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Re: Spotify preps to go public with 60M subscribers

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Post by mrweasel »

pjc50 wrote: post #45
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.

"Youtube red is not available in the United Kingdom"

It's really weird that Youtube Red isn't available in countries outside the US. Many of the Youtube ads make very little sense outside the US (not all of cause), so one would think that there would be more money to be made from Red than in the US, vs. having ads.

Even the localised ads are for the same five or six companies, it's really annoying at this point. I do feel bad about using an adblock, because I do think that content creators should get paid for their work, but by not offering Youtube Red here, I'm deliberately being prevented from paying for content.

Re: Spotify preps to go public with 60M subscribers

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Post by bananaoomarang »

znedw wrote: post #32

I'm using spotify through mopidy & mopidy-spotify, i can use ncmpcpp to play playlists and search spotify just like a local MPD server with a lot of music, it's excellent.

Have been meaning to set something like this up.

My only issue with Spotify is that it doesn't integrate with my local collection very nicely/at all on Android.

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Post by dano »

ProfessorLayton wrote: post #12

As much as I love competition, I can't see this ending any better than it did for Pandora. Its hard to make money by selling someone else's content, and Big Music seems content with leeching as much as they can from music providers, short of actually killing them. Perhaps if they went with the Netflix model and signed artists themselves, but thats also extremely capital-intensive. Netflix is apparently 20B in debt [1…

^^^^ This

For the future of Spotify, look no further than $P https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/p?ltr=1

They pay the same royalties.

Their cost structures are very similar.

Their differences are in capabilities, which can be mimic'd (see Instagram vs Snapchat stories)

Buy for the pop, sell before its too late.

Re: Spotify preps to go public with 60M subscribers

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Post by dom96 »

bgarbiak wrote: post #54
Cthulhu_ wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I liked the "radio" and daily mix things at first, but they often repeat the same songs and haven't really gotten me anything new for a while. They generate a new one if I go to a completely different genre, but it doesn't seem to evolve over time.

Daily Mix is intended to work this way. It's ought to give you songs that you already know and like, not the new ones.

I'm finding that even discover weekly is giving me songs that I've already listened to a lot. I wish there was something I could do to tell it to stop that.

Maybe there just aren't many songs out there that I truly like, but every month or so I do still stumble on a couple that are truly awesome. Does anyone have any suggestions on a similar service that could suggest more songs to me in a better way?

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Post by bgarbiak »

dom96 wrote: post #64
bgarbiak wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Daily Mix is intended to work this way. It's ought to give you songs that you already know and like, not the new ones.

I'm finding that even discover weekly is giving me songs that I've already listened to a lot. I wish there was something I could do to tell it to stop that. Maybe there just aren't many songs out there that I truly like, but every month or so I do still stumble on a couple that are truly awesome. Does anyone have any suggestions on a similar service that could suggest more songs to me in a better way?

Yeah, indeed, sometimes they seem to shove some bands down the throats. At least in the radio mode you can use the "thumb down", and I hope they're checking which songs I keep skipping. But, for the best results: try listening to other people Discover Weekly playlists. I got few folks on my list with a similar taste, so I won't hear anything offending on their Weeklies, yet the lists are quite often totally different.

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Post by samastur »

TheArcane wrote: post #53
adventured wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Going public is guaranteed to end in them getting acquired by a US media or tech company. Once public, it won't take long for the present owners to lose control to far more powerful financial entities. The VCs will all liquidate out, leaving a power vacuum that will be gradually filled by those new parties, and they'll do the same thing they always do.

This makes me sad. Being European, Spotify is one of the few European companies I'm proud of,

I would be too if they bothered covering whole Europe. For example they are still not available in Slovenia unlike other services.

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Post by dom96 »

bgarbiak wrote: post #65
dom96 wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm finding that even discover weekly is giving me songs that I've already listened to a lot. I wish there was something I could do to tell it to stop that. Maybe there just aren't many songs out there that I truly like, but every month or so I do still stumble on a couple that are truly awesome. Does anyone have any suggestions on a similar service that could suggest more songs to me in a better way?

Yeah, indeed, sometimes they seem to shove some bands down the throats. At least in the radio mode you can use the "thumb down", and I hope they're checking which songs I keep skipping. But, for the best results: try listening to other people Discover Weekly playlists. I got few folks on my list with a similar taste, so I won't hear anything offending on their Weeklies, yet the lists are quite often totally different…

interesting, but then the challenge becomes finding people who have similar tastes to me :\

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Post by dan1234 »

dirtylowprofile wrote: post #68

I love Spotify but their Mac app is so slow and won't load anymore.

Their Mac app randomly consuming an entire core was the reason I grudgingly switched to Apple Music (though iTunes has different issues, it usually behaves itself when in the background).
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