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.


I am able to self host a solution but for convenience I just use microG and yt music revanced with revanced microG, no ads and I can find almost all what I want, In desktop I use brave with the included AdBlock and I just install yt music page as a system app.
The quality isn’t the best honestly but as I’m not an audiophile the quality is enough. If you are on Android just look for Fiorenmas GitHub. If you are on iphone I don’t know about any solution as I have never used an iphone as a main phone.