YTM is arguably a worse product, but also a consistent one with zero UX churn, which I'll take any day of the week.
Youtube Premium is also very nice if you spend any time ever watching youtube videos.
How do you like to discover music now?
I am using Bandcamp and Youtube to discover music. I also would like to check Musicbrainz.
Funny thing is, if they just had offered me larger one-shot price increase, I’d have paid it no mind likely. Something about the drip-feed of price increases in such a short time pissed me off enough to cancel though.
Alternative: https://nuclearplayer.com/
https://github.com/jmshrv/finamp
I recommend the beta edition as the UI is quite evolved from the previous version.
I shelled out quite some money for musicians whose music pirated when I was a teenager. Ethically it may not be 100% sound, but if I apply the golden rule ("Treat others the way you want to be treated") it is totally the way to go for me.
The remaining approximately 70% goes into one big pool.
That pool is distributed based on share of total streams.
So if there are 1 trillion streams total and an artist gets 1 billion of them, they get 0.1% of the entire payout pool.
You are not paid by your listeners — you are paid in proportion to everyone else’s listening.
So if you pay $10/month and listens only to niche artists:
- your money still goes into the global pool
- it is mostly paid out to Drake, Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny, etc.
- even if you never listen to them
Bluetooth lowers audio quality, and very few people have DACs or even phones right 3.5 jacks.
I often imagine an alternate history where Apple kept the jack, maybe added a 4.4... audio quality would be so much higher now.
Think about all the audio engineers who don't even consider higher quality setups. All the bandwidth on earth don't matter if the original master isn't perfect.
I also prefer Spotify over apple music and youtube music from a ui/ux perspective as well.
More in the on demand space, but here too I’m sure
Does anyone know of alternatives with 1) decent discovery for new music 2) preferably not self hosted 3) a functional Linux desktop app 4) allows downloading playlists for offline listening
getting all of these in one place and having them work well is why I’ve been stuck with Spotify for so long :/
A dedicated music player and music recommendations is coming later ; this is a combined DJ controller + music player that lets you import local tracks and youtube playlists
It's called inflation. The cost of doing business for them has risen and therefore they are passing that back to consumer.
Now that doesn't prevent them from not increasing wages of course and pocketing some of that extra revenue instead of course.
It just shouldn't be surprising that things get more expensive as time goes on.
remus_rm•3w ago