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[oti]

I just switch between different services every time there's a free offer. I'm now on Deezer but my three month subscription is coming to an end next week.

I'm the problem.

 

[Lime]

Jay-Z should have spent that money providing full college scholarships for students whose parents he personally sold crack to.

Damn. If the world was just and fair, this would be the case.

 

[neorej]

No one is surprised. And it is very easy to understand why.

The marketing utterly and completely missed the mark. They talk about giving the artists a better share of the profits than the competition, but then only proceed to show multi-millionaire artists who are at the top of the industry. OF COURSE it would look like a bunch of rich people asking for even more money. OF COURSE it would be very hard to feel empathetic to these people... "Hmmm, I guess it is only fair that I pay more for my music, ignoring what the competition offers, so Kanye can have more money when I'm struggling to survive with 20k a year". But they are probably so self absorbed that they didn't realise that this would happen.

One of the supposedly good things no one talks about Tidal is that you don't need to be a signed artist to have your music there. To put your songs in Spotify, if you are a Indie artist you NEED to sign with some of the companies they provide, which means they take a share of whatever pitiful profit you make. On Tidal, apparently it goes all straight to you. So, why not, instead of showing Madonna, the best selling female artist of all time, who currently hold the 2 top spots of the highest-grossing tours of all time by a female artist, why not show a Indie artist getting more money for the music they make on their improvised home studio at their parents basement? It is certainly much much easier to relate to that. Or even show some more established independent artists, but NOT Madonna or Kanye or Rihanna and Beyonce asking for more money, like they are asking you fund some Red Cross humanitarian help project...

Then they get surprised it failed.

The reason Spotify only allows select distributors is to avoid the complexityof individually curating every track that gets upload by every user and their mother, making sure everything is labeled right and the uploader is the actual right-holder of the uploaded IP.

 

[Hamster Plugin]

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?

The old versions are still incredible. It's an extremely fast and stable client that uses very little resources to play music. It blurs the line between playing local files and playing online music, it's so damn fast!

The new version is not a native client, it's just a web browser. The performance is absolutely awful compared to the old versions. In addition they've been removing features: you can no longer use ctrl+f to search playlists, you can no longer set cache location, local file playback is broken, gapless playback has been removed.

 

[glaurung]

It's really, really bad.

Wow. That is quite a list of purged features.

Then again, I can't say that most of these affect me now. Nor have they affected me in the past.

Was there an option for gapless playback? I never knew that. I just use crossfade.

Still, after seeing that list, I think you're right to be angry.

 

[MDSLKTR]

tidal it is then lol

 

[Chichikov]

There's always Apple and Google, though the later doesn't have a desktop app either.



From Reddit:


It's really, really bad.

Got about halfway through before realized that I'm a super simple spotify user, just add songs to playlist and play them.
I do agree with the ctrl+f thing, shit be bullshit.

On the other hand whoever listed "Closing spotify with the "X" now exits the application" as a problem is worse than Hitler.
Literally.

 

[Interferon]

This is so cringe - inducing that I simply needed to quote it.
Also, as a Daft Punk fan, this was quite a big respect points loss for them

 

[linsivvi]

Got about halfway through before realized that I'm a super simple spotify user, just add songs to playlist and play them.
I do agree with the ctrl+f thing, shit be bullshit.

On the other hand whoever listed "Closing spotify with the "X" now exits the application" as a problem is worse than Hitler.
Literally.

I can deal with it, though I am used to clicking X to minimize Spotify since I don't ever exit the application.

My biggest problem is that the new version is extremely slow and doesn't work well with local files, which is important as Spotify's library doesn't cover everything I listen to. I mean, I can use other music players but to me Spotify is the singular music client that I use on my PC.

 

[fixedpoint]

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 use Rdio - http://www.rdio.com/home/en-us/

They have desktop apps, mobile apps and in-browser streaming. You also don't need a Facebook account.

 

[Polari]

lol

How the fuck anyone thought this would pan out otherwise is beyond me.

 

[Vincent Grayson]

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

Other than Daft Punk, I don't think I've purchased an album by any of these people in the last decade or two.

 

[Korey]

I can deal with it, though I am used to clicking X to minimize Spotify since I don't ever exit the application.

