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Re: Spotify Form F-1

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Post by cstejerean »

spondyl wrote: post #270

I really like Spotify but I feel I'm soon going to rebuild an MP3 library. A mix of songs being removed (licensing), the apps being sluggish due to library size and local playlist features being rubbish for years. I've got enough "niche" read: game osts and that to make it worth while. For anyone considering the same, beets (python) is your best friend

This is why I like Apple Music. If an album I want isn’t available for streaming I can just buy it. I can also buy music that Apple doesn’t carry (from Beaport for example) and add it to my library and play everything whether streaming, bought through Apple or other services in a single place.

Re: Spotify Form F-1

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Post by geraltofrivia »

mancerayder wrote: post #227
RandallBrown wrote: post #223

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Discover Weekly has a like and dislike button in the desktop app. I couldn't figure out how to do it on mobile though.

Ahhh. That's it. I only use it on Android. Maybe I should use that feature on the PC, and thumbs down everything for a few weeks!

You can actually like/dislike stuff from the app. Expand the playback notification and you'll find the buttons there. Of course this only works for currently playing songs.

No idea why they hid it there, and there only.

Re: Spotify Form F-1

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Post by pests »

myself248 wrote: post #257
paddlepop wrote: post #218

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You may have had an auth token compromised. I used a dodgy third party Spotify Connect for Raspberry Pi library and had the same issue. Changing my password and expiring all current auth tokens returned my Discover Weekly back to normal after a month

So is there some library author out there, stealing people's auth tokens and playing German and Portuguese songs on our accounts, cackling to herself with glee, and waiting until we discover (today might be the day!) her utterly-harmless mischief? As much as I love the notion, I have to conclude that Discover Weekly's mediocrity is just another piece of evidence that the world actually did end in 2012, and ever since…

Well considering the artists literally get paid per listen and the depths of the black hat world....

totally?

Re: Spotify Form F-1

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Post by timc3 »

ishansharma wrote: post #35
protonimitate wrote: post #30

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Same. I'm a Spotify lifer unless something catastrophic happens to their service or media availability. The only alternative service I even debated about was Apple Music when they first announced their streaming service, but there is no clear advantage to their service and I hate the Apple Music UI. I hope they find a way to help a bigger % of the revenue get into the hands of artists and start cutting out the big re…

I was an Apple music since launch(till a month back). But once I tried Spotify and the playlists, I switched instantly. While Apple Music is a competitor, it's not everywhere like Spotify is and their recommendations are horrible. In all time using them, I discovered 2 songs that I liked. With 4 weeks on Spotify, I'm already at 25!

As an alternative opinion I used both Apple Music and Spotify. Apple Music’s recommendation has been amazing for me, and Spotifys terrible and I have fairly strange tastes in music (play dark-Berghein techno, but then like exploring as many genres from around the world as possible).

If Apple Music was supported in as many places as Spotify I would drop Spotify.

Re: Spotify Form F-1

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Post by sandos »

nitemice wrote: post #226
mancerayder wrote: post #219

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also think they cracked music discovery. Their discovery weekly playlist is stellar. Love Spotify, disagree strongly with this. My experience is terrible music that doesn't seem to have anything to do with any of the hundreds of songs I have on my playlist. I get this curious Millennial mix of soft rock music with long, boring instrumental guitar strumming, a disco beat and a sleepy, sarcastic-voiced gal (sometimes g…

I'm so happy to hear it's not just me. When I first started listening to Spotify (about a year and a half ago), I found the dicovery really high-quality, but it just seems to have gotten worse and worse. Discover Weekly is particularly bad. I find that the first 5 or so songs are okay, but from there is rapidly decends into madness. I have the weird habit (though I'm weening off) of keeping all the music I listen to…

I can only agree that discovery is so crappy.

I love the daily mixes, though thats mostly just sorting the music I normally listen to into genres. I still find it kinda cool. Especially that I always get a mix with my kids' tastes, since I often play music for them.

Re: Spotify Form F-1

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Post by timc3 »

oflannabhra wrote: post #103
adventured wrote: post #84

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Those offers seem to be all over the place. They're common in the US as well. The challenge for Spotify will be the next few years, seeing how they withstand the substantial onslaught coming from Apple's music subscription service (which is booming as well). I'm skeptical Spotify can stay in the fight financially over time. There's nothing they can do in music that will ever produce the kind of profit required to sup…

Yep. Spotify is in an un-enviable position of having a superior product, but with competitors who don't need to earn a profit. Your last paragraph is one of the best takes I've read on this.

Superior for who? For me Apple Music is the superior product.

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Post by wungsten »

mancerayder wrote: post #225
jsmeaton wrote: post #217

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Do you use the Like/Dont Like feature of discover weekly? That's helped tune my weekly lists for the better.

On Android?? Why do I not have this feature?

I have this feature on my Android. The thumbs up and down appear to the left and right of the big Play button on the Now Playing screen, only while you're listening to Spotify playlist/album radio.

Re: Spotify Form F-1

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Post by sandos »

voltagex_ wrote: post #196
dopeboy wrote: post #96

Spotify is the reason why I don't pirate music anymore. I say this as someone who used to be involved in the scene (low level FXP couriering in the late 90s and early 00s) and has gigs of release from the RNS, EGO, etc days. It's much faster and convenient to use Spotify. I also think they cracked music discovery. Their discovery weekly playlist is stellar. My only wish is they'd get off Electron (EDIT Chromium - tha…

Me too, but I'm worried about what it will mean for my music listening when Spotify goes away. I think the last time I tried to price a single one of my playlists, it'd cost me thousands to buy the songs and that's without trying to track down FLACs.

Literally everybody uses spotify atleast here in Europe. I dont think its going away to be honest? Not for a very long time anyway.

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Post by abalone »

dopeboy wrote: post #96

Spotify is the reason why I don't pirate music anymore. I say this as someone who used to be involved in the scene (low level FXP couriering in the late 90s and early 00s) and has gigs of release from the RNS, EGO, etc days. It's much faster and convenient to use Spotify. I also think they cracked music discovery. Their discovery weekly playlist is stellar. My only wish is they'd get off Electron (EDIT Chromium - tha…

Agree services like this defeated music piracy. However since we're talking about the IPO, Spotify faces major competition from Apple Music. Unlike Spotify, Apple does not need to turn a profit on the service.

(They've even implemented a solid weekly "new music mix" discovery service... and the apps are native.)

Re: Spotify Form F-1

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Post by dx034 »

mancerayder wrote: post #219
dopeboy wrote: post #96

Spotify is the reason why I don't pirate music anymore. I say this as someone who used to be involved in the scene (low level FXP couriering in the late 90s and early 00s) and has gigs of release from the RNS, EGO, etc days. It's much faster and convenient to use Spotify. I also think they cracked music discovery. Their discovery weekly playlist is stellar. My only wish is they'd get off Electron (EDIT Chromium - tha…

also think they cracked music discovery. Their discovery weekly playlist is stellar. Love Spotify, disagree strongly with this. My experience is terrible music that doesn't seem to have anything to do with any of the hundreds of songs I have on my playlist. I get this curious Millennial mix of soft rock music with long, boring instrumental guitar strumming, a disco beat and a sleepy, sarcastic-voiced gal (sometimes g…

Same for me. My Discover weekly started including Dutch rap music (I don't speak Dutch nor did I ever listen to that genre) and the percentage has been increasing ever since. It's now at 30-40% of my playlist. No idea how to get it off there again.
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