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!

  • gopher@programming.dev
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    That sucks, a good company would instead work with QBZ to ensure it’s resolved properly.

    I didn’t see any other reports of people being banned. I’ll just keep using QBZ but better keep the subscription monthly in case…

    • Fushuan [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Yeah, that was my exact reaction honestly. If they aren’t offering the thing in Linux, maybe don’t demonize someone doing it for free? Whatever, apparently Linux Firefox doesn’t downsample audio so I can use the web player with bit perfect sound with some tinkering, so that’s nice. There’s even a tool to set the bitrate, I’m trying to build an appimage of the thing so anyone can run it to set their bitrates dynamically correctly.