The day I canceled my Spotify subscription
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The day I canceled my Spotify subscription
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#2Spotify is a background noise generator. With hard work it can be used to listen more attentively by searching for specific albums by specific artists, although the amount you’re contributing to those artists is ambiguous.
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#3I can't stand Spotify's redesign anymore. Looking for an improved Winamp-like app with very simple interface and playlists. What should I try?
Apple Music is a joke as well. I can't even play some of my custom audio files (they're not music, custom sounds) because Apple thinks they are not allowed to play in my country. I can't play my own audio files because of some buggy software Apple doesn't care about maintaining anymore.
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#4Spotify is one of the prime apps for "mass consumption", should be given the UI, UX and other aspects are geared towards your average nerf herders - not the tech savvy, independent-thinking-valuing crowd.
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#5I’ve felt similarly for many years, but remain trapped using Spotify due to a lack of decent alternatives. Tried Tidal, but it wasn’t really any better. Would love to hear what leavers migrate to.
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#6I'm also not a fan of the direction Spotify is going, but if I want to keep listening to music, I don't see a way around it - and I don't think other music services are materially different. I support the artists I care about most by going to their concerts and/or buying merch. I use services like last.fm for better discovery. Spotify doesn't have to be the only way you interact with music.
The author doesn't say how they're going to keep listening to songs. Are they going to start buying/torrenting all their music? Are they going to switch to a different service, and does that service address any of the listed issues? Or are they simply giving up on listening to music (in the quantities/variety available through a catalogue like Spotify's)?
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#7I can't stand Spotify's redesign anymore. Looking for an improved Winamp-like app with very simple interface and playlists. What should I try? Apple Music is a joke as well. I can't even play some of my custom audio files (they're not music, custom sounds) because Apple thinks they are not allowed to play in my country. I can't play my own audio files because of some buggy software Apple doesn't care about maintainin…
Winamp still works.
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#8My Spotify has only one row of podcast recommendations (in the All tab). The rest are my type of music or the last album I was listening to. Am I missing something here?
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#9Spotify is one of the prime apps for "mass consumption", should be given the UI, UX and other aspects are geared towards your average nerf herders - not the tech savvy, independent-thinking-valuing crowd.
Nerf herders were totally fine with Winamp. I remember old people using Winamp back in the days.
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#10> It keeps pushing playlists that feel generic, bland, more based on demographics than my years of consistent listening history.
I don't really agree with this point. The personal playlists (both Discover Weekly and the Daily Mix ones) are very close to what I usually listen to and have made me discover dozens of artists I didn't know before. Maybe they work better for some than for others, but they don't feel like being based just on demographics at all to me.