My biggest problem is that the new version is extremely slow and doesn't work well with local files, which is important as Spotify's library doesn't cover everything I listen to. I mean, I can use other music players but to me Spotify is the singular music client that I use on my PC.

It's not that bad. In my opinion the Spotify client is better than it's ever been. That list is incredibly nitpicky, and many of those points aren't even negatives, or at least are entirely subjective. It's also fast and responsive, like it's always been.

 

[Chichikov]

I can deal with it, though I am used to clicking X to minimize Spotify since I don't ever exit the application.

My biggest problem is that the new version is extremely slow and doesn't work well with local files, which is important as Spotify's library doesn't cover everything I listen to. I mean, I can use other music players but to me Spotify is the singular music client that I use on my PC.

I haven't notice slowness, but then again, I usually run spotify on my pretty beefy machine.
I also must always close it, because even though I rock an i7 with 16GB of ram I MUST CONSERVE THOSE RESOURCES, IT IS EATING MY RAMS!

I honestly don't work with local files, I have a lot of local music I own, but I don't really play them through spotify.
I've been meaning to set up my devices to all have access to cloud synced local file, but I'm too lazy.

In any case, I'm not downplaying people who are hurt by those changes, as someone who is pretty set in his (sometime bizarre) ways of doing thing, I know how frustrating feature removal can be.

But really, programs that don't close on X is like the worst thing ever.

 

[Kev Kev]

This is so awkward.

Give it up Madonna. It's over.

 

[oti]

Who's the guy clapping in the background?
Why?

 

[……forgetit]

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?

No pleasure, I just said it would happen, so more like vindication.

 

[Opus Angelorum]

Who's the guy clapping in the background?
Why?

It was some country singer, he applauded because the losers in the crowd were whopping and shouting when she did it.

When Alicia Keys spoke at the start someone in the crowd cheered and she was like 'Yes! I feel that emotion, that power!'...as if she was some form of preacher.

Thoroughly embarrassing all round.

 

[Lime]

It was some country singer, he applauded because the losers in the crows were whopping and shouting when she did it.

When Alicia Keys spoke at the start someone in the crowd cheered and she was like 'Yes! I feel that emotion, that power!'...as if she was some form of preacher.

Thoroughly embarrassing all round.

Money makes people crazy

 

[oti]

It was some country singer, he applauded because the losers in the crows were whopping and shouting when she did it.

When Alicia Keys spoke at the start someone in the crowd cheered and she was like 'Yes! I feel that emotion, that power!'...as if she was some form of preacher.

Thoroughly embarrassing all round.

There was a crowd? Was this a press conference? Who was in that crowd? Journalists? Fans? Why? This is so confusing.

 

[CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egShCjfvi9s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYYGdcLbFkw <-- notice the dislikes, lol

They're signing a "declaration"

This is the height of pretentiousness. A bunch of millionaires partying it up and trying to push a music platform that supposedly meets the music needs of the general public. It's a fucking circle-jerk and I'm disappointed in every single one of them. It's like a room full of Lars Ulrichs

 

[xenist]

Oh shit!

Asking for twice the money for a feature practically no one wants is not a good business strategy? Who would have thought?

Not to mention that the only ones on their line up that are relevant to me are Daft Punk and I own their shit already. They lose plenty of points for going along with this nonsense though.

 

[GK86]

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?

It is not enough for me to enjoy Spotify, other music services should fail.

 

[oti]

Now I want some other group of artists to start their own service and declare war on Tidal.

That would be a fine anime/comic/movie plot.

 

[Shia_Labeouf]

Who's the guy clapping in the background?
Why?

toff74, I'm guessing.

 

[SimpleGamer]

She's trying to hard. What was her point?

 

[Nokterian]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egShCjfvi9s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYYGdcLbFkw <-- notice the dislikes, lol

They're signing a "declaration"

Man this is disgusting as a whole..but the youtube comments are good though.

They all went backstage and sacrificed a goat.

