Comment on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers

Ganymede@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• Samskara@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sharing and creating playlists with friends. Discovering new music. Endless playlists of high quality.

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• 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Convenience of instant access to gazillion songs, though i’m not sure if the average spotify user even listens to anything other than top-lists

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  • _g_be@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I used to use Spotify but got sick of their recommendations. Vastly different genre playlists would still get top100 songs recommended. Sabrina Carpenter in all my playlists.

    I moved to Pandora, their recommendation engine is way less biased. Fewer features in the app, tho

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    • pieberry@lemmy.today ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      FYI Pandora was playing ICE recruitment ads on their service last year.

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    • 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Back when I was on spotify I listened to premade playlists very rarely since I pretty much always knew what I wanted to listen to and because I’m very picky. The "This is [x] playlists were pretty good though

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  • Ganymede@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The Convenience aspect kind of goes away when you factor in alternatives like YouTube music, apple music or soundcloud

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• greatwhitebuffalo41@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Me personally, just because someone else is paying for it. The second they stop, I’ll go somewhere else.

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• Tonava@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It’s still been cheaper than the alternatives if you buy for multiple people, and has most of my native country’s artists at this point. I’d like to switch, but I’m worried the other services don’t offer enough finnish music, and just couple euros more is a lot of money when you are poor.
  Of course you could say “don’t pay for these if you’re poor”, but it’s the only subscription I’m paying for, and I feel like abandoning every single thing that can still bring me joy is kinda asking for my depression peak so I’m back to trying to hang myself again.

  Though the moment I hear adds or the price increases again, I’ll obviously switch immediately

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• Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They have far more niche music than anyone else. I mean that from a Finnish perspective.

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• FatVegan@leminal.space ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Their search function and recommendations are really good. Other than that, no idea. Convenience

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• binarytobis@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Song-based radios for new music discovery on a service where they don’t silently drop huge swaths of music from my curated “liked” list. Tidal, Qobuz, and Bandcamp failed to meet this requirement in different ways.

  Spotify isn’t even good, but I don’t have another real option yet.

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