Read: “Of course we knew about it, we started it. But the bad publicity was becoming a problem so we do it less now and present it so we look like the defender of true art.”
Headline misleading. Makes it sound like this is a problem that they are just getting around to fixing. Reality is this is an intentional business decision that has made them tons of money and they are now publicly claiming to address it when their subscribers are sick of listening to AI slop.
Buy music directly from artists. Plenty of them sell their tracks online.
Can’t recommend Bandcamp fridays enough.
Host a Navidrome server in docker to stream it.
I host one for VGM since that isn’t on any streaming site. Going strong for two years.
With “regular” music though losing the discover ability would really suck :/
I use navidrome and scrobble to listenbrainz. That gives some discoverability. I think last.fm is also supported
That requires you to buy all your music though, for those (like me) that own basically nothing, it’s crazy to change.
They need to force the free streaming of owned tracks or something. Qobuz allows this I think, but only if you buy through them.
Bandcamp even allows free streaming when you don’t own the music. But the player sucks
