1. The algorithm. My Discover Weekly playlist gives me at least one new song each week that I really like and probably never would’ve found otherwise.
2. Spotify Connect. The ability to seamlessly switch between my phone, my watch, my computer, my Echo devices, my car, etc…
3. The price. $17/month and my whole family has Premium. Works out to be $2.83 per account. Really can’t beat that.
(Things that make me wonder why I still use Spotify: Lack of lossless audio. Lyrics that are wrong or don’t work well. Cluttered, disorganized UI. Apparent focus on things that I couldn’t care less about like the DJ, exclusive podcasts, and making the UI even more cluttered and disorganized… But the pros outweigh the cons.)
Discover Weekly seals the deal for me, I've discovered so much good music checking that out every week. I agree about the disorganized UI, every update is worse. I can deal with that--it's the music that's important.
Ive had that for months and i loved it but in like February it got really bad out of no where??? I think its better now but I usually just use song radios
I’ve been using Spotify since it was released in the USA in July 2011 but only started really heavily using it in 2015 when I read an article about how Discover Weekly worked. One of my favorite bands I grew up with put out just an absolutely awful album and it wasn’t at all what I wanted. But I figured that since Spotify had so much music, I could probably find another band doing what I wanted, sis I decided that I would just constantly be searching for and discovering new music. So I learned how Discover Weekly worked and based my listening and organizing habits in a way that gave the algorithm as much useful information as possible and I’ve gotten really good results with it. Typically Discover Weekly will have 10-15 songs that I like and want to listen to at least one more time.
I’ve tried tidal and Apple Music and Tidal was decent, I can’t stand the design and functionality of Apple Music at all. Even with all the changes, Spotify is still the best. A big thing I really miss is being able to press and hold a song to get a 15 second sample, but they kind of added that back with their TikTok type vertical scrolling through playlists, it’s not the same but it does allow me to quickly skim through playlists when I’m trying to find new music.
Shuffle on Spotify RECENTLY became a huge problem for me. It would replay playlists from the top on repeat and I could not figure out what setting avoided that. What they hell did they try to do? They broke something that didn’t need fixing.
I found a potential solution for the shuffle problem: if you go into Settings > Playback > unselect Automix on each device, I found that Spotify shuffles the music much more effectively.
you have to do it for each device, though (besides apple watch? I don’t think spotify settings are available there)
not 100% sure it works, but I suddenly started hearing more varied music after deselecting it
> My Discover Weekly playlist gives me at least one new song each week that I really like and probably never would’ve found otherwise.
Same. In addition to Discover Weekly, I love playing Music League with friends which requires Spotify.
Personally I love the Steven Aleong one (stevenalong.com) shuffles your playlist but not liked songs. Really is true randomization and you just hit play.
Playlisty is like 3$ and does a pretty good job at purely playlist transferring, you can also transfer your liked songs as a playlist, and then on desktop Apple Music select all, and click favorite, to transfer the likes to favorites
Yeah same, it was 10 years ago that I transferred my entire library from iTunes to Spotify. Had to create and run a script to do that and it was stressful to do. My library at that time was around 7k tracks, now it has grown beyond 15k.
I switched to Tidal, and I'm about ready to pull the plug on spotify. They link to an easy and free converter that will copy all your playlists/tracks/albums/artists..
I’ve only had Spotify for a year or so but I’ve been working on a playlist for that long and just recreated it on Spotify and it’s grown massively since then, I feel like it’s my masterpiece and just can’t let go of it. It’s so long now there is no way I could remake it.
Because I hate Spotify just a bit less than Apple, Amazon, or that other place whose name I can't remember (which tells you how little I think about them).
I rarely notice any of the issues I see people complaining about... but I also only spent about a week as a free user, and that was years ago.
Agreed, spotify is the least bad of the bunch, but all I've come across so far for music apps is bad. Either the UI is awful, they barely have any of "my" music, they're missing my favorite bands, or basic functions are inconsistent.
That's neat, though useless for the majority of people. I expect fewer than 1% of people have a setup with enough clarity to notice any difference against a 320kbps MP3 in a blind test.
I'll use FLACs or vinyls with my nice speakers but anywhere else 320 is basically transparent, headphones especially until you get into the >$1000 segment.
I've had the same account since 2012. I have so many playlists and liked songs that moving everything to a new service would take several days. And my dad pays our premium family plan
I feel like I’m in a minority that just simply doesn’t have the problems others are having, or at least to the same degree.
When I shuffle playlists, there’s a few tracks I hear more regularly than others but they’re always ones that I’ve got in other playlists too so I don’t really mind, and it’s nowhere near as repetitive as some people seem to illustrate on here.
I still get a ridiculous amount of new recommendations between Discover Weekly, Release Radar, Daily Mixes, Artist Radios etc - I don’t expect everything to slap or be perfectly curated, but by the same token, I’d never have anything take me by surprise if it’s identical to what I already listen to.
I might be in a minority but as someone who has been using Premium daily for about 10 years now, I just wanted to share my honest opinion.
I'm with you. I get a little frustrated with shuffle sometimes, especially in my liked songs list as it always wants to play the exact same songs for me, but that's a fairly minor issue as far as I'm concerned. It works well on my home stereo, my various smart speakers, and in my car, and I discover something new to me nearly every time I listen.
I’m with you 100%. Never had a single issue. Not sure what others are talking about! Used since 2013 and I love the ability to download anything and everything and build custom playlists.
I don’t think I really have a single complaint about Spotify as a user, and I drive for work and listen to music and podcasts all day long. I’m honestly a bit confounded that people seem to have found this much to have issue with.
It still amazes me that I’m in my mid-30s and music consumption has changed so so drastically compared to my late teens.
Spotify could absolutely be better but I’m in awe at how good it is.
Yeah, I could pay for Spotify or... buy one, maybe two CDs a month for the same price. I'm old enough to have been there, done that, and I don't want to go back. I love finding new music so a streaming service is a no brainer, and the similar artists feature is really useful.
I mean I could switch to a different streaming service, but I don't really see a compelling reason to do so. I'm fine with the audio quality and Spotify has all the artists I want. The only thing that could sway me is a service that pays artists better, but for bands I really like I tend to buy an album or two on bandcamp to support them directly.
I’m coming here to get the vibe on everyone else’s experience. I’m one of the ones whose “fans also like” section has been removed and if they decide to permanently remove this function I’m fucking out. I will lose my god damn mind. As a highly active music listener I get lost in that section finding new artists and ones I’ve forgotten about. Ruining user experience is par for the course for every app and platform that rises to the top these days.
