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Spotify are not a “big tech incumbent”?

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What? They absolutely are lmfao, they absolutely dominate the industry in casual music listeners.

Oh I see what you meant… 🤦‍♂️

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Definitely not FAANG or MANGA or whatever we’re calling it now.

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Bandcamp is US owned, but still worth mentioning I think because of their commitment to high revenue sharing, about 80-82% goes directly to the artists. They have custom playlists, and offer high quality formats as well.

If the goal is a quality product and an ethical approach to supporting artists I’m not dead set on only using European alternatives

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They also have Bandcamp Fridays, where 100% of the revenues go to the artist. Personally I always wait till those days to buy music on there

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May be worth mentioning that it’s not every Friday that this happens. I was under the impression that it was, and would have accidentally made a purchase on a random Friday if I had not looked further into it because I wanted to check which time zone was used for the cutoff.

The remaining 2025 dates:

  • May 2nd
  • August 1st
  • September 5th
  • October 3rd
  • December 5th

https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-fridays

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That is entirely true, sorry if my previous comment was ambiguously worded.

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For Quboz, there’s also an option to buy albums or single tracks. You can just download the DRM-free high-res audio files.

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who gives a fuck if they dont sell in EU

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who gives a fuck if they dont sell in EU

They sell in some countries of the EU, but yeah, they don’t serve the entire EU.

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then i submit they dont belong in this thread

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Qobuz also sells DRM free files in both high resolution and lossy file formats. https://help.qobuz.com/en/articles/10167-what-are-the-different-audio-formats-available-for-download

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Qobuz is unavailable in Poland. So much for being European.

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Additionally, Spotify highest quality, while not perfect for nitpickers, is actually totally fine and good enough for 99% of audio equipment used by consumers. If you play your FLACs through wireless headphones… oh boy you have some learning to do.

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