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Asterix

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24,438 posts

257 months

Tuesday 31st March 2015
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Rick_1138

3,945 posts

207 months

Tuesday 31st March 2015
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Yeah..No.

This is just greedy stars expecting even more money.

I get they are moaning that spotify have a free tier and they get less money but doubling the standard price of Spotify is simple greed, and then stating you only get the HD quality if you pay double the standard price is laughable.

I lost some respect for Daft Punk being amongst that line up, as I thought they were more fan orientated.

This is Jay Z and The moany Prick Kanye trying to expand their 'Empire'

I am all for paying for music and I have just started to get into spotify as it has heaps of old weird stuff like 90's PC game music, but this Tidal just smacks of massive ego's and greed and I hope it falls flat to show them that the reason Pirate Bay and napster were so succesfull was because CD's and ITunes (at the time) were far too expensive.

This will just make people want to pirate music even more, its like they didn't see the last 15 years of history in music distribution.

The pretention in the video of them all round that table on my FB feed this morning was laughable.


bullies180

1,833 posts

223 months

Tuesday 31st March 2015
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Going to stick to Deezer myself, the way this has come across is that it is something for the artists and not for the fans. Exclusivity deals in this area will only push people back to illegal downloads.

Rick101

7,186 posts

179 months

Tuesday 31st March 2015
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I don't understand the hate for spotify. I know they don't pay much, but they do pay every time I listen to a track. Surely that recurring revenue is a better and longer term arrangement than a one off sale.

djdest

6,542 posts

207 months

Wednesday 1st April 2015
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The whole thing is massively flawed!

For a start, if other small artists sign up, will they get a piece of the pie or just a small payment for music played?
If its the latter, then they are no better than the middle man they're claiming to cut out!
Clearly they only want to cut out the middle man for themselves, but then become it for everyone else.

High quality music:
People will moan about how much of their data allowance it uses up.
People will listen to it on their crappy Beats or .99p Apple headphones, neither of which are amazing quality any way laugh

It is complete and utter greed from those 15 people. That signing up crap couldn't of been more cringeworthy if they had tried!

They won't be seeing a penny from me unless there's an option I can pay for where I never have to hear any of their music again smile

The most important thing they are forgetting is, revolution starts from the bottom, not the top wink

dorme

263 posts

210 months

Wednesday 1st April 2015
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djdest said:
People will listen to it on their crappy Beats or .99p Apple headphones, neither of which are amazing quality any way laugh
Have you used the latest apple ear phones? they are very good (agree prob not FLAC good), and certainly not 99p, add £19 to that.

And agree on the beats front for the previous generation, but the new studios and solo 2's are genuinely good - anything but crappy.

djdest

6,542 posts

207 months

Wednesday 1st April 2015
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Yes I got some with my iPhone 6+
They might sell them for 20 quid or more, but they won't cost anywhere near that to make!
As for beats, I'm yet to hear any good ones. My Sennheiser HD25 sound much better, and cheaper too!

Z06George

2,519 posts

218 months

Thursday 2nd April 2015
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Sennheisers FTW!
Anyway on topic I've got nothing against Spoitfy, of all those companies I think they're the best. Agree about this Tidal thing, just seems like greedy BS from the artists involved. Annoyingly I see it working for them just because they have that much influence and money over the mainstream. However Kanye is involved so he'll probably fk it up for the lot of them.