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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)
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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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[–] 90 points 2 months ago (4 children)

A couple of years back I gave up streaming for ownership. The main driver was the utterly unfair deal artists get, and the lack of ownership for my hard earned dollars.

At first, it felt like I was missing out, and I missed the algorithms that helped me find new music. Determined, I stuck at. Discovering BandCamp, and rediscovering CDs was instrumental. For algorithms, I actually found forums to be better, and connected to more amazing artists than before.

Where possible, I buy CDs. If not, I buy FLACs. From BandCamp, you can often get both. The CDs get ripped and stored unless I got FLACs too. I use MusicAssistant for streaming my own collection, and automatic file sync to keep a copy on my phone while on the go.

At the end of the day, I've a sizable collection, spend less than streaming (overall, obviously not up front), I have ownership, and artists get a much better deal 😃.

Fuck streaming from apple/Spotify or similar.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago

    CDs and Bandcamp are also my way to go.

    In my case, the main driver was disappearing songs. I hate it when I have a great playlist or collection of albums and some of them mysteriously disappear without notice. Or worse, they get replaced with a different version.

    sigh so back to CDs we go… luckily second hand discs are dirt cheap, and even new albums are quite cheap (inflation-wise) compared to their prices in the 90s

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

    What about 24/96 or other HiFi? CD quality isn’t really that great, even losslessly copied when higher quality is available.

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