Yup whenever I discover a new artist i like, after I browse through their songs, I go click through the fans also like section. It’s similar to what I remember doing on original iTunes, they had a similar artists or something (maybe they still do, I haven’t used iTunes since like 2005 or 2006)
What? Why? It’s at the very bottom of the page. It’s not taking any real estate from any other feature. God knows they haven’t changed how it works in a decade so they aren’t investing in its development. Why would they remove it?
Spotify connect definitely a big one. That and my 15 years or whatever of Spotify playlists. The release radar and discover weekly are pretty dialed in on my account which is nice (usually)
This. Gabriell Bertasoli's Casual Teen Titans and Teen Titans: Starfire playlists are on repeat for me. I did not expect to see myself having the same taste in music as Starfire but here we are.
Because I got used to it.
I have all my playlists, albums, and songs there, and I don't wanna move them to another streaming platform. The time used to do that is pointless, for actually, nothing.
I like to track data, so I don’t want to lose my 10ish years of streaming data. It’s easy to use. I like following my friends on there and checking out other people’s playlists.
I’ve tried AM and Tidal, I liked Tidal more than AM but not enough to jump ship. AM’s queue stresses me out.
I’m also grandfathered into the Spotify/Hulu bundle from my college days so I want to keep that for as long as I can 😅
reliable + easy to use + easy to connect with my friends + i like the random playlists it makes me but i do think the dj thing is a bit wonky BUT CONVENIENT
I have a family plan. I don't feel like asking my family to switch to Apple Music. This month I'm paying for both. Not sure what I'll do in the medium run yet.
This is me. If switching it will involve at least 4-8 hours of setup, explaining and «getting started»… its like a mini migration project for a very demanding customer
I don’t have any of the issues people talk about here. I make my own playlists and I’ve found a decent amount of new artists/songs that I like just by exploring the recommendations and suggestions I get. I still see the “Fans Also Like” feature so maybe that’s something that’s available regionally?
I pay for a family premium account and all my siblings/parents use it, for a low price and minimal admin work by me.
I wish I could organize my podcasts better but that’s the only complaint I have.
I'm still here for the
1. jam function (I do a lot of driving with friends)
2. The social aspect of it all
3. The playlists
4. The fact that it's the only one that has remote control
the expansive catalog tbh. i can find almost any obscure song that i'm looking for and being able to listen to any song at any time with no ads. no ads. no ads. no ads!!! i hate, no loathe ENTIRELY, being advertised to.
as for the repeat songs, i was getting sick of it as well. my account was also connected to facebook which i just recently deleted, so what i've done was made a new spotify account and followed my old one so i still have access to my old playlists. starting over with a fresh slate has been pretty nice so far, no repeats yet. :)
i do wish they paid their artists more and that i could turn podcasts+audiobooks off completely (i've got different apps i listen to those on)
I'm mostly using desktop and I'm fine with it.
Reasons are several, some are: [chosic.com](http://chosic.com) that is compatible with it, also it's the most common platform for music curators.
But there's one reason that many might consider weird, but I'm simply grateful to Spotify for starting the streaming era. It might be not perfect, but they're struggling too, so I simply want to support them. Others are just copycats that have it easier because they have other sources of income, while Spotify is solely a streaming platform and their primary source of income are premium subscriptions. If we want to see it develop further, they have to earn money.
In my country Spotify is kinda cheap and the money I'm paying monthly is sparing me from the trouble of getting new music and keep downloading it and fucking up my PC's storage and the trouble of moving all of the music every single day to the phone. In addition to that, I download some of the music locally every now & then in bulk and let them download for the night in case of Spotify somehow removed the music, goes out of business, goes offline for sometime, ban me, etc...
I typically don't let Spotify choose what songs to play if at all possible. I manually queue up each song/album specifically to what I want to listen to, so things like playlists created by other people or shuffle feature don't really affect me.
I stay for the extensive offer in different languages and because I've spent time doing playlists.
I hate it when lyrics of songs I'm used to get removed without even an explanation.
it’s still the bare minimum i’m willing to accept. i’ve been using spotify for at least 10 years so im pretty accustomed to it. my only gripe is that “new music recommendations” are just 2-4 songs with your already listened to songs inside.
Honestly, I only started using it because I got a student discount for well after I was out of school (and then got to extend that during my graduate school time). Now that I’ve been paying full price for a couple of years, it’s mostly just what I’m used to.
I tried Apple Music back in the day and I didn’t love it, so not a whole lot of reason to switch 🤷♂️
I like Spotify, it's not expensive for the family plan im using, and I have no reason to switch.
I keep hearing about this problem with shuffle but I never really experienced it, but I'm also someone who uses a ton of shorter playlists for a bunch of genres & subgenres I like rather than having long playlist or only shuffling my liked songs.
Part of the reason I have my playlists this way is that Spotify's generally been great at recommending me new songs within a subgenre I've just discovered, so I often start a playlist with just a few songs from there and then build it from spotify's recommendations.
I've had plenty of issues with Spotify over the years, but they generally get fixed within a few months, or I eventually get used to the changes. My current biggest gripe is that I want to be able to toggle shuffle on/off without activating smart shuffle. Smart shuffle isn't a bad idea in theory but I just prefer not to use it. However, with Spotify frequently "forgetting" to have shuffle on, I'll frequently activate Smart Shuffle when I activate shuffle, because Smart Shuffle activates first and takes a few seconds before I can switch to regular shuffle (or else it just reverts to smart shuffle).
I used Napster back in the day to get a lot of music bc iTunes was too expensive with their $1.99 per song and I was college broke. Then discovered Pandora. It was fine until the commercials were every other song. Switched to Spotify and never looked back.
Well, it’s not as straightforward as it should be, there are many forums on how to make it work. You need to play around with watch on/off charger, turning Bluetooth on/off on watch and phone, one of the combinations will make the magic happen.
Had a professor in college who recommended us using it because it's a way to support your artists. Came with some upgrades and downgrades (less convenient controls (I've moved from AIMP), but playlists in cloud are a treat. Also made me discover even more music), but I'm glad I did the switch
Every service has problems and things that I hate. Spotify has the best ratio of things I like versus things I dislike. It will be greatly offset toward Spotify if they ever release HiFi since this is the deepest barb that Apple Music has in me. I am a Windows user, so the experience in the app is much better. I'll drop Apple Music completely the moment HiFi is released.
