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The day I canceled my Spotify subscription

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Re: The day I canceled my Spotify subscription

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Post by iamsaitam »

schnitzelstoat wrote: post #69
mittermayr wrote: post #32

> Instead, my subscription is probably pooled according to some black box formula and ends up paid to some of their top performers like Beyoncé, Taylor Swift, or The Weeknd. While the indie artist I have been obsessed with gets literally nothing because they don’t meet a certain arbitrary threshold. Well, as a musician myself, I often feel a bit conflicted reading statements like these. After all, as uncomfortable as…

I mean they are revenue-share deals. So each label will get paid a % of Spotify's total revenue according to the number of listens they have and how well they negotiated the deal. So labels like UMG are going to get a better deal than some indie artist who just has to sign up normally. How much the UMG artists end up getting paid is up to UMG. The problem is really that 90% of people listen to a few big artists that…

It's like if income tax brackets were inverted and the higher your income the less taxes you pay.

Re: The day I canceled my Spotify subscription

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Post by nubinetwork »

I've been considering cancelling my subscription as well.

It first started some months ago with the fonts being corrupted on Linux, and more recently they removed the "I don't like this song" button (or made the program ignore it in other instances).

I'll agree with the sentiment of "we know what you really want" UI-wise... going really wrong. I might give them a couple more months to turn things around, but to be honest, I really don't want to go back to downloading music.

Re: The day I canceled my Spotify subscription

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Post by Rochus »

salzig wrote: post #31

Not sure what Spotify does, but I gets worse in all kind of different aspects. I don't take a look at the start page anymore, just noise. I hear quite diverse Music genre, so it was quite nice that Spotify has Mix-Tapes so I could randomly pick one or the other. Release-Radar was a cool mix of new stuff. But lately it feels like they are pushing only on genre. Verschlimmbessern at its best.

Probably the fate of each popular product.

Re: The day I canceled my Spotify subscription

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Post by bowsamic »

I get Spotify for free because my dad's phone contract comes with a family plan, but right now I'm trying free Apple Music that I got for a few months for reasons I can't quite remember, and it's really not much better, in fact it's worse in many ways, particularly in terms of buggier UI and lack of remote control functionality. I don't think I'll switch to it any time soon. All of the music apps seem to suck in their own ways.

Re: The day I canceled my Spotify subscription

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Post by posix86 »

madeofpalk wrote: post #27
6581 wrote: post #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 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…

But spotify has human curated playlists for different genres, does it not?

Re: The day I canceled my Spotify subscription

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Post by subpixel »

The best Spotify playlist in my world was curated and constantly updated by a small business I had bought things from.

It lasted about a year or so - I don’t think Spotify wants that sort of thing to be created.

Today there’s a certain DJ at a certain community radio station that streams online from whom I discover much of my new music.

That said I do catch new things via Spotify but only by creating “radio” feeds for songs and artists I like.

I ignore the home page, I interact with Spotify via my liked songs and library.

Re: The day I canceled my Spotify subscription

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Post by ohmaigad »

daveoc64 wrote: post #56
xnorswap wrote: post #40

I feel like I'm in a weird alt-universe. I've heard frequent complaints about spotify pushing podcasts but I've never once had spotify show me a podcast above the fold that I haven't myself followed. Only if I scroll really further than I've ever scrolled before could I find it. Spotify shows me: "Made for xnorswap: ": 5 "daily mixes" which have always been a bit rubbish because they're not really mixes, they seem to…

>I feel like I'm in a weird alt-universe. >I've heard frequent complaints about spotify pushing podcasts but I've never once had spotify show me a podcast above the fold that I haven't myself followed. That you have followed or listened to a podcast in Spotify is what makes you different here. I have never listened to a podcast on Spotify, despite being a user since the invite-only days, yet the UI recommends podcast…

Never listened to a podcast on Spotify and on my Home screen i have to scroll quite a lot (its like 10 row, pretty much in the middle of Home screen in my case) to see one row "Episodes for You" and one row of "Shows to try". Don't see how it is "pushing podcasts".

Re: The day I canceled my Spotify subscription

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Post by lawgimenez »

wolframhempel wrote: post #85

I believe, Spotify is pretty much the best thing ever. I understand the criticism - but to me, this is just a sign of how far we've come. I was born in 1984 and, from a very early age, was really into Metal. That was a problem - since there were literally zero ways to discover new songs. The radio and MTV didn't play Metal. None of my friends shared my taste in Music. The listening stations at HMV & Co (remember thos…

I was born in 1986 and we have the same story but my road leads to punk and hardcore. Which I believe the records (CDs, cassettes) are very hard to find compared to metal. I listened to a lot of Dead Kennedys when I was young, so I really don't mind if the quality is lossless or shitty. I am just glad that I could listen to it on repeat.

Re: The day I canceled my Spotify subscription

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Post by bowsamic »

wolframhempel wrote: post #85

I believe, Spotify is pretty much the best thing ever. I understand the criticism - but to me, this is just a sign of how far we've come. I was born in 1984 and, from a very early age, was really into Metal. That was a problem - since there were literally zero ways to discover new songs. The radio and MTV didn't play Metal. None of my friends shared my taste in Music. The listening stations at HMV & Co (remember thos…

If you were basically born with Spotify, like many of us here (or at least, had it or something like it from a young-ish age), then unfortunately there's no way we will ever appreciate it. It's like someone from a century go saying how amazing it is that we all having flushing toilets in our houses and refrigerators. It's just life now, it's the new normal, not amazing.
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