Example: Mine is Pandora, but I’ve used Jango for more independent artists as well.
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Jellyfin 😎
I used to use Google Play Music for years but when they shut down YouTube Music has always been garbage by comparison. I just pirate the music I like and donate occasionally to artists I like.GPM was utter perfection. It recommended such perfect suggestions and the mixing was like God himself was DJing from heaven. YouTube Music is still what I use but I dislike it.
It was super smart with offline streaming too, queuing up the smart downloads when you had no connection and requeuing your original mix when the connection returns. I relied on that for road trips and nothing comes close in functionality.
The feature I loved was when it would show you albums of bands that were playing near you. It was such a great way to get into locally playing bands.
I didn’t even know that… Dang, now I miss it even more
It was so good.
RiMusic
Tidal or Apple Music.
Qobuz!
Bandcamp, 100%. I’m under the impression that it’s the best third party platform for forwarding the biggest percentage of sales to the actual musicians. If there’s a better one I’d love to hear about it. That’s the most important thing to me before anything else.
SoundCloud, but I almost exclusively listen to long mixes.
Tidal because Plex integration.
How exactly do you use these together?
Mine’s Mirlo. It’s not owned by a big corporation, plus it’s open source too, with an ability to customise your own artist page, just like bandcamp, alongside being able to help and contribute to independent artists as well.
Nugs
I’ll probably get downvoted for it, but I use Amazon Music. It’s the only Amazon service I’m willing to pay for because it works well and unless I’m looking for something super obscure they usually have whatever I want. The only real problem I’ve ever had with it is that some songs that are considered “too controversial” are sometimes removed from albums.
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 used to like Deezer. I found the audio quality better than Spotify’s. Better user interface too, simple and straightforward unlike the messy and cluttered Spotify inteface. Stopped using it when they removed regional pricing.
Audiogalaxy
They still around or is this a joke? Lol
I’m currently leaning toward YouTube music.
I’ve subscribed on and off from Pandora for years (remember their founder sending you an email thanking you for participating in his experiment?). I find that my stations quickly start playing the same set of songs over and over.
I’ve also given Spotify a shot, but it seems like you either have to make your own playlist or listen to someone else’s. I personally like the algorithm fuled rabbit hole.
YouTube music has a decent catalog and their suggestions have introduced me to a lot of good music. Their android auto experience kinda stinks, and most things are transitory (eg no stations you tweak to your preferences over time), but IMO the discovery it offers is worth it. I also like that it lets you actively manage your queue, add songs/albums to it, rearrange things, etc.
My beef with YouTube music is that no matter what song I start from, in 4 songs it has turned into Levitating by Dua Lipa.
Children’s songs? Foreign language? Electro swing? Hip hop? Doesn’t matter. Levitating is coming soon.
With regular YouTube I swear if I watch any music video, or even non-music videos sometimes, there’s about a 50-50 chance that the next recommended music video is “In the meantime” by Spacehog. Don’t get wrong it’s a good song, but jeez I keep attempting to go down music video rabbit holes and all it shows me are ones I’ve already seen.
That’s interesting, I haven’t had that experience. I wonder what’s creating the difference between the two of us :(
Pandora because I’m old. Also I don’t like the Spotify algorithm.
Pandora’s “radio” function is just way better. I spent years on Pandora when it was brand new, then years on Spotify when it came out in the US, then back to Pandora a few years ago. Predictive playlusys on Spotify suck, it gives you the same songs over and over based on genre rather than artist or song. Pandora digs way deeper and often plays me music I’ve never heard before.
I’m bummed they’re owned by SiriusXM now, I just have this feeling they’re going to stop investing and kill it one day
Pandora has best radio functionality of all the stteqmong services till date, iniwws tp have Pandora when it was available globally and with radio functionality it was as if you are one who selected those songs. Ibtoed of coming back to USA , tried it with VPN. I have tried all the streaming services and nobody has best algo to choose songs like Pandora has YouTube is coming that way but it’s still not as good as Pandora. I would have bought 0andora solely because of that but it seems that they will never be available out of USA :(
