How bad is your Spotify?

Re:How bad is your Spotify? by sundvor on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @09:56PM (#25524660)

You could check out YouTube Music (edit: changed from "music"), which has a long list of Philip Glass titles that may be up there with Spotify.

I gave up on Spotify when they removed the widget functionality on Android. I know they returned it eventually, but not without complete uproar. It burned myself as a decade old (family) premium user though; I used to love them, but that complete disregard completely changed that.

Now, only a 3 month minimum (6 would help) completely free retrial would get me back. Thus far, none has been received.

(On the flip side I absolutely love YouTube Red or Premium or whatever they call it these days.)

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Re:How bad is your Spotify? by colinmhayes on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @10:37PM (#25524831)

Youtube's organization of music is horrible. It clearly wasn't made for listening to music.

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Re:How bad is your Spotify? by tyrust on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @11:02PM (#25524937)

I assume they were talking about Youtube Music (https://music.youtube.com/), which is made for listening to music.

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Re:How bad is your Spotify? by lambda_obrien on Wednesday December 23, 2020 @11:14PM (#25525004)

I used Google Music until they discontinued it in favor of Youtube Music, and I ditched that crap immediately, the UI was horrible, the recommendations were BAD (Google Music was somewhat good), and I lost about half my playlist items as "not available". It is so bad, that after years of Google Music, I just ditched my playlists (what little there was) and moved to Spotify.

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Re:How bad is your Spotify? by lkbm on Thursday December 24, 2020 @08:09AM (#25527115)

I find the YT Music recs actually pretty good, though the "recommending a song after I thumbed down" behavior blows my mind in its idiocy. Also, the fact that they don't distinguish between me liking a video on Youtube and liking a song in YT Music is also frustrating.

The UI is the worst I've seen on any music service or player, but I'd found quite a bit of music I like through their recommendations.

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Re:How bad is your Spotify? by kevincox on Thursday December 24, 2020 @10:27AM (#25528261)

I reported the bug about recommending songs that I had downvoted. Apparently I had more thank 5k downvotes so it didn't consider them all in the filter. The "fix" was bumping the limit.

I used to pay for Google Music and transitioned to YouTube Music but eventually gave up because it has so many issues. I also tried Spotify but didn't like it much so now I don't know what I will use.

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Re:How bad is your Spotify? by shostack on Thursday December 24, 2020 @12:09AM (#25525212)

I just tried listening to some uploaded music last night. Except the Artists page seems to be in random order vs alphabetical and there is no apparent sort option. I'm not sure how that decision played out.

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Re:How bad is your Spotify? by chewz on Thursday December 24, 2020 @04:28AM (#25526156)

And the idea of integration of music and music videos is brilliant. I love listening to music with video on my TV in the morning.

The implementation and mixing music videos with other video content in my Youtube account is horrible on the other way.

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Re:How bad is your Spotify? by sundvor on Thursday December 24, 2020 @03:21AM (#25525912)

Yes, thanks.

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Re:How bad is your Spotify? by chewz on Thursday December 24, 2020 @04:25AM (#25526140)

While Youtube Music is a bag of some great ideas and implementation that went horribly wrong I have started using it over Spotify recently.

Youtube Music implementation of Chromecast is spotless while Spotify every so often interupts with "Your spotify account is used on another device" (Not true just checking my phone). In general Youtube is also tolerant of using two devices with the same account for a few moments.

And no podcasts in the music app... Hurah...

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