spotify or youtube music, which is better?

>>105946586 (OP)
Spotify because it tells me how gay I am at the end of the year also fuck google.

>>105946586 (OP)
Deezer. It has lossless music (which Spotify teased but never actually released). It also has no DRM and Deemix exists.

>>105946586 (OP)
youtube music because it goes in the google ecosystem so I only have to pay one thing

>>105946586 (OP)
torrents. Fuck your false dichotomy

spotify premium you cannot pirate while yt music you can.

>>105946586 (OP)
Spotify. The new Discover Weekly with tabs for different genres is great. I have used YT Music as well but it was very clunky.

>>105946748
>spotify premium you cannot pirate
he doesnt know

>>105946767
i do know. its getting more and more complicated and they patch any working version up, its not worth it it find a way to get it working, and then it stops working next month or whatever.

Apple Music, thirdies.

>>105946586 (OP)
I prefer not to use products from corporations whose CEOs invest hundreds of millions into military AI research.

>>105946782
Only Apple corposimps like AM.

>>105946586 (OP)
spotify cracks (on android) breaks all the time compared to yt music

but in the end, flac files on a server + plexamp is probably the best

Yt music needs to be separated from YouTube. Like completely seperate. It should be optional to sync yt videos with yt music and all other account stuff. Yt music needs to be it's own shit.
Also it needs a better interface.
Maybe then I will switch to yt music

Apple music cause it's got more weeb music and higher quality than Spotify
I have YT premium but I've never used music lol

>>105946785
>military AI research
*European military AI research

You're either American or Russian.

>>105946782
based AppleBVLL

>>105946586 (OP)
Have both, don't care.

>>105946738
Cuck of the year award

>>105946586 (OP)
for me, it's deezer

Spotify, most well rounded imo and we should be supporting the one that isn't hooked into an evil gigacorp

>>105946586 (OP)
plexamp

>>105946586 (OP)
SD card with musicolet

>>105946809
*AppleCuck

>>105946840
Stop seething. Apple music is based. Literally every celeb uses apple music

>>105946840
you’re brown

It's funny how people complain about Spotify not paying enough when they pay out 70% to the rightsholders (who own the music) while Apple only pays 52%. But Spotify has a free tier that's funded by ads (and 70% of the ad money goes to the rightsholders of course), so the per stream payouts are lower. Spotify also has more subscribers in countries like Brazil where the subscription price is lower.

All the Apple simps only focus on the per stream payouts. This is one of the things that made me understand that facts don't matter. People who love Apple Music love it because it's Apple and they love their Macbook and iPhone so much that they'll lie about which streaming service pays more to the artists.
https://www.albumofrecord.com/p/apple-music-is-extracting-more-money

>>105946586 (OP)
>transmission
>itunes/apple music (qaac)

>>105946862
Only an AppleCuck would say that.

>>105946867
You're a cringe bigcorpocuck.

>>105946881
>brown man seethes at being found out
purchase a lavatory

Tidal

>>105946586 (OP)
Both are shit. Download your music or use an open source client like InnerTune.

>>105946586 (OP)
YouTube with an AdBlock, simple no need for a meme app

I just use youtube on brave with background play enabled

>>105946586 (OP)
If you're not building up your own offline music library you're a pleb and you don't really like music.

>>105946867
>japan's ratio is already changing in favor of android
weebbros I'm worried

>>105947329
grok anime girl only works with ios, we are safe

>>105946586 (OP)
>using those pieces of hot garbage
what a supreme faggot

>>105946586 (OP)
Your local music store.

Stop indulging in slop.

>>105947894
>consoom the overpriced plastic goy

>>105946586 (OP)
apple music

>>105946586 (OP)
literally any media player that can play mp3s or similar

>>105947915
You will own nothing and be happy.

>>105948357
i own my pirated music on my SSD, on my backup and on my phone

>>105946781
Just root your phone bro

>>105948148
It's not 2005 anymore gramps, use your phone

>>105948357
enjoy your disc rot, pirate chads stay winning

>>105946586 (OP)
With SD upgrade and Rockbox.
No, you don't need more.
You WILL own your music and you WILL be happy.

>>105946586 (OP)
spotify because I'm never going to give google any money

Pirated flac + jellyfin

>>105946586 (OP)
Soulseek

>>105946586 (OP)
Doesn’t Spotify remove listings because of licensing deals? It’s not like you’re buying a song, it’s just streaming one

>>105946809
>its all nu-metal and buttrock
Is this the best taste /g/ has to offer?

>>105946586 (OP)
Both are closed source proprietary garbage. Consider Vanilla Music and a big sd card

>using either of them
What are you, a 50+ boomer who can't technology that isn't crAple? Rip your own CDs or learn hos to download through soulseek instead of suckle streaming services like it's 2010 again. Pirating is back and morally justified.

