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Tidal is better
Navidrome is even better
YouTube Music ReVanced is best, because it's both free and ad-free.
Unfortunately you have to sacrifice on sound quality, because it's YouTube. However the song selection can not be beat by any other platform.
Qobuz > Navidrome > Tidal
Although Navidrome, if going legally, I've only found Bandcamp Fridays practical for buying music so far: https://isitbandcampfriday.com/
I wish it was for me (truly I do), but I listen to most of my music in the car. It didn't buffer the next set of songs nearly as well as Spotify, so when I went through low signal areas the music just stopped playing. And the Android Auto app wasn't as good. The sound quality was minimally better, but not good enough to overcome the other issues.
Thats why I keep an old iPod too :)