Yeah but... convert youtube to mp3

Streaming music all over the world?? Do they even know most of the world is either poor or middle class? What about third world countries, what are they supposed to do? Even for us that's asking too much, i guess they think we can't add. That's $120 a year, its like asking who wants another bill for my average music?
This is great though because it's like they're announcing their exit from the industry so that other artist can rise and take their place because that's exactly what's going to happen.

/dead

 

[xenist]

It is not enough for me to enjoy Spotify, other music services should fail.

"Every great movement started with a bunch of people getting together and making a stand." Verbatim from the announcement.

It's not about Spotify partisanship. It's about enjoying seeing pampered blowhards eat shit.

 

[chicagocubsfan]

Alicia Keys quoted Nietzsche lol. This whole thing is a joke.

 

[Addi]

I want to see an episode of Pawn Stars where a broke Jay Z tries to sell the piece of paper they all signed:

Rick: So, what do we have here?
Jay Z: A piece of history.
Rick: Let me have a look.. oh...
Chumlee: What is it?
Rick: It's the so called declaration of Tidal. A bunch of stars signed this paper thinking they would change the music industry.
Jay Z: the biggest stars!
Rick: Yeah, no, I don't know about that. Most of them were pretty washed up at that point.
Chumlee: Daft Punk's on there! I like them, they're robots, robots are cool!
Rick: Yeah, but you're still a retarded 12 year old kid [cigarette laughter]
Jay Z: You will never find anything like this, all those signatures in one place.
Rick: Do you wanna pawn it or sell it?
Jay Z: Sell it!
Rick: How much did you have in mind?
Jay Z: 2 million dollars
Rick: 2 million?! I don't even know if it's real! I have this buddy of mine that is an expert on signatures, let me call him.

Rick: So what do you think?
Expert: Let see.. Yeah, it's definitely real. There's even a bit of Madonna's leg sweat left on it. Unfortunately you don't want that, it does drive the value down a bit.
Jay Z: it's still very valuable though?
Expert: Well, the signatures separately might have been worth something, a couple of them at least. But the fact that it's related to Tidal is really a shame.
Rick: So what do you think it's worth?
Expert: In an auction... between... nah... nobody would bid
Jay Z: Really?
Rick: So, you heard the man, how much do you really want?
Jay Z: I can go down to a thousand dollars
Rick: [sigh] If I buy this, it's going to sit here for a looong time, it might not even sell.
If I wanted the signature of a washed up old man, I could just ask my dad [tobacco laughter]
Chumlee: I can give you some pot for it, I have some in my car
Rick: [cancer laughter]
Jay Z: What the hell, ok, deal

 

[Slayven]

I want to see an episode of Pawn Stars where a broke Jay Z tries to sell the piece of paper they all signed:

Rick: So, what do we have here?
Jay Z: A piece of history.
Rick: Let me have a look.. oh...
Chumlee: What is it?
Rick: It's the so called declaration of Tidal. A bunch of stars signed this paper thinking they would change the music industry.
Jay Z: the biggest stars!
Rick: Yeah, no, I don't know about that. Most of them were pretty washed up at that point.
Chumlee: Daft Punk's on there! I like them, they're robots, robots are cool!
Rick: Yeah, but you're still a retarded 12 year old kid [cigarette laughter]
Jay Z: You will never find anything like this, all those signatures in one place.
Rick: Do you wanna pawn it or sell it?
Jay Z: Sell it!
Rick: How much did you have in mind?
Jay Z: 2 million dollars
Rick: 2 million?! I don't even know if it's real! I have this buddy of mine that is an expert on signatures, let me call him.

Rick: So what do you think?
Expert: Let see.. Yeah, it's definitely real. There's even a bit of Madonna's leg sweat left on it. Unfortunately you don't want that, it does drive the value down a bit.
Jay Z: it's still very valuable though?
Expert: Well, the signatures separately might have been worth something, a couple of them at least. But the fact that it's related to Tidal is really a shame.
Rick: So what do you think it's worth?
Expert: In an auction... between... nah... nobody would bid
Jay Z: Really?
Rick: So, you heard the man, how much do you really want?
Jay Z: I can go down to a thousand dollars
Rick: [sigh] If I buy this, it's going to sit here for a looong time, it might not even sell.
If I wanted the signature of a washed up old man, I could just ask my dad [tobacco laughter]
Chumlee: I can give you some pot for it, I have some in my car
Rick: [cancer laughter]
Jay Z: What the hell, ok, deal