>>105946767
Cracked versions have been breaking left and right the past few months so I just gave up

>>105948905
I don’t download music to pose on the internet.
Also calling Whitechapel and Lamb of God buttrock is a big kek

>>105946586 (OP)
I use Tidal

>>105946586 (OP)
Slsk + non internet connected audio player

>>105946825
>I pay the same for less but you are the cuck.

>>105946743
a false dichotomy would be "what's the best way to listen to music, Spotify or Youtube music?"

op is simply asking which of 2 options is better.

>>105949250
same

1tb micro sd filled with FLAC files

>>105946586 (OP)
>spotify or youtube music, which is better?
A dedicated media player application and a subscription to Mullvad VPN so you can borrow music from your friends on the Russian peer-to-peer network.

>>105946767
cracking spotify on pc is easy, but it's the mobile version which is absolutely cooked since every update breaks whatever workaround they had, so I just caved in and bought premium again after trying live with cracked spotify for a year

>telegram
>deezer bot

Just that

>>105948720
Is there even DRM on CDs? Just rip them lmao

>>105946586 (OP)
Normal youtube + revanced for mobile, I have hard drives with terabytes of losless music, but I have used youtube for so long that the algorithm has perfectly synced with my tastes so its easier that way

>>105951475
why not just download the flacs at that point?

>>105951475
>Is there even DRM on CDs?
If there is, just plug in a cable speaker output -> microphone input and record. What the fuck are they going to do about that?

>>105949250
enjoy your lossy mqa faggot

>>105951475
No and disc rot for music CDs is kind of a meme. It depends on where it was pressed, much like laserdisc and DVD. It's really easy to hold the CD up to the light before you buy one used and see if it has rot or not. If it hasn't started to rot in the last 15-30 years, it probably won't start anytime soon, if ever. The only new CDs made in the last 20 years that had any issues were Rhino discs pressed between '08 and '10 where the data layer flakes off the disc. Even if a few discs do rot, you get what, 25 to 30 years out of a disc minimum? I remember I went through 5 copies of The Black Album on tape in a year rewinding and replaying the second half over and over again.

>>105946586 (OP)
Youtube music randomly stops working when I'm riding my bike. I have to stop and click play manually and it works again. Pressing the 'play' button on the intercom unit does nothing. I thoughr it might be related to intermittent mobile connection issue when riding through literally where villages, but it happened in the middle of a major city as well so I have no idea what the fuck.
Spotify doesn't have this problem.

>>105951476
goblin sex
goblin breeding

>>105951547
If I wanted low quality trash I'd just download an mp3.

>>105946586 (OP)
with you tube music, are you streaming the same 128kbit aacs I rip from there?

>>105946586 (OP)
spotify is better if you use large playlists, youtube music can't randomize and just uses the first few hundred tracks from your playlist every time. everything else just gets ignored
>>105946782
apple music has the same fucking problem with large playlists, i dont know why spotify is the only one that figured out how to do it

>>105952258
also spotify has a bunch of schizo podcasts that got banned everywhere else so they get points for being based as well

>>105946586 (OP)
for the cracked spotify clients, what happens when you're supposed to hear an ad? does it just not play and/or mute the ad, or is it able to just play the next song and skip right past the ad with no downtime?

>>105946586 (OP)
I went from Spotify to Apple Music, it has a bigger library and focused on music instead of whatever Spotify is now (I heard it has a video player now for some reason).

It also sounds like the stories of Spotify worming AI slop into playlists is true considering that Velvet Sundown controversy recently and people already having said they were getting really fake sounding bands in their recommended.

>>105948891
What about getting your IP grabbed and getting letters? Or worse, some faggot messing with your connecting by having your IP.

>>105946586 (OP)
lossless on my portable media player :)

youtube music only cause if a song is missing theres always a "youtube video" that you can play in its place that some.brazilian uploaded 15 years ago

>>105949417
>i pay
cuck mentality

Spotify has way less music than Youtube

>>105946586 (OP)
No thank you, I am going to continue to burn CDs

Why don't you just meet your friends and sing together?

>>105946586 (OP)
none of these, just download your offline album

>>105951552
You are a retard. They use FLAC

>>105953600
not op but I live in a third world country. I can barely afford food, don't give a fuck about ip. I pirate everything and I love it.

>>105946586 (OP)
Spotify has the best interface and functionality
Deezer has best quality
YTP has the biggest music selection, but the app is a barely functional skin of the regular youtube app. Borderline unusable. If they would put minimal effort in it would be the best music streaming platform

>>105949417
I pay zero and get a better product than you.

>which is better
>Shit or Crap?
Hard choice.

>>105948357
>paying to "own" lossy vinyl dogshit that your turntable can probably barely reproduce at quality better than 128 kbps mp3
Fuck off retards like you have destroyed record collecting

What's the quality on Bandcamp like? Thinking about buying some albums I like that never released physically.

