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European Alternatives for Music Streaming (choosingeurope.substack.com)

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Deezer (France 🇫🇷) Qobuz (France 🇫🇷) SoundCloud (Germany 🇩🇪) IDAGIO (Germany 🇩🇪)

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[-] pugslington@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

I tried Deezer and I might stick with it. Out of my whole music library it was missing a very small percentage of songs that TBH I don't really care about. It sounds good and it doesn't push podcasts down your throat. The only issue I encountered after about 2 weeks of using it is that the UX is not as good as in the Spotify app. I can live with that if that means I won't contribute to the wealth of their CEO who's slowly turning evil. I love the recommendations algorithm. It doesn't feed you the same songs over and over again. In Spotify it feels like you're in a constant loop. Open the mix and it regurgitates the same songs you've been listening in the past month. Scroll down and you see the recently played. Open discover weekly and listen to AI slop. Deezer flags albums that might be AI generated garbage and that's another plus for me.

Qobuz is not available in my country (Romania) because I assume they just dont want money. Man, I hate geo-locking so much. It's one of the dumbest things in the world. Just shut up and take my money!

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 19 hours ago

I tried Deezer and Tidal but I missed features I use all the time with Spotify... Namely the ability to control another device, casting and multiple users casting to the same smart device. With these, it makes it quite hard to use alternatives in a shared home. The catalogue is essentially the same.

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