I’ve tried all streaming platforms on and off over the years. I’ve always returned to DRM-free methods (if you know what I mean). I currently self-host Navidrome. Not the best for discovery though, for that, maybe try InnerTune.

This might sound stupid but CDs. I buy CDs and rip them to FLAC to listen with Strawberry Music Player or Jellyfin.

I can highly recommend ViMusic and InnerTune, with ViMusic being my favourite. They are both Open Source and available from F-Droid and Github.

Bandcamp isn’t open source but pretty fair IMO and you can stream via Newpipe or Kodi plugin. It is not a direct alternative but good enough. Using Newpipe you can also access everything on Youtube Music.

An option is FunkWhale, but most instances don’t allow copyrighted music so most (if not a lot) of famous and music artists in general aren’t available there

unless, of course, you host your own instance, since it’s self-hostable and decentralized too

If I were to ditch Spotify, I guess I would go back to mp3s.

In an ideal world I’d continue to use my self hosted Navidrome setup but acquiring new music and keeping my library organised is time consuming regardless if how much amazing automated software is out there.

I mostly stick to Innertune at the moment and will probably be fully converted once they add support for YouTube Music login.

Spotify works fine on Linux and Android, with Premium you can even use spotify-tui etc.

I don’t see any reason to switch tbh, they haven’t even ramped up the price like Netflix, etc.