I would like to switch away from Apple Music, and Spotify despite being a European company, is not a desirable option for me. What music streaming services would you recommend?
I managed to download a text-only list of the albums in my Apple Music library, so if there’s a simple library import option then that would also be very helpful.
Here is a comparison:
Qobuz vs Apple Music
Qubuz pays artist 1.8c per stream French Small Company
Apple Music pays artist 1.0c per stream American More Selection
To be clear, music streaming companies don’t actually award any money on a per-stream basis - license holders get a fraction of the sum of subscription- and ad-revenue proportional to the share of total streams that happened on that music streaming service.
Since these companies all have fairly similar pricing, it’s mostly just a matter of the amount of consumption that happens on each platform.
That one streaming service would be better than the other with regards to paying license holders is largely a myth. If you think music streaming is unfair to artists, you might want to just hand them money instead.