Thread 106547426

At long last, it's finally here.

>>106547426 (OP)
Apple Music won

>>106547426 (OP)
>finally I can pay more to use more bandwidth and without any audible improvement

>>106547426 (OP)
>>106547439
Spotify Premium is 12,99 eurodollar
Apple Music is 10,99 eurodollar
tell me, why should I use spotify when Apple has it and is cheaper?

Spotifags, expect $2 price bumps every 3-6 months so that your poorly mastered slop will cost $20 by 2026. Enshittification is coming!

>>106547460
t. poorfag

>>106547482
>rich people magically have better mobile connection

>>106547468
The only reason Spotify is popular it’s because it has a free plan

>>106547505
Yes they have peasant. Why are you, a poorfag, trying to argue with that billionaire anon? Know you'rue place

Incredible, looks like spotifypiggies will be expecting a few price increases this year! Apple Music WON!

>>106547505
>what is 5G and 10Gb internet

>Bump monthly tithe to $20 by 2026
>Upscale entire possible catalog to 24/44.1 to put LE LOSSLESS!!!! label
Spotify execs toasting to profits

>>106547516
Okay, yes that's true, it's okay to listen with an ad blocker at home but try it in your car when after 2 songs the ads blast through your speakers

>>106547426 (OP)
Don't care, keeping my flacs on the disk

>>106547626
NOOO HAVING YOUR MUSIC STORED IS...FOR POORFAGS AND ...AND IS ILLEGAL!!! Buy a subscription!!!! Use qobuz and deezer and spotify and yt music!!!! Stay connected to the internet all the time what are you, a schizo? Hahaahah laugh at this poor schizo ahahahaha

>>106547524
>Yes they have

Alright bros, I'm out. This entire website is full of 3rd world brownie niggers.

Mods, jannies. Permaban me please.

>>106547482
>>106547524
Why are you like this?

>>106547924
If only you had money to buy me english dictionary...
>buy it yourself ESL
Money from taco factory job be low. Can't be able to purchase

>has been lossless for the past 24 years
Slopify is so shit its hilarious

>>106548045
just don't put any of it into a waveform inspector lol

>pays more for lossless
>still streams it over bluetooth that degrades the quality back to shit tier

I've been getting FLACs from Qobuz and Bandcamp lately. Glad to see Spotify finally get lossless streaming nonetheless.

SpotiGOD is helping the economy flow and this is how you say thanks?

>>106548087
aptX Lossless, retard

>>106547426 (OP)
>rip 4G data
No thanx.

>>106548293
99.9% of Slopify retards dont even know what that is

it's useless when 128kpbs is nearly transparent

>>106548314
>2020+5
>no illimited data plan
poor

>>106547505
Rich people do tend to live in nicer areas with better infrastructure.

And it's not like uncompressed audio requires massive amounts of bandwidth.
If you can stream HD video you can stream uncompressed audio.

>>106547426 (OP)
>Spotify Premium
Not paying for that shit.

>>106548293
>aptX Lossless
So not actually lossless, only "lossless(*)"

>actually paying to RENT your music
>have to pay EVEN MORE to get that music in its native quality
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>106548483
wrong, its not even native quality

>>106547426 (OP)
bandcamp has always been the better option

>>106548490
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHARRR

>>106548515
pirates keeps winning !

>>106548483
And they don't even pay the artists, only the AI slop creators.

Why not make all music free to listen to?
Artists can earn plenty from concerts and merch.

>>106548376
my 96kbps opus sure are, you can upgrade to 128kbps if you feel luxurious, but it's already overkill

>>106548045
This is good news for Soulseek users. It's another route for lossless or high bitrate songs to end up on the network.
It'll be like Deezloader, but more songs to choose from, and a wider userbase that gives a shit to keep it functioning and use their tokens.

>>106547439
AM is trash.

>>106548554
Why not make all music free to listen to?
not just music, every type of art should be
Artists can earn plenty from concerts and merch.
not all can play live and merch cost a ton to produce for smaller bands and artists

>>106548554
>And they don't even pay the artists
Why are people so stupid? Spotify pays out 70% of the revenue. That's more than YouTube. How is Spotify not paying enough?

>>106547426 (OP)
most of my favorite bands have either removed their catalogue from spofity, no longer release new material on Spotify, or never put their stuff there to begin with.
Rise of AI music, algorithm getting shit tier, and price hikes made me leave.
Not worth it. I just buy albums on Bandcamp for $1 mostly now.

Here's a picture of the world's best pickles.

>>106547426 (OP)
How much is it?
I'm using Apple Music atm but I find some songs have a god awful hiss or static in them.

>>106548083
wdym? fake FLAC/ALAC albums on slsk are extremely rare

>>106548378
>illimited
esl

It's not lossless unless the sampling interval is plank time.

i have apple music via a 3 month trial with my iphone and honestly the "lossless" sucks. it sounds like they do some tone mixing or something before it's streamed to you, maybe related to the dolby atmos or spatial audio shit. spotify free plan sounds better.

