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.
Lidarr. Mostly works just like the others. Seems best equipped to grab full album or discography collections. It can grab search queries from a number of other sources, so that you could (as an example) add a song to a certain Spotify playlist and Lidarr would check that list and add the song/album/artist per your settings.