Lol gold goddamn, gold

 

[Card Boy]

I want to see an episode of Pawn Stars where a broke Jay Z tries to sell the piece of paper they all signed:

Rick: So, what do we have here?
Jay Z: A piece of history.
Rick: Let me have a look.. oh...
Chumlee: What is it?
Rick: It's the so called declaration of Tidal. A bunch of stars signed this paper thinking they would change the music industry.
Jay Z: the biggest stars!
Rick: Yeah, no, I don't know about that. Most of them were pretty washed up at that point.
Chumlee: Daft Punk's on there! I like them, they're robots, robots are cool!
Rick: Yeah, but you're still a retarded 12 year old kid [cigarette laughter]
Jay Z: You will never find anything like this, all those signatures in one place.
Rick: Do you wanna pawn it or sell it?
Jay Z: Sell it!
Rick: How much did you have in mind?
Jay Z: 2 million dollars
Rick: 2 million?! I don't even know if it's real! I have this buddy of mine that is an expert on signatures, let me call him.

Rick: So what do you think?
Expert: Let see.. Yeah, it's definitely real. There's even a bit of Madonna's leg sweat left on it. Unfortunately you don't want that, it does drive the value down a bit.
Jay Z: it's still very valuable though?
Expert: Well, the signatures separately might have been worth something, a couple of them at least. But the fact that it's related to Tidal is really a shame.
Rick: So what do you think it's worth?
Expert: In an auction... between... nah... nobody would bid
Jay Z: Really?
Rick: So, you heard the man, how much do you really want?
Jay Z: I can go down to a thousand dollars
Rick: [sigh] If I buy this, it's going to sit here for a looong time, it might not even sell.
If I wanted the signature of a washed up old man, I could just ask my dad [tobacco laughter]
Chumlee: I can give you some pot for it, I have some in my car
Rick: [cancer laughter]
Jay Z: What the hell, ok, deal

I always cringe when I read these little skits Gaffers make but this one was good.

 

[Nokterian]

I want to see an episode of Pawn Stars where a broke Jay Z tries to sell the piece of paper they all signed:

Rick: So, what do we have here?
Jay Z: A piece of history.
Rick: Let me have a look.. oh...
Chumlee: What is it?
Rick: It's the so called declaration of Tidal. A bunch of stars signed this paper thinking they would change the music industry.
Jay Z: the biggest stars!
Rick: Yeah, no, I don't know about that. Most of them were pretty washed up at that point.
Chumlee: Daft Punk's on there! I like them, they're robots, robots are cool!
Rick: Yeah, but you're still a retarded 12 year old kid [cigarette laughter]
Jay Z: You will never find anything like this, all those signatures in one place.
Rick: Do you wanna pawn it or sell it?
Jay Z: Sell it!
Rick: How much did you have in mind?
Jay Z: 2 million dollars
Rick: 2 million?! I don't even know if it's real! I have this buddy of mine that is an expert on signatures, let me call him.

Rick: So what do you think?
Expert: Let see.. Yeah, it's definitely real. There's even a bit of Madonna's leg sweat left on it. Unfortunately you don't want that, it does drive the value down a bit.
Jay Z: it's still very valuable though?
Expert: Well, the signatures separately might have been worth something, a couple of them at least. But the fact that it's related to Tidal is really a shame.
Rick: So what do you think it's worth?
Expert: In an auction... between... nah... nobody would bid
Jay Z: Really?
Rick: So, you heard the man, how much do you really want?
Jay Z: I can go down to a thousand dollars
Rick: [sigh] If I buy this, it's going to sit here for a looong time, it might not even sell.
If I wanted the signature of a washed up old man, I could just ask my dad [tobacco laughter]
Chumlee: I can give you some pot for it, I have some in my car
Rick: [cancer laughter]
Jay Z: What the hell, ok, deal

I would watch this in a instant bravo sir had me laughing.

