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Re: I Quit Spotify

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Post by surgical_fire »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #5

I 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…

I've been using Spotify for about 7 years. And honest question, what did they change so much that disrupts you from listening?

I swear I am not trying to be clever and throwing you a gotcha. I just never had any issues, and it may be down to how I use the service. Genuinely curious to how other people use it.

In my case, I only ever use Spotify on Android (or android auto if I am driving). I mostly listen to playlists I crafted myself. Sometimes I listen to one podcast or another when working out, but that's rare (I mostly listen to music).

What I am trying to say is that I barely interact with the UI at all - as it should be, I just want to listen to stuff. What is so bad about it?

Re: I Quit Spotify

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Post by a-french-anon »

avh02 wrote: post #73
a-french-anon wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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, whi…

Thing is that the musical equivalent of that dish is Schoenberg, "music that's clearly designed for album listening" is another beast and overlaps a lot with non-intellectual elitist stuff.

About meal and dessert, I've never experienced a strong and justified coupling between these; actually, I always rinse my mouth with water between dishes to fully embrace the taste divide.

Re: I Quit Spotify

#93

Post by a-french-anon »

bezier-curve wrote: post #89
a-french-anon wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sadly, I don't really think the question at hand is complex enough to be more constructive than the single sentence I used. But let's try: could you reduce a movie like "Taxi Driver" to a single scene and keep all of its value? I categorically state "no", but you could probably with sitcoms-with-background-laugh-tracks ("probably", my experience with them isn't very extensive). Basically, some music is made to be dig…

There's a lot of cases where I've been offered up an artist's "greatest hits" or "latest hit" through an algorithm, and it got me curious enough to dig and discover their albums, and listen to them the way they probably intended. I think your comment is a narrow way to look at algorithmic suggestions, and it comes off elitist.

I was talking about music listening, which is a very different act from music discovery, in my opinion.

Addendum: elitism may have a very double-plus-ungood connotation in the current year, but I've never heard a valid, factual argument against it; which is even funnier when you realize the kind of people conditioned to react this way to the word have a similar filter for "populism".

It's basically one of the modern "witches" arguments.

Re: I Quit Spotify

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Post by hereaiham »

ageitgey wrote: post #86

I had been a Spotify subscriber since near when it started. I was annoyed with every change over the years, but I had nearly a decade of playlists that I didn't want to lose. It never felt worth switching because it seemed like a huge effort. Recently, I finally switched to Apple Music after discovering there is absolutely no way to disable video podcasts on child accounts and that because of that, Spotify search is…

Be careful, Apple Music will delete you playlists and your whole library if you unsubscribe.

Re: I Quit Spotify

#95

Post by DavideNL »

bags43 wrote: post #77
adamhorne wrote: post #45

I 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.

- "FIP Radio removed from TuneIn"

- "...We have removed all France Radio stations from TuneIn as per broadcaster request. We're sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your understanding..."

:

https://old.reddit.com/r/tunein/comments/1buoei7/fip_radio_r...

Streams: https://gist.github.com/harperreed/b5ceabbbbca0a79d478ec0b81...

Re: I Quit Spotify

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Post by bezier-curve »

a-french-anon wrote: post #93
bezier-curve wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There's a lot of cases where I've been offered up an artist's "greatest hits" or "latest hit" through an algorithm, and it got me curious enough to dig and discover their albums, and listen to them the way they probably intended. I think your comment is a narrow way to look at algorithmic suggestions, and it comes off elitist.

I was talking about music listening, which is a very different act from music discovery, in my opinion. Addendum: elitism may have a very double-plus-ungood connotation in the current year, but I've never heard a valid, factual argument against it; which is even funnier when you realize the kind of people conditioned to react this way to the word have a similar filter for "populism". It's basically one of the modern…

To clarify, my point is music listening is ultimately subjective, and there's no objective, "correct", way people can experience and appreciate art.

Re: I Quit Spotify

#97

Post by gorbachev »

ageitgey wrote: post #86

I had been a Spotify subscriber since near when it started. I was annoyed with every change over the years, but I had nearly a decade of playlists that I didn't want to lose. It never felt worth switching because it seemed like a huge effort. Recently, I finally switched to Apple Music after discovering there is absolutely no way to disable video podcasts on child accounts and that because of that, Spotify search is…

How did you keep your Spotify playlists useful after all that time?

Mine start to rot in less than a year. On all my playlists large percentage of the songs just disappear after a while. Whether that's because songs were removed from Spotify due to licensing agreements expiring, the artist deleting them for some other reason I don't know, but the end result is a really frustrating user experience.

Re: I Quit Spotify

#98

Post by curated4ever »

adamhorne wrote: post #45

I 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…

Very much appreciate the suggestion. Thank you. I love these curated streams. Really good to have in the background. One I found a long time ago is Radio Paradise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Paradise

Edit: Love these wide curated music. I think what makes me love FIP and RP is it puts you into a good/mellow/calm mood.

Re: I Quit Spotify

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Post by h00s »

I also left Spotify. However, my reason wasn't the user interface but the sound quality. Since I bought high-quality studio monitors and an excellent sound card, sound quality has become important. I switched to Tidal and I'm not going back.

Re: I Quit Spotify

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Post by ageitgey »

gorbachev wrote: post #97
ageitgey wrote: post #86

I had been a Spotify subscriber since near when it started. I was annoyed with every change over the years, but I had nearly a decade of playlists that I didn't want to lose. It never felt worth switching because it seemed like a huge effort. Recently, I finally switched to Apple Music after discovering there is absolutely no way to disable video podcasts on child accounts and that because of that, Spotify search is…

How did you keep your Spotify playlists useful after all that time? Mine start to rot in less than a year. On all my playlists large percentage of the songs just disappear after a while. Whether that's because songs were removed from Spotify due to licensing agreements expiring, the artist deleting them for some other reason I don't know, but the end result is a really frustrating user experience.

I don't know. I didn't really have that problem very often. Most of my playlists never had any issues. Maybe it depends on the genre / record companies you most often listen to? No idea.
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