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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 cdk »

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've been using Spotify for 2 weeks now after using Rdio for 6 months and I rather like Spotify's Radio feature a lot. The recommendations I get from it seems no better or worse than Rdio's (for me) but I don't mind it and skipping tracks seems so seamless that I barely notice it. What really sold me on Spotify was Boxee support.

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Post by prg318 »

I know that these are fundamentally different services, but if you have a decent home internet connection and a digital music collection you can easily set up a streaming server to listen to your tunes anywhere. I personally use Sockso, which made my mind up to not purchase spotify. I heard Subsonic is good as well. I only pay for the most basic cable internet package and I have no issue streaming my tunes anywhere I may happen to be.

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Post by tsellon »

WiseWeasel wrote: post #60
tsellon wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

$30 AND a large chunk of your sales profits.

Genuinely curious: Do you have a citation on the percentage CDBaby takes? I didn't notice one on their site, but I've not used them either.

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Post by barkingtoad »

kin wrote: post #46
Laurentvw wrote: post #14

So he's going to use iTunes, Grooveshark and Pandora. Now that seems, well, cumbersome to me. Too bad Spotify bothers him -- even though it may lack some songs and features, I don't see why you can't enjoy Spotify for most use cases.

I think the library is probably the biggest thing for OP. I mean, when I first tried using Spotify and found out they only had a single track from Blink-182, I immediately stopped using it. They have their entire catalog now, but, I'd imagine still not some songs for OP which, if a service doesn't have an artist/song you want to listen to, why use it?

If you own the music, you can add it, and it is then available to you inside Spotify.

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Post by joelhaasnoot »

I don't buy music, don't ever pay for it either. But Spotify has very much upped the "scam" factor recently, by first cutting from 20 to 10 free hours per month, and now not even showing how many hours are remaining till you run out. Also, not until you find and read the long terms and conditions do you find out the first "6 months" (which already seem to be up for me) are a trial of premium, after that you get 10 hours a month free, but they won't tell you till you have 0 minutes left.

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Post by meeeu »

socillion wrote: post #41
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…

Have you tried Pandora? It is an absolutely amazing service that has an uncanny ability to find very similar music, occasionally finding gems from a different genre. They also have tons of small, high quality bands. The biggest con is that a specific "channel" can start to repeat the same 50 or so songs, but that is easily solved by making a new one. It is well worth the $36/year for the paid ad-free version, and the…

I've been using Pandora since before they went public and just love the service. Prefer the old Flash version better than the current one but it is good none-the-less. I noticed Spotify on Facebook and became interested in trying it. Evidently I knew very little about Spotify because I thought it was a web app. Long story short never did try Spotify because I didn't want to download client on every machine that I work on. Pandora is still the best solution to the 1 playlist anywhere problem for me.

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Post by tallanvor »

socillion wrote: post #41
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…

Have you tried Pandora? It is an absolutely amazing service that has an uncanny ability to find very similar music, occasionally finding gems from a different genre. They also have tons of small, high quality bands. The biggest con is that a specific "channel" can start to repeat the same 50 or so songs, but that is easily solved by making a new one. It is well worth the $36/year for the paid ad-free version, and the…

Pandora is nice, but I refuse to pay for a service where I have to vpn to the US in order to be able to use it. I'm also not overly impressed with the Android app. --It works, but it's not wonderful.

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Post by lukev »

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. :)

Looks nice. I'll have to give it a try.

Do you have any plans to support automatically backing up music between devices? Current solutions seem to solve either the "play anywhere" or "keep your music safe" problems, but not both.

Ideally, I'd like something with the following characteristics:

* Syncs music like Dropbox, except does it peer to peer between my own devices so I don't have to pay for space. My wife and I both buy music on both our computers and both our iPhones, and keeping a canonical repository of it for backup and safekeeping is a huge pain.

* Lets me choose which artists/albums to sync on to constrained space devices, for offline play. It should take me 2 seconds to say "I want Iron Maiden and Blind Guardian on my iPhone while I'm camping this weekend." Lets me do this from any of my devices.

* Lets me stream music without syncing it (like Audiogalaxy currently does).

* Lets me make tracks/playlists available to my friends for streaming (licensing issues around this one are tricky, but of Spotify can do it, it should be possible.)

I would LOVE something like this.

So far, the only thing I've heard of that even comes close to the spirit of this is iTunes Match, whenever that finally happens.

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Post by pnathan »

socillion wrote: post #41
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…

Have you tried Pandora? It is an absolutely amazing service that has an uncanny ability to find very similar music, occasionally finding gems from a different genre. They also have tons of small, high quality bands. The biggest con is that a specific "channel" can start to repeat the same 50 or so songs, but that is easily solved by making a new one. It is well worth the $36/year for the paid ad-free version, and the…

Pandora contracted with Facebook and started showing what my friends were listening to (I had used the same emails in both).

That same day I quit Pandora. At that point in time, they did not even have a mechanism to kill your account, so I had to email the company personally.

I quit my Facebook account not long after.

I refuse to willingly partake in a surveillance society.

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