I’ve been giving Qobuz a try and it’s pretty good. They have had an unfortunate issue with some tracks auto-skipping partway through, somehow related to their cdn, but that’s being resolved. Here’s a post about their stance on AI https://community.qobuz.com/ai-charter

Qobuz is worth a look - https://community.qobuz.com/ai-charter

I haven’t really encountered it, but I generally stick to my daily/weekly Q and saved playlists. At least they’re aiming to clean it up. Spotify is adding a “verified” flag on non-slop.

I’ve been using Qobuz for a few months and it’s pretty good. They had a rough bug a couple of weeks ago where some songs would stop playing and skip to the next one, but it seems to be resolved.

If you go into settings, you can hook it to last.fm and get lots of cool listening stats.

Public transit makes a lot more sense with so many people in one area, that’s how.

On the other hand, the population of Montana is a lot more spread out, so having effective public transit is more difficult for various reasons.

Whenever someone brings up a European city like this, they seem to ignore the fact that the entire country of Finland is roughly the size of the state of Montana. It’s like comparing apples and oranges.