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Comment by crazygringo | Hacker News Reader

So if people are hating on Spotify now...

...what's the alternative? People hate Google, they hate Amazon... I remember people used to hate Apple Music years ago because it was missing tons of basic functionality.

Is it better? Is Apple Music the "accepted" streaming platform now? Do they all suck in their own way? Or is there another platform that's the good one now?

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For a lot of the people you're asking here, the answer is probably "don't use a streaming platform to listen to music". That's why there's at least one subthread about recommended music-playing programs.

Apple Music (fka iTunes) is still perfectly good as a music library. No need to subscribe to anything.

idk. I'm listening to music on YT. Because on the only vertical I care about - can I actually find the damn music I'd like to hear - YT is miles ahead anything else.

So God bless YT and its amazing, likely illegal in some abstract sense, music collection.

I gave Deezer a try and I've been quite pleased. The main problem I had with Spotify was missing music from specific genres/countries. Deezer let's me upload my own mp3 files, which means it has the most complete catalogue for me that any service could have.

I'd like to try YouTube Music (mostly because it's included in my YouTube Premium plan), but it doesn't have an option to turn autoplay off (i.e. you can't just listen to one song), which is a dealbreaker for me.

I'd love to take a super lightweight version of something made by the authors of https://www.bitwig.com.

Google Play Music was perfect for my needs. Once it's closed, I'm going to test Qobuz and its CD-quality streams. It's probably either them or Deezer.

Check out Currents.fm, it's a Patreon-style economic model built into a nice player + social UI.

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