I’ve been meaning to distance myself from Spotify for a while now but I’ve got a lot on my plate and their service has been very convenient. I’ve been paying for no ads since 2014 so I haven’t heard the ads personally but have seen multiple sources online describe them and confirm they they haven’t stopped as of today. I cancelled immediately. Not sure how many Spotify users there are on Lemmy but I just thought y’all ought to know what they’re up to. Spotify let’s you write a message saying why you’re cancelling and I was very descriptive. Hopefully they’ll back down just like Disney with Jimmy Kimmel.
I tried Qobuz and the sound quality was great, but I primarily use the “radio” feature off of a song for new music discovery, and their radios were wack. Also they were missing about 7% of the music I tried to transfer. No other complaints, pretty solid otherwise.
So far Tidal hasn’t given me any issues. Hopefully they pay their artists and don’t do horrible things, because I don’t have the energy to jump services again this year.
I’ve heard good things about Tidal as well with respect to paying artists. Glad it works for you!