It’s mostly the discovery aspect, it’s easy to find new and emerging artists through these services, and they make playing that music very convenient. YouTube does have some of it with YouTube music but I’ve not found the algorithm to be as good as Spotify or Tidal
_g_be@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I used to use and praise Spotify and their algorithm, but I was starting to find that it would insist on playing the same 20 or 50 songs regardless of the playlist I was trying to generate music suggestions from. I read a rumor somewhere that it was a way to decrease the load on their servers and rely more on the cached songs already on the device, and got sick of that enough to switch to Pandora after over 10 years of Spotify
JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I recommend looking at song mixes over the daily mixes, that’s what I use on tidal too and it’s a lot better at mixing things up
idefix@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Same for me, I got tired of the same artists being played over and over. I’ve switched to Deezer who does a much better job. I will probably switch to Qobuz soon.
_g_be@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I tried Tidal, and now I’m on Pandora. The ‘radio’ feature of Pandora more closely matches the way I want to listen to music (I feel like playing this, stay in this mood, but vary the artists), but I’m disappointed by the android app. I should also try Qobuz, maybe even Deezer, but the real pain point is that I have literally thousands of playlists on Spotify. I can pay TuneMyMusic again, I guess
idefix@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
I had no trouble transferring my playlists to Deezer, but I only had dozens of them.
JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 4 days ago
What issues are you having with the mobile app?