Apple, Deezer, Tidal and Spotify are all about the same price (Spotify is £11.99 in the UK, Tidal is 10.99) and they all have all of those features.
Tidal claim to distribute more to artists than the other big ones, and Deezer claim to do so as well, or have a better compensation model, or something. AFAICT from using Spotify, Deezer and Apple they all have access to the same library, with more or less the exact same gaps.
This is not to say any of them are perfect, but it does give us room to say “Spotify have flaws with how they spend our subscription money, you can choose not to use them” without implicitly or explicitly encouraging piracy. Some artists I like have encouraged people to switch away to the other services because of what they see as unfair practice from Spotify.
Tidal claim to distribute more to artists than the other big ones, and Deezer claim to do so as well, or have a better compensation model, or something. AFAICT from using Spotify, Deezer and Apple they all have access to the same library, with more or less the exact same gaps.
This is not to say any of them are perfect, but it does give us room to say “Spotify have flaws with how they spend our subscription money, you can choose not to use them” without implicitly or explicitly encouraging piracy. Some artists I like have encouraged people to switch away to the other services because of what they see as unfair practice from Spotify.