![]() Consider augmenting your streaming subscription by supporting artists in other ways. Those acts are seeing pennies on their streaming statements.Ĭancelling all your streaming accounts is one solution, but that doesn’t really help artists or songwriters, either. Things are much different for emerging artists, your old favorites from 90s alternative rock, or hip hop. If you’re an artist at the top of the charts-Taylor Swift or The Weeknd, or one of the best-loved catalog acts (The Beatles or Led Zeppelin)-streaming royalties are a lucrative source of income. The overwhelming majority of streams at all the music services are from a handful of current hit acts. And that’s not even counting the live TV content you can’t get with just a TV antenna. If you subscribed to Netflix ($15.49), Disney+ ($8), Prime Video ($8.99), HBO Max ($14.99), Paramount+ ($4.99), Apple TV+ ($4.99), Hulu ($6.99), Peacock ($4.99), Showtime ($10.99), Criterion Channel ($9.99), Starz ($8.99), and Epix ($5.99), you’d be at just over $105 per month and still have just a sliver of all the movies and shows available to rent or buy in digital format. If you have issues with the big companies in the streaming world, you can consider those services as genuine alternatives.Ĭompare music streaming to movie and television services. They’re still corporate entities looking to turn a profit, but they’ve staked out a position where success or failure is based entirely on their ability to deliver a quality listening experience. Tidal, Qobuz, and Deezer are music-only companies. Their moves into podcasting and content creation have created controversies that have already had some negative impact on their image and business, as several artists and podcasters have removed their work from the platform. ![]() Spotify has looked for ways to compete with these deeper pockets since the company went public. It also does not offer high-resolution quality for the rest of the songs. The drawbacks are that it has a smaller music library than Tidal. It also has a mobile app that makes it easier for you to navigate. They might even be using their music streaming services as a loss leader. Qobuz, on the other hand, has a huge library of one million high-resolution songs. The advantage that Apple, Amazon, and Google-owned YouTube enjoy is that music is only one of their revenue streams, so their success doesn’t depend on profits gleaned from streaming music. Since approximately 70 percent of your subscription dollar is passed through to music publishers and copyright holders, all music streamers are operating on thin margins. I used Focal Celestee over-ear headphones for all my high-resolution listening. I used both a Dragonfly Red and an iFi hip-dac2 as a DAC (digital-to-analog converter), connecting the to the iPhone using the standard workaround with an Apple Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter. For high-resolution streaming, I used a 2021 MacBook Air with an M1 chip and an iPhone 13 Pro Max. ![]()
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