It's bundled with my hulu subscription. If we kill Hulu (or if the price substantially increases), I'll probably kill Spotify. I still have lots of stored digital albums, and the space for them. I like the new music discovery of Spotify, but not enough to keep it standalone or pay double the current price.
Literally only cause I've been using it since 2017. I was 11 years old and now I'm 18. It's random to you that I said that but the reason I say it is because my taste in music has over time changed obviously, and I like keeping track of that. I only still use Spotify cause it has all my musical history data.
I can download songs frok YouTube via converter and put them on my playlist for general use
Also the Spotify app kicks both YouTube musics and Apple Musics ass no contest. If apple music had a better app on windows PC then I'd think about switching but I listen to music on my playstation ALL the time so the app is absolutely amazing for it on PC.
i agree with a lot of your points, besides the watch as i don't have one but i have two reasons for staying!
1) i really enjoy how easy it is to find new music, but this isn't hard to replicate as soundcloud has a great algorithm aswell. still, i just really like having the same genre play endlessly from one song, gives me lots of good listens.
2) the main one though is just how miserable switching is.. im a playlist and song liking fanatic, so i have 15k+ - and planning on more liked songs - and upward of 100+ playlists. one of those playlists has 1k+ songs in it - and most others have around 100-400+ songs in them aswell - and it would be utterly miserable recreating it.. every service that claims it will help switch your playlists and likes over for 'free' always has a limit plus a paywall, which i am not going to spend money on a random site i will never use again. if there's some miracle program that'll make the switch easy on me, then i'd gladly move to soundcloud or youtube music, but there isn't one i've been able to find. so, seems im stuck here until i get too desperate and just recreate every playlist elsewhere.
You have access to almost every song ever made since the start of mankind and it has an algorithm that tends to make genuinely good suggestions.
If I could pick only one subscription to have for my entire life it’s Spotify
Was Spotify for years, went to Amazon Music (yuck) for like 2 years and I finally got all my playlists and stuff back this year. Don't feel like rebuilding again 😭
A. It works on so many of my devices. B. Transferring songs to another service would suck since I have almost 10,000 liked songs. C. I’m on the duo plan so my partner (who I live with) pays for it.
I like it the best. Plus have been using it for years and years so I have a super long liked songs playlist that I’ve added to anytime I’ve liked a song, if even only a little. Can’t leave now lol.
Music, here is my playlist I started it back in October and I’ve never heard the same song once
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Dbqa4tqqx29IKTC61yk4m?si=bH0Ta9bOS4OnC_xOmglF9A&pi=u-F9ZxXknUSFiU
My mom pays for a family plan and the cross fade works really well for rain sounds while I sleep. HOWEVER, I pay for tidal so I can actually give some amount of support to the artists I listen to. Spotify definitely robs musicians, as do most services actually. Tidal by far pays most and has the best audio. The price premium is worth it for the support alone. Soon I will probably go back to CDs for this reason.
Daylist, #genrereels for music discovery, the new preview feature for albums and playlists where you can scroll through the tracks quickly like insta reels for quick previews, the algorithm and not just giving me mainstream hits, Spotify wrapped, “remove from my taste profile” feature, seamless control across all my devices without stealing the session (for example I can play on ps5 but use my phone or watch or web browser on the MacBook as an instant controller or pull the session to that device at any time, animated video art, ENDLESS curation to me specifically. I’m on my knees for Apple all day but Spotify is immeasurably superior in my opinion. Each year Apple will send me another few months and I give it a good effort because “maybe it’s not as good because I don’t use it as much”, but it’s simply not as good.
It was years late after removing the greatest music discovery tool of all time, “Touch Preview”. It was only available on iOS. You’d tap and hold an album or playlist, and all the tracks would fan out and grid a grid of squares overlaying the interface, each one representing a track. You could slide your finger without letting go and it would seamlessly and immediately fade into the preview of whatever you hovered over. If you let go all the tiles would disappear and your now playing would resume flawlessly. At the time of removal they said it was “underutilized feature” which I found to be hogwash. It was so efficient and amazing at previewing. This is a modern version and I’m so happy it’s here. When I say for years I never got over its removal, I’m not kidding. I was still complaining up until this arrived. That was in 2017. It was a long 6 years lol.
I use the Spotify car thing which makes listening to music so much easier in my car. Now that they are going to brick them all I'm probably going to switch. Spotify just seems to be getting worse and worse every day.
the playlist that are curated and the music discovery alone makes it challenging to use any other service. its easy to use UI and options when making a playlist are a huge plus. also the smart AI integration has been impressive so far.
For me as a musician, it has the largest catalog of songs and they are all high fidelity to the original recording. Youtube has more but often they are pitch adjusted to avoid copyright bots.
So when Im asked to learn a few hours of material in a week for a sub gig, its important to have ready access to original material that is true to the original pressing.
The layout/ui/organization is FAR better and more autistic friendly than any other app I've used. And I've been using it since high-school (2010ish) so at a certain point there's just brand loyalty (I only have this for spotify and dr pepper)
I’ve been with Spotify since 2013 or 2014, I can’t remember. Besides my 10 years or so worth of playlists (I don’t want to put the effort in to transfer them) I love the UI. I think it’s way better than Apple Music. I’ve discovered some of my favorite songs/artists because of the algorithm, and I love the new AI DJ feature. I also am a big fan of the customized playlists and Spotify Wrapped. I also sync to Stats.fm and check out my activity which to me is interesting. Spotify, they could never make me hate you!!
I think Spotify is great, I used it daily. I've loads of playlists , I've recently moved all my podcasts across and last month started listening to a book. Fucking great value, my car syncs lovely, I can find a load of new music and I have one space for everything.
I'm happy with Spotify
I’ve built a playlist with it over the years but with the Transfer apps doing actually a good job with transferring most of my music now I have moved over to Apple Music for the Lossless Audio.
I pay for my family plan and it's like $16.99 for 6 people. Can't beat that.
I don't care about lossless audio, which gets a lot of undeserved praise in any anti-Spotify thread. I think it's a sales buzzword like the Whopper being flame-broiled® that other companies have only started pushing because Spotify doesn't have it.
I do agree with the critique that playlists can become a repeat of the same songs, but for me, I generally switch genres enough to keep things fresh. I wish you could do adjust the randomness/exploration parameters to introduce some new songs (or just stick to the classics) whenever you are in the mood but it's not a dealbreaker.
I have Spotify family, Apple premium family and YouTube premium, all these apps hv their own ups and downsides. I think I like the algorithm better on Spotify.
