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Post by Bongo Heracles on Dec 2, 2023 11:33:47 GMT
It’s a shame Tidal have never done one, I would like to know my stats this year. I switched to Apple music a few weeks ago and they do one but obviously I havent really made a dent yet. There’s a whole section on the Tidal app with your listening stats. That’s just top artist per month with the amount of streams, unless I’m missing something. It just looks like this and doesn’t really tell you anything  |
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Post by kal on Dec 2, 2023 11:37:37 GMT
There’s a whole section on the Tidal app with your listening stats. That’s just top artist per month with the amount of streams, unless I’m missing something. It just looks like this and doesn’t really tell you anything Hmmm. I’m sure it had more detail than that. Could it be different on the desktop version? I don’t have it anymore but I might just be merging it in my head with other services. I have had a lot at this point. |
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Dec 2, 2023 11:52:29 GMT
It might have had but I’ve never been able to find it on either flavour of the app while I’ve been subbed. It’s academic now, anyway, I’m on to Apple Music.
While we are in the subject, I can recommend mixlib to move libraries from service to service. £1.99 app rather than an expensive sub like the rest of them.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Dec 2, 2023 12:59:34 GMT
Do all these things still link to last.fm / audioscrobbler? Spotify used to at least. If so, that'd have the stats. Whatever happened to last.fm? They were great. Spotify before Spotify. Then they just seemed to commit seppuku. Hmm. Seems to still track from most things, though after recovering my account it seems I haven't tracked anything since 2015, and finding your stats is a bit tricky. I'm not sure what their business model is these days. www.last.fm/about/trackmymusic |
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Dec 2, 2023 13:13:20 GMT
I think most services still tie into it but, yeah, it’s just remembering to link it every time, which is mine is similarly sat doing nothing. Annoying as it would have saved me a few times trying to find a song I can’t remember the name of.
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Post by askew on Dec 2, 2023 13:38:33 GMT
Heh. Just recovered my account. I guess Spotify's been scrobbling for the past decade.
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Post by zisssou on Dec 4, 2023 14:16:27 GMT
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Post by Bill in the rain on Dec 4, 2023 15:39:18 GMT
It used to be so cool. I kinda want to restart scrobbling to it, but I'm not really sure what they're doing these days. Seems like the only benefit is having some cool stats, but I wonder how long they'll be around for if they don't seem to have much of a business model. It used to be great for recommendations, but if the number of users isn't that high these days then it's not going to be much use for that (other than recommending stuff from 2015). If the music companies hadn't priced them out of the market they could have been where spotify is now.  |
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Dec 7, 2023 15:48:25 GMT
Tidal 'pivoting away from music'? I really dont understand this article at all ra.co/news/79912 |
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Post by Dougs on Dec 7, 2023 22:49:14 GMT
Mad. Had our Christmas do today, which had a quiz centred around everyone's Spotify Wrapped. My lone Deezer entry was met with cries of "wtf is Deezer?". I did feel old though with my top artist being Bowie, with most others being Taylor Swift.
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Post by kal on Dec 8, 2023 19:26:34 GMT
Tidal 'pivoting away from music'? I really dont understand this article at all ra.co/news/79912Yeah I have no idea. Maybe a shift towards bandcamp type user generated content products. Fuck knows. It’s interesting that the model doesn’t work either for the platform or the artists. The consumer obviously benefits massively but it’s just a broken model. Nice while it lasted I guess. Suspect Spotify will massively change their model soon. |
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Dec 8, 2023 20:20:32 GMT
Spotify has ‘Microsoft Spotify’ written all over it.
Mind you, so does tidal so what do I know?
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Post by geefe on Dec 10, 2023 10:05:05 GMT
I'm considering binning streaming tbh. I've had Tidal for years as it pays bands the most (peanuts as opposed to chicken feed) but I'd prefer to see a shift towards just paying £2-3 for a digital album by a band.
I know bands that spent £1000 recording an album and even then I thought that was a fucking stretch. You can get a DI box, Garageband and then hire out some studio to bash out the drums in a day. If it costs you more than £500, I'd be amazed.
But at that price point, if bands are getting £1 for every album sold then that's a far better deal than streaming. It'll also cause gig ticket prices to drop.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Dec 10, 2023 12:51:44 GMT
Many years ago I used to get MP# albums for about 3quid from some site in Russia. It was legit, but regionally priced.
I bought *so many* albums!
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Post by geefe on Dec 10, 2023 13:44:06 GMT
I point to the fact that Radiohead have repeatedly said that the albums they sold themselves netted them the most actual money because they took it all and had self funded/ produced.
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Post by cubby on Dec 10, 2023 14:47:44 GMT
If it worked for all artists they'd all be doing it, radiohead had the advantage of both the fame and the time they did that.
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Post by baihu1983 on Apr 3, 2024 15:12:45 GMT
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Post by technoish on Apr 3, 2024 16:17:18 GMT
When is the hifi version coming??!!!!!
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Post by askew on Apr 3, 2024 16:25:42 GMT
Yours for £40/month
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Post by dfunked on Apr 3, 2024 18:04:33 GMT
Out of all of my grey purchases, cheap Spotify codes from Amazon.in are easily the most guilt free.
Cunts!
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Post by PatrickEwing on Apr 9, 2024 16:37:03 GMT
£19.99 family, WTF
Been with them since pretty much the beginning but fuck that.
Apple Music any good? Might look at Apple one family instead
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Apr 9, 2024 17:06:11 GMT
Yeah, I’m happy with it. The value add is DJ mixes rather than podcasts which is cool as, y’know, it’s a fucking music service.
The discovery seems ok, the radio stations seem fine, the catalogue is comprehensive and the sound quality is much better.
My only real complaint is that is uses airplay rather than a ‘Spotify Connect’ type thing so the speaker blares out whatever is on your phone if you forget it’s connected.
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Post by mothercruncher on Apr 9, 2024 18:34:36 GMT
I’m happy on the free service. It sucks on the phone/ipad, but if I play it on the TV as I’m doing shizzle about the house, for some reason, no ads are ever triggered.
I do think the algorithm is great- I’ve discovered some brilliant new bands spinning off from stuff I queued up, but I’m trying to remove monthly subscriptions, not add, so I can’t see myself paying to be honest.
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Post by Reviewer on Apr 9, 2024 19:34:06 GMT
I prefer the Apple interface and it seems a lot better if you prefer album based listening. Never got on with the chaos of the Spotify interface.
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Post by askew on Apr 9, 2024 19:50:09 GMT
I don't want my subs going to Joe Rogan, tbh.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Apr 10, 2024 2:10:46 GMT
I use it mainly on the PC or TV, which is great as the free version allows you to do most things, as long as you're willing to put up with ads.
The issue is going to be the teenager, who mainly listens on her phone.
I wish their plans were a bit more flexible though. I'd like the a kids account, but the only way to get that is with a family account, and I don't need six places. I don't even really need 2 places, but one adult+one child would be acceptable.
The audiobooks might actually be worth it for me, though I don't get much time to listen to them these days with working from home. Though they aren't available where I am yet, and if they're like the audible freebies catalogue then there probably won't be that many of interest.
But 11.99 a month for audiobooks+music vs 7.99 a month just for Audible could be a good deal.
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