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Spotify have reached 40M paying subscribers

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Re: Spotify have reached 40M paying subscribers

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Post by charrondev »

hedora wrote: post #6

I'm happy their subscriber counts are up, but I've noticed a steep negative trend their library selection in the last month. I poked around a bit for more info. All I could find were complaints that they don't publish this information anymore. Does anyone know how to see if my anectdote is a trend? Perhaps they lost some contracts with major labels, or perhaps there is a way to probe their search API to estimate thei…

I'm not sure if it's something that varies heavily by country, but I just switched back from Apple Music to Spotify and couldn't be happier.

So many artists that I like were missing albums or songs on Apple Music for some reason. One group that I particularly like was missing over 3/4 of their music at Apple. All available in iTunes of course, but I don't feel like paying for individual songs on top my subscriptions. Worth noting that I'm in Canada and I'm talking about mostly Electronic, Metal, and Jazz tracks.

Re: Spotify have reached 40M paying subscribers

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Post by bearcobra »

I wonder how many of these 40M users are like me and are searching for other options. I'm using Spotify because of an intro offer, and my Google Play account exists almost solely for the discount on other content. Both have enough annoying design quirks that I've also tried Tidal and Apple Music, but their recommendation engines left me wanting more. Based on my love of Rdio, I'm really hoping Pandora's rumored new streaming service becomes a viable alternative.

Re: Spotify have reached 40M paying subscribers

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Post by farslan »

JTon wrote: post #12
helthanatos wrote: post #9

Spotify has achieved what no normal entity could. Go them for having a relatively decent free to play with, I'm assuming, a good pay to play model as well.

In Canada, one of the major wireless providers offers Spotify premium accounts bundled in with mid and high tier data lines (i.e. 2 years of Spotify premium "for free"). So I wonder what other providers around the world do this, and how many of the 40mm are part of this group.

Same in Turkey as well. They have a partnership with Vodafone Turkey

Re: Spotify have reached 40M paying subscribers

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Post by ggordan »

charrondev wrote: post #31
hedora wrote: post #6

I'm happy their subscriber counts are up, but I've noticed a steep negative trend their library selection in the last month. I poked around a bit for more info. All I could find were complaints that they don't publish this information anymore. Does anyone know how to see if my anectdote is a trend? Perhaps they lost some contracts with major labels, or perhaps there is a way to probe their search API to estimate thei…

I'm not sure if it's something that varies heavily by country, but I just switched back from Apple Music to Spotify and couldn't be happier. So many artists that I like were missing albums or songs on Apple Music for some reason. One group that I particularly like was missing over 3/4 of their music at Apple. All available in iTunes of course, but I don't feel like paying for individual songs on top my subscriptions.…

I tried out Apple Music and really wanted to like it, but I came back to Spotify mostly because the apps (desktop and mobile) that apple were offering were just completely unusable.

Re: Spotify have reached 40M paying subscribers

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Post by reitanqild »

te_chris wrote: post #30

Good on them. Now can their stupid, over-zealous designers stop messing with the product by removing actually useful features such as "Most Played" filtering of your library, etc etc.

And can they sooner or later stop recommending vocal trance to me?

If there was any machine learning at all going on at that place it should have picked out that peculiarity by now.

Re: Spotify have reached 40M paying subscribers

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Post by circa »

santialbo wrote: post #11

I hope they add lyrics again. They ended their partnership with musixmatch a few months ago and haven't offered an alternative yet.

they added Lyrics in iOS 10 Apple Music and on the desktop version. I noticed it today and I'm pleasantly surprised by it.

Re: Spotify have reached 40M paying subscribers

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Post by emanuelev »

bearcobra wrote: post #33

I wonder how many of these 40M users are like me and are searching for other options. I'm using Spotify because of an intro offer, and my Google Play account exists almost solely for the discount on other content. Both have enough annoying design quirks that I've also tried Tidal and Apple Music, but their recommendation engines left me wanting more. Based on my love of Rdio, I'm really hoping Pandora's rumored new s…

Not sure if it's just melancholia, but I do think rdio is still totally unbeaten in terms of personalised playlists. It was absolutely amazing! Also, the audio quality seemed far superior compared to Spotify or Apple Music.

Re: Spotify have reached 40M paying subscribers

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Post by aantix »

dorianm wrote: post #14
santialbo wrote: post #11

I hope they add lyrics again. They ended their partnership with musixmatch a few months ago and haven't offered an alternative yet.

They had Spotify apps, the two most popular were lyrics apps. Then they removed the apps and added lyrics inside Spotify, and now there is no more lyrics at all. Obviously that's a very demanded feature so they must have a strong reason not to have it anymore (legal issues probably). I personally used it all the times for improvised karaokes so I'm very upset to not have lyrics on demand anymore.

Try the RockIt app for karaoke sessions. About every song imaginable..
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