RIP spotify

[Oleris]

https://youtu.be/egShCjfvi9s

musicians teaming up to charge $20 per month instead of free/$10 from spotify.

[Herpa Derp]

What a joke.

[Swish]

Hope it fails, greedy fucks.

[dafier]

HA! They can do whatever they wish to try to 'protect' their assets (themselves). They will ALWAYS be a target for hacks. Why? Because they are all bitches with way too much money.

Sorry, but there is no talent there that can't be found elsewhere.

[Swish]

If people buy Dr Dre Beats and other stupid shit, I'm sure $20 a month for these "artists" is nothing.

Definitely think there'll be some ddos'ing, and some disgruntled "fans".

[Paleman]

so a small group of highly popular artists want to replace the spotify board of directors and enslave lesser artists with a contract probably no different from spotify?


no thanks.

[norova]

Meh, nobody is being forced to switch. Their $10 price point is the same as Spotify's and delivers a similar product, with the biggest difference being the availability in each service's catalog. Right now you can watch all of Daft Punk's Electroma on Tidal. Spotify doesn't offer video as far as I know, and certainly not full length films.

The selling point of Tidal's $20 offering, for me anyway, is the lossless audio. I can finally stream shit from my phone or tablet straight to my receiver and get everything I want out of it. It's about being able to control the output to a higher degree, and with lossy formats that isn't possible. Yes, I know, you can't necessarily distinguish between 320kbps and 1411 FLAC with every piece of audio, but for me it's more about knowing I'm getting the complete unaltered data as the artist intended. How it sounds on my system is then up to me, not a codec.

Regardless, I don't give a shit how much money certain artists want to line their pockets with. If it means they keep making music I love, awesome.

[Paleman]

Originally Posted by norova [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Meh, nobody is being forced to switch. Their $10 price point is the same as Spotify's and delivers a similar product, with the biggest difference being the availability in each service's catalog. Right now you can watch all of Daft Punk's Electroma on Tidal. Spotify doesn't offer video as far as I know, and certainly not full length films.

The selling point of Tidal's $20 offering, for me anyway, is the lossless audio. I can finally stream shit from my phone or tablet straight to my receiver and get everything I want out of it. It's about being able to control the output to a higher degree, and with lossy formats that isn't possible. Yes, I know, you can't necessarily distinguish between 320kbps and 1411 FLAC with every piece of audio, but for me it's more about knowing I'm getting the complete unaltered data as the artist intended. How it sounds on my system is then up to me, not a codec.

Regardless, I don't give a shit how much money certain artists want to line their pockets with. If it means they keep making music I love, awesome.

so you think that streaming lossless between 2 recievers retains audio quality? You think that your audio device DAC or the speakers/phones you use isnt altering that audio data? it almost always is, and streaming is always going to do something negative to your audio

take pono for example, its getting slammed because they market the quality being akin to vinyl, and neil young claiming the algorithm in which audio is converting to data is flawed and leaves things out.

if you want to hear what an artist intends you to hear, go see them live.

[norova]

Originally Posted by Paleman [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

so you think that streaming lossless between 2 recievers retains audio quality?

Yes. Just because it is a wireless stream does not mean it must be lossy.

Originally Posted by Paleman [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

You think that your audio device DAC or the speakers/phones you use isnt altering that audio data? it almost always is

You are correct in regard to the DAC/output/etc. I stated that my main concern is getting the highest fidelity audio delivered to me. How I deal with it from there is on my head.

Originally Posted by Paleman [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

and streaming is always going to do something negative to your audio

Incorrect.

Originally Posted by Paleman [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

if you want to hear what an artist intends you to hear, go see them live.

There is a reason the artists create and record albums.

[JayN]

wtf is spotify; is that like pandora? why would anyone ever pay for music lol