I Got A Problem With Music Streaming... 

they don't have any jimi hendrix though, which kind of sucks

@@dextergrahame9008 they do though

they dont have a lot of the stuff thats on bandcamp and soundcloud

SoundCloud free is way better, just don’t let the next song auto play and there’s no ads.

Yeah but if you use it on mobile, you have to pay to play the music while the app's closed.

I believe ya, however the ads for podcasts are starting to get out of hand too that I just started supporting the podcasts i do like on patreon for ad free episodes and just extra content. Tho I’m certain even that will be pricey after a certain point on wanting just ad free versions of multiple podcasts. :/

Dissapointing. but its truth. More I hear about spotify the less I want to use it. They just aren't putting in the passion. honestly I don't much care for podcasts. I come to listen to musicccc, not boring tapes of podcasts. Someone even said how they were 'putting out all the stops/REALLY BEEN STEPPING-UPPP their game', that's bullshittt (utter bs/baloneyyy). based on nothing, completely groundless statement to make. I'm Like well.... they don't.. haven't '#hashtag Stepped-up their game in yearssss/donkeys years'. but people say these BASELESS Things to make them sound impressive when all doing is spreading misinformation. oh yeahh and this softare aka Spotify REALLY GOT IT ONNNN, IN RECENT DAYS/WEEKS and MONTHS/YEARS/Decades (They've really stepped it upppp). Er Nooooo.... They have not... Pure and SIMPLE. UTTERR UTTER CRINGEEEE. waffling way through youtube video to add fillers hoping noone will notice. what utterly baseless nonsense. (definitely caught them out there). Like saying you really stepped it up a gear, when only ever been 1 gear. and its that gear that makes bike fall backwards continuing down a hill. where there's no traction between the gears (just loose/stayed loose). To dupe their audience. anyone with brain would know spotify HASN'T stepped up game, since 2006. (barely). its outdated. hasn't been anything new in music point since its inception. (other than data policies, maybe ever so slight tweaks to UI). Dude haven't you just been using SPOTIFY? fact is haven't stepped up game (where it matters, music) for years). Probably saying it because huge spotify fanboy. but making it out like its fact. baseless. Maybe.. idk try another music stream service like Tidal and then comeback to me and say they've stepped up their game. It's been nearly 20 years and haven't made any changes/developments. other than recommendations.

That's because they don't make money from music

They're becoming RU-vid 2.0

just get premium so you dont have to deal with ads

Agreed… my friends listen to Japanese music more than I do and they justifiably complain about this semi often. I think inconsistentcy between songs being the original Japanese, Japanese and English, or just English is a huge barrier to music discovery, as for instance searching “Coral Reef” now gives you the excellent song by Shigeru Suzuki (& my friend tells me the album that’s from wasn’t on Spotify for years)-but how would a primarily English speaker find the song outside of playlist, radio (+ etc.) recommendations? It kinda stinks.

Same thing for metal and vaporwave in my experience, kinda understandable in some cases but still super annoying

THOUGHT I WAS THE ONLY ONE

I don't listen to too much Japanese music, but I was sad to see that I could not listen to Flood by Boris

I can not find ANYTHING on toshiki kadomatsu and it makes me so damn angry

that takes up so much storage though i wanted to do that but it’s so much

@@void151 yea, luckily I got a phone with a lot of storage, so that's not a worry

What mp3 player do you use?

@@void151 i bought a 128gb samsung sd card fpr about 20 bucks just for music . I have a lot of flac discographyes and at the moment the whole library takes only about 30-40gb

@@farisshaarawi7506 5000 high quality mp3s amounting to 15 gigabytes? Doubt. I have precisely 5059 tracks in my carefully curated CD quality collection and it adds up to 51.7gb.

If you can find download links to the albums/mixtapes you’re looking for you can upload it to your phone through local files

If you're listening to music on RU-vid then tough luck, it's also bad because of a low bitrate. Ouch.

I ended up having to buy the album "We Are The Lost Loves" by Young Heretics off Discogs because it was impossible to find otherwise. Spotify hasn't had the songs available for probably years, the uploads on RU-vid are just unofficial rips from 12 years ago, and Amazon hasn't had the album for sale in years, either. Ridiculous that an album that was literally given out for free download is now borderline lost media.

@@bacone- Yeah, no. Fuck that. RU-vid's audio quality SUCKS.

