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Apple Music pays multiple times more to artists than Spotify.
Tidal pays multiple times more than Apple.
You can influence things with your wallet.
If you can, and they have it on there, buy your favorite albums on Bandcamp, then they are yours forever
I thought that Bandcamp was shutdown?
I dont think so? As far as I can tell, my account still works and I bought an album there the other day.
It looks like the company has been sold around a few times in the last few years and i think its gotten worse, but I honestly cant tell lol
It has been purchased by EPIC and a large portion of the staff was layed off. But it is still up and you can still buy music there.
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/16/23919551/bandcamp-layoffs-epic-songtradr
On paper. But in practice...
Hollywood accounting and pirate profiteering undercut what artists would normally be paid.
You can influence how you feel about your consumer habits, but capitalists are still going to capitalize.
I just switched to Tidal, any recent issues?
Not loving the delay in Android Auto but the quality difference is truly night and day.
Any good way to transfer playlists?
Tidal now has built-in transfer of playlists, at least from Spotify.
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.
I used Soundiiz and it works pretty good. Gives you an overview after the import so you can see what’s missing or wrong.
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.
Sharing a track from Tidal will take you to a page that links to the song on multiple platforms. Try this: https://tidal.com/track/68705949?u
That doesn't help for whole playlists, but it at least helps with sharing with friends