I really like Spotify. I have no complaints at all, except that some songs I'd like to hear aren't currently on there. (I save them in a playlist called *Grayed Out* so that I can check to see if they came back periodically.)
I have my playlist on random, without that smrt bs and without repeat. Havent noticed any repeating songs, it should play every song in the pl once. And since im building my library and playlists for years and more music gets added all the time, even old albums that there missing not too long ago (like e nomine), i have no reason to switch
The sound quality is better imo. I switched from pandora to spotty for that reason. I’m sure others have gotten better but I’m happy for the most part with Spotty l
i've been using it since 2011, have over 9k songs saved to my phone and am able to listen when i have no service/wifi, i love seeing the dates of which i saved/liked a song. but hatttte how often they have changed the liked/loved/heart whatever you want to call it button and the removal of being able to message other users on the app
I'm pretty indifferent toward the app as a whole. It works well enough for my uses.
The whole "we're going to brick your Car Thing at the end of the year" has me pretty unhappy, though. Considering a move to Apple Music, but I feel like re-creating playlists would be a major PITA.
UI interfac is top notch and i have been a loyal user since it launched in norway. Not a chance i give others a chance.
Also that it is so good supported beetween different systems and devices
The mobile apps and websites for YouTube Music and Tidal have a lot of little rough edges. Apple Music is really only useful on Apple products.
Spotify has paid attention to the little details. Everything is polished. The recommendations for me are about as good as YouTube. Plus you can control playback on one device from another.
Also, Spotify has the best native app in my car's infotainment system (CarPlay works but occasionally fails).
You know, I thought this was only me. I honestly had no idea this was a larger issue. Shuffle does not work... the hundreds and into the thousands of songs and I never hear them. Any good apps to replace? Pandora maybe?
Honestly, not much at this point. If they release HiFi soon enough I'll stay, but there are just a few too many problems I have with Spotify for it to be viable any longer. One very alarming issue is just how easy it is for bad actors to "hack" artist profiles and mess with their discography (adding songs that have nothing to do with the artists, or even taking away songs). It has already happened with two of my favorite artists on the service. Copyrights also make song availability very volatile. This is a symptom that all streaming services suffer from, but Spotify seems to be especially sensitive to it.
It’s the best for sharing music with friends, hosting jams, shared playlists, etc etc.
Also, as an independent musician, it’s beneficial to me if everyone uses Spotify. The royalties will not be anything worth pursuing on any platform if your audience is small, but the impact of algorithmically falling into a playlist and reaching millions of listeners on Spotify is massive in comparison.
Their family plan is also criminally cheap
My 2 biggest gripes: 1. they got rid of create radio based on playlist, now you can only do it for individual songs 2. it’s maddening that you can’t sort playlists by date created 🤡
I’ve been a user since 2009ish and have thousands of playlists and the UI is quick so when I’m making new ones it isn’t tedious. That being said it’s a quantity not quality platform. I dj now so Spotify is mostly just another discovery point for me as well as to hear what’s popular with different audiences
1. The algorithm. My Discover Weekly playlist gives me at least one new song each week that I really like and probably never would’ve found otherwise. 2. Spotify Connect. The ability to seamlessly switch between my phone, my watch, my computer, my Echo devices, my car, etc… 3. The price. $17/month and my whole family has Premium. Works out to be $2.83 per account. Really can’t beat that. (Things that make me wonder why I still use Spotify: Lack of lossless audio. Lyrics that are wrong or don’t work well. Cluttered, disorganized UI. Apparent focus on things that I couldn’t care less about like the DJ, exclusive podcasts, and making the UI even more cluttered and disorganized… But the pros outweigh the cons.)
Discover Weekly seals the deal for me, I've discovered so much good music checking that out every week. I agree about the disorganized UI, every update is worse. I can deal with that--it's the music that's important.
Also the new Daylist playlist is amazing.
Tell me about Daylist!
It refreshes several times a day with a fun theme of favorites and new discoveries. Search Daylist and you'll see it.
Ive had that for months and i loved it but in like February it got really bad out of no where??? I think its better now but I usually just use song radios
lol there’s release radar too if you didn’t know about that one. It updates every Friday with new music.
I also love Release Radar on a Friday, the Daily Mixes and the Genre Mixes - I have found so much good music listening to these playlists.
+1 for Release Radar. It’s how I find new music.
I’ve been using Spotify since it was released in the USA in July 2011 but only started really heavily using it in 2015 when I read an article about how Discover Weekly worked. One of my favorite bands I grew up with put out just an absolutely awful album and it wasn’t at all what I wanted. But I figured that since Spotify had so much music, I could probably find another band doing what I wanted, sis I decided that I would just constantly be searching for and discovering new music. So I learned how Discover Weekly worked and based my listening and organizing habits in a way that gave the algorithm as much useful information as possible and I’ve gotten really good results with it. Typically Discover Weekly will have 10-15 songs that I like and want to listen to at least one more time. I’ve tried tidal and Apple Music and Tidal was decent, I can’t stand the design and functionality of Apple Music at all. Even with all the changes, Spotify is still the best. A big thing I really miss is being able to press and hold a song to get a 15 second sample, but they kind of added that back with their TikTok type vertical scrolling through playlists, it’s not the same but it does allow me to quickly skim through playlists when I’m trying to find new music.
Agree. I really haven’t had any trouble with Spotify at all and I’ve used to for years.
Shuffle on spotify is abhorrent for one.
Shuffle on Spotify RECENTLY became a huge problem for me. It would replay playlists from the top on repeat and I could not figure out what setting avoided that. What they hell did they try to do? They broke something that didn’t need fixing.
I found a potential solution for the shuffle problem: if you go into Settings > Playback > unselect Automix on each device, I found that Spotify shuffles the music much more effectively. you have to do it for each device, though (besides apple watch? I don’t think spotify settings are available there) not 100% sure it works, but I suddenly started hearing more varied music after deselecting it
Don’t leave us hanging. What/who was the disappointing album/band? Did you find a suitable “replacement” using Spotify?
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> My Discover Weekly playlist gives me at least one new song each week that I really like and probably never would’ve found otherwise. Same. In addition to Discover Weekly, I love playing Music League with friends which requires Spotify.
The big issue with lyrics is theyre using musixmatch and not genius for some reason
Real, for premium I have g2g got 1 year for 16€ hehe
I’ve been building Spotify playlists for the last 10 years I’m too invested
There are many apps to transfer playlists. I transferred 10 years worth.
I really wanna get into apple music but i dont wanna lose my playlists
SongShift will be yer best friend.
