Tidal
This was an alternative to Spotify that I’ve seen being recommended. I’ve tried it during work as a way to try and escape Spotify’s onslaught of ads. However, after I created a playlist on Tidal of songs I wanted playing, all of them went for 30 seconds a piece. I couldn’t deal with it and ran right back to Spotify to have a functioning playlist.
any replacement for any software owned by a corporation imo is overrated… if I can’t self host it, then I’m just replacing a shit service for another shit service, even if the new shit isn’t full on shit yet… it will be.