Music

Tidal and Deezer pay well but I don’t have listeners there so not much I can do with that.

As a listener who occasionally uses tidal it seems like it is more likely to play more well known artists as opposed to Spotify which seems to tend towards almost royalty free soundalike stuff if you take your finger off the skip button momentarily.

So from that I would assume it's a lot harder to gain an audience on tidal and thats probably part of why they pay better, as the subscription pie is being split up into fewer pieces. Also maybe tidal are still manipulating thier streaming traffic count data in favour of investors like they have in the past.

I'll give you an actual answer as opposed to just going with another exploitative megacorp.

Buy their shit on Bandcamp or wherever full albums are sold. Use Plex or jellyfin to stream to your phone.

I’ve tried them all at some point from a hifi perspective. To me tidal is the one I keep going back to as the quality is great, music selection is superb, and discovery is good. I slightly prefer qobuz sound quality, but their new music discovery algorithms are sadly subpar. If you don’t care about finding new music outside the mainstream, buying directly from artists website is still best.

Tidal is what I like. Better sound quality.

Deezer is pretty good. https://www.deezer.com/

I've been using it for years now and haven't come up empty on anything I've searched for. Their algo is good and doesn't push bullshit.