Spotify

“Spotify isn't exactly a saint but it would be challenging for them to do what Disney is doing without losing all their customers.”

“If Spotify royalties were allocated fairly a scheme like this shouldn't be able to pull more money out than the subscriptions put in.”

“I've found so much good music through Spotify's algorithms that I probably never would have found otherwise.”

“On my Windows 11 laptop it takes about 2sec to start and basically any song starts in less than a second.”

“Earlier this year an update to their mobile app introduced loading time, and resulting slowness, for opening menus that used to be ~instant.”

“Spotify stopped having humans curate their playlists back in like 2016 or 2018 and the subsequent ML algorithms always recommend the same sounding stuff”

“I use the discover weekly / radio / and other discovery features all the time, and still never had a problem.”

“I have my own fair share complaints of Spotify UX but it actually works as a music player anywhere and everywhere.”

“They also have a feature that lets you build and mix playlists together with others, not my personal speed but adds to the stickiness.”

“If I want to make a playlist for someone, 95% of people I know use Spotify, so I need to have Spotify.”

“Spotify is great for discovering new songs. But I'm a grown up and listen to the same hundreds of songs every day anyway.”

“It floods my pages with "created for you" which is just the same 4-5 artists played in the last few weeks ago kludged together into a playlist.”

“Spotify recommending new music to me or continuing to play music suggestions when my playlist runs out is in no way harmful. It improves my life.”

“I am stunned how much music is on Spotify. I'm not here to say that Spotify is perfect, but I can almost never find something that isn't available on Spotify.”

“Spotify (and Apple Music and Amazon Music and probably others) have chosen a business model in which consumers can listen to basically everything and yet artists do not get paid.”

“Without Spotify and (to a lesser extent) piracy before it, I wouldn't be listening to 1/10th of the artists I listen to.”

“My spotify homepage has had a "discover weekly" playlist for like 10 years. Found some nice things there, changes every week.”

“There are a number of good ways to utilize Spotify for music discovery that aren't "pray to the auto-play algorithm"”

“I access my friends' playlists and they access mine. Spotify lets you do exactly what you're describing, only faster and easier.”

“Most people do not experience major holes in the Spotify catalog and are perfectly well satisfied by the breadth of the catalog.”

“Tried every conceivable player, Spotify, YouTube Music, YouTube, Apple Music (local files), Soundcloud and more, all of them leading to the same thing”

“something like Spotify works just as well, as long as they do a great job of maintaining to-the-second sync across devices”

“services like Spotify that are removing real songs from "mood" playlists and replacing them with AI music that directs royalties toward Spotify”

“Whenever Spotify removed human curation from their recommendations to rely on more ML-algorithms was when it stopped being useful to me.”

“Artist radios almost inevitably become a mix of songs I’ve listened to the most that have even the faintest crossover with the artist genre.”

“I've never really had good luck with the artist radio, but I've found a lot of music I like by starting at a band I like and going through the Related Artists.”

“I'm pretty happy with Spotify. When I want to discover new music, I pick an artist I like and start the artist radio. I always get good new recommendations”

“Spotify actually commissioned artists to produce fairly generic songs for the highly played but passively listened to background noise playlists”

“If you can't make it with Spotify and all the social media channels available, you definitely wouldn't have made it before all of this stuff.”

“First and foremost, I feel like Spotify is scummy. I don't like what they did when they were founded, I don't like what they do to artists.”

“Now that we know AA's abduction of files were the files that actually received playtime, we would immediately see a lot of music artists embursed, yes?”

“Spotify basically killed mainstream piracy of music by making it cheap and easy to pay for nearly all music.”

“Spotify's whole UI is far too complicated and I wish they would go the Facebook route of breaking out the separate products into separate apps.”

“Spotify's changes to UX drive me nuts sometimes. But they recently launched prompted playlists that have been a game changer for me.”

“nearly everything available on CD, at any time, as often as they wished, for $7/month they would have been ecstatic”

“Seems like a win for everyone involved including the listener who gets fresh tracks in their study playlists basically forever.”

“Main risk is that the list is in the format of "https[:]//open[.]spotify[.]com/track/[song-id]", so Spotify may break the lookup of these IDs in the future.”

“They were caught flooding their own playlists with specially for them produced Garbage Music for which they don't have to pay royalties”

“Spotify's song/playlist recommendations are not great, but the album recommendations have a pretty high hit rate.”

“Spotify still stands alone by being set-and-forget, working on any device and having full feature support.”