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!

  • [object Object]@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Recommendations only appear in the mobile app. The Discover page on desktop doesn’t have your daily or weekly feeds.

    And the daily feed doesn’t seem to update reliably. I don’t really know, I liked some Spanish songs and my recommendations were all tejano music for a month. When I liked a kpop song that happened with Korean music.

    It’s definitely not Spotify quality in recommendations.

    • uuj8za@piefed.socialEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Recommendations only appear in the mobile app.

      Holy moly! There they are! Thank you!!!

      I’ve been mostly using the website!

      • [object Object]@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 day ago

        Yep, very strange choice.

        I also suspect they don’t update your daily playlist unless you listen to a certain threshold of music to save costs.