I’m getting fed up with Spotify because all the usual reasons and now the CEO calling music “content” with “nearly no production costs”. Fuck that, time to vote with my wallet after being a user after an early beta invite.
What I want is a service that
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pays music creators decently,
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that has a comparable catalogue outside the charts
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and that works well with a good UI on Windows, Linux, Android
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and either headless on a RPi or has a integration with Kodi with high bitrates or even lossless.
Searching for comparisons drowns me in click baits and auto-generated content. I’d appreciate some real world experiences.
I’ve been streaming my own stuff via mpd for about 25 years. It has its own http server (much more robust now than it was when they introduced it), plus it can broadcast via icecast/shoutcast.
ibroadcast
is a free service that you upload and sync your music to that allows you to access your own stuff everywhere. Clients for every platform. The premium tier streams in flac, etc…