For all the well known reasons (Joe Rogan, poor payment to musicians) I decided to drop my Spotify Premium account.
What to use instead? Here are some unstructured notes on the applications I tried
Magnatune
Magnatune is a small publisher. They seem to treat their artists well. They were one of the early internet music sites and they have not updated the interface.
Good music and well curated.
Pandora
You have to pay to get to change songs. Still a pretty good selection.
Youtube Music
- Mobile app works well
- web app works well
- chrome cast works best with video capable devices but Chromecast clients work fine.
Amazon Music Unlimited
- HD and Ultra HD content is nice and does sound slightly better through my receiver (5.1)
- Pretty good selection
- Mobile and Web UI are really, really bad
- follow/favorite buttons for artists don't change state when pressed or show current status
- casting to Fire Stick 4K works until it gets unsynchronized and then you have to reboot the Fire Stick
- Each app is an island and can't control a player. You can share via chromecast until that stops working
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