The best alternatives to Spotify for listening to music
by Barbara Krasnoff from The Verge - All Posts on (#5VQ61)
Image: Getty Images When this article was originally written in February 2022, the big Spotify controversy was that artists were abandoning the audio service in protest of the company's contract with podcaster Joe Rogan, and some subscribers were deciding to follow the musicians' example. More recently, the issue that has users irritated is the continued lack of HiFi and the layoffs that have made music discovery even harder.
Although Spotify is probably the best-known music service, there are quite a few alternatives available for good music listening. If you're someone who has decided to explore what music services are out there, here's a quick rundown of some of the possibilities. But in the interest of being complete, we will start with Spotify itself.
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