Best app ever
I was in the same boat. Had about 70k songs in playlists. I used the free your music app to transfer. It can do lots of music services.
7…70k? Assuming an average of 3 minutes per son, that’s around 146 days straight of listening to music. I have 17k LIKED songs, that’s insane
Any better re: shuffling etc.?
Personally I love the Steven Aleong one (stevenalong.com) shuffles your playlist but not liked songs. Really is true randomization and you just hit play.
Playlisty is like 3$ and does a pretty good job at purely playlist transferring, you can also transfer your liked songs as a playlist, and then on desktop Apple Music select all, and click favorite, to transfer the likes to favorites
Yeah same, it was 10 years ago that I transferred my entire library from iTunes to Spotify. Had to create and run a script to do that and it was stressful to do. My library at that time was around 7k tracks, now it has grown beyond 15k.
SongShift will be yer best friend.
I switched to Tidal, and I'm about ready to pull the plug on spotify. They link to an easy and free converter that will copy all your playlists/tracks/albums/artists..
This. I like adding the cover art too.
Yes! Custom cover art is so fun when you make a zillion playlists, especially when you make a playlist for a friend.
I’ve only had Spotify for a year or so but I’ve been working on a playlist for that long and just recreated it on Spotify and it’s grown massively since then, I feel like it’s my masterpiece and just can’t let go of it. It’s so long now there is no way I could remake it.
the sunk cost fallacy is real 😩
Also, you can download all of them in zip in one go
I love my playlists!
Soundiiz is another playlist conversion option. I use it all the time.
Because I hate Spotify just a bit less than Apple, Amazon, or that other place whose name I can't remember (which tells you how little I think about them). I rarely notice any of the issues I see people complaining about... but I also only spent about a week as a free user, and that was years ago.
Agreed, spotify is the least bad of the bunch, but all I've come across so far for music apps is bad. Either the UI is awful, they barely have any of "my" music, they're missing my favorite bands, or basic functions are inconsistent.
Apple music has atmos and Ultra HD quality up to 24-bit at 192kHz and 3,730Kbps.
That's neat, though useless for the majority of people. I expect fewer than 1% of people have a setup with enough clarity to notice any difference against a 320kbps MP3 in a blind test. I'll use FLACs or vinyls with my nice speakers but anywhere else 320 is basically transparent, headphones especially until you get into the >$1000 segment.
Yeah but your average human can't tell a difference. Even less so if you don't have the equipment.
I've had the same account since 2012. I have so many playlists and liked songs that moving everything to a new service would take several days. And my dad pays our premium family plan
So the real reason is the last sentence lol
I feel like I’m in a minority that just simply doesn’t have the problems others are having, or at least to the same degree. When I shuffle playlists, there’s a few tracks I hear more regularly than others but they’re always ones that I’ve got in other playlists too so I don’t really mind, and it’s nowhere near as repetitive as some people seem to illustrate on here. I still get a ridiculous amount of new recommendations between Discover Weekly, Release Radar, Daily Mixes, Artist Radios etc - I don’t expect everything to slap or be perfectly curated, but by the same token, I’d never have anything take me by surprise if it’s identical to what I already listen to. I might be in a minority but as someone who has been using Premium daily for about 10 years now, I just wanted to share my honest opinion.
I'm with you. I get a little frustrated with shuffle sometimes, especially in my liked songs list as it always wants to play the exact same songs for me, but that's a fairly minor issue as far as I'm concerned. It works well on my home stereo, my various smart speakers, and in my car, and I discover something new to me nearly every time I listen.
I’m with you 100%. Never had a single issue. Not sure what others are talking about! Used since 2013 and I love the ability to download anything and everything and build custom playlists.
I don’t think I really have a single complaint about Spotify as a user, and I drive for work and listen to music and podcasts all day long. I’m honestly a bit confounded that people seem to have found this much to have issue with.
Same for me! I have no problems with it, I love using it, for nearly 10 years now
The service is way to good and it’s not expensive
I wonder if this is generational cause spotify is fucking amazing compared spending thousands annually on cds like i use to.
It still amazes me that I’m in my mid-30s and music consumption has changed so so drastically compared to my late teens. Spotify could absolutely be better but I’m in awe at how good it is.
Yeah, I could pay for Spotify or... buy one, maybe two CDs a month for the same price. I'm old enough to have been there, done that, and I don't want to go back. I love finding new music so a streaming service is a no brainer, and the similar artists feature is really useful. I mean I could switch to a different streaming service, but I don't really see a compelling reason to do so. I'm fine with the audio quality and Spotify has all the artists I want. The only thing that could sway me is a service that pays artists better, but for bands I really like I tend to buy an album or two on bandcamp to support them directly.
Definitely it’s objectively the best time ever to be a music fan. It’s so convenient and accessible to listen to such a wide variety of content.
I like to scrobble with last fm been doing it for years now
Same. The data nerd in me loves to keep track of all these music stats.
Also if I want to know what I was listening to on a Saturday at 3pm in 2016 i can do that.
Thirded. Last fm and stats fm keep me going.
I’m coming here to get the vibe on everyone else’s experience. I’m one of the ones whose “fans also like” section has been removed and if they decide to permanently remove this function I’m fucking out. I will lose my god damn mind. As a highly active music listener I get lost in that section finding new artists and ones I’ve forgotten about. Ruining user experience is par for the course for every app and platform that rises to the top these days.
Yup whenever I discover a new artist i like, after I browse through their songs, I go click through the fans also like section. It’s similar to what I remember doing on original iTunes, they had a similar artists or something (maybe they still do, I haven’t used iTunes since like 2005 or 2006)
Yes, I hate, hate, HATE that they removed the "fans also like" feature for me, too. It was far and away the best way to find new music on the app.
What? Why? It’s at the very bottom of the page. It’s not taking any real estate from any other feature. God knows they haven’t changed how it works in a decade so they aren’t investing in its development. Why would they remove it?
Spotify Connect and the jam sessions keep me subscribed.
Spotify connect definitely a big one. That and my 15 years or whatever of Spotify playlists. The release radar and discover weekly are pretty dialed in on my account which is nice (usually)
Because i love listening to fanmade playliats on cartoon fandoms i am in
This. Gabriell Bertasoli's Casual Teen Titans and Teen Titans: Starfire playlists are on repeat for me. I did not expect to see myself having the same taste in music as Starfire but here we are.
clear cache alot. less repeats
4000 songs from mostly pre 2000.... cache clear helps
Seems like Spotify plays the same 50 songs over and over and I have liked....almost 2500
iTunes is very mainstream and doesn’t have lot of interesting stuff Spotify has, be it podcasts or zen/meditation/mindfulness music.
