Planning on ditching Spotify & I’m wondering what y’all thing of qobuz vs. tidal. Seems like neither have podcasts so I’ll have to get a separate app for that. What are your thoughts?

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    11 days ago

    EDIT: Take this post with a big grain of salt. I couldn’t verify the claim, because I couldn’t find the twitter profile of the CEO (then and now) Richard Sanders. However, the company is ultimately controlled and owned by Block, Inc. (formerly Square inc.), where Jack Dorsey has a 79% ownership (2025). He’s a billionaire, the twitter co-founder, Bluesky founder, and so on.

    I’m moving from Tidal asap. Because the CEO seems to be pro-genocide, at the very least.

    Claims I’ve seen here and some other shit elsewhere:

    Tidal seemed like a good alternative but it’s problematic as well, as the CEO retweeted on X a few days after Oct 7th that said ‘we stand with Isr’. I think he may have shared other pro-Isr posts since but perhaps deleted them. Deezer CEO also under fire for being part of a WhatsApp group with senior politicians etc about supporting Isr…

    The one decent alternative I have found is Qobuz, which I’m looking into – it seems to have a lot of variety in terms of music catalogue and I can’t find anything ‘problematic’ about them (they don’t operate in Isr). Also allegedly offers higher payout to artists than many others.

    https://www.reddit.com/r/BoycottIsrael/comments/1bi8cnq/music_apps_that_are_not_on_the_boycott_list/