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Spotify preps to go public with 60M subscribers

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Re: Spotify preps to go public with 60M subscribers

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Post by elfchief »

philsnow wrote: post #14
AbstractCache wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Am I missing something here? Can't you just change the default sound device to the DAC?

Maybe elfchief doesn't want chord.wav to play on the hi-fi system, so doesn't set the DAC as the default device

Pretty much this. I have a pair of studio monitors set up for music and tuned for music. Game audio and random youtube videos don't sound so great with that setup, so I don't want it to be my default.

Sure, I could change the default every time I fire up Spotify, but that's annoying and I really shouldn't have to do it -- this kind of setup is not that unusual for music lovers, and it's not a difficult feature to add.

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Post by TheHegemon »

peterjlee wrote: post #20
anilshanbhag wrote: post #18

Google recently started aggressively marketing Youtube Red. When you watch a youtube video, a small popup asks if you want an ad-free experience, consider upgrading .. This is worrying as Spotify has no moat. Youtube Red is definitely a better value as you ad-free + offline youtube with music. I am a paying Spotify customer and if they improve their client, I might jump ship.

I was using Spotify then jumped ship to Youtube Red and used Google Music for about a year. But their music curation wasn't good so I jumped back to Spotify. Then I got tired of watching Youtube ads so now I just pay for both...

I'm surprised as I've found Google Music's radio feature is a lot better at finding music I would like. Spotify used to play music that was slightly related and would throw me off all the time.

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Post by parr0t »

Was a paying Spotify user for about two years and recently jumped ship to Google Play Music to give it a shot and I'm pretty happy about it thus far. Haven't been any songs that I had on my Spotify playlist that I couldn't find. There is a few things it is missing that's not ideal (no podcasts in Australia) but the bundling of YouTube Red with the subscription + the ability to upload my bandcamp-downloaded tracks that I can stream back that aren't on either Spotify or Google Play Music is fantastic.

Podcasts is just the main thing I am wanting at the moment, but I can still access them via the Spotify free account.

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Post by hbosch »

DarkTree wrote: post #7

I've had Spotify for 5 years or so, and mostly used it to look up songs I already liked, and to create playlists to listen to while studying/working/programming. It was already pretty awesome for that. Then I started checking out the "Related Artist" section, and started discovering new music after such a hiatus of music discovery since my younger years. But where Spotify has really just excelled, and dare I say chan…

Try right clicking a playlist you like, and select "Make Similar Playlist" for a shortcut. Loved this feature when I found it.

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Post by andrewflnr »

DarkTree wrote: post #7

I've had Spotify for 5 years or so, and mostly used it to look up songs I already liked, and to create playlists to listen to while studying/working/programming. It was already pretty awesome for that. Then I started checking out the "Related Artist" section, and started discovering new music after such a hiatus of music discovery since my younger years. But where Spotify has really just excelled, and dare I say chan…

I do eagerly await the discover playlist, but for me personally the quality is inconsistent at best. One week it will be great and have 10 songs that I keep, the next it will be full of crap. I guess I have weird enough taste that Spotify has a hard time satisfying it. It's still the best I've found, and beats Pandora by a big margin. Does anyone else have similar experiences?

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Post by ultimoo »

scarface74 wrote: post #23

Spotify is nice, but do they really have in chance of being decently profitable on such slim margins? They are competing against two large companies that don't live or die by whether their music subscription business is profitable - Apple and Google.

Amazon too, especially with the Alexa ecosystem.

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Post by jlewallen »

twotimestuesday wrote: post #19
DarkTree wrote: post #7

I've had Spotify for 5 years or so, and mostly used it to look up songs I already liked, and to create playlists to listen to while studying/working/programming. It was already pretty awesome for that. Then I started checking out the "Related Artist" section, and started discovering new music after such a hiatus of music discovery since my younger years. But where Spotify has really just excelled, and dare I say chan…

Yeah I agree that Spotify is the best in the game right now. Discover weekly has been spot on consistently since it was released but for me 30 tracks is barely enough. I've been using turntable inspired https://www.jqbx.fm for a little while. The social part of it gives it the extra push of randomness I need to discover music I wouldn't have stumbled on otherwise.

Thank you for mentioning JQBX!

Re: Spotify preps to go public with 60M subscribers

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Post by ehnto »

scarface74 wrote: post #23

Spotify is nice, but do they really have in chance of being decently profitable on such slim margins? They are competing against two large companies that don't live or die by whether their music subscription business is profitable - Apple and Google.

That they are profitable at all is better than many IPOs.

Edit: I assumed the were profitable, it seems I was wrong.

I hope they stick around, it's always a shame when a cool service shuts down.

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