I've been meaning to distance myself from Spotify for a while now but I've got a lot on my plate and their service has been very convenient. I've been paying for no ads since 2014 so I haven't heard the ads personally but have seen multiple sources online describe them and confirm they they haven't stopped as of today. I cancelled immediately. Not sure how many Spotify users there are on Lemmy but I just thought y'all ought to know what they're up to. Spotify let's you write a message saying why you're cancelling and I was very descriptive. Hopefully they'll back down just like Disney with Jimmy Kimmel.

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[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 29 points 5 days ago (4 children)

If you're in the market for a replacement service, I can recommend Qobuz. Switched to them a while ago and they're great, and apparently pay the artists really well.

[–] chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Just switched and i an liking it so far.

[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Qobuz app also works on Linux nowadays. Has a couple issues that you have to fix, and one minor annoyance I haven’t figured out how to solve.

EDIT: Here's a guide on how to use Qobuz on Linux. With a newer version than the one used in that guide, the Qobuz app (including the installer) opens minimized to system tray. I don't know if this is a feature in the app itself or something with Wine. But other than that it works great.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There's also a fantastic third party Qobuz client for linux. It's CLI, but if you launch it with --web it launches a local web client that's point and click. You can choose any audio quality up to 24bit/192Khz.

I have it hooked up to my hifi system and connect through ssh to control it from my laptop or phone. Works great.

[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Qobuz apps/players can also be controlled with other Qobuz apps. For example, if you have Qobuz running on your computer, you can control it with the Qobuz app on your phone.

That CLI player is probably better if you just want a remotely controlled headless player, and don't need the Qobuz integration.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Cool, I wasn't aware of that! Might be worth checking out.

I'm the unfortunate owner of a few Sonos speakers, and Sonos controls are not well integrated in the Qobuz app yet. But I think I heard rumours that better integration being on its way - this is where I would really benefit from being able to control with the Qobuz app. (right now I'm using noson, which is at least much better than the official Sonos app)

[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think they released Qobuz Connect earlier this year. Sonos doesn't seem to be included, though.

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/connect

https://www.qobuz.com/gb-en/discover/apps-partners -> Audio

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 2 points 5 days ago

Thanks!

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

And here I've just been using it through a web browser...

[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 2 points 5 days ago

Just earlier this year it wasn’t possible to install Qobuz on Linux. I guess the Wine team implemented something that fixed the problem.

[–] binarytobis@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I tried Qobuz and the sound quality was great, but I primarily use the “radio” feature off of a song for new music discovery, and their radios were wack. Also they were missing about 7% of the music I tried to transfer. No other complaints, pretty solid otherwise.

So far Tidal hasn’t given me any issues. Hopefully they pay their artists and don’t do horrible things, because I don’t have the energy to jump services again this year.

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago

I've heard good things about Tidal as well with respect to paying artists. Glad it works for you!

[–] thermal_shock@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

How do the voice commands work with this app? Similar to Spotify? I use Google speakers currently.

[–] perfectduck@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

I've recently switched off Spotify to tidal and now qobuz and the voice commands haven't worked for me.

As far as I can tell it's not a native app to the Google home and won't work. I may be missing something however, so your results may vary. You can cast to it from a phone, but again qobuz seems the weakest on that front.

[–] owenfromcanada@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 days ago

Can't say as I haven't tried, but as another commenter mentioned, they have cross-device control similar to Spotify. The Android Auto app works well too, so I wouldn't be surprised if it supports voice control as well.