Yesterday someone made me a playlist of our favorite KGLW songs. I woke up this morning, tried to play it, and nothing happened. Thought it was an issue with Spotify on my end so I restarted the app a bunch. Then clicked on the KGLW artist page on Spotify to notice that pretty much every song had been taken down. Went to Instagram to see if any KGLW accounts had the same issue, saw this post from a few accounts. Does anyone else here know what’s up?
Same here. I have all the albums downloaded for offline listening. As I’m playing through them, each one stops playing and disappears from my collection.
I’m curious if the band has said anything publicly about it.
Good for them! Fuck Spotify! Although they did leave up all the Bootleg Giz stuff still …. Wonder if that will stay on Spotify. Everybody know about Bootleg Giz on Spotify ?!
What streaming alternatives do y’all use? I would have switched a long time ago but I refuse to buy into the Apple ecosystem. At least we have that Gizz Tapes app.
I use Tidal because it’s one of, if not the best for artist reimbursement per stream (it’s still not much). I also only pay $5/month with a student subscription so it’s worth it for me. The Tidal app kind of sucks, though. I hear Qobuz is another HQ streaming option, but have never really used it so can’t comment much on it.
The best way to go for artist compensation is Bandcamp. It’s a shame, though, that the UI is a little lackluster, although you can do playlists now with your purchased music.
I use Deezer, time to join me here for some of you I guess. For those who don’t know it that’s a pretty good streaming service I always used that one. It’s good at recommending things (the flow system in particular I think is unique to it), it has a high sound quality (or at least that’s what I’ve heard I don’t have the gear to hear the difference lol), it seems to have a fairer way of distributing revenues than other streaming services (though I don’t understand it very well I recommend you to look into it if you’re interested in knowing more) and is has an anti-ai policy. The downside for gizzheads is that Chicago '23 and 10 of the 2024 shows are still missing on bootleg gizzard. Also I think it’s worse than Spotify for the problem with small artists with the same name being put together in the same artist page.
Also for nerdier people using the Strawberry Music Player can be a great option but I never tried to setup that and I don’t think you can use that on mobile.
I had finally ditched spotify for tidal about a month ago. The reddit fan base is really crashing out. I do not understand this whole mentality that one cannot make a moral choice without immediately making every moral choice. Maybe the hambland fairweather fans will boycott the band. It probably helps that I grew up in a pre streaming era and have over 100 gb of music loaded on my phone, plus bandcamp. All those folks are acting like their tape deck ate their favorite mix tape.
I left Spotify for Amazon Music years ago when Neil Young and Joni Mitchell left over Rogans contract. I had considered leaving earlier for HIFI sound, but was convinced I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. On a first listen you probably can’t tell, but for music you know well, HIFI is clearly recognizable to me. Its the biggest lie Spotify has gotten its customers to believe. Gizz could easily leave Amazon Music too since I think they have gotten worse for artists over the years and of course how they run their company, and I’ll deal with it then. At one point they paid artists like .008 for the premium tier streams, not sure if that is still the case. Right now for me they have the largest HIFI catalog with best ease of use for an Android user. Trying to use Apple applications on non Apple hardware sucks.
Dropped Spotify as soon as the band did. Was planning to go to Tidal, but discovered Qobuz at the last minute. Went with Qobuz.
Pros:
-The music is amazing quality. I can notice the higher quality on some of these albums I’ve heard streaming 100 times. My understanding is that generally Qobuz > Tidal > Spotify for musical quality. I only notice the difference when listening in stereo, but if you care about quality you’re probably listening in stereo.
-Playlists all moved over easily using the site they recommend from inside the Qobuz app
-Pay for a full year instead of month to month and get both a 17% discount + 1 extra first month of trial period free.
Cons:
-The app is worse than Spotify, but not unusable by any stretch.
-Streaming Hi-Res music accidentally on my phone (even after downloading the songs…) put me over my data plan 4 days into a new month… User error there though, make sure you don’t let it use cellular data! Since turning cellular off, the downloaded tracks play as intended instead of streaming.
-Worse selection (but they have King Gizz so they still win), but this is a tiny issue for me, check the catalogue before you move over. I had 5 important to me playlists that totalled 95 songs. 91 moved over no issue to Qobuz, 3 I had to find myself under slightly varied names, 1 was unavailable (a small band’s self released indie track that is on Spotify, but not Qobuz).
Overall I’m happy with the new streaming option. I’m still in the 1 month trial, and I intend to let the annual charge go through in a week or two and keep it.
If anyone has any Qobuz tips to get the most out of it, please message me!
