Buy European

I really liked it and the ability to discover new music (when that actually worked) but its price hike and how little they pay artists and the fact that you don't own the music...

Well I moved over to soulseek, buying independent artists music either directly or via Bandcamp (a necessary evil I guess), put them all onto my Jellyfin which I connected to listenBrainz that then can recommend me fresh tunes just like Spotify did.

To get the recommended tunes I use then Explo which downloads from YouTube and pushes them into my music library.