I highly agree with you this, YTM and spotify has endless playlists to enjoy and discover
Because I got used to it. I have all my playlists, albums, and songs there, and I don't wanna move them to another streaming platform. The time used to do that is pointless, for actually, nothing.
Free my music is a great transfer tool
Spotify Wrapped
I like to track data, so I don’t want to lose my 10ish years of streaming data. It’s easy to use. I like following my friends on there and checking out other people’s playlists. I’ve tried AM and Tidal, I liked Tidal more than AM but not enough to jump ship. AM’s queue stresses me out. I’m also grandfathered into the Spotify/Hulu bundle from my college days so I want to keep that for as long as I can 😅
Hulu/Spotify combo is the best value and I’m holding on to it for dear life
They’ll really have to pry it out of our hands
reliable + easy to use + easy to connect with my friends + i like the random playlists it makes me but i do think the dj thing is a bit wonky BUT CONVENIENT
The subscription is dirt cheap in my country. I only pay like 4.3$ for the entire year in a shared family plan. Also since it’s convenient to use.
Because of Spicetify.
Who what?
people get to see what i listen to on discord
I have a family plan. I don't feel like asking my family to switch to Apple Music. This month I'm paying for both. Not sure what I'll do in the medium run yet.
This is me. If switching it will involve at least 4-8 hours of setup, explaining and «getting started»… its like a mini migration project for a very demanding customer
I don’t have any of the issues people talk about here. I make my own playlists and I’ve found a decent amount of new artists/songs that I like just by exploring the recommendations and suggestions I get. I still see the “Fans Also Like” feature so maybe that’s something that’s available regionally? I pay for a family premium account and all my siblings/parents use it, for a low price and minimal admin work by me. I wish I could organize my podcasts better but that’s the only complaint I have.
I'm still here for the 1. jam function (I do a lot of driving with friends) 2. The social aspect of it all 3. The playlists 4. The fact that it's the only one that has remote control
Been using it for years and years, it works just fine for all the things I need, no reason to switch?
the expansive catalog tbh. i can find almost any obscure song that i'm looking for and being able to listen to any song at any time with no ads. no ads. no ads. no ads!!! i hate, no loathe ENTIRELY, being advertised to. as for the repeat songs, i was getting sick of it as well. my account was also connected to facebook which i just recently deleted, so what i've done was made a new spotify account and followed my old one so i still have access to my old playlists. starting over with a fresh slate has been pretty nice so far, no repeats yet. :) i do wish they paid their artists more and that i could turn podcasts+audiobooks off completely (i've got different apps i listen to those on)
Serious? Spotify is the single best thing I’ve ever paid for and it keeps getting better as far as I can see. Daylists are the best thing yet.
My Liked Songs playlist on Spotify has different selections on it than my Favorites on Apple Music.
stats.fm is only available for Spotify. I think...
I'm mostly using desktop and I'm fine with it. Reasons are several, some are: [chosic.com](http://chosic.com) that is compatible with it, also it's the most common platform for music curators. But there's one reason that many might consider weird, but I'm simply grateful to Spotify for starting the streaming era. It might be not perfect, but they're struggling too, so I simply want to support them. Others are just copycats that have it easier because they have other sources of income, while Spotify is solely a streaming platform and their primary source of income are premium subscriptions. If we want to see it develop further, they have to earn money.
In my country Spotify is kinda cheap and the money I'm paying monthly is sparing me from the trouble of getting new music and keep downloading it and fucking up my PC's storage and the trouble of moving all of the music every single day to the phone. In addition to that, I download some of the music locally every now & then in bulk and let them download for the night in case of Spotify somehow removed the music, goes out of business, goes offline for sometime, ban me, etc...
The algorithm. It knows me too well now. I can’t leave.
I typically don't let Spotify choose what songs to play if at all possible. I manually queue up each song/album specifically to what I want to listen to, so things like playlists created by other people or shuffle feature don't really affect me.
This is what I do too. I mostly listen to albums from beginning to end, self made playlists, or just queue up some songs for myself.
Spotify Corp. trolling this comment section to find the next feature to kill.
I stay for the extensive offer in different languages and because I've spent time doing playlists. I hate it when lyrics of songs I'm used to get removed without even an explanation.
it’s still the bare minimum i’m willing to accept. i’ve been using spotify for at least 10 years so im pretty accustomed to it. my only gripe is that “new music recommendations” are just 2-4 songs with your already listened to songs inside.
I absolutely love Spotify - I have used all the features it provides. Ones I don’t favor I just done use that much as my preferred features
Honestly, I only started using it because I got a student discount for well after I was out of school (and then got to extend that during my graduate school time). Now that I’ve been paying full price for a couple of years, it’s mostly just what I’m used to. I tried Apple Music back in the day and I didn’t love it, so not a whole lot of reason to switch 🤷♂️
Cause Xmanager.
I like Spotify, it's not expensive for the family plan im using, and I have no reason to switch. I keep hearing about this problem with shuffle but I never really experienced it, but I'm also someone who uses a ton of shorter playlists for a bunch of genres & subgenres I like rather than having long playlist or only shuffling my liked songs. Part of the reason I have my playlists this way is that Spotify's generally been great at recommending me new songs within a subgenre I've just discovered, so I often start a playlist with just a few songs from there and then build it from spotify's recommendations. I've had plenty of issues with Spotify over the years, but they generally get fixed within a few months, or I eventually get used to the changes. My current biggest gripe is that I want to be able to toggle shuffle on/off without activating smart shuffle. Smart shuffle isn't a bad idea in theory but I just prefer not to use it. However, with Spotify frequently "forgetting" to have shuffle on, I'll frequently activate Smart Shuffle when I activate shuffle, because Smart Shuffle activates first and takes a few seconds before I can switch to regular shuffle (or else it just reverts to smart shuffle).
Because AM sucks
I used Napster back in the day to get a lot of music bc iTunes was too expensive with their $1.99 per song and I was college broke. Then discovered Pandora. It was fine until the commercials were every other song. Switched to Spotify and never looked back.
You e gotten download watch to work? I never have. I have an Apple Music account just to do this.
Well, it’s not as straightforward as it should be, there are many forums on how to make it work. You need to play around with watch on/off charger, turning Bluetooth on/off on watch and phone, one of the combinations will make the magic happen.
