Example: Mine is Pandora, but I’ve used Jango for more independent artists as well.
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I’ve downloaded nearly everything I listen to from youtube. I forget what I even used to use before discovering youtube-dl.
youtube-dl is not maintained anymore, the new one is called yt-dlp (I’m writing this so people know what to search for)
SoundCloud, but I almost exclusively listen to long mixes.
Tidal or Apple Music.
I use Pandora too! There is an option for “deep tracks” to get some more obscure options played.
Qobuz!
Despite my complaints about their business practices, I still stick with Spotify. Their family pricing is pretty decent, the integration with third-party services/products is really solid, and it’s exceedingly rare that they don’t have what I’m wanting to listen to (and in those cases, it’s usually because the artist doesn’t have their music available to stream anywhere at all). I just wish they weren’t such scumbags in pretty much every other area.
I’ve been ride or die Spotify basically since they release in North America, and have had a family plan going for years with my wife, a house account, and then my sister and my parents on it, and it was great, but they’ve become such turds about their family plan. Yes fine, my sister and parents don’t live with me so if your IP flag shows up and you want to email them to have them confirm their address, that’s whatever. But they emailed my wife, and when she didn’t reply in a week they dropped her from my account and noted that she couldn’t rejoin it and that was a bridge too far for me.
I’ve been paying for Apple+ or whatever it is for a while for the two of us but liked Spotify enough that the now $20ish a month was worth it, but this pushed me to migrate all our playlists over to Apple and just use the service we were already paying for. I can’t understand why Spotify would be such butts about it because I easily would have gone up to $30/month to cover my family but now they’re getting nothing from me.
Similar - I signed up for my Spotify account with a VPN, as it was only available in Europe / UK / something like that. Have been paying for as long as I can remember.
With our family account, we had a house account, wife, mother, grandmother, and myself. In reality, only 2 of those accounts really got used.
The family verification emails were definitely annoying. But the yearly price hike with few important feature improvements, combined with things like audiobooks being for the primary account only, caused me to re-eval.
Now, my wife is on a student plan on Spotify, and I’m trialing Tidal. I expect to stick with Tidal based on lossless and higher pay for artists. If I don’t, I’ll likely swing over to Apple Music. Switching and migrating playlists is pretty painless, overall.
In any case, I’m glad I’m out of that abusive relationship with Spotify.
I’ve tried Spotify, yt music, and tidal. Tidal and Spotify are pretty much identical for the most part but has higher quality files and pays artists more. Yt music is really good at recommendations from my experience with it.
So anyway, now I pirate all my music in lossless flac (whenever possible) and listen to it via plexamp. If I want to try a new artist I just download their most popular album, if I like it I get more of their stuff. The library must grow.
iBroadcast
you upload your own library and then stream it anywhere
SDXC 1TB
Deezer. They had great prices for a while. Luckily I locked in a yearly subscription before the increase. Right now it’s equal to Spotify, so I’ll reconsider after it expires.
Bandcamp is also great if an artist you like is on there
YouTube Music that comes with the YouTube Premium plan.
Until it doesn’t. Until the service is killed and you need to use a new one, and your library doesn’t migrate over. I got sick of Google just killing everything and not supporting anything. I remember when Google play music was killed and ytm was a way worse interface. Ad blocker and Spotify for me.
I got sick of Google just killing everything and not supporting anything
I agree with that. I think YouTube won’t be killed as long as it is the biggest platform for videos, but I’m not sure about ytm.
ytm was a way worse interface
I think it’s fine? What’s wrong with it?
Did you ever use Google play music? Interface was way better. I remember when they first kicked it over I’m like “am I watching a YouTube video of this song, or is this like the actual song front the actual artist?”
It just crammed it all into one and I had no idea if I was getting the good quality original songs half the time.
I used to be a Google Play Music user and it definitely took time to understand the new interface, but it’s not that bad after you get used to it. From my perspective you’re just hating whatever new to you.
Don’t give google money.
Do you pay for the artists tho?If you don’t, you’re doing what Google is doing, or worse.
Apple Music. I had such a sizable library from years of iTunes gift cards I figured why switch. I hear they pay Artists better than Spotify so that’s a bonus.
Tidal. Higher quality audio is the main reason. I got tired of hearing Spotify’s muddled compressed sound and waiting for them to release a higher quality plan.
+1 but for me it was additionally the artist compensation
+2 but for me it was Plex integration
Spotify… It’s very convenient
The Current from Minnesota Public Radio. They have 4 or 5 stations, and the occasional sponsor spots are read out by the DJ. No car horns and space sound effects interrupting your bluegrass jams.
