Blows my mind that the industry standard for streaming is to pool royalties. Definitely considering Tidal after seeing this.
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Does Tidal have a “Release Radar” equivalent?
Joni Mitchell too
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Was reading about this and seems a step in the right direction but still more of a gesture then anything meaningful at the moment.
The company who it’s in partnership had a huge investment from Spotify also, although they have now sold off some of that.
Didn’t know where to post this but felt it was related to some of the content in this thread. I’ve been a big fan of the Castles in Space stuff so it was really disappointing to see this tweet from Hattie Cooke:
One of the best releases on that label too. They’re certainly getting no more money from me.
Sadly not, no. One of the things I still miss about Spotify since leaving.
Neither does Apple Music as far as I can tell.
Joni Mitchell is so influential there’s surely going to be a lot more artists joining her, I can’t really see how Spotify can not play ball now. I’m probably going to give Deezer a go, catalogue is better than Tidal and I just don’t like the apple interface.
As much as I admire Young and Mitchell taking a stand, I’m afraid it will make little difference. Their listeners are generally going to be older people and Spotify won’t care. It’s only when the likes of Sheeran, Drake and Swift start pulling their music that they’ll pay attention.
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That’s a shame. The threads are good on here of course, but that helps with discovering artists I haven’t listened to before rather than those I have.
I think it was mentioned earlier, but are the playlist migration sites actually any good?
I migrated a bunch from Spotify to Tidal, and it mostly did okay. Probably 3 or so missing each time I did a playlist of about 60ish tracks.
It also tended to match to single release versions of songs, rather than album versions, which was disappointing but not the end of the world. I’ve jacked Tidal in for Apple Music now and in all honesty kind of prefer AM.
Only tried playlist exporting once going from Spotify to Apple Music and had much the same result. All my playlists are already in AM because I mostly use iTunes anyway. Streaming services were always just ways for me to check out new stuff rather than the main place I listen to music.
Overall I’d say Spotify is best for new music recommendations by far, but it’s not enough to keep me giving money to the bastards.
I suppose if you’re really patient, you could keep a free Spotify account to use the release radar function still?
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Yup I still check it once a week.
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“Neil Young and Joni Mitchell have been friends for many years, and are both survivors of polio. They both contracted the disease in the early 1950s, not long before a vaccine became available.” Joni Mitchell wants songs off Spotify in Covid row - BBC News
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Trying apple music on Android, all good until… doesn’t talk to hifi streaming machine. So close…
Maybe have a word with them both separately, tell them you need them to sort out their differences else they’ll be on the fucking street
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Media Matters monitored over 350 hours of Joe Rogan and found that the show is grounded in misinformation and bigotry.
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The comments on DiS Facebook are predictably far removed from conversations here and elsewhere but someone just said the pandemic is over so, er, here’s a fact check:
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