>>106549196
après tu peut toujours aller niquer ta grosse daronne la pute, coprophage va

>>106549238
>>106548635
lol
considering how little spootify pays artists, I wonder how much they pay these shitty shills

>>106548704
90% of Spotify's overall payouts goes to 6 American artists. All the millions of artists around the world have to share the remaining 10%.
You've been conned if you bought into Spotify's "support your favorite artists with your subscription"-bullshit.

>>106547426 (OP)
Its still kiked service though.

Lossless audio is snake oil. It's only good for archiving purposes so you can keep transcoding your files to any format from a lossless source. Worthless if you don't own the files.

There is no perceivable difference between lossy and lossless if the lossy format is properly encoded. You probably think you can tell the difference. Then do a blind comparison using foobar2000 + foo_abx extension and post results. Protip: you can't.

I literally can hear the difference. give me any blind test I will pass it.

>>106548704
Learn to read stupid.
I didn't say Spotify doesn't pay, they just don't value quality over quantity.
Spotify pays by the minute regardless what the content is.
Some of the biggest earners on Spotify made literal pink noise: it sounds like rain and people like sleeping to it so they "listen" to pink noise for 8 hours every night.

>>106549425
>considering how little spootify pays artists
What? Spotify pays out 70% while Apple Music pays out 52%.

>>106547426 (OP)
>>106547439
>>106547460
>>106547468
>>106547474
Threadly reminder that ALL digital music is compressed. The act of recording live music to a digital medium is the definition of compression.

>>106547482
>I like to spend money on things I don't like to impress people I don't like.
You're not rich.

If you can tell the difference between 320kbps MP3 and FLAC, you listen to music a bit too much.

>>106547963
They're either on the marketing team or they think pissing away money on subscriptions impresses anyone (it doesn't).

>>106549798
I don't know where you hallucinated that figure from
https://www.bgr.com/entertainment/apple-music-still-pays-artists-twice-as-much-as-spotify/

>>106549280
English board
No one cares, paki.

>>106549863
you can't

>>106549559
does that extension still work? I just installed it and didn't appear

>>106549841
>The act of recording live music to a digital medium is the definition of compression.
No it isn't lol

>>106549874
You are repeating the same old dishonest lies.
https://www.albumofrecord.com/p/apple-music-is-extracting-more-money

The fact is that the payout percentage is what matters and Spotify pays out 70% while Apple Music pays out 52%. Spotify has more subscribers in poorer countries like India and Brazil, have a free tier (where the payout ratio still is 70%), and Spotify users are more active. That explains the payout-per-stream number. But that doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is the payout percentage.

But apple shills love to lie 24/7.

>>106549841
digitization ≠ compression

>>106550131
weird AI-written blog post that makes some wild assumptions based on a single vaguely written blog post by spotify. and it's the only "news" site making that claim, while many other independent sources tell the opposite story

post scores
https://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/06/02/411473508/how-well-can-you-hear-audio-quality

>>106550131
>the payout percentage is what matters
No it isn't.

If someone listens to rain for 8 hours a day and music for 2 hours a day then music artists only get 20% of that 70%.
And if someone makes AI slop and then has botnets listening to their slop 24/7 they soak up even more of that 70%.

Good luck with your 2 minute song you worked months on vs 1440 minutes of "KGRRRRRRRRRR BEEP BEEP" running on 50.000 servers 7 days a week.

>>106550274
>Katy Perry and Jay Z
They all sound like shit

>>106550274
>all pop songs
compression barely affects this kind of music. show me one with post-rock or classical recordings newer than 1980

>>106550437
setup?

>>106550274
1/6 with macbook pro speakers
I also have tinnitus

>>106550460
F12 -> network -> see how big each file is
This is /g/ afterall.

>>106550274
1/6
I picked 320kbps all other times

>>106550518
2/6, same
Rightly-encoded MP3 is transparent at ~200 kbps to most people.
320 kbps is very difficult to tell apart from WAV.

apple music is still better

>>106548083
i don't think i ever got a fake

>>106549280
le problème, crisse d'épais, c'est que je vis au québec et tous les compagnies de télécommunications nous fourrent dans le cul

I'm paying 3$ monthly for apple music student plan, sorry but spotify is a fucking mess with bloat like podcasts, mixes, radio. I was pirating lossless from qobuz before but it's not worth it, I don't even have the proper setup with DAC. Most music is on apple and few exceptions you can get from other places for free.

>>106551353
déso pour toi mon caribou
Nous avons le Saint Xavier Niel ici dans la civilisation moderne, peut être un jour la lumière arrivera dans vos terres pourfendues par la Celine

>>106550504
Inspect element chads stay winning.

>>106547426 (OP)
When are they gonna let me play my entire music library (5k+ songs) instead of repeating the same 50 whenever I shuffle?

>>106551745
use apple music

>>106551777
They're never gonna get any of my SEAdollars ever again after that horrible second season of Severance
>but what does that have to do with Apple Music
I am a man of principle

>>106551783
based

>>106547426 (OP)
Placebo