@@necromax13 i don’t think you are looking for the right videos of the sound quality sucks… and there is a mixer in the app itself that can make audio quality higher

stem player

If he doesn’t I’ll eat my pants

And it will flop like the stem player

he’s making a car so it’s not too far fetched

Like Jay did Tidal but we ain’t rivals Study under him like Jesus’s disciples

On Amazon music it says that green day "American idiot" came out in 1998, it came out in 2004

multiple stevie wonder albums on apple music switch between the actual year it was made and 2014

YES. SPOTIFY IS THE WORSSSST with this. I hate it

@@bigjohnson989 💀

@@stultusAKAfoolish yea like quit telling me talking book came out in 2014 apple music lol. most recent example being Mac Miller Faces not having it's original release date when it came out on streaming this year so people who aren't older mac miller fans thought it was a new album lmaooooo

I listen to a lot of music so I pay happily for Spotify premium for no ads and better audio quality. But I watch tv shows and movies so infrequently so when I wanna watch something I just pirate it honestly lol. I know a lot of people who spend like over 100 bucks a month on all of these different streaming sites / services and theres no way they actually get good use out of all of them. Its insane, people just giving away their money for nothing basically

That’s super cool!

@@aSmallGreenDot this is a video about music streaming services; we're all nerds here

I have some fishmans albums scrobbled in two forms because of switching from Tidal to Spotify

@@man4437 you got rym?

what's a scromble?

it's awful for foreign music tags ugh

Also something a lot of people don’t realize with streaming is that we like to *own* it. I like the way CDs feel in my hands. That’s *my* music. *My* CD. I can do what I want with it. I *own* it. This is *mine*.

Or you could just put those rips to a dedicated auto player from FiiO or something which can store 2TB.

@@Puffman it's your music if you pay for a subscription lmao???

@@Puffman My black air force 1s say that CD actually *is mine* instead. Jokes aside I 100% agree and am vehemently anti-streaming, anti-cloud.

I don’t think they removing songs because they want but because they artist don’t want them in Spotify. I was missing some songs and then they put it again.

RU-vid is amazing at recommending random, obscure music (like '90's Japanese depressing pop) and just really nice artists. Though, sometimes when in the shower I get a literal 5 minute ad in the middle and I can't do anything 😥

I literally only use RU-vid for my music listening experience lol I do make sure to backup most of my music tho as RU-vid is pretty trigger happy with blocking songs in my region or just flat out deleting songs.

The exact reason I switched to Spotify. Is the UI super confusing? Yeah, but the personalized playlists really allow you to branch off and discover new songs and artists

Because Apple sucks. I have an iPad but otherwise Apple is just terrible. RU-vid music is great! And you can bundle it with premium so you dont get ads on two platforms. Or what I forced my family to do is join the family plan so we all (4) get RU-vid and RU-vid music on premium for 20 bucks. It's fantastic. And the UI is super simple. Apple music is just terrible based on how few artists they have so yeah

Spotify is the WORST for this. Daily Mix 1-7 are always things i am sick of. Useless discovery feature. SoundCloud has a very small library but it's so much better at recommendations

Yeah it is annoying

Do you still have it? I don't know why people don't like it. Yeah it's not the best but Im just curious.

@@jamespadilla7070he told you why in his comment

it's not underrated. their app just sucks so people choose not to sacrifice convenience over quality

@@HikoHikoHikoshi that, and alot of people who care about audio fidelity are the same people who would have alot of their library missing on Tidal.

You can have flac over deezer, with a nicer ui than tidal

tidal is expensive compared to others

As someone who was into that, there's value but it's generally not worth it. For most people. Also my lastfm doesn't like "Kendrick Lamar, Baby Keem" as an artist

whats your listening setup?

Does Apple music affect the sound quality? Even if it does do you listen to small artists?

@@jamespadilla7070 Apple Music has a lossless (supposed CD quality), but Tidal has "Master Quality." It's third-party coding called MQA. I do notice the improvement compared to regular Lossless compared to both Apple and Tidal, even on my consumer-grade Sennheiser BT headphones, but it's subtle at best. Perhaps if I had an external DAC and actual studio-quality headphones, the difference may be even more profound. MQA is not open-source coding if that's important to you. I believe Deezer has higher quality through FLAC, which is open-sourced.

what headphones do you use?

@@jamesyoo4779 uh but are you sure you have a good enough bluetooth codec to play that high of audio quality?

Yeah! its funny how the biggest enemies of piracy are the ones who "promote" it the most

Actually, it's a reason why pirating music nowadays is not convenient anymore (in contrast with videos streaming where you have to pay several platforms to watch everything)

@@ketenaike Yeah, but then you're also giving money to music labels... which is like giving money to Satan.

