Re:How bad is your Spotify?
by citrus1330 on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @11:15AM
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Spotify is better than the competitors. HN is just filled with grumps who love to complain about everything.
In what way is it “better”?
I tried three competitors as I moved away from Spotify, and found they were all substantially better than it.
I care about music selection, recommendation quality, and library stability (not deleting stuff from my collection).
The API, for example. It's a ton of fun to bang out toy projects.
Just the other day I built my own podcast picker script that curates a playlist of subscribed podcast episodes in exactly the way I want (balance-wise/order-wise). Sounds minor, but it has been huge for my smart-home listening experience, given how terrible the out-of-box podcast experience is with Alexa.
I've also noticed songs disappearing from my library, & crappy recommendations in Spotify. What service did you end up going with?
I ended up with Tidal.
They have many competitors, and tools to copy your music selections between services exist. For example:
https://www.tunemymusic.com/
Also, Spotify pays musicians less than most other services:
https://www.dittomusic.com/blog/how-much-do-music-streaming-...
Spotify’s pricing is also inline with competitors. I don’t get it.