Even more infuriating, Amazon charges the same price for ad-free premium channels as stand-alone subscriptions. They then insert ads into that 3rd party content if you haven’t paid Amazon’s additional fee to remove ads from Amazon’s content. I’ll never again subscribe to anything through Amazon.

Does spotx add any functionality, or is it just another way to control Spotify?

It allows any device to cast music to pretty much any other device that supports Spotify, whether via phone app, browser or Linux app. I have a couple of small computers connected to receivers in different rooms and can control the music playing on them from the attached PC itself or any other PC or phone.

Looked at that and think it will be an option in the near future, but right now Raspotify and Connect are hard to beat.

Edit: Searching a bit more, it looks like Tidal Connect is actually a thing. I’ll take a good look at switching when my Spotify plan runs out. I’ll be happy to switch to a service that doesn’t screw their artists.

Doesn’t look like it plays well with Spotify Connect?