I don’t understand why people buy these nice and expensive headphones only to use Spotify, arguably the worst quality music streaming service that exists. It sounds so bad compared to Apple Music, YouTube Music, Tidal, Deezer, or even Napster. At least you are getting lossless sound with those, it won’t be the same as having a ripped flac from a CD but anything is better than the AAC 128/320kbps that Spotify offers. It just bothers me when I see photos of headphones on this sub and then they have Spotify open in the background, I just can’t understand!
I’d prefer lossless, sure, but the library is more important to me. I tried Tidal, but it was missing several artists I wanted and then the whole MQA controversy meant I wasn’t really getting lossless anyway. Not touching Apple Music with a 10 foot pole because I don’t use Apple devices and they actively spite users on other platforms.
At the end of the day, I prefer my own FLAC copies anyway, but Spotify fills in when I want to listen to something I don’t have.
So what I plan on doing is setting up Navidrome on my home server and using InnerTune on Android to use YouTube Music for free
Your solution is too annoying for some people so another reason to chose Spotify