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I was tired of Spotify's dominance in the music streaming space vs how poor their UI is, how little they pay artists, and how anticompetitive they grew vs other
by teawrecks 4y ago
I was tired of Spotify's dominance in the music streaming space vs how poor their UI is, how little they pay artists, and how anticompetitive they grew vs other services (ex. last.fm scrobbling).
I switched to buying tracks from artists, using Plex to stream the tracks from my home server, and using Tidal to stream tracks I don't have yet. What's nice is Plex also supports Tidal integration, so I have all my music in one place.
It's not a perfect experience, but if I'm going to put my money toward a subpar experience, I'd rather it go to an underdog. Also, Tidal supposedly gives a slightly larger fraction of the profits to artists. Ironically, from what I could find online, Napster apparently gives the largest fraction.
- Bombthecat 4y agoTidal will sooner or later cut plex out too...
- teawrecks 4y agoMaybe, if they don't want me as a customer anymore. I almost exclusively use their service via plexamp, and I'm sure they know that. IMO it's in all but the largest streaming service' best interest to allow more ways for customers to access their service. It's their best chance at disruption. I don't see tidal cutting off plex until tidal feels dominant, or the plex userbase is too small. As long as Spotify and Apple are competitors, I don't see them feeling that level of dominance, but the number of people using plex tidal integration probably isn't huge...which is why I'm mentioning it in this thread!