I knew it was going to go down hill when they killed off 3rd party clients.
I Quit Spotify
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#12The problem is that Spotify has to pay huge royalties to the studios instead of being able to make a large margin as other tech companies do. So they get squeezed from both ends, on one side the customer who doesn't want to pay more and on the other side the music industry.
Shouldn't scale compensate for that? Any business works in the margin between what suppliers and customers could allow them, record shops too. But traditional businesses couldn't hope to get a significant part of the planet to be their customers.
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#13I quit them because they raised prices again. I find the app to be excellent, but paying $240/yr for music most of which I already have on CDs is idiotic.
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#14Don't get me wrong, I've started moving away from Spotify, but not entirely for these reasons. Music to me is mostly one big playlist and a few smaller playlists from the same library of my music. And where my music doesn't get randomly yanked because the artist had a fit with Spotify or license issues came up I never understood people's fetishization of albums and "enjoying" an album and all the music app interfaces…
> I never understood people's fetishization of albums and "enjoying" an album and all the music app interfaces created around that.
Some albums are written to be enjoyed as a whole. A song might set up the next. Listening to an artist album by album gives you an idea of their progression. This might not be for everyone but surely isn't alien.
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#15I'm looking for a music app (streaming or otherwise) that supports what seems to me like a basic feature, but which seems to be unsupported in anything I've tried. I want the ability to shuffle my library/play the latest releases/whatever while leaving albums intact . I want to play the entirety of one album in order, then play another album in order, and so on. Anyone know of an app that does this? I'll drop spotify…
Foobar2000 does this.
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#16We (as a family) moved from Spotify to Apple Music, but it was entirely down to cost. As our kids have grown and gained their own devices we've had to find apps/services that we can share with them. The most successful has been Apple One, having Arcade for them, TV and News for us, the storage, and extras like Fitness, it made sense to get Apple One. At that point we had Apple Music for "free" so decided to migrate after over ten years. Genuinely very happy with it!
Many of the complaints in the OP apply to Sonos too though, we brought into it years ago, and are incredible disappointed with the recent changes.
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#17The problem is that Spotify has to pay huge royalties to the studios instead of being able to make a large margin as other tech companies do. So they get squeezed from both ends, on one side the customer who doesn't want to pay more and on the other side the music industry.
Shouldn't scale compensate for that? Any business works in the margin between what suppliers and customers could allow them, record shops too. But traditional businesses couldn't hope to get a significant part of the planet to be their customers.
Not if their dealer charges them for each stream
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#18I'm looking for a music app (streaming or otherwise) that supports what seems to me like a basic feature, but which seems to be unsupported in anything I've tried. I want the ability to shuffle my library/play the latest releases/whatever while leaving albums intact . I want to play the entirety of one album in order, then play another album in order, and so on. Anyone know of an app that does this? I'll drop spotify…
I've wanted a "play a random album" since the Winamp days.
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#19Don't get me wrong, I've started moving away from Spotify, but not entirely for these reasons. Music to me is mostly one big playlist and a few smaller playlists from the same library of my music. And where my music doesn't get randomly yanked because the artist had a fit with Spotify or license issues came up I never understood people's fetishization of albums and "enjoying" an album and all the music app interfaces…
I think for me listening to a whole album comes from the fact that I’m a “legacy” music user. I used to listen to CDs and cassette tapes. So listening to five different artists meant either making a mix tape or changing CDs five times. So now I’m just used to listening to a whole album because sometimes that was all I had.
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#20sensible 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.
SoundCloud is close to this, and Tidal was intended to be this. Neither quite hit the mark but both are closer than Spotify.