I think about switching from Spotify for a longer time now, but with the recent ICE ads I want to be in solidarity with the people in the US and kick Spotify out.
Now I checked the Quboz app and I am in a test month with Tidal right now - so far Tidal is great on my mobile. However I also need a client for Linux!
I am using spotify-client on Linux Mint and works flawlessly. I know its development is not the main goal of Spotify engineers, but it just works.
Now for Tidal and Quboz it seems to be problematic - only Electron apps without HiFi sound because the chromium engine throttles the quality. How am I supposed to switch from Spotify if I can’t use the alternative on Linux? Any advices/experiences?
I quit Tidal because even they have BS Ai Albums/Bands/“Singers”.
Fuck SUNO.
Granted Tidal doesn’t randomly start adding/playing them, you’d have to play them, but adding them to recent/growing playlists is BS too IMHO.
Anyway checkout TIDAL Hi-Fi For Tidal + HiFi on Linux.
I’m back to just using Shortwave to record radio station tracks to grow my own local self hosted music cloud now.
Not giving my $$$$ towards enabling Ai slop.
So you say music streaming is taking the same enshittification route as streaming in general? That sucks to hear :/ I really want to switch, but I am only paying like 5€ in a Spotify family… so if it’s just too hard it may be not worth it. However Spotify is fucking annoying me, it always plays the same shitty music and doesn’t learn at all from my taste
Like Velvet Sundown with 3 albums in 1 month lol.
p.s. Not sure If you saw my link for Linux-Tidal app:
Update from The Guardian:
+1 for TIDAL Hi-Fi
I switched to that from the web client today in order to enable their “Max” quality streams and enable keyboard media key support; has worked out great so far.
Shortwave is cool, MusicPod incorporates local music and podcasts into the same app, which is pretty cool. But yes, internet radio is dope.
I don’t have a great answer to your questions, but thanks for trying to support us during these dark times.
I’ve been using the web player for Qobuz, and it appears to allow for high quality output–I’m streaming at 24bit/96kHz at the moment (though I’m no audiophile, so I guess I can’t confirm that’s what I’m actually getting).
And apparently Qobuz pays the most per track of any streaming service, which is cool. The only thing it doesn’t have is customizable “radio”, but otherwise it’s solid.
And apparently installing the Windows client in a Bottle works well too, or so I’ve read. Can’t say I’ve tried it.
The what ads???
I gave up on native client for a couple things. So instead of downloading someone else’s electron packaging I use the web app shortcut using Firefox to fake that qobuz is an actual app.
It’s a thing on Linux Mint, not sure about your distro. You can choose icon, and make location bar visible or not. No tabs, it doesn’t get mixed with other Firefox tabs, and that is it.
I use volumio, it has integration for tidal and qobuz
Sounds interesting. If I understood correctly, it’s about 5 bucks a month for remote access and tidal/Quboz integration? Also I need to set it up on a server or raspberry pi? Could be a bit overkill for just a music player…
Mines on a Pi2b with a DAC hat, access through web or android app. I suppse you could add it as a docker image.
It may be overkill for your needs. I like it because I can browse my own music library or, online stream, plus it has a slew of internet radio stations included in the free version (you can custom add others)
I’ve been using this Qobuz client for Linux, it’s electron but seems to handle HiFi - at least to my untrained ears.
Any reason in particular you need a dedicated client? Can you not just use a PWA?
No particular reason. I don’t really have much experiences with web apps. I don’t like the idea of putting every functionality into my Browser and I like it simple.
Look at it this way, if you run all pws with same browser you’re not increasing the memory footprint, but if it’s electron you do because you have multiple copies of electron in your disk and your memory.
And there’s more electron apps out there than you know. Slack, visual studio and Spotify, apparently, included.
I’d recommend giving it a go and see if you like it.
Can you elaborate on this topic? Are we just speaking about a web player?
PWA is basically just a browser window that looks and functions like an app on your computer. You can launch it from wherever you launch apps. It will open in its’ own window. It’s functionally identical.
Functionally identical to running it on browser, but no match for true speed and experience of desktop app.
I use them but I’d prefer true options.
This is the way to go
sudo apt install youtubedl-guipay money directly to the musicans
if youre willing to sail the seven seas, nicotine+ with tauon music box
