I’ve had an Apple Music subscription for years and use it A LOT. I tried some alternatives (Tidal, Sirius, and maybe one other?) and wasn’t super happy with the options.

Is there a service that people recommend that is good, like $10/month or less, maybe gives better pay to artists? I’d like to spend on a better company if possible too. If Apple has enough money to buy gold trinkets for elected officials they probably don’t need more from me.

  • gopher@programming.dev
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    3 days ago

    Oh that’s shit. QBZ is great. What was the specific reason for the suspension?

    My account seems to still be OK

    • Fushuan [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      3 days ago

      That the app was spamming too many requests to their server apparently. It might be related to the new update they did. It might also be a fucking lie and them suspending the account because it did requests on the weekend where the service was down and it was retrying all the time. I don’t know. In any case, shame on them for making me promise not to use the only way on Linux to listen to their music on actually on HiFi.

      I’ll have to install waydroid and do something hella over engineered to use their official tools.

      Btw, QBZ was just a wrapper of the web player on a custom browser with HiFi enabled, they tried upgrading the tool recently to use API calls, but if this happened at that time I would have been able to defend it saying that it’s just a wrapper of the webpage. In any case, I’ll have to do something similar myself (electron browser with hifi enabled).

      • gopher@programming.dev
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        3 days ago

        That sucks, a good company would instead work with QBZ to ensure it’s resolved properly.

        I didn’t see any other reports of people being banned. I’ll just keep using QBZ but better keep the subscription monthly in case…

        • Fushuan [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          3 days ago

          Yeah, that was my exact reaction honestly. If they aren’t offering the thing in Linux, maybe don’t demonize someone doing it for free? Whatever, apparently Linux Firefox doesn’t downsample audio so I can use the web player with bit perfect sound with some tinkering, so that’s nice. There’s even a tool to set the bitrate, I’m trying to build an appimage of the thing so anyone can run it to set their bitrates dynamically correctly.