I cancelled my Spotify premium membership after being a customer for over 2 years, because they refuse to actually develop their application. Their music discovery and playlist radio functionality are horrific right now. They are on repeat essentially, with no way to unlike music that you have liked or accidentally liked.
Spotify Form F-1
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#292Earlier quoted context omitted.
The difference here is that presumably fewer record companies have the money to fund the development of their own streaming service. The movie industry has much bigger players in the game. Additionally I don't think anybody's cracked the code on how to make reliably well-received music yet. You can't distract the audience with good visuals and special effects if the plot is no good like in a movie.
>The difference here is that presumably fewer record companies have the money to fund the development of their own streaming service. They don't need it. With Apple Music, Google Play and Spotify majors can afford to destroy Spotify with royalties as they please, and users will just migrate to other platforms and continue to pay. It's kinda funny once you think about it. Back in early 00's, when Napster appeared, eve…
> 18 years later, and majors are quite fine. And they did literally nothing for 18 years. No investments, no development, nothing.
Well, except enabling you to buy your music from anywhere, DRM-free, playable with the software of your choice.
Is it really their fault that an all you can eat service for 10 bucks doesn't actually feed anyone, including the artists and the platform itself? It's simply too cheap.
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#293Spotify 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…
I don't pirate music anymore for the same reason. However, I also don't listen to music as I used to. I usually use Spotify to listen to what I already know, not so much to find new stuff. Before, I used to dive in depth into an artist/band, starting from their greatest hits. Once I got the band vocabulary, I'd download the albums chronologically and listened to every track, sometimes more than once until I got famil…
I'm facing a very similar problem. Same story as you, I would buy MP3 or pirate if they weren't easily made available. But the amount of research I would put in the music I was listening to was enormous, making me proud of my collection.
I was able to recognise any song in my collection in less than 5 seconds, give you the artist, how I discovered it and potentially an anecdote about them.
Now I have playlists full of stuff I know nothing about. It definitively solved the music distribution issue, but I have trouble to be emotionally attached to the music I discover on Spotify.
I think your theory about the IKEA effect is probably spot(ify) on
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#294Earlier quoted context omitted.
If Spotify isn't selling, how would an initial ask price work? "We'll give you a share for $20" "I'll take it!" "No, we're not selling"
From the document: > Unlike an initial public offering, the resale by the Registered Shareholders is not being underwritten by any investment bank. The Registered Shareholders may, or may not, elect to sell their ordinary shares covered by this prospectus, as and to the extent they may determine. Such sales, if any, will be made through brokerage transactions on the New York Stock Exchange (the “NYSE”) at prevailing…
But what if NONE of the early investor wants to sell? So there are no shares afloat? Or until a ridiculously high price before they start selling?
Let say it is valued at $20B with shares at $20. What is stopping an early investors selling 1 shares at $1000, market valued at 1 Trillion, and get someone to buy that 1 shares?
My point is since there is no new shares, unless the early investor are really rushing to offload. Selling would be limited.
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#295Spotify 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…
Microsoft proved that you can use Electron to make great and optimized applications that perform very well in Visual Studio Code.
I have no big issues with the desktop Spotify app. I find it better than iTunes.
It's the Android app that Spotify need to fix.
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#296Earlier quoted context omitted.
Discover Weekly has a like and dislike button in the desktop app. I couldn't figure out how to do it on mobile though.
Spotify app is so terrible, once you like something, it doesn't give you an option to unlike it.
Like Tinder, I really don't understand how these services -- where the magic isn't in the app so much as in the service -- who have big piles of money don't have much much better apps. It really feels like something you should be able to throw money at.
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#297Spotify 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…
I agree with you about discover weekly not being very good.
On the other hand what I do like is the playlist radio that comes on after you finish listening to a playlist. I find that a great way to find new music and new artists.
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#298It would be super interesting to see if Dropbox and Spotify do well and set an example for profitable tech companies to go public. Companies like Twitter & Snap went public too early IMHO. It’d be a great signal to young entrepreneurs to chase a business model early on.
Can you name a profitable tech company or unicorn going public who is profitable?
Avast.
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#299When Spotify launched in USA they increased the prices on their existing markets and lowered the prices for USA below their original. This left me with a sour taste. Now they complain about Stockholms infrastructure while also tax dodging. I know Americans are used to this incredible unhealthy relationship but to me it is rotten to the core.
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#300Spotify 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…
> Their discovery weekly playlist is stellar. My discover weekly playlist ALWAYS contains at least one song in Portoguese and at least two in German. I speak neither of those languages, and I've never willingly searched and played songs in those languages (except for "99 Luftballons" once). I also get some terrible variation of "Here comes the sun" at least once a month despite not listening to The Beatles at all. [0…
I once played a Mulatu Astatke album on a friend's Spotify account during a social gathering at his house, and he complained his discover weekly playlist was mostly African music for the next couple of months.
The discover weekly algorithm seems to latch on to outliers, I guess.