It’s unofficially done by some Devs in their free time. I low key hate that it’s publicised as having a Linux client, other devices also have unofficial clients.
Tidal also has Tidal-HiFi, an electron wrapper of the web client that enables HiFi music, which is pretty much all I care for a desktop client. It also pays artists much better so… Yeah.
I don’t need the music industry using my money for forward anti-consumer practices, thanks. Its unethical to buy music from the industry. Go see a gig, buy a shirt.
obligatory fuck spotify. the worst streaming service ever https://youtu.be/x6x5t0cj1sM
Also the only one with a Linux client
It’s unofficially done by some Devs in their free time. I low key hate that it’s publicised as having a Linux client, other devices also have unofficial clients.
Tidal also has Tidal-HiFi, an electron wrapper of the web client that enables HiFi music, which is pretty much all I care for a desktop client. It also pays artists much better so… Yeah.
https://github.com/spotbye/SpotiFLAC Why use Tidal when you can just take the FLACs from Tidal for free?
Because the product is good and artists earn money that way. Idk.
I don’t need the music industry using my money for forward anti-consumer practices, thanks. Its unethical to buy music from the industry. Go see a gig, buy a shirt.
https://tidal.com/pricing
I can’t see any free tier, does this mean you’re telling the OP and all free users of Spotify to get fucked?
For all intents and purposes it’s the same client, I see no difference between the ‘official’ client on Windows and the Linux version
I rather use the page directly and have ublock deal with ads
There’s an unofficial one for Pandora as well. I’m not claiming Pandora is a great service, it just comes ad free with my phone plan.
While it’s got its faults, I’m a Pandora guy and find it vastly superior to Spotify, particularly when trying to find new music
i use web and android apps for yt music and bandcamp
For Qobuz there is an unofficial native client, with DAC passthrough: https://github.com/vicrodh/qbz
Works very well.
i use the th-ch gitHub for youtube music on linux (also has ad blockers, themes, and plugins)
edit: i think its actually called pear desktop now?