[noahtallen]

Honestly, the two Spotify apps I regularly use (macOS and iOS) are some of the best apps I use. I’ve had small problems on the Windows app. But overall I find the Spotify experience fantastic. I have several thousand songs downloaded, and that works fine as long as I can keep the iOS from putting the app to sleep during a download.

In terms of alternatives, the Apple Music iOS app is pretty bad in terms of performance and bugs compared to Spotify. I can’t imagine the android app is much better.

I’ve heard that the other competitors are basically YouTube music or Amazon Music. Besides that, I guess there are the hi-fi options like Tidal. If I was going to try a different service, I’d probably go with YouTube Music so that I can also get YouTube premium.

[lstamour]

If you find Spotify and Apple buggy, just wait until you try Amazon Music, Tidal or YT Music. It can be hard to start streams against Alexa devices, figure out what’s playing, move it from speaker to speaker, download tracks, keep listening to something you started playing but then it just decided not to continue playing, and so on… Mac apps behave badly, don’t focus when you alt-tab, don’t always use the right speaker output, don’t automatically set output bitrate for HD tracks (you had one job, Amazon!)

Spotify may have problems, and I subscribe to all but Tidal at this point, but Spotify’s app is not a reason to stop using Spotify unless you really like giant album art, maybe. Or 24-bit FLAC. Spotify’s streaming quality is second worst, the only one worse than Spotify is YouTube on a random video rather than an officially uploaded song…