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I currently have Spotify, mainly because I signed up a while ago and never really bothered to explore alternatives.

I pay โ‚ฌ13 every month these days which I feel is quite a lot. I was already thinking of getting a few friends together and sharing a family plan, which would make it cheaper. But if I'm doing that I might as well take a proper look at my options.

What are some good, hopefully ethical, European alternatives? I know Spotify is from Sweden so good in that regard (?). Deezer is French, but also mostly owned by some American investment firm. If I can believe what I read they pay artist a bit more, which sounds like a good thing, but I don't want my money to mostly go to American investors...

Any advice is highly appreciated!

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[โ€“] mote@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

https://www.radio-browser.info/

Shoutcast (Icecast) streams are still going strong if you're willing to put in some effort uncovering ones for your genres. SomaFM is still going strong, Big Sonic Heaven is online, DecayFM, Voice of Doom, Dark Asylum, even public radio like CHIRP (Chicago) are pumping out streams run by humans playing new music.

[โ€“] nfms@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I'm using Transistor on Android (one of the apps mentioned in their page) and it works.
I also have a Raspberry Pi media player with Moode and my day goes from NTS (my favorite), FluxFM, NME, KEXP and SomaFM. Internet radio has been my biggest discovery and I use it every day.

[โ€“] Cyber@feddit.uk 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Adding a +1 for radio-browser

I'm still using RadioDroid even though it doesn't seem to be maintained at the moment... and even a fork is losing momentum, so I didn't make the jump.

Maybe I'll try Transistor...

[โ€“] mote@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago

I have been a Transistor user for a long time, the releases are always solid - the dev chose to shut down external contributions (bug reports/code fixes) on their Codeberg repo a few years back, so you kinda get what you get. No shade, it works great. https://codeberg.org/y20k/transistor

[โ€“] mote@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

(adding to your info) I use Audacious on Linux desktop, it's great at handling streams and has a nice interface, very configurable. I choose to keep it a minimalist "in the corner" style.