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The best alternatives to Spotify for listening to music
Besides Spotify, you can find good listening elsewhere.
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. Spotify has been undergoing a lot of changes lately, laying off about 1,500 people, putting its podcasting service front and center, and succeeding (to an extent) in its 2019 complaint with the European Commission against Apple’s music app practices. Amazon Music Free allows you access to the service’s playlists, radio stations, and podcasts, but audio quality is limited to SD, there are ads, and you can’t select specific songs or albums.
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