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I Quit Spotify
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#72I’m quitting Spotify because of some idiotic family plan policies.
We missed an email about address verification, despite we living in the same place for many years and being a paid user for 15 years, and now my wife can’t rejoin the plan for a year.
Moving to Tidal, and perhaps starting buying CDs again.
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
let me flip it on you, i have entire albums i like as individual songs. but i don't put the record on the start, turn off shuffle and pretend to be of higher intelligence because i 'appreciate' the work the artist put in to it. For sure there are albums that are like that, i just don't tend to listen to music like that. I listen to a song, i think "oh, i want to listen to that next", queue it up and forget i wanted t…
As I expanded in another reply, what warrants a reaction like mine is listening to most or all of your music in this way. I mean, I won't force people not to put ketchup in all their dishes, including when going to a 1-star Michelin restaurant, but if that's not the dictionary definition of "pleb", I don't know what is.
aye, and i'm not interested in having a chef prepare a tiny aubergine steak with a splash of tahini and charge me $500 for the honour of eating his choice of how to virtue signal to his chef friends.
I don't necessarily listen to ALL of it at once, I will mostly be queueing up what i want to listen to next constantly and skip through what i don't feel like listening to right now (if the platform allows it easily, which i'm struggling to find again). On another day in another mood, that same song i skipped previously might be just what i need.
Almost as if i can choose my meal and my dessert independently every day depending on what i feel like eating.
edit: and occasionally, it may be a $500 aubergine steak - when i want it to be.
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#74sensible move. shitification thats spotify. I would like to see a HN inspired web site that lists all of the bands and musicians where we can click on a link and go directly to the band or musicians web site and buy or download the music directly from them. No middle man earning a small fortune off the backs of those talented musicians.
Bandcamp is close to this. Unfortunately the website is kind of dated IMO and even core flows like exploring, buying and downloading music feel somewhat painful compared to rivals, and there’s no real recommendation system. I would love to see a Bandcamp streaming service which fairly compensates artists and has a more discovery focussed UI, but they don’t seem that interested in evolving the product for whatever rea…
I'd like to see them provide an API and let others sort it out for them.
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#75I quit Spotify a few years ago as well. They kept changing stuff, breaking my work flow, with every change it felt like there was more friction to listen to the music and podcasts I wanted, and less friction to listen to algorithmically selected slop I didn't want to listen to. Eventually I just said fuck it. I don't need this source of stress and frustration in my life. I've never looked back. I'm on youtube music n…
When I left Spotify I remember it being difficult at first, I went around to various competitors who were all objectively worse. I've been using YT music for a few years now too and while it is not as good by a long shot, it's good enough and I feel more in control of my musical journey. You're right that they don't change much, it almost feels like a forgotten product, which probably doesn't bode well for its future with Google being Google.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
> decision was entirely down to cost > Whole family uses Apple products I cannot prove it but I feel a contradiction
As an anecdote, my kid is in their pre-teens. They're on their second iPad - got the first one at around age 1-2. I think that's a pretty nice TCO right there.
> got the first one at around age 1-2.
That's brave. I've never owned an iPad, are they are they a lot more resilient to being dropped than I think? My 2yo drops what they're playing with about 4 times per minute. I've settled for a yoto player which I don't let them pick up!
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#77I totally recommend Radio FIP (France Inter Paris) for anyone a little frustrated with Spotify. I listen to this for hours each day. I love every one of those hours. Unlike Spotify, expert DJs select a wide range of music from genres that span the globe. Throughout the day, FIP curates an eclectic mix of genres—from jazz to rock, world music to classical—ensuring that I'm constantly exposed to various musical worlds…
I can not find a lot music in the app despite my solid french.
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#78I quit Spotify a few years ago as well. They kept changing stuff, breaking my work flow, with every change it felt like there was more friction to listen to the music and podcasts I wanted, and less friction to listen to algorithmically selected slop I didn't want to listen to. Eventually I just said fuck it. I don't need this source of stress and frustration in my life. I've never looked back. I'm on youtube music n…
Engineers don't decide how things are moved or changed, that's product and maybe ux.
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#79Here’s an experiment you can do across any music service, count how many clicks/taps/interactions to go from a cold start to dark side of the moon. Now play their next album that you can’t remember the name of.
For bonus fun count how many times it tries to interrupt you and have you listen to something cheaper, their in house podcasts or whatever the latest rap album they’re pushing is, despite that after tens of thousands of hours of listening they know you’ve never once chosen it or any adjacent genre.
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#80I quit Spotify a few years ago as well. They kept changing stuff, breaking my work flow, with every change it felt like there was more friction to listen to the music and podcasts I wanted, and less friction to listen to algorithmically selected slop I didn't want to listen to. Eventually I just said fuck it. I don't need this source of stress and frustration in my life. I've never looked back. I'm on youtube music n…
If their problem was 'too many developers', I reckon they'd be building totally useless yet amazingly engineered SDKs and data/analytics tools or apps to improve the quality and satisfaction of your music consumption. Instead, they focus on all the things that just reek of an overabundance of marketers and Product People™.