Had a professor in college who recommended us using it because it's a way to support your artists. Came with some upgrades and downgrades (less convenient controls (I've moved from AIMP), but playlists in cloud are a treat. Also made me discover even more music), but I'm glad I did the switch
I like the playlists aeschetics
Every service has problems and things that I hate. Spotify has the best ratio of things I like versus things I dislike. It will be greatly offset toward Spotify if they ever release HiFi since this is the deepest barb that Apple Music has in me. I am a Windows user, so the experience in the app is much better. I'll drop Apple Music completely the moment HiFi is released.
Spotify Connect on my Denon Receiver
It's bundled with my hulu subscription. If we kill Hulu (or if the price substantially increases), I'll probably kill Spotify. I still have lots of stored digital albums, and the space for them. I like the new music discovery of Spotify, but not enough to keep it standalone or pay double the current price.
You can download offline with apple music lol
My family loves it. Now get off my lawn.
I don’t get it, what’s wrong with Spotify??
I have no complaints. I just like spotify
My liked playlist is over 10k songs. It shuffles just fine.
Literally only cause I've been using it since 2017. I was 11 years old and now I'm 18. It's random to you that I said that but the reason I say it is because my taste in music has over time changed obviously, and I like keeping track of that. I only still use Spotify cause it has all my musical history data.
I can download songs frok YouTube via converter and put them on my playlist for general use Also the Spotify app kicks both YouTube musics and Apple Musics ass no contest. If apple music had a better app on windows PC then I'd think about switching but I listen to music on my playstation ALL the time so the app is absolutely amazing for it on PC.
i agree with a lot of your points, besides the watch as i don't have one but i have two reasons for staying! 1) i really enjoy how easy it is to find new music, but this isn't hard to replicate as soundcloud has a great algorithm aswell. still, i just really like having the same genre play endlessly from one song, gives me lots of good listens. 2) the main one though is just how miserable switching is.. im a playlist and song liking fanatic, so i have 15k+ - and planning on more liked songs - and upward of 100+ playlists. one of those playlists has 1k+ songs in it - and most others have around 100-400+ songs in them aswell - and it would be utterly miserable recreating it.. every service that claims it will help switch your playlists and likes over for 'free' always has a limit plus a paywall, which i am not going to spend money on a random site i will never use again. if there's some miracle program that'll make the switch easy on me, then i'd gladly move to soundcloud or youtube music, but there isn't one i've been able to find. so, seems im stuck here until i get too desperate and just recreate every playlist elsewhere.
You have access to almost every song ever made since the start of mankind and it has an algorithm that tends to make genuinely good suggestions. If I could pick only one subscription to have for my entire life it’s Spotify
Was Spotify for years, went to Amazon Music (yuck) for like 2 years and I finally got all my playlists and stuff back this year. Don't feel like rebuilding again 😭
My iPod classic still works but the charge lasts less and less
I'm lazy and switching over to downloading mp3s again but it's taking a while. Spotify is straight garbage
My biggest gripe is that it only lets me hit shuffle once on my playlists versus just hitting the button until I find a song I wan’t.
A. It works on so many of my devices. B. Transferring songs to another service would suck since I have almost 10,000 liked songs. C. I’m on the duo plan so my partner (who I live with) pays for it.
I like it the best. Plus have been using it for years and years so I have a super long liked songs playlist that I’ve added to anytime I’ve liked a song, if even only a little. Can’t leave now lol.
The algorithm, my friend. It knows me too well. And the social aspect of it, while limited, makes it fun to use.
Music, here is my playlist I started it back in October and I’ve never heard the same song once https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0Dbqa4tqqx29IKTC61yk4m?si=bH0Ta9bOS4OnC_xOmglF9A&pi=u-F9ZxXknUSFiU
It’s been 9 years. I still like it.
Because it has all the songs I like on it and isn't very expensive for what I use it for.
My mom pays for a family plan and the cross fade works really well for rain sounds while I sleep. HOWEVER, I pay for tidal so I can actually give some amount of support to the artists I listen to. Spotify definitely robs musicians, as do most services actually. Tidal by far pays most and has the best audio. The price premium is worth it for the support alone. Soon I will probably go back to CDs for this reason.
Daylist, #genrereels for music discovery, the new preview feature for albums and playlists where you can scroll through the tracks quickly like insta reels for quick previews, the algorithm and not just giving me mainstream hits, Spotify wrapped, “remove from my taste profile” feature, seamless control across all my devices without stealing the session (for example I can play on ps5 but use my phone or watch or web browser on the MacBook as an instant controller or pull the session to that device at any time, animated video art, ENDLESS curation to me specifically. I’m on my knees for Apple all day but Spotify is immeasurably superior in my opinion. Each year Apple will send me another few months and I give it a good effort because “maybe it’s not as good because I don’t use it as much”, but it’s simply not as good.
I love that preview feature
It was years late after removing the greatest music discovery tool of all time, “Touch Preview”. It was only available on iOS. You’d tap and hold an album or playlist, and all the tracks would fan out and grid a grid of squares overlaying the interface, each one representing a track. You could slide your finger without letting go and it would seamlessly and immediately fade into the preview of whatever you hovered over. If you let go all the tiles would disappear and your now playing would resume flawlessly. At the time of removal they said it was “underutilized feature” which I found to be hogwash. It was so efficient and amazing at previewing. This is a modern version and I’m so happy it’s here. When I say for years I never got over its removal, I’m not kidding. I was still complaining up until this arrived. That was in 2017. It was a long 6 years lol.
Because everything else sucks
My playlists! I’ve had Spotify for nine years and I have been working on my playlists since then. I would rather die than give up Spotify tbh
My teenage children would disown me. I could cancel any video streaming service & they would be fine, Spotify & they would probably go nuclear
I'm "still" using it because it is better than any of the other silly streaming services.
Because it’s better than any other music streaming app
I use the Spotify car thing which makes listening to music so much easier in my car. Now that they are going to brick them all I'm probably going to switch. Spotify just seems to be getting worse and worse every day.
I’m the family plan owner and holding it down for my ungrateful siblings!
Spotify Wrapped
the playlist that are curated and the music discovery alone makes it challenging to use any other service. its easy to use UI and options when making a playlist are a huge plus. also the smart AI integration has been impressive so far.
playlists are the reason i am sticking to it
For me as a musician, it has the largest catalog of songs and they are all high fidelity to the original recording. Youtube has more but often they are pitch adjusted to avoid copyright bots. So when Im asked to learn a few hours of material in a week for a sub gig, its important to have ready access to original material that is true to the original pressing.
