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Google admits Spotify pays no Play Store fees because of a secret deal | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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[–] 17 points 2 years ago (7 children)

What alternatives do you guys use besides Bandcamp? I am open to paying a sub as long as the artist is getting a decent cut.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Pirate and buy official merch, they make more of that anyway. Also live shows

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    buy the cd and rip them into your phone

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  • [+] -11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)
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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It's pretty much one of the only ways to make sure the artist gets a half decent cut though.

    Unless you want to use bandcamp, which is much easier.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Bought out by EPIC, sadly.... we'll see where things go...

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  • [–] [S] -2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Not ideal but artists get paid proper. Just don't share then you're mostly fine.

    P.S.: Subject to your local law which may prohibits ripping a CD. This is NOT a legal advise.

    Edit: I don't know if my statement is right or not given the downvotes. Can someone explain?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    Buying the music and selfhosting a streaming server is an option, though obviously not for everyone

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It’s actually really easy if you just invest in a Synology NAS. You can install the music server package with a few clicks and copy music to the folder, then open a port on your firewall and the Synology music app streams it. Pretty nifty

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    As a Spotify user, I'm not really ok with how much they pay artists... But I don't use Spotify for "streaming" even though I stream a lot from them, I use it to discover new music, find obscure bands, their algorithm is amazing at that.

    I could easily selfhost as you suggested, but then it would be my own music bubble.

    I go to concerts and buy merchandise as much as possible when I want to support an artist.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Tidal seems nice

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  • [+] -10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    NetEase Music. It's a spotify clone from China, and the VIP version costs like $1.20 a month.

    It doesn't spy on your phone and requires zero permissions (I've tested this extensively), but you will need a VPN set to China, Hong Kong or Taiwan for it to work (assuming you don't live in either place).

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    China and doesn't spy on your phone, I'll take things that don't go together for 200 Alex

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'm in China and work as head of IT security for a European company. As such I monitor my phone religiously for any transgressions. Netease Music works with zero permissions (unless you want to use the downloader) and doesn't try to exfiltrate any data whatsoever.

    Install PCAPdroid and see for yourself, you can monitor all traffic on system level on a per app basis.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    at the very least, I expect it to make requests for every song you're streaming which are associated with your account and payment information.

    they also get your music consuming habits, because they know the times you listen to music and to which music at each time.

    that's a hell lot of data to analyze and sell.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    As if Spotify and other services don't lmao.

    Spotify even dug your bluetooth device name.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    definitely. You're absolutely right, Spotify is a privacy nightmare and I didn't say otherwise.

    The post I was replying to was arguing that the service they were using was private, I just told them that even if the app doesn't need any permissions they still have the ability to spy on their users and most probably do so.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    And how, prey tell, should a music streaming service that delivers suggestions based on your preferences deliver content if not by analyzing your listening behavior?

    If you're afraid of that, then there's no music service whatsoever you can use.

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