Music

interesting that Qobuz, Tidal, Napster, and Apple Music all pay 3-10x more per stream than Spotify, yet hardly any normies who complain about shitty streaming artist fees use them.

seems like Spotify’s discovery algo is the real deciding factor for consumers listening to music, not paying artists. revealed vs. stated preference.

also worth noting that each of the competing platforms listed above offers higher audio quality than Spotify, ranging from lossless 44.1/16 all the way to 192/24. this also doesn’t seem to matter too much for the average listener.

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any service that offers lossless streaming is excellent in my book, which includes Qobuz, Tidal, Apple Music, Napster, and probably a few others.

Tidal and Qobuz go beyond that and offer hi-res streaming up to 192khz/24-bit, but imo that’s mostly relevant to someone who is listening with a dedicated DAC and likely other outboard components like an amp, preamp, etc. not super relevant for listening on airpods or similar.