Comment on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers

• _g_be@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨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 ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨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 ⁨17⁩ ⁨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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