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The offer to pay more for the same finally pushed me to cancel Apple Music. What is a good alternative that's not loaded with ads? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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I’ve had an Apple Music subscription for years and use it A LOT. I tried some alternatives (Tidal, Sirius, and maybe one other?) and wasn’t super happy with the options.

Is there a service that people recommend that is good, like $10/month or less, maybe gives better pay to artists? I’d like to spend on a better company if possible too. If Apple has enough money to buy gold trinkets for elected officials they probably don’t need more from me.

Edit: Thanks for all the responses. Some good ideas for sure. Gonna start with qobuz and band camp. Cheers!

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[–] 30 points 2 months ago (17 children)

No. Buy their CDs and rip them into something like Jellyfin.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 months ago (12 children)

    That's not realistic. I have a CD collection, but that took decades and thousands of dollars. Plus I had access to Columbia House (if you know, you know) and a robust used market. That doesn't exist anymore.

    I don't think a person who's sensitive to $11 a month is going to be interested in a collection of $25 CDs.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Exactly this. A music collection is expensive. Even more so if your tastes change over time.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Even more so if your tastes change over time.

    This is a challenge. I've grown on hip-hop and rap, and finding the media is a struggle. For example, the first 'Run the Jewels" album is basically unavailable on CD.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    I'm thinking of the other end of the equation: I don't listen to a lot of the artists I liked twenty or thirty years ago. I'd be annoyed if I spent a bunch of cash on their albums only to have them be coasters now.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    Buy used. OP can probably pick up five used CDs a month and stay under budget.

    Of course the artist isn’t paid here, so you might as well pirate at this point.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    While I don’t disagree with your comment, this part:

    and a robust used market. That doesn’t exist anymore

    isn’t as bad as you might think, at least where I live. Used CD sales are the highest they’ve been in over 20 years. Sure, it’s not like it was at its peak, but it’s coming back in style again. The rest of your comment is definitely true though.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    HiFi services are more like 16€ a month, ish, which is like 180 euros a year. 5 years and you already spent over 800 euros on nothing. My last skirmish with these services taught me to buy when I can and pirate the rest. Not like artists were earning anything relevant from my subscription anyway.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    I think Qobuz and Bandcamp have the ability to stream what you've purchased, as well as downloading to own. So in the interim you can still stream, and the option to self-host or just have it on your local devices is a bonus that could be explored later.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I feel like that’s a couple levels of effort more than I’d like. As good as it would be to support the artists by buying CDs I don’t want to buy more plastic and clutter the house. I could also do the same from the library, but that’s not supporting artists either.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    That is what we did before streaming made us lazy.

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