I currently have Spotify, mainly because I signed up a while ago and never really bothered to explore alternatives.

I pay €13 every month these days which I feel is quite a lot. I was already thinking of getting a few friends together and sharing a family plan, which would make it cheaper. But if I’m doing that I might as well take a proper look at my options.

What are some good, hopefully ethical, European alternatives? I know Spotify is from Sweden so good in that regard (?). Deezer is French, but also mostly owned by some American investment firm. If I can believe what I read they pay artist a bit more, which sounds like a good thing, but I don’t want my money to mostly go to American investors…

Any advice is highly appreciated!

  • nfms@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I’m using Transistor on Android (one of the apps mentioned in their page) and it works.
    I also have a Raspberry Pi media player with Moode and my day goes from NTS (my favorite), FluxFM, NME, KEXP and SomaFM. Internet radio has been my biggest discovery and I use it every day.

    • mote@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      (adding to your info) I use Audacious on Linux desktop, it’s great at handling streams and has a nice interface, very configurable. I choose to keep it a minimalist “in the corner” style.

    • SayCyberOnceMore@feddit.ukEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Adding a +1 for radio-browser

      I’m still using RadioDroid even though it doesn’t seem to be maintained at the moment… and even a fork is losing momentum, so I didn’t make the jump.

      Maybe I’ll try Transistor…

      • mote@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        I have been a Transistor user for a long time, the releases are always solid - the dev chose to shut down external contributions (bug reports/code fixes) on their Codeberg repo a few years back, so you kinda get what you get. No shade, it works great. https://codeberg.org/y20k/transistor