I don’t know much about streaming service licensing agreements. I assume that if you are either an indie artist or a very big artist you have some say over where your music goes. But if you’re a mid tier artist signed to a label, are you even in a spot to make that call?
Obviously how this plays out is down to how much traction any artist and subscriber boycott gets. I suspect that it will cause enough financial/PR headaches that Spotify will have to do something - that something in the first instance being to add minimal disclaimers to a couple of the JRE episodes and hope that puts a lid on it. If that isn’t enough then they’ll do a liitle more but they’re not going to ban Rogan or even remove whole episodes … yet anyway.
That’s the other thing, you’re going to see artists leaving spotify basically to get a better deal elsewhere, and you might see them saying it’s because of Rogan just to get press for their switch.
Last spring they removed 42 episodes including Alex Jones, Milo and such so they are well aware of all of this.
Weren’t those existing episodes that they effectively didn’t bring over from youTube? Have they removed any that were Spotify period originals?
Good question and I dunno.
a million and one hits on google for “exporting spotify playlist” - but I’m not a user so can’t try any but I’ve certainly heard various people say exporting to Apple (for example) was quick and painless.
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Soundiiz, freeyourmusic and I guess there are others
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The thing I liked about Spotify is the native Linux client for desktop. Tidal doesn’t have that, so it’s impossible to get the MQA (the real advantage of using Tidal) on desktop without doing a bunch of witchcraft (and maybe not at all). Although, the difference between MQA and a merely very good bitrate is going to be small if not indistinguishable in some/most cases. The highest quality offered by Spotify is through Desktop premium with all of the quality settings set to max, but again, I doubt most people are gonna care about this. Seems like Apple Music has a Linux wrapper now, and both they are Tidal pay out significantly more than Spotify for music streams. Even Napster (yes, that Napster) pays out way more than Spotify which is basically bottom of the barrel in paying artists.
Well, MQA is a hoax so you are not missing anything.
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Yeah actual MQA itself is marketing nonsense, was just using that as a catch-all term for whatever their high-quality ($20/month) plan is. I unscientifically A/B compared them for a month a while back and posted about it in the audiophile thread, ultimately deciding that it’s not worth an extra $10.
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I hear you. I play all of my shit through bluesound powernode, deads and floyds lossless from NAS and tbh can’t tell the difference to lossy services.
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That is an idea setup but I’m too lazy to build it. I definitely think Spotify free desktop and the $20/mo Tidal was different in some spots though, mostly in the dynamics getting crushed slightly on Spotify. But the free is a relatively low bitrate or was when I tried.
If I can figure out one of those export tools I’ll ditch Spotify. Do any streaming services let you sort your collection chronologically by release date?
There’s also performance rights for specific performances, like on the album. Hence Taylor Swift rerecording her entire catalog. Few artists hold performance rights and few can make the type of demands young and Mitchell made. Those who can, like Dylan, have generally sold their catalog by now.
Spotify did something dumb by inviting Rogan into the overwhelmingly liberal context of popular music, especially taste makers, probably because he seemed like he wasn’t a right winger–but when you scratch a guy like that they bleed conservative. I immediately knew Rogan was a right wing dipshit, so it must be discernable. [His schtick is like there are organized efforts to suppress Real knowledge–that always ends up with the Jews, the professors, the Illuminati, etc control reality to keep you down. It can take different be forms, but it’s never for kindness, humanism, and self-sacrifice.]
Big if true (it isn’t, yet)