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Why I’m Kissing Spotify Goodbye

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Re: Why I’m Kissing Spotify Goodbye

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Post by alexmuller »

frou_dh wrote: post #17

I just wish Spotify could serve up a stream of recommended tracks, based on your listening history, like Last.fm can. Spotify's "Radio" feature compounds my dislike of "genres" as a means of navigating and discovering music. Radio, play me a stream of "Rock / Alternative / Pop / 70s" What the ---- does that even mean? Guaranteed you'll be skipping 9 out of 10 tracks it serves up. I hate genres. Every file in my local…

I can't agree with this strongly enough. Why doesn't Spotify have any kind of recommendations? I'd also love to see iTunes Genius implemented in Spotify, but instead of just using my library for similar songs (like iTunes does) they could pull from the whole catalog.

Re: Why I’m Kissing Spotify Goodbye

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Post by psychotik »

Since you plan to buy music, and seem to have an extensive catalog, give Audiogalaxy (http://www.audiogalaxy.com) to have free access to your music from everywhere. It's my startup, so don't let me bias you - check out reviews on iTunes/Android and the web. I'm pretty sure you'll like it. :)

Re: Why I’m Kissing Spotify Goodbye

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Post by ChrisLTD »

nosequel wrote: post #30
juliano_q wrote: post #22

Until this moment no service convinced me to change my 10-year-old habit of buy/download the music, organize the tags and put it on my mobile device. Since I bought my first iPod until today with my Nexus S I am still doing this and it is very practical to me.

My thoughts exactly. I can buy a cd, rip to flac / mp3, listen to the mp3's everywhere mobile, and flac in my home theater or on my nice headphones. All of the cd's I buy still costs me less than some subscription service.

Yes, but you could listen to more music for the same price. Even if there are only 2 new albums I want to listen to a month, it's break-even to get an rdio/mog/spotify subscription vs. buying the albums.

Re: Why I’m Kissing Spotify Goodbye

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Post by ubercore »

md224 wrote: post #6

I've been using Rhapsody for a while and the selection is pretty solid.

I'm sure it's better now, but Rhapsody lost me by having _the worst web player I've ever experienced_. It's hard to overstate how bad it was. I just can't bring myself to go back, even though I realize they've worked on it. It was so. bad.

Re: Why I’m Kissing Spotify Goodbye

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Post by JonAtkinson »

psychotik wrote: post #32

Since you plan to buy music, and seem to have an extensive catalog, give Audiogalaxy ( http://www.audiogalaxy.com ) to have free access to your music from everywhere. It's my startup, so don't let me bias you - check out reviews on iTunes/Android and the web. I'm pretty sure you'll like it. :)

Audiogalaxy is a startup? Haven't you guys been going for, well, surely more than a decade?

Re: Why I’m Kissing Spotify Goodbye

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Post by ajslater »

killion wrote: post #2

The intro made me snort... "I’ve just canceled my membership with Spotify and my narccicism makes me want to tell you all why."

The number of grandstanding blog posts where people publicly declare why they're not using a particular website is a metric of success.

Re: Why I’m Kissing Spotify Goodbye

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Post by nroach »

Smudge wrote: post #3

If Spotify had Grooveshark's interface I would buy a premium account in a heartbeat. When I first opened Spotify's desktop client I was baffled by how clunky it felt.

I too really wanted to like Spotify. But the Spotify UI always felt like work rather than enjoyment and exploration. Unfortunately, until and unless Grooveshark can solve their legal issues and obtain solid licensing, they're going to remain largely locked out of the iOS market (except for an aging an increasingly incompatible legacy app).

Re: Why I’m Kissing Spotify Goodbye

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Post by tsellon »

jnfr wrote: post #19

Spotify, Rdio and all these other sites need to open up their catalog to local and independent artists. That's one of the reasons iTunes was so popular -- they allowed Youtube singers and other aspiring artists to post their songs and allow people to purchase them. They tapped into this long tail and both Apple and these indie artists made money from it. These companies can't compete with the big players by offering…

I've only used Spotify, but it actually has better coverage (from what I've seen) of independent acts. It's very easy to get your music on there. CDBaby will register an album on Spotify, iTunes, etc for $30.

Re: Why I’m Kissing Spotify Goodbye

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Post by otisfunkmeyer »

psychotik wrote: post #32

Since you plan to buy music, and seem to have an extensive catalog, give Audiogalaxy ( http://www.audiogalaxy.com ) to have free access to your music from everywhere. It's my startup, so don't let me bias you - check out reviews on iTunes/Android and the web. I'm pretty sure you'll like it. :)

Wow audio galaxy looks amazing! I love the pin feature and easy publish to Facebook. Just downloaded. Also like that it doesn't force me (a la iTunes match) to fill up my phone with 256kbps files--I think apple wants to sell larger GB devices. Good reviews too. Lol I haven't thought about audio galaxy since 1999. Congrats!

Re: Why I’m Kissing Spotify Goodbye

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Post by juliano_q »

ChrisLTD wrote: post #33
nosequel wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My thoughts exactly. I can buy a cd, rip to flac / mp3, listen to the mp3's everywhere mobile, and flac in my home theater or on my nice headphones. All of the cd's I buy still costs me less than some subscription service.

Yes, but you could listen to more music for the same price. Even if there are only 2 new albums I want to listen to a month, it's break-even to get an rdio/mog/spotify subscription vs. buying the albums.

Another difference is that by buying music the albuns are yours forever, and with a service like this when you stop paying you got nothing left.
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