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Re:Spotify have reached 40M paying subscribers by k-mcgrady on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @12:50PM (#12498860)
Take a look at Apple Music again. They just started doing two personal weekly playlists (like Spotify's Discover Weekly). One is full of tracks you haven't listened to before (it seems pretty good so far) and the other is a weekly 'favourites' mix which seems to be 90% stuff in your library and 10% stuff not in your library but by artists you like (e.g. new releases). It's really good. I was using a mix of Spotify and Apple Music but with iOS 10 I've dropped Spotify as recommendations will improve if I'm using one service and the new weekly playlist seem to be as good as Discover Weekly which was all the was holding me back.
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Re:Spotify have reached 40M paying subscribers by bearcobra on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @01:28PM (#12499262)
I'll take another look. One of the things I miss most about Rdio was an option to pick how "adventurous" I wanted my personalized playlists to be, so that favorites option would be a nice switch from the Discover Weekly model
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Re:Spotify have reached 40M paying subscribers by mulletbum on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @02:34PM (#12499933)
Slacker Radio has this. It is pretty good.
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Re:Spotify have reached 40M paying subscribers by danieldk on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @01:53PM (#12499510)
Also, Beats 1 is really nice. There's nothing like Josh Homme or Mike D playing their favorite (sometimes obscure) tracks. I've definitely discovered more music per month since subscribing to Apple Music than anytime before.
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Re:Spotify have reached 40M paying subscribers by k-mcgrady on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @02:33PM (#12499926)
Beats 1 is fantastic. I listen to Zane Lowe's show everyday. It's a pretty diverse mix of music so even if I don't like everything I always discover some new stuff I never would have otherwise. I listen to Josh Homme, Elton John, and deadmau5 on demand. Matt Wilkinson is also quite good. The key feature for me is that I can easily add the tracks to my library while listening. That makes it a great discovery tool as paired with the 'recently added' view in iTunes I end up listening to the tracks a lot for a week or two and dig into the artists more in my own time.
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