How bad is your Spotify?

Re:How bad is your Spotify? by klmadfejno on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @05:39PM (#25523110)

I haven't used Pandora in a decade, but when I did, it strongly preferred to play mainstream artists, and within artists, only a handful of specific tracks. They weren't bad choices, but I got pretty bored of them.

Spotify takes a lot more risks and I think its highly preferable.

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Re:How bad is your Spotify? by Alupis on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @05:46PM (#25523171)

A decade is a long, long time. The catalog is definitely on-par with any service out there today.

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Re:How bad is your Spotify? by klmadfejno on Thursday December 24, 2020 @06:01PM (#25532338)

I would believe they've improved over time. But my comment wasn't that pandora had a poor catalog. It was that they wanted to play mainstream songs instead. Perhaps not even mainstream, but just very specific songs. They had a lot of artist's whole discographies but only a subset would ever come on. I can still remember a few of them for me:

royksopp - this must be it

trapt - headstrong

ladytron - destroy everything you touch

Some sort of remix of the hand that feeds by Nine Inch Nails (I think it was the photek remix or something)

I got these songs a lot on many stations, and nothing else by those artists ever, haha.

I don't hold a grudge from 10 years ago though

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