We should sign a declaration to never listen to them again.
Except maybe Daft Punk, I like them.
They get a pass if they do the next TRON soundtrack.
We should sign a declaration to never listen to them again.
Except maybe Daft Punk, I like them.
why should we feel bad for "singers" who can't sing?
Enjoy not paying money to all of these:
- J Cole
Source for this list, and including the text of the declaration they signed is here:
http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2015...na-kayne-jay-z-rihanna-other-top-artists.html
Where is this from ?
Don't tell me they had a show with all the supposedly " big names " of the industry ?
What are they signing ? Exclusivity to Tidal ?
We should sign a declaration to never listen to them again.
Except maybe Daft Punk, I like them.
Its not even about acting her age.
Its just embarrassing that she would choose to do that at the time where she is signing for a percentage of a service which was apparently supposed to revolutionize the industry.
It adds to the whole backlash and if I was Jay Z I'd be fucking pissed.
If any other female or even male did that at that presentation the reaction would still be "why?".
The argument "s/he has always been like that" doesn't make it less embarrassing.
Enjoy not paying money to all of these:
- Kanye West
- Madonna
- Nicki Minaj
- Beyonce
- Jack White
- Alicia Keys
- Rihanna
- Chris Martin (Coldplay)
- Usher
- Daft Punk
- deadmau5
- J Cole
- Jason Aldean
- Calvin Harris
- Jay Z
Source for this list, and including the text of the declaration they signed is here:
http://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2015...na-kayne-jay-z-rihanna-other-top-artists.html
Idk man, I thought lossless was worth the price and a pretty great thing, saving me several hundreds GB's worth of .flacs.
Sounded cool to me, but I don't know the full picture here and never subscibed.
For the price of one CD a month you have access to a huge library in perfect quality. I don't care if Spotify is cheaper, this still sounds like a good deal to me.
A better deal even, because Some of the stuff on Spotify sounds nasty on my setup, even in premium quality.
Because a lot of the artists who have a share in the company are removing their content from the other streaming services
as well as releasing new exclusive music/music videos on Tidal. While not some revolutionary concept, I won't understand the amount of hate Tidal gets. It's a $10/$20 a month streaming service launched by a bunch of big name artists. I don't see the big deal and why so many people on here have such strong reactions other than they don't get to listen to *insert popular artist* on their streaming service. If the artist doesn't release music on the other service that's their prerogative. Even if it's a cash grab, who cares.
Part of their messaging was to vilify the other services while they aren't any different.
The real villains are the record labels who took most of the money and coincidentally are shareholders of Tidal.
These artists are the rare ones who actually benefit from the labels and they are trying to make money by lying to the uninformed public while sleeping with the real villains.
The whole thing is vile.
Google does better quality encodes.
I paid for Spotify and for Google Music.
A/Bed a bunch of tracks to see if I could tell a difference. The Spotify tracks consistently had more audible compression artifacts.
Do it yourself. If you're paying for Spotify, sign up for the Google Music trial. Pick the same songs. If you think Spotify sounds better, stay with it. But even my GF (who is a casual listener) noticed the difference after I switched.
Take the L, Jay Z. It's getting sad.
Watching that deadmau5 rant is awesome. Dude is angry over having signed a shitty contract and takes it out on everyone except the person responsible; himself.
This is amazinghttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYYGdcLbFkw <-- notice the dislikes, lol
They're signing a "declaration"
I can only imagine what's going through the minds of Guy-Manuel and Thomas there.
"We're dressed up as robots and that isn't the craziest thing going on here."
This is amazing
They act as if they're about to save mankind
Deadmau5 is a colossal douchebag and it pains me that I happen to enjoy some of his chunes.
So how do lesser known artists like the service so far? I thought this whole "saving the world" spiel by the big names was supposed to also help smaller acts.
Not to mention a lot of them don't even play instruments, 'musicians' my ass.
They should have advertised this with struggling artists who actually need money rather than multimillionaires.
I'm a happy Tidal user and happily pay for the lossless streaming/offline listening. I don't give two shits who backs or owns the company. It just happens to be what I want.
Also, Tidal offers the same £10 model that Spotify does. Just not a 'free' mode. Is there anything wrong with that? And then we get to 'Should music for free?'
I just don't understand why you are finding so much pleasure in something failing!!!! Does it really matter if its something you'll never use?
If its not what you want, don't bother with it. Simple isn't it?
I'm a happy Tidal user and happily pay for the lossless streaming/offline listening. I don't give two shits who backs or owns the company. It just happens to be what I want.
Also, Tidal offers the same £10 model that Spotify does. Just not a 'free' mode. Is there anything wrong with that? And then we get to 'Should music for free?'
I just don't understand why you are finding so much pleasure in something failing!!!! Does it really matter if its something you'll never use?
If its not what you want, don't bother with it. Simple isn't it?
Just lower the bloody price then.
Greedy fucks.
Just lower the bloody price then.
Greedy fucks.
Same price as Spotify.
I'm a happy Tidal user and happily pay for the lossless streaming/offline listening. I don't give two shits who backs or owns the company. It just happens to be what I want.
Also, Tidal offers the same £10 model that Spotify does. Just not a 'free' mode. Is there anything wrong with that? And then we get to 'Should music for free?'
