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 wanted so badly to like Tidal (and Qobuz), but after using it for several months I discovered it had removed 5-10% of my music from my “liked” list. Presumably because the artists re-uploaded a higher quality version, but they didn’t give me any notification at all and there was no way to see what was removed.
People say Spotify does this too, but when I went back, my number of liked songs hadn’t changed in that same time frame.