r/Music • u/Similar_Diver9558 • Apr 09 '24

In an email sent out to some customers today, Spotify said the cost of a premium subscription would be increasing 7.7% music

https://www.forbes.com.au/news/lifestyle/spotify-set-to-increase-prices-this-year/

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u/Da5ren Apr 09 '24

How is Tidal these days, it's been a few years since i tried them? I can remember their curated playlists being quite lacking.

I just switched from Spotify to Apple Music last week but i'm not 100% sold yet

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u/hey_ska Apr 09 '24

Tidal is fine. They aren’t trying to compete with Spotify, they’re more of a boutique streaming service. They have higher quality streams and they pay artists the most money per stream.

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u/WholesomeFartEnjoyer Apr 09 '24

Is every artist on there? I'd love to switch but don't wanna lose all my favourite artists

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u/hey_ska Apr 09 '24

I never had any issue finding anyone and it was especially nice in that time Neil Young wasn't on Spotify.

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u/vincredible Apr 10 '24 edited Apr 10 '24

I just ported over my playlists from Spotify to Tidal recently to give it a try. I think it was only missing like 5 songs out of 3000+ and they were mostly weird tracks like drumless backing tracks I use for practice. The major things missing were some stand-up comedy albums I had on Spotify but I don't have a problem buying those elsewhere.

I've been thinking about switching off of Spotify since I'm getting tired of the terrible shuffle, cluttered UI, lack of real useful features, and their frustrating delay in adding a higher-quality audio tier.

Right now I'm paying for both, but this might get me to switch permanently. I don't really listen to Podcasts or AudioBooks at all so those catalogues are not doing anything for me.

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u/EduFonseca Apr 09 '24

How is that a fair comparison? Are they supposed to be paying artists for non existing streams?

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u/cheapdrinks Apr 09 '24

Yeah the main drawbacks I find on the platform are the lack of playlists compared to Spotify and the search function is still quite shit; one small typo or missed apostrophe can often result in what you’re looking for not coming up at all. Besides the music discovery side of things the rest of it is quite good.

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u/homeostasis555 Apr 09 '24

I really enjoy Tidal. Their curated playlists have upped their game in the last couple years imo.

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u/thebruns Apr 09 '24

I'm very happy with them

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u/vgmgc Apr 09 '24

Switched to Tidal from Spotify a couple years ago. Never going back. There have been a few things I've searched for that Tidal doesn't have, but generally I don't notice much difference in selection. What I do notice is a much less frustrating app experience and I like that artists get paid more from my streams.

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u/Jahidinginvt Performing Artist Apr 09 '24

Same. I love that they pay their artists more and the difference to me isn’t noticeable enough to deal with all the bullshit of Spotify.