What streaming services are you using?

Hi, just wondering what streaming services you all are using and how each one works with VoiceOver on iPhone or on Windows. I'm currently using Tidal on iOS and Windows. Both are accessible, but on iOS the player screen is broken since they rolled out the new UI about a month ago.

define streaming service. music or tv? or does it not matter?

I mean music of course. Didn't expect anyone here subscribing to a TV service, maybe Audible for audiobooks.

Spotify Premium, it's not my favourite way of accessing music, but the free version is a pain for someone who actively researchs new artists and likes to go down rabbit holes of underground scenes of all kinds, as well as creating playlists and having the algorythm kind of understand what and when I like to hear different types of music.
If I was to buy every album, every single, or bother with the ads on Youtube, I'd lose tons of money and sanity, because music is my world, my everyday reality, which I can't imagine my life without and enjoying music in illegal ways in shitty quality, those years are behind me. Wouldn't want the downgrade.

Yeah, I get you. I also listened to illegal downloads in the past. But when I got my audio equipment with IEMs and a DAC I noticed how bad they sounded. Then I had Spotify Premium for some time but somehow never got happy with it, it somehow sounded a bit metallic on my equipment. So I switched to Tidal and everything is fine here besides the newly introduces accessibility issues. I must say, at the time I had Spotify Premium, they didn't have lossless. And of course their payouts are crap.

Lol there are tons of streaming services I have access to, such as Netflix, Amazon Prime etc, not that I'd pay the full price for these though. Anyway back to music, Spotify. I temporarely used Apple Music a few years ago and last year spent a few months with Tidal, which I'm still subscribed to because streamrip ftw. And amazing sound quallity. But yeah TF, their UI design is a mess. To be fair, Spotify keeps making it worse as well, so might also switch back to Apple Music at some point since I get it for free in our Apple family anyway.
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I mean music of course. Didn't expect anyone here subscribing to a TV service, maybe Audible for audiobooks.

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Otherwise, Audible and YT Premium come to mind ofc.

Wtf why wouldn't a blind person subscribe to TV streaming services? Like you know, we can also watch films and series... Yeah, we blindy folks too yeah.
I use Spotify Premium, Netflix and HBO. I'm satisfied with all of them.

@4, I totally agree.
As for streaming services for music, I use spotify. AlsoI'm downloading music because nowadays in all streaming services allot of russian songs became blured because of laws, and stupid censorship

music: spotify, youtube music, apple music, amazon music, and pandora.
tv, paramount, hbo, netflix, hulu, disney, prime, and those are just the main ones i use. i just woke up and don't remember everything right now

Uhh. Now we at least know from who all these streaming services make a living :D

My wife has Spotify. I used to be on a family plan with her when she was using Deezer, but now I just have a free Spotify account which I rarely use.

Can someone explain to me why anyone would have multiple subscriptions for music streaming services?
I know that with the movies, they are all over the place and sometimes you have to subscribe to one platform to watch one specific movie series or something, that does happen and it's terible. But with music, you don't have such a problem, do you?

Well, all of them have some advantage, Tidal is nice for ripping music, and cheap anyway, some you get because you are subscribed to a service anyway, such as Amazon Prime, YouTube Music or that Apple One thing in my familys case, and I have Spotify because it has a nice API, friends have playlists on there etc. If I had to pay for all of them myself and the full price, I'd probably use Apple Music, Tidal or YouTube Music.

i use a bunch of music ones because people use my phone a lot and want their playlists on different apps

Well, Tidal is no longer good for ripping. They sadly patched it about a week ago. Tried it yesterday and it failed. It said something like "No valid Flac" and packed me an AAC into a flac container. So this is the past, also did this quite a lot, but nope, fixed now. Tried many different methods, but won't go in detail here. However Qobuz works lso great for ripping.

I use youTube music to listen to songs.

In my experience streamrip still works. There are some weird issues regarding lyrix, but just patched that out with Claude last week and they've also released an update to fix some weird credential issue. Yeah meh, is it against the rules to talk about this like that? Somehow it's their own fault for beeing that open, I appreciate it lol. Also I pay for the sub so... Well...
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Well, Tidal is no longer good for ripping. They sadly patched it about a week ago. Tried it yesterday and it failed. It said something like "No valid Flac" and packed me an AAC into a flac container. So this is the past, also did this quite a lot, but nope, fixed now. Tried many different methods, but won't go in detail here. However Qobuz works lso great for ripping.

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Deezer has no DRM on its huge song data base. A program my wife was using to downloade music from them stopped working, but that wasn't the reason she stopped using Deezer. They started having accessibility issues and seemed unwilling to fix them.

I use spotify premium. I can't say anything about the sound quality because I'm not an expert when it comes to that, but spotify is pretty accessible on android. YouTube premium is also nice, but I'm not sure how long I'm going to pay for it. For audio books, I use audible because it has a huge selection of different genres. I also have a netflix account which I barely use. My family still pays for it though, so I try to use it at least a few times a month.