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.
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.