Provide an alternative with a better user experience, or users won’t switch.
Quobuz, Tidal, et al need to rapidly improve their feature set to match Spotify (primarily group / jam sessions, recommendation engine, and device / app support) or this proposal has less hope than convincing everyone to go back to pirating.
I’ve been a Spotify subscriber since 2009 (you cannot shame me more than I’ve shamed myself), and their recommendation engine (algorithm, as I prefer to call it) is fucked. First of all, it will recommend music where they pay the artists the least, so they can take more money themselves. And it’s the same fucking songs over and over again, basically no matter the playlist “made for you”. It’s literally the same 200 songs.
They changed their genre classification tags behind the scenes in 2023, around the time they fired the guy who ran “Every Noise at Once” and ruined almost all value the service had.
Couldn’t care less about most “features” these services have, my issue is the fact that Spotify is the only one that has a decent catalogue of more obscure stuff I listen to.
That’s the main reason I dropped Spotify and streaming in general. It just really bummed me out when making playlists and not finding my favorite songs to fill it.
Provide an alternative with a better user experience, or users won’t switch.
Quobuz, Tidal, et al need to rapidly improve their feature set to match Spotify (primarily group / jam sessions, recommendation engine, and device / app support) or this proposal has less hope than convincing everyone to go back to pirating.
I’ve been a Spotify subscriber since 2009 (you cannot shame me more than I’ve shamed myself), and their recommendation engine (algorithm, as I prefer to call it) is fucked. First of all, it will recommend music where they pay the artists the least, so they can take more money themselves. And it’s the same fucking songs over and over again, basically no matter the playlist “made for you”. It’s literally the same 200 songs.
They changed their genre classification tags behind the scenes in 2023, around the time they fired the guy who ran “Every Noise at Once” and ruined almost all value the service had.
Couldn’t care less about most “features” these services have, my issue is the fact that Spotify is the only one that has a decent catalogue of more obscure stuff I listen to.
I tried Qobuz and the very first artist I searched for, it didn’t have. Liking quite a lot of obscure artists is a curse.
That’s the main reason I dropped Spotify and streaming in general. It just really bummed me out when making playlists and not finding my favorite songs to fill it.
Nothing wrong here. Btw many artists already claim that streaming is like piracy.
steve albini told fans to pirate his music because he didnt want sony getting even a penny 😂