[โ€“] torrentialgrain@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Theyโ€™re kind of a shitty company but yeah their discovery algorithms are still the best in the business for now.

[โ€“] drspod@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago