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#32Also worth mentioning (not discussed in the article) the awful, memory-hogging Spotify Electron app on MacOS. (For clarification, I meant the performance of the desktop app isn’t discussed).
Same on Linux. Electron apps are often so memory-hogging and not that fast. That's why i switched to a TUI spotify player and except that i can't see album covers there is nothing that i miss.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't get how this enables music discovery, which is one of the biggest draws of Spotify
I don't see where GP claimed that it does.
I mean if you're weighing in on a discussion of Spotify and Apple and sharing your alternative, I think it would be fair to think about drawbacks or missing features along with the pros of anti-subscription life
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#34Doesn’t mention if they went into Spotify’s Settings—>Audio Quality to set it to the non-default ’Very High’ (=320Kbps). The experience described makes me think no.
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#35I’m winding down my reliance on subscription based services. There’s been a noticeable shift in the world when it comes to ownership; specifically the media and housing market space. Perpetual renting seems to be the way of the future. While I have my own opinions on that, I think it’s important to (at the very least) own your media library. Not only does it benefit artists and studios more, you will not be subject t…
I don't get how this enables music discovery, which is one of the biggest draws of Spotify
I use to be a big fan of Spotify but they keep showing me similar songs that I just happened to listen to. My weekly lists contain synth, down tempo, and if I’m very lucky a pop song.
I don’t mind these genres but looking at my personal collection I have 400 gigs of rock, 500 gigs of rap, and 800 gigs of jazz. None of these three genres ever appear for me on Spotify. Spotify is by far the worse way for me to discover music because it’ll never show me something new or different; just the same song several dozen times.
The best way to find music is talking to people. Before what.cd shut down they had collages that I’d make heavy use of, basically lists of songs and artists for a variety of genres or feelings. One I’d heavy contribute to was jazzy hip hop. This one genre would encapsulate 30-60 artists which I’m sure that Spotify would put in separate worlds.
There has never been a “recommendation” service that I have found more useful than talking to someone.
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#36> The desktop app for Apple Music has been updated with the newer versions of Mac OS and performs well It abbbsolutely does not. Sorry, but I've been seriously considering switching to Spotify just because the desktop Apple Music app (on macOS) might be the worst Mac app I've ever used- certainly the worst piece of Apple software I've ever used. It is shockingly, shamefully bad for what's supposed to be a flagship se…
Have you tried https://cider.sh ? I use it and it’s great, but I haven’t tried the AM mac app since I don’t use a mac
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#37My pet-peeves about Apple Music: - Can't search for songs in my library. I can go to a playlist and search for a song, or I can go to search, choose "my library" and search for an artist, album or playlist, but not a song. Makes it difficult to go "I want to listen to that obscure cover of All Along The Watchtower I have in one of my playlists somewhere" - No easy way to listen to a playlist on shuffle, starting from…
> No easy way to listen to a playlist on shuffle, starting from a specific song. You can search the playlist, but that limits you to shuffling the search results. You can scroll through your playlist until you find what you are looking for, but that is not easy.
Last I checked, Spotify has this issue too
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#38There’s no way to delete or modify your listening history on Apple Music, and thus no way to get rid of unwanted recommendations AFAIK. At least with Spotify you can just create a new account, but your Apple Music account is tied to your appleid, so that’s not really feasible if you’re a heavy Apple user. I just try to find the service with mostly the same features but with the least intrusive recommendations and use…
If you scroll up in the queue you get your history and a Clear button. Not sure if it affects recommendations
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't get how this enables music discovery, which is one of the biggest draws of Spotify
I use to be a big fan of Spotify but they keep showing me similar songs that I just happened to listen to. My weekly lists contain synth, down tempo, and if I’m very lucky a pop song. I don’t mind these genres but looking at my personal collection I have 400 gigs of rock, 500 gigs of rap, and 800 gigs of jazz. None of these three genres ever appear for me on Spotify. Spotify is by far the worse way for me to discover…
Bandcamp has Bandcamp radio. It's very good.
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#40Calling Tidal niche, and then opening with how important sound quality is to you seems disingenuous.
Tidal superseded Spotify a long time ago in features and quality. It's far from niche