Technology

Where do you get the media from, though

Navidrome is even better

I wish it was for me (truly I do), but I listen to most of my music in the car. It didn't buffer the next set of songs nearly as well as Spotify, so when I went through low signal areas the music just stopped playing. And the Android Auto app wasn't as good. The sound quality was minimally better, but not good enough to overcome the other issues.

My wife and daughter had heard ads sparingly and they only listen to music. I assumed it was some sort of bug because it is very infrequent, but with today's corps I should probably invoke the inverse of Hanlon's Razor and just assume malice.

Deezer played ICE recruitment ads last year on their service.

why is it stressful? you search for the track, and you click play.

I will never give YT music money since they killed off Google Play Music (a far superior music app) to make it. I told them during the switchover the only way they would keep getting money from me was to not kill GPM, and so far, I've kept my word.

Bandcamp is very nice!

Me personally, just because someone else is paying for it. The second they stop, I'll go somewhere else.

Sharing and creating playlists with friends. Discovering new music. Endless playlists of high quality for all genres and moods. Family plan is cheap.

Convenience of instant access to gazillion songs, though i'm not sure if the average spotify user even listens to anything other than top-lists

They have far more niche music than anyone else. I mean that from a Finnish perspective.

It's still been cheaper than the alternatives if you buy for multiple people, and has most of my native country's artists at this point. I'd like to switch, but I'm worried the other services don't offer enough finnish music, and just couple euros more is a lot of money when you are poor.
Of course you could say "don't pay for these if you're poor", but it's the only subscription I'm paying for, and I feel like abandoning every single thing that can still bring me joy is kinda asking for my depression peak so I'm back to trying to hang myself again.

Though the moment I hear adds or the price increases again, I'll obviously switch immediately

Exactly why I canceled Amazon Prime. 100% would recommend canceling. I don’t miss it.

Well, not really. I've discovered a ton of music in the past couple years I never would have bought or even had access to, without streaming. But Spotify does suck, I much prefer YouTube Music, which comes with Premium.

1.: I divide the payment of Family across 3 members.
2.: I listen to so many songs individually, it would bankrupt me to buy every single song individually or the full album.
3.: I'll buy an album (2nd hand discogs (so good)/ebay, digitally on wherever or bandcamp). If I don't like the music as much or the buying process is annoying, I'll pirate the song.

So yeah. It depends.