 

[CapitalismSucks DonkeyBalls]

I want to see an episode of Pawn Stars where a broke Jay Z tries to sell the piece of paper they all signed:

Rick: So, what do we have here?
Jay Z: A piece of history.
Rick: Let me have a look.. oh...
Chumlee: What is it?
Rick: It's the so called declaration of Tidal. A bunch of stars signed this paper thinking they would change the music industry.
Jay Z: the biggest stars!
Rick: Yeah, no, I don't know about that. Most of them were pretty washed up at that point.
Chumlee: Daft Punk's on there! I like them, they're robots, robots are cool!
Rick: Yeah, but you're still a retarded 12 year old kid [cigarette laughter]
Jay Z: You will never find anything like this, all those signatures in one place.
Rick: Do you wanna pawn it or sell it?
Jay Z: Sell it!
Rick: How much did you have in mind?
Jay Z: 2 million dollars
Rick: 2 million?! I don't even know if it's real! I have this buddy of mine that is an expert on signatures, let me call him.

Rick: So what do you think?
Expert: Let see.. Yeah, it's definitely real. There's even a bit of Madonna's leg sweat left on it. Unfortunately you don't want that, it does drive the value down a bit.
Jay Z: it's still very valuable though?
Expert: Well, the signatures separately might have been worth something, a couple of them at least. But the fact that it's related to Tidal is really a shame.
Rick: So what do you think it's worth?
Expert: In an auction... between... nah... nobody would bid
Jay Z: Really?
Rick: So, you heard the man, how much do you really want?
Jay Z: I can go down to a thousand dollars
Rick: [sigh] If I buy this, it's going to sit here for a looong time, it might not even sell.
If I wanted the signature of a washed up old man, I could just ask my dad [tobacco laughter]
Chumlee: I can give you some pot for it, I have some in my car
Rick: [cancer laughter]
Jay Z: What the hell, ok, deal

Chumlee: Daft Punk's on there! I like them, they're robots, robots are cool!
Rick: Yeah, but you're still a retarded 12 year old kid [cigarette laughter]

My sides are currently orbiting Jupiter. LOL.

 

[TomShoe]

Jay-Z and co can't afford their 7th yacht now. I'm just so broken up about it.

 

[neorej]

I want to see an episode of Pawn Stars where a broke Jay Z tries to sell the piece of paper they all signed:

Rick: So, what do we have here?
Jay Z: A piece of history.
Rick: Let me have a look.. oh...
Chumlee: What is it?
Rick: It's the so called declaration of Tidal. A bunch of stars signed this paper thinking they would change the music industry.
Jay Z: the biggest stars!
Rick: Yeah, no, I don't know about that. Most of them were pretty washed up at that point.
Chumlee: Daft Punk's on there! I like them, they're robots, robots are cool!
Rick: Yeah, but you're still a retarded 12 year old kid [cigarette laughter]
Jay Z: You will never find anything like this, all those signatures in one place.
Rick: Do you wanna pawn it or sell it?
Jay Z: Sell it!
Rick: How much did you have in mind?
Jay Z: 2 million dollars
Rick: 2 million?! I don't even know if it's real! I have this buddy of mine that is an expert on signatures, let me call him.

Rick: So what do you think?
Expert: Let see.. Yeah, it's definitely real. There's even a bit of Madonna's leg sweat left on it. Unfortunately you don't want that, it does drive the value down a bit.
Jay Z: it's still very valuable though?
Expert: Well, the signatures separately might have been worth something, a couple of them at least. But the fact that it's related to Tidal is really a shame.
Rick: So what do you think it's worth?
Expert: In an auction... between... nah... nobody would bid
Jay Z: Really?
Rick: So, you heard the man, how much do you really want?
Jay Z: I can go down to a thousand dollars
Rick: [sigh] If I buy this, it's going to sit here for a looong time, it might not even sell.
If I wanted the signature of a washed up old man, I could just ask my dad [tobacco laughter]
Chumlee: I can give you some pot for it, I have some in my car
Rick: [cancer laughter]
Jay Z: What the hell, ok, deal

Bookmarked

 

[jmood88]

The only way this seriously had a chance is if the musicians involved took all their music off of every other service and made it exclusive to Tidal. Putting a few extra songs and videos up that you can't get anywhere else just isn't good enough.

