The day I cancelled was May 19, 2020 and should've been yours too.
The day I canceled my Spotify subscription
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Re: The day I canceled my Spotify subscription
#42Spotify's suggestions are horribly bland and insultingly unoriginal compared to Apple's. I keep getting Black Sabbath's Paranoid, the song, in various "deep cuts" and "new music" themed lists and suggestions. It's from 1969. Apple's lists and suggestions may actually have new music.
I feel the same like, I cannot get away from some songs even when I dislike them.
I got some AirPods and have a few Apple Music subscription I’ll try instead.
I’ve also just started listening to some good radio stations like FBI in Sydney Australia. Best way to find new music in my opinion. I add what I like on Spotify and it spices it up a bit.
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#43I'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…
Apple Music pays artist pretty much double per stream vs. Spotify.
Just that alone is enough for me to support them rather than Spotify.
Along with the fact that Apple's discovery and new music playlists have gotten a lot better than Spotify's in just a few years.
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#44> 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 b…
I feel like both of you are correct. It feels to me that Spotify's recommendations easily gets stuck in a 'local maxima' where it just keeps recommending the same music over again with little variation. I found much more variation from other music streaming services where the playlists are supposedly actually human curated. Music just ends up feeling a lot more bland with Spotify, in my experience. I don't even know…
Same experience for me.
I think the parent might be a new user. It was good for me for a few years but now it’s just stale as shit.
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#45I’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.
I do find Tidal to be a little better. I migrated due to comments on here and found it to not be the "no bullshit" experience that I hoped for, but it is a bit less obnoxious at least.
Re: The day I canceled my Spotify subscription
#46I 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…
I don't find Spotify that much different from Winamp. Everyone says they hate the interface but apart from the suggestions or the front page (which I don't use), what are the problems exactly? I have playlists with songs that I can double click to play. What more is there to it?
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I don't think other music services are materially different They very much do if you care about audio quality. Spotify still doesn't support high-res audio e.g. CD quality and above.
Which services would you recommend as alternatives for higher quality audio at similar price points?
I have Tidal HiFi-Plus (19.99 Euro/month [up to 24-bit, 192 kHz]), but i can't really say that i would recommend it.
There is also HiFi (10.99/month [up to 16-bit, 44.1 kHz]).
My biggest problems with Tidal (except for the price) are: - Music suddenly becomes unavailable (greyed out), only to be become available under the same name later again (but you need to manually re-add it to playlists). - Sometimes it just stops the playback and if i resume it always jumps to one specific song.
I cannot say anything about the mobile player, as i only use it on PC.
Alternativly: Just buy the music you like as FLAC.
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#48I prefer multiple times to buy an album each month, and make the conscious decision of what I am going to listen instead of relying in algorithms. There's time for random playlist based in genre. But really, in this case, less is more.
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#49Long article for a single comment: I quit Spotify because I can’t customise the home page which pushes podcasts and music I’m not interested in.
For me I navigate my music via My Liked songs + my own playlists for particular moods. If I open the app and press play it defaults to where I left off.
The fact there is a home page which shows options similar to what I like is fine, sometimes useful. Yes I’d prefer to customise it. Yes the recommendations aren’t perfect. Not a reason to quit, I love Spotify and haven’t found a better alternative.
The one major gripe is not being able to upload my own songs, I love listening to remixes and covers, youtube, spotify or tiktok has plenty of songs I’d love in my library. But it’s a nightmare for a business model that respects artists and a cost structure that needs to be covered. Again, no real good alternatives that do this well + have a normal library + be legal.
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#50I never use spotify's suggestions at all. I don't even see them in my client (spotify-qt). I don't want "discovery". I just want to listen to the stuff I already know I want.
Which is one thing I really like about Spotify, if you have a subscription you are free to use whatever client you wish It also seemes to have avoided enshittifying itself, moving from free with ads to paid with ads like many TV streaming services have done. They still get a thumbs up for me.