How to cancel Spotify and not lose your playlists

I’ve cancelled nasty warmonger Daniel Ek’s Spotify

Like many of us, I was horrified to hear that Ek has invested $700,000,000 (you read that right, nearly a billion) in an AI drones weapons company, of which he is now CEO.

He is also refusing to stop running ads on the platform to recruit ICE agents – you know, the masked taskforce which takes so-called illegal immigrants off American streets at gun point.

So I’ve cancelled my sub and with great satisfaction, deleted the app from my phone. Out, out vile jelly.

I’m glad I’ve had this incentive to get off it, because it has niggled at me for a long time how little he pays artists for each play – the least of any of the music streaming services.

While he has enough spare change clanking around from what he makes on it, to have a spare near-billion dollars to invest in whatever took his fancy. Which happened to be killing machines.

One of the things that has held me back from fleeing from Spotify sooner was the prospect of losing my carefully curated and much-loved playlists – so I was thrilled to discover you can take them with you.

I’ve signed up to Tidal, which Jay-Z used to own and is still on the board of, so musicians’ concerns are represented by an insider. Qobuz is another more ethical option. I couldn’t see much between them and tossed a coin.

The thrilling thing was when I signed up to Tidal (£10.99pcm for a single stream, £16.99 for a family sub with six separate accounts) the option to access an app to transfer my playlists across popped right up, via an app called Tume My Music. It cost me $5.99 for the lot. I did it, then cancelled the sub, job done.

Here are some of my favourites.