 

[Dynamite Shikoku]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egShCjfvi9s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYYGdcLbFkw <-- notice the dislikes, lol

They're signing a "declaration"

I'm at maximum cringing.

 

[CzarTim]

The problem I've found with switching between services is that I've been a Spotify subscriber since it came out in the states and have created dozens of playlists over the years that I still listen to. There's no easy way to bring those over to a new service. I found an app that let me go from Spotify to Rdio, but I still had to manually copy and paste each playlist, and that's just too much work for a service that's nearly identical.

 

[toff74]

toff74, I'm guessing.

Sussed! lol

 

[MonorailCat]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egShCjfvi9s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYYGdcLbFkw <-- notice the dislikes, lol

They're signing a "declaration"

"Changing the course of history"
"we are making a stand"

What in the fuck are they smoking?

 

[Dreams-Visions]

I want to see an episode of Pawn Stars where a broke Jay Z tries to sell the piece of paper they all signed:

Rick: So, what do we have here?
Jay Z: A piece of history.
Rick: Let me have a look.. oh...
Chumlee: What is it?
Rick: It's the so called declaration of Tidal. A bunch of stars signed this paper thinking they would change the music industry.
Jay Z: the biggest stars!
Rick: Yeah, no, I don't know about that. Most of them were pretty washed up at that point.
Chumlee: Daft Punk's on there! I like them, they're robots, robots are cool!
Rick: Yeah, but you're still a retarded 12 year old kid [cigarette laughter]
Jay Z: You will never find anything like this, all those signatures in one place.
Rick: Do you wanna pawn it or sell it?
Jay Z: Sell it!
Rick: How much did you have in mind?
Jay Z: 2 million dollars
Rick: 2 million?! I don't even know if it's real! I have this buddy of mine that is an expert on signatures, let me call him.

Rick: So what do you think?
Expert: Let see.. Yeah, it's definitely real. There's even a bit of Madonna's leg sweat left on it. Unfortunately you don't want that, it does drive the value down a bit.
Jay Z: it's still very valuable though?
Expert: Well, the signatures separately might have been worth something, a couple of them at least. But the fact that it's related to Tidal is really a shame.
Rick: So what do you think it's worth?
Expert: In an auction... between... nah... nobody would bid
Jay Z: Really?
Rick: So, you heard the man, how much do you really want?
Jay Z: I can go down to a thousand dollars
Rick: [sigh] If I buy this, it's going to sit here for a looong time, it might not even sell.
If I wanted the signature of a washed up old man, I could just ask my dad [tobacco laughter]
Chumlee: I can give you some pot for it, I have some in my car
Rick: [cancer laughter]
Jay Z: What the hell, ok, deal

 

[OatmealMu]

I can deal with it, though I am used to clicking X to minimize Spotify since I don't ever exit the application.

My biggest problem is that the new version is extremely slow and doesn't work well with local files, which is important as Spotify's library doesn't cover everything I listen to. I mean, I can use other music players but to me Spotify is the singular music client that I use on my PC.

The desktop client's been slowly deteriorating for some time now. Between a string of removed features and the latest version performing like a dog things aren't looking good. I tried going back to Foobar2000 but had forgotten what a chore it is to set up. MusicBee is working well enough, although customizing it isn't intuitive, and I still need to figure out how to have it organize my playlist like iTunes does. Like Spotify, MusicBee likes to break up compilation albums.

 

[BBboy20]

So, Jurassic World then.

In fairness to my man Jermaine he was signed by Jay-Z if I'm not mistaken. Probably had no choice!

I didn't know this.

Deadmau5 is a colossal douchebag and it pains me that I happen to enjoy some of his chunes.

I even got some of his merch. His music is actually pretty good, but he comes across as a horrible person.

Do people who talk like that indicate they are one? Besides, this is rather disappointing.

"Changing the course of history"
"we are making a stand"

What in the fuck are they smoking?

Money.

