You can buy single tracks/albums and download them without a subscription, the subscription is more a Spotify-like thing were you can listen to all songs but can’t download them without DRM

There’s also Jolla with Sailfish OS, but don’t know if they are any good

Just checked out Qobuz and you can even buy the music digitally to download (like bandcamp with the advantage that they are EU-based and seems like more artists are on Qobuz), think I’m going to switch

Didnt work for me yesterday since they use captcha challenges from cloudflare :|

They probably did multiple queries per day at the beginning, found out it isn’t worth it and stopped using it …

Some guy also used zip bombs against AI crawlers, don’t know if it still works. Link to the lemmy post