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Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it

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Re: Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it

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Post by solarkraft »

90-00-09 wrote: post #98
digging wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I left Spotify for their policies (pro-Rogan, shit pay to artists), and landed on Tidal. it's not perfect, but it absolutely fits the niche that Spotify did and feels way less stupid.

Is Tidal still prioritizing US hiphop? I really liked it (about 5 years ago) but left because they pushed e.g. Beyonce to me on every visit on every possible surface despite me having a completely different taste in music.

I don't think I've ever seen any hip hop while using Tidal, so probably no, at least if you're not interested in adjacent genres. Even the ads (stupid playlists I don't want to see, I can only explain them forcing them on me with financial interest) include a probably average amount of it.

Re: Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it

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Post by iudqnolq »

encoderer wrote: post #23

Spotify, get your shit together. You’ve wasted a fortune in podcasting and now you’ve destroyed your app UX. Nobody wants this crap. Everybody just wants better music discovery and instant access to their favorites.

They can't afford for you to listen to popular music. Everything they promote is an alternative to you listening to Taylor Swift.

They'd love it if you listened to podcasts. If you have to listen to music they want to convince you to listen to something unpopular they can license for cheap. That's why the push Discover stuff so hard.

Re: Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it

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Post by soneca »

soneca wrote: post #15

Never heard of it. Thought it sounded fun. Went to play it. I had to skip without guessing to the end and then see today’s answer. I never heard that song in my life, nor ever heard of the artist. Connecting Heardle to my Spotify profile would make a more fun game.

The song was Tattoo, by Jordin Sparks btw

Re: Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it

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Post by donbrae »

encoderer wrote: post #23

Spotify, get your shit together. You’ve wasted a fortune in podcasting and now you’ve destroyed your app UX. Nobody wants this crap. Everybody just wants better music discovery and instant access to their favorites.

I’d been using Spotify since 2009 and switched to Apple Music last year. The Apple Music UX is worse, but Dolby Atmos makes it worth it. As someone who listens to a lot of jazz with headphones, it’s a significant improvement over standard stereo. I’d go back to Spotify if they added the feature.

Re: Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it

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Post by dieselgate »

digging wrote: post #93
dieselgate wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Guess for a lot of us spotify users that'd mean stop paying for their service? am pretty close to doing so after almost a decade of paying for spotify.

yes. there are good alternatives. switching can be easy or painful depending on if you're willing to use opaque 3rd-party services to transfer your playlists (also, when I exported manually, some songs just disappeared from my "Liked"). but I highly recommend taking the plunge.

Interesting, what services do you recommend? I’m not familiar with them. I’d like to just get the song/artist names from playlists rather than all the playlists themselves.

Get to hang out with a friend who’s a former Spotify employee tomorrow so this will be a likely topic of discussion

Re: Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it

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Post by Alupis »

90-00-09 wrote: post #102
Alupis wrote: post #70

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Come over to Pandora - the water is warm and your favorite songs are a flowing.

Pandora's discovery algorithm is still top notch. But the rest is just awful: navigating to albums/artists, finding which words are clickable and not clickable, not being able to like or downvote some random sources (if it's a radio you can't like, or can - I can't remember and used to always get confused).

Hmm, maybe give it another try if it's been a while.

It's anecdotes, sure, but I do not experience these issues with the App or the Website.

You can Up/Down Vote on your "Radio" stations - but not your custom playlists (which makes sense).

Pandora offers custom playlists, offline listing, unlimited skips of radio, no ads on radio, "hit" playlits (curated by Pandora and other users) and more. It's radio/discovery algorithm is what kept me with Pandora, but all these features make it on-par with Spotify.

Re: Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it

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Post by Shaanie »

uejfiweun wrote: post #66
encoderer wrote: post #23

Spotify, get your shit together. You’ve wasted a fortune in podcasting and now you’ve destroyed your app UX. Nobody wants this crap. Everybody just wants better music discovery and instant access to their favorites.

Man, I must be the only person who actually LIKES the Spotify UX. The color scheme looks cool, the app is pretty intuitive and well designed IMO, and it also hasn't majorly changed in 10 years.

People who like stuff typically aren't going around posting about it, especially not in these types of threads that appeal to those who dislike the company/app.

Personally I think Spotify is great and it works really well for me, the only thing I really don't like is the podcast push. While it's not as bad as it used to be, I wish I could toggle it off or banish it to some separate part of the app.

Re: Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it

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Post by antifa »

mostlysimilar wrote: post #29
encoderer wrote: post #23

Spotify, get your shit together. You’ve wasted a fortune in podcasting and now you’ve destroyed your app UX. Nobody wants this crap. Everybody just wants better music discovery and instant access to their favorites.

They've been actively destroying their UX for years now. I am so tired of them forcing their Podcasts and audio books and whatever else on me. The one thing I want Spotify to do well is algorithmic discovery. The Discover Weekly playlist is the only thing that keeps me on the service, and yet they make it more and more difficult to find. The position on the home screen is entirely random and unpredictable. The only r…

Discover Weekly has this weird annoying behavior where the shuffle button disappears on that playlist, so I have to leave DW to any song anywhere else, turn off shuffle, then come back. DW doesn't need shuffle on, the playlist order is already random!

Re: Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it

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Post by ethbr0 »

digging wrote: post #93
dieselgate wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Guess for a lot of us spotify users that'd mean stop paying for their service? am pretty close to doing so after almost a decade of paying for spotify.

yes. there are good alternatives. switching can be easy or painful depending on if you're willing to use opaque 3rd-party services to transfer your playlists (also, when I exported manually, some songs just disappeared from my "Liked"). but I highly recommend taking the plunge.

What are some good alternatives? More visibility!

Re: Spotify abandons Heardle less than a year after buying it

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Post by h4ch1 »

90-00-09 wrote: post #103
h4ch1 wrote: post #33

Just day before I saw Spotify had the same ADHD inducing reels/tiktok style music discovery thing on it. What is it with all these companies using the same UX patterns EVERYWHERE. As one commentor rightly said, Discover Weekly is the only thing keeping me on this platform, they even removed family mixes, my brothers and uncles are on my family plan, and even though we didn't keep in touch a lot that used to be a talk…

I heard about this change from so many sources. Where can I see it (which section)? I quit Spotify months ago but curious to see this pattern.

There you go: https://streamable.com/7e1hka (pls ignore the content)
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