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Just cancel your Spotify subscription. I did, and now use a combination of Roon and Tidal.

I have a much better listening and discovery experience through Roon and artists get paid more with Tidal.

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The problem is that Spotify is the only one that really works well on Foss with libspotify / spotify-qt.

All the others don't have clients for my OS and I don't have DRM in my browser which they require.

Ah annoying, I'd assumed Roon had a Linux client but it appears not to, despite having a compatible server and a bridge client.

If only Tidal (or Qobuz, or...) would implement a Connect feature that allows me to control my PC desktop from mobile, then I would, but it's been on the "promised features" list for years now. It's a deal-breaker for me.

I use deezer and when I play a track on mobile I can continue it on PC. Is that what you mean?

Did you try KDEConnect?

Yeah Spotify Connect really is solid but that’s why I also went with Roon as it allows me to do that and more.

Yeah it looks like Roon can do this. Might be worth checking out, thanks!

Subscribed to Tidal for about a year until my patience ran out. It has to be one of the buggiest pieces of long living software ever. Pressing the next button would skip two songs ahead for playback and one song ahead UI wise, making the UI tell you the wrong song was playing. That's just one of a wall of bugs I struggled with while I stayed on that service.

The way I use it, I don’t interact with their app at all, it’s all streamed through Roon.

Same here. I am on Apple Music. I like it. The automated playlists are way better on Spotify though.

lol. Tidal, the guys that tried to sell us snake oil like MQA.

That said you sound like a Meridian shill.

Err, thanks. Heaven forbid someone shares software that they actually like.

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