@@Ren-bo7bj and what's the best solution? Giving all the money to the artists? Definitely not, what about all the other people that worked in the song? An intermediate I guess would be the best, but for sure downloading mp3 doesn't help at all

Eventually you start to rip music from discs and into the high quality music rabbit hole you go

Nope, I did too! Wade is the reason for my iPod collection lmao

Technically every streaming service is actually a pirate site, you don't own a single copy of the music you listen to, you just "borrow" it for $10 a month and it's accepted since it's not free, but looking at the statistics finds that artists only get an extremely small percentage of revenue with the streaming services taking the rest. Honestly the only reason streaming even exists is to combat piracy but I find that really ironic considering it's basically a premium version of pirate bay

how to do that with Deezer? I want to know

@@rimaq_ (asking for a friend of course)

Hi I'm French and here we use Deezer a lot (maybe as much as Spotify) and it's not for this exploit, most people are not even aware of it

A lot of people do but I would say more people just use it because they like it and don't even know about the exploit lol I'm one of the people that use the exploit sometimes but I have friends that use it normally

This is what I've been doing for a while now. Streaming is getting so bad, too many companies removing content you want due to licensing, data harvesting, subscription models; I'm kinda getting tired of it. I've been keeping MP3s of my CDs and from... other sources on my PC that I sync to my iPod. Manually filling out the track information and lyrics is way more personal and worth the savings IMO

lol good one

Pandora is so bad tho. It's just radio. RU-vid music is very underrated tho. No one likes it for some reason.

man, i had GRIPES with pandora as someone who listens to game osts. it was either: 1. mario galaxy 2. halo. you want sonic unleashed? lol. nier? lol.

Thanks to Dank Pods I have procured an iPod collection. And following Louis Rossmann and seeing how greedy corporation have gotten I've been looking at owning more of the content that I like, like DVDs, CDs, and MP3s. No corporation can touch my music library

very.

Totally understand. I probably wouldn’t be using Spotify Premium anymore if I wasn’t on a Family Plan-Spotify has fucked up their service SO bad the last 5 years. A steady nosedive, with a great recommendation algorithm and Wrapped being its only saving graces.

Problem for me is, I usually don’t like a whole album. There are exceptions, but the vast majority of musicians I listen to I probably only listen to 1-5 songs throughout their entire discography. Which would be fine if it weren’t for the fact that my playlist has almost 2,000 songs and that would be quite the hit to my wallet. I actually just got a notification this morning saying I listened to 761 artists in 2021... that’s a lot. I also listen to music mostly at work so it needs to be on my phone. But I also like the seamless ness of telling my google home to play Spotify or my PlayStation or my laptop. It just works together, which is nice. I’m also not even sure how to download songs to my phone cause it’s one of those phones that doesn’t have a dedicated audio app and instead everything just gets dumped into “files.” I’ll just stick with the $10 Spotify. Easy, has parity, low cost, and some cool features like Wrapped, Discover, and Blend. I’m surprised I haven’t heard anyone mention blend yet.

I use streaming on desktop to find new tracks. As for actually listening - only downloading because it's far more convenient.

@@Diphenhydra You can download individual tracks pretty easily.

@@Sasha-zw9ss Just gotta dawn an eyepatch if ya know what I mean

Is it really? Hmm that's dope

You don't need that great of headphones. I can tell the difference very clearly through even my ath m40x's

I’m an Amazon music guy, and they have Ultra Hd music or whatever it is and I’m not sure how close that is to lossless but it does sound better than most other streaming services I’ve used. (I haven’t used tidal) Edit- I looked it up and Ultra Hd is on par with Tidal HiFi (Amazon at 24-bit/44.1 kHz and tidal at 16-bit/44.1 kHz) But tidal master audio is 24-bit/192 kHz

@@noimageavailable2934 I mean plus £50. A pair of JBL Gummy’s won’t show it. But a good set of over heads or plus £100 in ears will.

@@dumpling0079 that’s the thing. Hifi is amazing, but hearing Massive Attack’s ‘Protection’ andPrimal Screams ‘Screamadelica’ through Tidal’s Masters and on a hi-fi, is pretty damn special.

i don't have an iPhone, that's the thing lmao

we're talking about premium here, in that case, you could argue spotify is free too

@@lukehTM Oh, then none.

@@Carl_Gunderson idk man i watched this video 4 months ago but i must've took it from somewhere

Just use youtube music its the best there ever is

RU-vid music has too much music. I know the UI isn't what people want. But I want music not fancy little color gradients like apple. If the artist doesn't have specific songs or albums up you can still find them and download them as songs within the yt music app because it has access to any video listed under music or song. You can even listen to songs that were copyrighted. It's amazing but people don't like it for some reason.

A year later, how are you doing with ad blockers? The reason I ask is because YT has bee especially cracking down.

@@palmshoot I’ve had to switch ad blockers like twice but you know, that’s quick and easy so it’s no hassle to do.

Spotify is not social media, SoundCloud is.

Napster is still around?

@@Dave102693 yep, but it's a streaming service (formerly rhapsody I think) last time I used it it was pretty good, apparently the new update is absolutely horrible

Unless you make unofficial remixes💀💀💀

But who needs an app. I like how upfront RU-vid music is. It's not exactly polished but it gets the job done while having more artists and a direct link to Playlists on RU-vid which you can access on almost every app

ReALLY

Apple Music doesn’t have it as well :(

sounds like a label issue etc that will eventually get resolved and music added back to streaming, happens every now and then. Unless the artists actually themselves pulled their music off streaming for whatever reason