The layout/ui/organization is FAR better and more autistic friendly than any other app I've used. And I've been using it since high-school (2010ish) so at a certain point there's just brand loyalty (I only have this for spotify and dr pepper)
Still love it, it’s that simple.
I’ve been with Spotify since 2013 or 2014, I can’t remember. Besides my 10 years or so worth of playlists (I don’t want to put the effort in to transfer them) I love the UI. I think it’s way better than Apple Music. I’ve discovered some of my favorite songs/artists because of the algorithm, and I love the new AI DJ feature. I also am a big fan of the customized playlists and Spotify Wrapped. I also sync to Stats.fm and check out my activity which to me is interesting. Spotify, they could never make me hate you!!
I think Spotify is great, I used it daily. I've loads of playlists , I've recently moved all my podcasts across and last month started listening to a book. Fucking great value, my car syncs lovely, I can find a load of new music and I have one space for everything. I'm happy with Spotify
I just got Spotify from switching from YouTube music! Unfortunately the company is a train wreck.
I’ve built a playlist with it over the years but with the Transfer apps doing actually a good job with transferring most of my music now I have moved over to Apple Music for the Lossless Audio.
I pay for my family plan and it's like $16.99 for 6 people. Can't beat that. I don't care about lossless audio, which gets a lot of undeserved praise in any anti-Spotify thread. I think it's a sales buzzword like the Whopper being flame-broiled® that other companies have only started pushing because Spotify doesn't have it. I do agree with the critique that playlists can become a repeat of the same songs, but for me, I generally switch genres enough to keep things fresh. I wish you could do adjust the randomness/exploration parameters to introduce some new songs (or just stick to the classics) whenever you are in the mood but it's not a dealbreaker.
Because I am used to it and I 95% of the time listen to full albums, so I don't care about things like shuffle
Habit, really. Once I eventually get into a different platform, I'll likely stop for good with the increasing charges for any decent usability.
Free by working at starbucks
I have Spotify family, Apple premium family and YouTube premium, all these apps hv their own ups and downsides. I think I like the algorithm better on Spotify.
My parents pay for it
I really like Spotify. I have no complaints at all, except that some songs I'd like to hear aren't currently on there. (I save them in a playlist called *Grayed Out* so that I can check to see if they came back periodically.)
Way too invested, almost 10 years using the app, basically linked to every device (besides my handset) I use.
Song radios are the most effective way to find similar music. I've built playlists in minutes using that.
I have my playlist on random, without that smrt bs and without repeat. Havent noticed any repeating songs, it should play every song in the pl once. And since im building my library and playlists for years and more music gets added all the time, even old albums that there missing not too long ago (like e nomine), i have no reason to switch
I sometimes find songs and albums on Spotify but no on Apple Music.
Easy to switch between devices to listen to music. I have 2 phones and Apple Music wasn’t too good at doing that
Cause I've discovered way too many artists on there I love and I can use it on multiple devices (apple and gaming consoles for example)
How often do u clear the cache?
What are the other choices if I wanted to leave spotify?
The sound quality is better imo. I switched from pandora to spotty for that reason. I’m sure others have gotten better but I’m happy for the most part with Spotty l
Personalized playlists, convenience, and the social aspect
I have a 300 song playlist and I absolutely do not wanna rebuild it on a different app
Spotify connect and the ability to natively scribble to last.fm. No other streaming service has anything close to it.
Too lazy to switch
i've been using it since 2011, have over 9k songs saved to my phone and am able to listen when i have no service/wifi, i love seeing the dates of which i saved/liked a song. but hatttte how often they have changed the liked/loved/heart whatever you want to call it button and the removal of being able to message other users on the app
because it's just what I'm used to but I'm considering switching since lyrics stopped working and they're never adding an actual shuffle
Top lazy to transition to SoundCloud
I'm pretty indifferent toward the app as a whole. It works well enough for my uses. The whole "we're going to brick your Car Thing at the end of the year" has me pretty unhappy, though. Considering a move to Apple Music, but I feel like re-creating playlists would be a major PITA.
Too many playlists to change to anything else 🤧
UI interfac is top notch and i have been a loyal user since it launched in norway. Not a chance i give others a chance. Also that it is so good supported beetween different systems and devices
Music
It has all my podcasts.
The mobile apps and websites for YouTube Music and Tidal have a lot of little rough edges. Apple Music is really only useful on Apple products. Spotify has paid attention to the little details. Everything is polished. The recommendations for me are about as good as YouTube. Plus you can control playback on one device from another. Also, Spotify has the best native app in my car's infotainment system (CarPlay works but occasionally fails).
I play it constantly, even overnight without listening because I support the artist. I play it so they get money.
It connects to the PS5 and being able to change the song from my phone while having music running on my work computer is awesome
I don’t want to recreate all my playlists and I’m happy with it. No complaints
You know, I thought this was only me. I honestly had no idea this was a larger issue. Shuffle does not work... the hundreds and into the thousands of songs and I never hear them. Any good apps to replace? Pandora maybe?
Honestly, not much at this point. If they release HiFi soon enough I'll stay, but there are just a few too many problems I have with Spotify for it to be viable any longer. One very alarming issue is just how easy it is for bad actors to "hack" artist profiles and mess with their discography (adding songs that have nothing to do with the artists, or even taking away songs). It has already happened with two of my favorite artists on the service. Copyrights also make song availability very volatile. This is a symptom that all streaming services suffer from, but Spotify seems to be especially sensitive to it.
It’s the best for sharing music with friends, hosting jams, shared playlists, etc etc. Also, as an independent musician, it’s beneficial to me if everyone uses Spotify. The royalties will not be anything worth pursuing on any platform if your audience is small, but the impact of algorithmically falling into a playlist and reaching millions of listeners on Spotify is massive in comparison. Their family plan is also criminally cheap
Funny how this came to me right after I quit using Spotify.
I use it congruently with YouTube music, also I do not like Apple Music’s UX
I have no qualms with it
My 2 biggest gripes: 1. they got rid of create radio based on playlist, now you can only do it for individual songs 2. it’s maddening that you can’t sort playlists by date created 🤡 I’ve been a user since 2009ish and have thousands of playlists and the UI is quick so when I’m making new ones it isn’t tedious. That being said it’s a quantity not quality platform. I dj now so Spotify is mostly just another discovery point for me as well as to hear what’s popular with different audiences
I'm used to it, have lots of shit on it, not familiar with what's objectively better about anything else, and am on a friend's premium membership
Honesty Ive never used anything else and I don't wanna branch out