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I was a Spotify subscriber for about a decade (I was successfully hooked by their discounted college student rates), but I switched back to my own music curation recently: I noticed that Spotify would consistently "rabbithole" me into the same ~150 songs, most of which I didn't even like. They would also frequently lack small artists or independent labels, so I ended up having two media libraries anyways.
I switched over to Navidrome[1] as a self-hosted solution about a year ago, and I've been extremely happy with it (especially since it exposes a Subsonic-compatible API that most clients know how to use). The only thing I really miss is the mobile client experience: Spotify handled periodic disconnects (like on public transit) very gracefully, while no Subsonic clients that I've found do so nearly as well.
[1]: https://github.com/navidrome/navidrome
Rock on! We started a MusicOfAPeople.com (https://musicofapeople.com).
We're going to build software for musicians/managers/agents/labels who believe in public domain music.
DRM music sucks. It's strictly inferior, end of story. Listening to the same digital bits over and over again isn't the essence of music anyway. Music is best experienced live. True musicians get this, and we think we start flocking to the new model: digital files all public domain then monetize via concerts, vinyl records, merch and other physical things.
Do you hear the people sing?