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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 scelerat »

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…

Mog does this now. We recommend based on play history and, if you have Facebook connected, we offer you recommendations based on your Facebook likes, as well as a separate collection of recommendations based on your friend's likes.

We also tell you which friend recommended which album, so you can immediately tell whose tastes are more in line with yours and whose are poo.

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Post by invisible »

phzbOx wrote: post #26

I've tried lots of services and apps, and Spotify is my favorite. Of course, it's not perfect but it's way better than what the author suggests in this article. About the "Playlist a whole album is too complicated"; I'm not sure what he mean by that as you click on a song in the album and it plays all the album.. this could hardly get more intuitive than this. Of course, there's not all songs but at least they let yo…

Grooveshark lets you upload music as well and is legal.

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Post by kin »

nvarsj wrote: post #57
kin wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wouldn't compare the two. I'd use both. You can't possibly dismiss iTunes Match as a killer feature itself could you?

With iTunes Match, you have a tiny subset of all possible music to select from. Why limit yourself?

Well, not that my iTunes library is larger than my online streaming library, but it has a larger library of songs I listen to than my online streaming library if that makes any sense to you.

Also, my iTunes library is available offline cross-platform. I'm not limiting myself, which is why I'd say I'd use both. I'm expanding myself. + my offline library is more organized. Am I alone in this viewpoint?

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Post by antidaily »

Legion wrote: post #27

I'm using Rdio and I've been pretty happy with it. Before I plopped down my money, I did a comparison with Spotify on the artists/genres I cared about, and Rdio pretty much matched Spotify blow for blow.

Love Rdio, hate that I cant shuffle more than one album at a time in my queue.

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Post by itsandrew »

ubercore wrote: post #34
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 .

I was in the same boat. It made the platform unusable. That coupled with some of the worst and most apathetic customer support I have ever experienced, I swore to never go back.

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Post by psychotik »

chris_j wrote: post #53
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. :)

What is the relationship between your Audiogalaxy and the Audiogalaxy that existed back in 2000?

The About Us page (http://www.audiogalaxy.com/misc/aboutUs) and this blog post http://www.audiogalaxy.com/blog/2010/10/audiogalaxy-is-back/ should explain the story.

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Post by psychotik »

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.

Try Audiogalaxy - it might be what you've been looking for. It's still your music, just available everywhere without uploading to any server and without ads. http://www.audiogalaxy.com (Discl: I work on it)

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Post by rhizome »

alexmuller wrote: post #31
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.

I don't know the details here, but I do know that Pandora has some patents in this area.
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