>>105956625
You can download whatever you want from them
Always at least 16/44.1 and often 24/48

>>105946586 (OP)
I just buy CDs from thrift stores, RIP them and return them.

>>105946706
youtube does it as well, but yeah fuck jewgle

>>105948702
that has nothing to do with root

>>105951189
>using FLAC

>>105956621
Enjoy paying for AI slop that some dude made for free.
>collecting
It’s for listening, not displaying on a shelf. Unlike your AI slop, which no one wants to listen to.

>>105946586 (OP)
I love spotify but only on web with and adblocker. I have never paid for it.

The interface is great. It actually works great and the biggest draw for me is the fact that their randomized playlists work amazing.

Youtube music is ugly as sin. Music is low quality but you can play on mobile with an ad blocked browser which is nice. But the playlists are utter shit mixing weird artists and genders.

I had been using the open sores youtube clients like simpmusic, innertune and outertune but they are unusable now.

>>105946586 (OP)
Spotify Web Player Free for finding music to download for free in FLAC.

Flac collection

>>105957065
Can't signature spoof correctly without root. Give revanced root permission.

>>105946782
Chase will give it to me for free in Oct, I'll see about it then

>>105946586 (OP)
Spotify started cracking down on cracked clients this year so I moved to YouTube Music Revanced and haven't had to re-patch in almost 4 months, so that's pretty nice.
Though honestly the user experience sucks ass enough that I might go back to Spotify again. Too lazy to update my playlists (and those online tools almost always pull the wrong songs or have stupid limits) which is why I haven't already done it.
Unbelievable you STILL cannot search within playlists despite it being one of the largest complaints over the past several years. I feel like they'd add in crossfade before actually adding that functionality.

>>105946829
>isn't hooked into an evil gigacorp
https://www.stallman.org/spotify.html
>>105951475
>Is there even DRM on CDs? Just rip them lmao
I remember a short period in the naughts where they tried putting some anti-ripping malware that only worked on XP and if you had autostart enabled on a data track of music CDs.

>>105959652
>Can't form an opinion so he takes them from a schizophrenic fat man

>>105959744
>won't type out long winded responses for corpo dick sucking cattle
ftfy

>dogshit or sewer water, which is better?
Download, you idiots. Old /g/ would laugh OP out of the room for this stupid question.
>>105953600
>What about getting your IP grabbed and getting letters?
I'm an American and I don't have this problem, even when downloading new or big name albums.
>messing with your connecting by having your IP
Oh nevermind, good morning saar.

>>105946781
The nerds battling the Spotify employed nerds know just as much about the code as each other. This little back and forth will continue until Spotify has to redeploy their resources and forgets about it for a little while. YouTube were doing it to all the android ad blocking apps but they eventually gave up and I haven't updated pipepipe for months. They will come back eventually but our nerds just have to wait it out taliban style.

>>105947894
I like buying see deez and ripping them into flacs to store on my computer.

>>105953600
Pretty sure record labels don’t care to go after people for illegally downloading music anymore. Too many people using Spotify or something similar for them to care.

>>105962077
riaa proved that it would be a losing battle

>>105957308
>he doesn’t archive and backup his physical copies of music
ngmi

>>105946833
better than everything

>>105960134
>Oh nevermind, good morning saar.
Kek. But still, the other user can see your IP and could DDoS your router, no?

>>105955324
It's transcoded from shit sources, that's why MQA is mocked. I could take a 128kbps mp3 and make it a FLAC, but that won't make it lossless.

>>105965592
>It's transcoded from shit sources
No, it isn't. Every artist is required to provide atleast 16bit 44.1kHz FLAC for upload.
>https://support.tidal.com/hc/en-us/articles/25876825185425-Audio-Format-Updates
read nigga

>>105965715
bandcamp does that too but i used to just upload all my music in 192 inside a FLAC container kek

>>105965715
https://audiophilestyle.com/ca/reviews/mqa-a-review-of-controversies-concerns-and-cautions-r701

>>105946586 (OP)
soulseek flac files + freefilesync ftp every week to sync new downloads

>>105962077
Gabe really was right all those years ago. RIAA screeched for years that piracy was the end of music, then spotify comes along and comes out with an app that is just too easy and affordable, and now music piracy is back to irrelevancy and archivist nerds.
Capitalism really is a fucking scam.

Can audio files have viruses in them? That's the one thing holding me back from going on Soulseek, I'm from the days of people torrenting and destroying their computer.

>>105965732
>article is from 2018
>Tidal updated it's audio file policy to require FLAC in 2024
Bruh

>>105947894
Do you mean thrift shop? Seems like most Rick and mortar music stores are all about records now and paying over $20 for something you can get on CD for a couple bucks

>>105946782
Apple will annihilate their competition with the new automix feature coming in the fall

>>105946709
I use Deezer.
Audio quality is great but the recommendation algorithm is ass.
UI is meh.