iTunes, Spotify, Winamp, ect. (what do you use?)

[rapucore]

Windows Media Player.

I did use Winamp about five-six years ago, sometimes Foobar as well.

 

[Winston Wolf]

Winamp sounds like shit.Windows media player is better by far.
On OSX things are kinda opposite,iTunes sounds like shit,and 3rd party players sound much better.

 

[Flow Of Time]

I don't think media players make a difference in sound...

 

[Nuno Filipe]

Winamp sounds like shit.Windows media player is better by far.
On OSX things are kinda opposite,iTunes sounds like shit,and 3rd party players sound much better.

 

[Winston Wolf]

I saw this reaction coming.I'm not an audiophile or anything,often I hear no difference between mp3 320 and wav/flac,
I'd suggest to test it yourself:
have a listen to the same file (either mp3 or lossless) in OSX iTunes and then in a player like Audirvana...

 

[Flow Of Time]

The only way I could imagine them sounding different, would be that this Audirvana has some implemented EQ going.

 

[AD Chaos]

VLC. Open source (with a fair amount of updating), light, customizable controls, and it can chew through almost any kind of audio/video formats-codecs you throw at it.

 

[jamvanman]

MediaMonkey here. Don't really like iTunes and needed something to get stuff onto my iPod. But for some reason I'm having trouble getting music onto my iPhone. Anything else you guys are using to connect with your iPhones?

 

[Winston Wolf]

The only way I could imagine them sounding different, would be that this Audirvana has some implemented EQ going.

No,it's not EQ or DSP. Audirvana and other players bypass CoreAudio,I can not explain technical details,but the result is that the 3rd party players that do that
sound better.

 

[Flow Of Time]

No,it's not EQ or DSP. Audirvana and other players bypass CoreAudio,I can not explain technical details,but the result is that the 3rd party players that do that
sound better.

Sounds interesting with bullshitty vibes..

But let me google real quick before I judge.

 

[JeffTD]

I love Spotify as a consumer but god I hate it as a musician/producer. Nobody actually gets paid out of it - small artists get totally fucked.

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

windows media. and I buy cds.

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

dup post

 

[Gujukal]

I love Spotify as a consumer but god I hate it as a musician/producer. Nobody actually gets paid out of it - small artists get totally fucked.

Yeah, you probably need around 100k plays at least to get decent money from it. But they have been getting better with time when it comes to paying artists. I remember back in 2009 or something when Lady Gaga and other big artist got paid like 300$/year when they had millions of plays ^^

But the company are actually losing money so if they are going to pay the artist more they need to raise the prices if they not wanna get bankrupt.

 

[HOFX]

Yeah, you probably need around 100k plays at least to get decent money from it. But they have been getting better with time when it comes to paying artists. I remember back in 2009 or something when Lady Gaga and other big artist got paid like 300$/year when they had millions of plays ^^

But the company are actually losing money so if they are going to pay the artist more they need to raise the prices if they not wanna get bankrupt.

I think Spotify's business model is hinged on converting free accounts (ads every two songs) to paid accounts. And the monthly pay out is:

My_Band = Total Income x Total Number of Plays / My_Band's Plays. That might seem fair mathematically, but I think there should be some weighting there at different thresholds of plays.

For example, for the top 20 % of the bands apply a factor of 0.4, middle bands, factor of 1, and bottom bands a factor of 1.5. I mean, how many millions does Jay-Z need?

CORRECTION:
My_Band = Total Income x My_Band's Plays / Total Number of Plays .

 

[LeSedna]

There is a payslip floating around where a grammy award artist gets around 30 bucks from his online streaming royalties all combined. In the business model, it is not a source of revenue anymore, I think it is better to consider it a permanent ad campaign than an income.

EDIT oh and iTunes on mac is neat, I don't see the need of anything else. It does not lag and serves a lot of purposes, the main one being a hassle free big play button. Any mp3 i have is put on the icon and therefore included, sorted, with the cover and all, in a few seconds, and I can delete it. I simply keep a specific folder for random mp3 which don't really belong in a music library, and I use VLC usually for these. I love VLC but life is too short to loose time hand managing a library anymore

On windows I loved Mediamonkey. Clean simple and efficient