Google Play Music or Spotify?

Which one is better?

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This. But if you really have to choose, the answer is Google Play Music.

Social aspect (sharing music and playlists, stats, etc.) and total songs makes Spotify excellent, but it lacks the ability to upload your own library and the Android app fucking sucks arse.

Personally prefer GPM due to being able to upload my own library and have it smoothly integrate with music available for streaming, plus the Android app being significantly better.

Google is fucking it all up by killing it in favour of YouTube Music in the future, which at this point seems to be the worst fucking music streaming service I have ever seen.

Definitely Spotify.
>Same fee,
>more outreach on devices like smart boxes and TVs.
>"Native" Linux client (web based but not Electron, same as other platforms)
>Basic social features (if you have friends).
>Better taste recommendations from their botnet AI and better radio
>Everyone uses it

The only real good thing GPM had going for it was being a great service for pirates. I used to torrent albums and upload them to GPM, and they integrated much better. But this is overshadowed by the fact that Google can't tell it's head from it's ass and has YouTube Music, YouTube Red or fucking whatever competing against it, and your shit can be absorbed at anytime. If you don't believe me, just look at their chat stuff. Allo and Duo was the future and now it's dead. Just like Hangouts. Just like Google+ Messenger. Just like Google Talk.

Soundcloud

Ahem, smloadr. Thank me later.

>paying for music

Play Music just for the fact that you can upload your own shit and fix weird metadata.

Get a computer and you can fix metadata...

>10k song limit on Spotify
Google play unless you don't listen to much music

>Paying for music

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What I mean is you can't fix Spotify's weird metadata at all on any platform so you end up with weird shit like this where as you can edit all information about every song on GPM
Unless I'm misunderstanding and you're saying to use local music where you can edit the tags

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Spotify

THIS

Spotify
>cross-plat integration, can control my desktop/whatever playback from my phone
>basically infinite (or broken) skip limit, just run into a few ads (most blocked) on free account
>actual (((desktop app))) from microsoft store with media key support

Still a fan of Play Music's upload feature and for general infosec using a pre-existing account.
Think the only issue is if you factor in cost, and especially both at once for each of their strengths.

deezer free

It's getting axed? Jesus, what the fuck is wrong with Google? Why do they keep killing every product that works and replacing it with barely-working trash? It's like fucking clockwork at this point.

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Cherry

But if you're limited to the 2 obviously GPM.

GPM let's you download bought music and upload your own for later download. Better algo for finding new music too.

>Torrenting
yikes

>web based but not Electron
It still runs on Chromium, and somehow manages to eat more CPU time at idle than some of the Electron-based software I've used.

>being paid for software you made

Yeah, it fucking sucks. I have so much shit in my local library that doesn't even exist on any of the streaming services. GPM just does this so fucking well and I fear the day I have to switch to Spotify when they eventually fuck it all up with YT Music. It's a shit service that mixes your Youtube likes and favourites (way too often videos that aren't even music), completely defeating the purpose of playlists.

Google, please. You will most likely not read this, but for the love of fuck, DON'T kill GPM in favour of YT Music. Perfect GPM by making official desktop software and work on label connections for a wider library. GPM is so fucking good apart from this shit. Literally everyone with a GPM subscription I've talked to will cancel if YT Music stays the horrid shite it is once you kill GPM.

Spotify because superior open Ogg Vorbis instead of deprecated MP3

Keep up, grandpa.

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>torrenting
torrenting+soulseeking

You can upload some ridiculous amount of music to Google Play completely free anyways

>48khz
No thanks

AIMP

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that better be 1.3

what if that user doesn't have a soul and doesn't want one?

I'd much rather use my actual browser than a "web-based" or Electron app. At least then I can choose the browser and keep it up to date.

>48khz ehhw
You poor fool

Can you hear sounds between 22050hz and 24000hz?

>Not ripping vinyls to flac and opus

as a relative "newfag" but nine the less avid poster since 2013 I will give your post a 1/10

Limit is 50k atm. It's pretty nice.

That is not the point.
Do you hear the difference btween a 44.1 and 48KHz track?
That question pointless too really.
OPUS is ahead of the other lossy codes so much that it can still achieve a better sound quality/file size ratio than every other lossy codec in existence.
Ill admit that I'd rather have a 44.1 KHz option in opus encoders too.

>vinyls
overrated, seriously. red book is excellent

>Do you hear the difference btween a 44.1 and 48KHz track?
I very much doubt that I could.

cracked version of Spotify

But what if my shitty DAC plays 44khz better?

What if my autism doesn't want to complicate the signal chain by resampling?

Spotify is absolutely better when it comes to features. Google Play Music doesn't even compete. It's just so feature-rich. Spotify also has fewer glitches and problems with album titles and such.
However, Google Play Music is better in the sense that it helps you build an organized library rather than just a jumble of playlists. Also you can upload a much larger amount of your own data to the service if it's not available in the service itself.
So really, it's pick your poison.

Only as an absolute last resort. Like if the music you're looking for isn't available anywhere else, even for a price. Then torrenting is fine.
Otherwise it's just inconvenient and stupid. Not really worth the time.

None. Both are disgusting botnet and DRM enabler.

Spotify Premium my nig

Personally prefer Spotify and I honestly do not miss the times of autistically downloading every album and organizing it on my pc

>Torrenting your own music
Your music is outdated. I need fresh releases modern groups. Not Justin Biber.

>Otherwise it's just inconvenient and stupid. Not really worth the time.
Not really worth what time? You don't even own music downloaded through steaming services, nor can you transfer it to all devices to listen offline.

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>nor can you transfer it to all devices to listen offline.
But you can

See:

Not with Spotify you can't.

