[temp0826]

A few of my favorite artists have dropped from Spotify (for great reasons that I agree with) and I want to switch to something else. I gave Apple Music a try but the interface is just unbelievably bad. Also I am a Linux user and the lack of a native app is brutal (and Cider, a 3rd party app, is a no-go for me). Tidal seems decent though and I'll probably give it another shot eventually.

The other thing is I actually do get a lot out of the suggestions and daylist of Spotify. I guess there are some 3rd party recommendation systems out there now (pulling in data from last.fm scrobbles) but I'm not aware of something that would be as easy and have such an integrated result.

[sedatk]

Apple Music has a native Windows app (and surprisingly not Electron), but it's quite unstable and laggy, and makes me deal with "authorize this computer" or whatever every week. So, practically equivalent to having no native app.

[temp0826]

I went down the rabbit hole with it and even briefly tried it out via wine before giving up. Pretty unfortunate that there isn't even an electron app. The web gui is just painfully slow and clunky (plus not being able to download/cache songs is the biggest bummer).

[soiltype]

Tidal and Qobuz are good, if you need a streaming service, although Qobuz is much less oriented around "pick a vibe and press play". They might not have exactly the things you like about Spotify, but as far as sacrifice goes, if you feel Spotify should be abandoned for ideological reasons, it's trivial.

[nsteel]

Tidal seems less obsessed with breaking everything all the time. They have a decent API and while they want you to use their playback SDKs, they're relatively less hostile to the various 3rd-party playback libraries (they don't actually encrypt their media, so once you have a valid bearer token you've got everything). I've not tried their Tidal Connect solution but I have heard it's a bit rubbish.