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.
Beatport offers some very high quality streaming; but since it’s oriented more towards DJs, the discovery aspect of it is pretty lacking. If you only want to listen to the specific songs you pick, it’s pretty good. Plus, you can buy songs in FLAAC format.