 

[thelatestmodel]

I want to see an episode of Pawn Stars where a broke Jay Z tries to sell the piece of paper they all signed:

Rick: So, what do we have here?
Jay Z: A piece of history.
Rick: Let me have a look.. oh...
Chumlee: What is it?
Rick: It's the so called declaration of Tidal. A bunch of stars signed this paper thinking they would change the music industry.
Jay Z: the biggest stars!
Rick: Yeah, no, I don't know about that. Most of them were pretty washed up at that point.
Chumlee: Daft Punk's on there! I like them, they're robots, robots are cool!
Rick: Yeah, but you're still a retarded 12 year old kid [cigarette laughter]
Jay Z: You will never find anything like this, all those signatures in one place.
Rick: Do you wanna pawn it or sell it?
Jay Z: Sell it!
Rick: How much did you have in mind?
Jay Z: 2 million dollars
Rick: 2 million?! I don't even know if it's real! I have this buddy of mine that is an expert on signatures, let me call him.

Rick: So what do you think?
Expert: Let see.. Yeah, it's definitely real. There's even a bit of Madonna's leg sweat left on it. Unfortunately you don't want that, it does drive the value down a bit.
Jay Z: it's still very valuable though?
Expert: Well, the signatures separately might have been worth something, a couple of them at least. But the fact that it's related to Tidal is really a shame.
Rick: So what do you think it's worth?
Expert: In an auction... between... nah... nobody would bid
Jay Z: Really?
Rick: So, you heard the man, how much do you really want?
Jay Z: I can go down to a thousand dollars
Rick: [sigh] If I buy this, it's going to sit here for a looong time, it might not even sell.
If I wanted the signature of a washed up old man, I could just ask my dad [tobacco laughter]
Chumlee: I can give you some pot for it, I have some in my car
Rick: [cancer laughter]
Jay Z: What the hell, ok, deal

[cancer laughter]

 

[spindashing]

Rick: [sigh] If I buy this, it's going to sit here for a looong time, it might not even sell.
If I wanted the signature of a washed up old man, I could just ask my dad [tobacco laughter]
Chumlee: I can give you some pot for it, I have some in my car
Rick: [cancer laughter]
Jay Z: What the hell, ok, deal

This is what killed me. Bravo. :lol

[cancer laughter]

 

[fuzzyreactor]

first time ive heard of tidal...

 

[Az]

God damn Addi. Have my sides.

 

[PHOENIXZERO]

It was an idea that's over a decade too late. The market is pretty much full at this point with music streaming options.

Also doesn't help that every time I see/hear the name I'm thinking of this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_(album)

 

[IronRinn]

I want to see an episode of Pawn Stars where a broke Jay Z tries to sell the piece of paper they all signed:

Rick: So, what do we have here?
Jay Z: A piece of history.
Rick: Let me have a look.. oh...
Chumlee: What is it?
Rick: It's the so called declaration of Tidal. A bunch of stars signed this paper thinking they would change the music industry.
Jay Z: the biggest stars!
Rick: Yeah, no, I don't know about that. Most of them were pretty washed up at that point.
Chumlee: Daft Punk's on there! I like them, they're robots, robots are cool!
Rick: Yeah, but you're still a retarded 12 year old kid [cigarette laughter]
Jay Z: You will never find anything like this, all those signatures in one place.
Rick: Do you wanna pawn it or sell it?
Jay Z: Sell it!
Rick: How much did you have in mind?
Jay Z: 2 million dollars
Rick: 2 million?! I don't even know if it's real! I have this buddy of mine that is an expert on signatures, let me call him.

Rick: So what do you think?
Expert: Let see.. Yeah, it's definitely real. There's even a bit of Madonna's leg sweat left on it. Unfortunately you don't want that, it does drive the value down a bit.
Jay Z: it's still very valuable though?
Expert: Well, the signatures separately might have been worth something, a couple of them at least. But the fact that it's related to Tidal is really a shame.
Rick: So what do you think it's worth?
Expert: In an auction... between... nah... nobody would bid
Jay Z: Really?
Rick: So, you heard the man, how much do you really want?
Jay Z: I can go down to a thousand dollars
Rick: [sigh] If I buy this, it's going to sit here for a looong time, it might not even sell.
If I wanted the signature of a washed up old man, I could just ask my dad [tobacco laughter]
Chumlee: I can give you some pot for it, I have some in my car
Rick: [cancer laughter]
Jay Z: What the hell, ok, deal

Well done.