As per title, if you had to switch away from Spotify ASAP, what streaming service would you go with? Ideally something around the same price range, meaning the change won’t incur in extra expenses. Also good if the service does its job well: playing music and paying artists. Any feature parity with Spotify is a bonus, except podcasts, which don’t require a paid streaming service. Or audiobooks. Focus on music. No piracy either (it’s illegal). The more money going to artists, the better.
Edit: extra bonus points if it is not 'Murican! Also, piracy is very illegal!!!
Are things bad because they’re illegal? Piracy being illegal is basically irrelevant, since you’re not gonna get fucked for doing it; the question is if it’s bad. Just wanted to point this out, sorry about the tangent!
YouTube Music, IMO. You have basically every song you’ll ever want, and then some. YT Music Premium does also pay artists, I believe, since you’re interested in paying.
YT Music also comes free with YT premium.
I have YouTube music and… It’s pretty awful. Ytmusic will sync your liked YouTube videos with your liked music playlist. So I’ll shuffle my playlist and get this or like a 10 minute music video where half of it is just people talking.
It doesn’t sync your liked YouTube videos unless they’re tagged as music, to be fair… But yeah, I mean, that’s a thing. I’ve only ever liked music videos myself for some 10+ years, so that doesn’t really matter to me much.
You’re right tho, if you want to start a “liked music” playlist you should just do that instead of using the default liked videos playlist. If someone is coming over from Spotify, I guess that wouldn’t be much of a problem? Not sure, tbh.