I just don't understand why you are finding so much pleasure in something failing!!!! Does it really matter if its something you'll never use?
If its not what you want, don't bother with it. Simple isn't it?
The problem is it's a flawed premise to begin with, because the "free" tier you speak of isn't really free. I'm sure Spotify still makes money from the ads they force you to listen to when you want to listen to music. You trade $$ for time, and we all know time IS money. I don't pay Spotify, but I've been on the fence for a long time predominantly because I get sick and tired of the ads.
If they didnt position it in the way they did, it would have been fairly critised. I and alot of others cannot get behind this based on principle - they damaged this service on Day 1. I do want this to fail so it doesn't set a precedent and at least sends a message to these greedy artists.
If Spotify upgrade their service to match them or if another service emerges without the pretentious message that has killed Tidal then i hope them the best. But no, absolutely no way can i get behind this and happily sacrifice the option of lossless music.
I think that's my point. I don't give a hoot about all that and I didn't when I subscribed before the takeover. I like lossless and I liked the way the app works (in comparison to other services apps).
For me its about the music and not the backers. Saying that, I don't listen to Jay-Z, not keen on Kanye not listened to Madonna since the 80's lol.
This is the first time I've even heard of Tidal.
What don't you like about the desktop client? I know they changed their design a couple of times, but feature-wise it's the same thing? Is it not?I really wish Spotify had some good competition, but nobody else had the idea of making desktop software instead of just a webpage. Now Spotify has effectively ruined their desktop software and there's no alternative to go to, we just have to deal with these terrible "updates".
Still using downgraded Spotify, but I don't know how long these old versions will work.
I really wish Spotify had some good competition, but nobody else had the idea of making desktop software instead of just a webpage. Now Spotify has effectively ruined their desktop software and there's no alternative to go to, we just have to deal with these terrible "updates".
Still using downgraded Spotify, but I don't know how long these old versions will work.
What don't you like about the desktop client? I know they changed their design a couple of times, but feature-wise it's the same thing? Is it not?
Apps removed (this is a planned removal and will not be returning)
Activity feed redesigned (now emphasizes social aspects over the music they are listening to)
Closing spotify with the "X" now exits the application
Top Charts has replaced Top Tracks (located in Browse)
Volume and playback controls moved to the right side of the screen
Play Queue moved outside of sidebar, it is now located on the play bar next to the "shuffle" icon
Overall lag in the Desktop UI
Local files can't be dragged directly into playlists. You must manually add a local folder from the settings menu
Some songs wrongly categorized as local files so they become unplayable in the client
Not all of local tracks show up (people with large local track libraries)
Can't edit ID3 tags for local tracks
Can't remove local tracks from playlists
Can't unlink local files
CTRL-F has been removed
Playlist dividers removed
Can no longer see list of songs in a folder, only the playlists it contains
Can't right click on a playlist and 'choose as current playlist' anymore
Can't copy playlists URIs directly returned in vs 1.0.2.6.g9977a14b
Cannot set cache or offline playlists location using settings menu
Crossfade toggle and adjustment has been further buried under Advanced Settings
Volume normalization setting removed
Song title and artist no longer appears on the taskbar.
Track playing won't show on hover view for macs
Can't use aero peak to see currently playing track
Can no longer use "delete" key to remove songs from the play queue
Saving entire albums to 'My Music' no longer works correctly
Various aspects of the "Sort by..." feature including "date added" for local tracks and "by artists" in playlist view are nonfunctional
Can no longer press first letter of name to skip to that section in the playlist/sorting
Can't resize the sorting columns to see the full text.
Clicking the album art of the song that's playing no longer takes you to the album
No longer able to click currently playing song title to see its position in the playlist
Some ads are playing abnormally loud
Notifications on the taskbar icon get stuck Seems to be fixed for most people
Some in-app notifications won't go away
No more "new tracks" marker on the sidebar for playlists with recently added songs. There is also no marker for new songs inside of the playlists.
Some songs are playing with a displacement i.e., selecting a song to play is actually playing a song 4 spots behind it - (try this)
Can no longer highlight or click text in messaging window so links sent via messaging must be manually typed into the browser
Can no longer copy rich text from playlists in the format "Artist - Title". You can only copy playlist URLs
Media buttons/hotkeys no longer work for some users
Songs will pause after playing for a short time and then resume playing again several seconds later.
Collaborative playlists lose "added by" sorting column if converted to a normal playlist
Apple scripts broken possible fix for hotkey support controlled by applescript
File menu items for adding playlist folders & playlists, and importing playlists were removed
Ability to search & sort results using operators such as spotify:search, spotify:genre, track, year, etc. was removed
"Gapless playback" preference removed
"Allow Spotify to be started from the Web" preference removed
Preferences hot key "command + comma" no longer closes the Preferences window after it has been opened.
The saved sorting order of all playlists was reset to default.
Messaging functionality was removed
When you want to add an album or a track to a playlist using 'right click' -> Add To Playlist you can only add to a new playlist on the top level of playlist tree. Within a playlist folder, you can only add it to an existing playlist.
Undo is completely broken
Public playlists do not correspond to settings within each playlist. Each playlist that shows up in 'public playlists' displays "Make Public" in the drop-down menu within that playlist, signifying it is currently secret. The menu should display "Make Secret".
"Copy HTTP Link" option removed from playlist drop down menus