Posts tagged music
Self-hosting music
- 11 April 2026
Recently I decided to ditch music streaming. A few years back a migrated from Spotify to Tidal. I was mostly motivated by superior quality of the latter, ethical concerns regarding the former (ie paying 200M to Joe Rogan) and realising how little music streaming giants pay the artists.
I was happy with Tidal most of the time. It allowed me to discover plenty of interesting artists. But over last 4 years, I felt more and more like music consumer. And while Tidal shares more of its profit with the artists than Spotify, realising how little the musicians make from my streaming made me feel uncomfortable.
So I decided to ditch commercial music streaming by: