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Re:My Husband Was Right About DVDs All Along by 56friends on Saturday January 21, 2023 @12:28PM (#34468106)
I think the era of Spotify dominance and music availability is coming to an end. Not sure what the next stage is going to look like - but I personally just canceled my subscription after over a decade of using Spotify exclusively. There is a lot of music that has never been available on Spotify, plus some music is disappearing due to artists and labels realizing they are not making any money from Spotify streaming. Plus no lossless, plus the relentless upsell of podcasts and now audio books.

I would be fine subscribing to a specialized streaming music service, or two.

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Re:My Husband Was Right About DVDs All Along by tpmx on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:23PM (#34469384)
I'm super happy with my Spotify subscription. Sure, maybe 5% of the things I want are missing, but 95% is pretty good.
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Re:My Husband Was Right About DVDs All Along by 56friends on Saturday January 21, 2023 @02:55PM (#34469711)
I left for 2 reasons:

1. Their recommendations became unbearable. I love discovering music but Spotify is not the right service for that anymore. Daily playlists are just several of my favorite artists shuffled. Genre playlists are just several of my favorite artists shuffled. Track radio is just several of my favorite artists shuffled. “Best of techno” playlist? Floating Points and Four Tet - both artists I listen to a lot, but they are not techno, and are not “best techno” - a genre that spans decades.

I don’t know if they overfitted their models and at this point I don’t care.

2. I am fed up with the podcast and audio book push. Not interested in either, don’t want to see it anywhere.

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Re:My Husband Was Right About DVDs All Along by tpmx on Saturday January 21, 2023 @03:14PM (#34469931)
So you didn't primarily leave for the lack of catalog coverage. Ok.
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Re:My Husband Was Right About DVDs All Along by 56friends on Saturday January 21, 2023 @03:17PM (#34469968)
I never said I did. Spotify doesn’t have some of my favorite music but I have it in either lossless format or on vinyl.
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