Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B

Re:Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B by giarc on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @02:00PM (#16747344)

I was a longtime user of Google Play (Songza before that) on iPhone. I loved the playlist but the app was incredibly buggy. I was using the free version so I had ads. Often the ad wouldn't play and then freeze all playback, or the ad would play and then the music wouldn't start again. This made me very hesitant to pay a monthly subscription.

I've switched to Amazon Music (free with my Prime membership) and although the app works well, the curated lists aren't as great.

My point is that maybe other people have started with the free Google Play (Music?) app and had the same experience and looked for options elsewhere.

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Re:Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B by alex504 on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @09:10PM (#16750996)

I've recently tried out every major service: Google, Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, and Amazon Prime.

They are all insanely buggy. I was a Spotify user for about 6 years before this and it was buggy, and is getting buggier as far as I can tell.

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Re:Spotify opens on NYSE, valuing company at almost $30B by giarc on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @09:56PM (#16751236)

I've only been using the Amazon Music for a few weeks now but I haven't encountered many bugs. It just doesn't seem overly feature rich. Although the one very annoying thing I have encountered is that my Alexa device doesn't seem to have a list of all of the possible Playlists. For a time, there was one called "Top Prime Hits". I could play it on my phone, but when I asked Alexa "Play Top Prime Hits" it couldn't find it. I now have to pair my phone, play it on my phone and set output to my Alexa. Seems to defeat the purpose of voice with Alexa.

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