These.

I'm a poorfag student so I end up torrenting a lot of my stuff but if you end up using public trackers it can be hard to find some stuff. If the cost doesn't matter at all it's way easier to buy that music from the band's website and download it from there.

>but if you end up using public trackers it can be hard to find some stuff
Rutracker and Soulseek my man.

You unironically download the songs with one click and they get downloaded on all your other connected devices on their own.

That's not what I meant. Audio files are encrypted for all other devices without Spotify and there is an offline storage limit as well. Along with:

of course they are encrypted because its a paid service. I am not denying its basically a botnet, but it lets you play your music offline

Google Play because it comes free with YouTube Premium which is the only subscription I want to pay for. No more ads watching YouTube.

>actually paying for YouTube which is barely breaking even for Google (Alphabet)
>what are ad blockers
>what is YouTube Vanced
Next you'll tell us you listen to music on YouTube as well.

kind of off topic but does anyone know a decent free blu ray player

alright, I presented the better of the two choices. you can happily go for the literal ad network service or rot in the corner of your room with some fucked MPD setup, wondering why you never got a girlfriend.

The mother of projections.

>Not using a modded apk

Torrenting is a fucking hassle for music

>picking anything Google
Yikes

Isn't Spotify quality tied to account type?

Literally not true. Apple Music and Spotify sync your library across all devices seamlessly so you don't have to, and allow you to keep albums offline. Google Play Music also syncs libraries but only allows you to download to phones, tablets and Chromebooks.
It's less work than torrenting. The only reason to torrent music at this point is if it doesn't exist elsewhere. The only real difference is that with streaming, the files themselves are locked up in the app so you can't go uploading them somewhere else, whereas torrenting gives you the raw data.

>Google Play because it comes free with YouTube Premium
Not anymore, it doesn't. They stopped that last year. They're separate subscriptions now.

>The only real difference is that with streaming, the files themselves are locked up in the app so you can't go uploading them somewhere else, whereas torrenting gives you the raw data.
This is not exactly a benefit over torrenting, nor are Apple/Google devoid of privacy concerns.

Deezloader, download 320kbps mp3 or FLACs straight from Deezer servers.

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Hahahahahahaha

>don't download things for free, pay 10 bucks a month or buy the album go- er, friend!

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>yet another buttmad poorfag angry at the idea of not stealing

>hi there i spent 3 years carefully crafting this album. i pour my heart and soul into it and ran into a lot of frustrations alone the way but in the end, it was worth it. this is the finished product, i'd love for you to hear it if you could just -
>GIBS ME I WANT IT GIMME GIMME GIMME OR ELSE YOU'RE JEWISH

y'know I'm a socialist and all but imagine being /this/ poor lmao

You do realize buying music from steaming services does virtually nothing to better the livelihood of the artists?
digitalmusicnews.com/2018/01/16/streaming-music-services-pay-2018/
Going to shows, buying merch and anything directly through their websites is the right way.

I use modded premium(freemium kek) Spotify and Pandora with no fucks(or bucks kek) given.

they're lazy consumerist retards

Tidal followed by Deezer
But you're better off buying CDs if you can be bothered and can afford it
Otherwise and GPM if you don't have enough storage

Buying albums individually does almost nothing for the artists themselves directly, either, but that's not the point. The labels that hold them are the ones that directly benefit from your payment, and the musicians benefit from that.
Are you really telling me you'd prefer to wait until you can get to a computer, install a torrent client, search every corner of the web for a high-quality rip of an album you like, download it, move it to your phone and listen that way rather than just download an app, set up and account, pay $10/mo and listen to as much music as you want for as long as you want, whenever you want? It's incredibly convenient and incredibly cheap.

>Buying albums individually does almost nothing for the artists themselves directly, either
I would like to see the source for this. Where would the middle man or the publisher be in that case? Especially if you're buying digital music.
>It's incredibly convenient and incredibly cheap.
I don't think this is much of a hassle and you get to transfer anywhere you please.

spotify is shit. how it got popular with normies is a mystery to me

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Torrent them.
Keep them locally to listen.
Upload them to Google Play Music since they give you the ability to upload 100,000 songs.
You can now stream them anywhere with an internet connection.
You can also download the songs from GPM if you want to share a song with someone.

Unironically apple music
>more variety
>better stations
>$4.99 a month
Last time I tried spotify, I was listening to an RnB station and they literally started playing country.

>being this broke
Get a fucking job, loser.

I took a class on this in school. As an artist, you have a shit ton of people siphoning money from you. Various managers, lawyers, label(s), distributors, and services like Spotify all take a cut of the sales, leaving the artist with a fraction of what they would get if all of the money went to them.
Labels for the most part are the most egregious money takers, since they're the ones who are also paying for shit like studio time and recording, booking shows, even hiring managers and lawyers for in some cases.
When you sign a contract they typically expect you to produce 2 albums or more for them. They pay you a chunk of money up front, usually a pretty small amount in the long run, then they promise you royalties afterwards, while they reap most of the benefit from your work with direct sales and streaming.

On the other hand, buying artists' merchandise and going to shows (if they're not sanctioned by a label) cuts out the middleman substantially, allowing you to give most of your money directly to the artist. If you buy a $200 ticket for the show, the venue gets around 10%, the various personal managers take maybe 20%, leaving the artist with a 70% take on the sale of that one ticket. $140 is a lot more money per person than the miniscule $2 or few cents they get from selling albums and streaming respectively.

>The only real difference is that with streaming, the files themselves are locked up in the app
Wrong. Apple music lets download whatever you stream on your devices. The files are then stored as .m4p which you can convert to .mp3 or whatever you want.

You can download them for offline use though

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