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Spotify’s first US price hike for Premium is coming next week (www.theverge.com)
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[–] 13 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (15 children)

Tidal increased their prices recently too, by the same amount. And for that I'm getting the high-quality audio Spotify keeps on promising for over a year TWO YEARS now.

Don't get me wrong, Tidal still has its own problems but I don't get why people still choose to have Spotify over one of its competitors.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    As someone who tried to use Tidal for nearly a year because it paid better rates, it's literally just 2 things: Artist Discovery and Algorithm Degradation towards a mass consumer mean.

    Spotify actually feeds me tons of great indie artists I've never heard before. Tidal was a constant struggle to purge mass produced giant record label pop from constantly infiltrating every single station and it almost never gave me some little artist who maybe has 5k listens total. I get those literally every single day from Spotify though.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    Yeah, this has been my experience as well. Discovery on Spotify is really good. I'll listen to something new and be like "how haven't I heard of these guys!" And then I check their artist page and yeah it's like a few thousand listens total.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I actually hate Spotify as a company and find their app/service to be frustrating to use, thanks to them almost constantly dicking around with things.

    But... I still use them. Why? Because unfortunately with my needs and preferences, it's the only music streaming app on Android that doesn't have a completely shitty experience when either using it with AndroidAuto, or when casting music to my home stereo receiver. Their app offers the best experience and features against all the other apps I've tried (and I've tried them all).

    Tidal's AndroidAuto experience is so minimal it's not funny. No "like" button, no "add to library" button, no "dislike" button, so that killed them for me.

    Apple Music on Android is quite buggy when trying to cast to my home stereo. And their AndroidAuto experience is also buggy and lacking too many features I want.

    Deezer is pretty much the same as Apple Music from my experiences.

    Amazon Music is just "Bleh!" overall.

    Qobuz was really lacking in features I want the last time I tried it.

    YouTube Music drives me nuts with the way it integrates with regular YouTube.

    So I'm stuck with Spotify. And I don't like it. But it's the least problematic for me when compared to the alternatives.

    If I used an iPhone (but I prefer Android), I'd switch to Apple Music in a heartbeat because on iOS, Apple Music actually works quite well.

    My one hope, at the moment, is the forthcoming music streaming service from Tiktok. I have no idea how good/bad it will be, but I'm eager to try it when it hits the US, just because I'm praying it will finally enable me to kick Spotify to the curb.

    /rant

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I used my YouTube username account for YouTube videos and my email account for YTM. It's works perfectly.

    I know what you're talking about, using a single account for both ruins the already bad preference tuning. You would think they would address this problem with a setting by now.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    My guess is most are like me, I use Bluetooth headphones and are on the go if I listen to anything. So higher quality doesn't really matter.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I mean that largely depends on your headphones and whether or not they (and your playback device) support decent Bluetooth codecs

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    This is what I mean. This is why ppl would buy Spotify premium instead. Most do not hear a difference because of the devices they use. I am also pretty sure most do not hear much of a difference so that the price would justify it.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Spotify and YouTube Music are the only streaming services I have found that make it easy to integrate songs that aren't on streaming into your collection, and I don't like YouTube Music so Spotify it is.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    320kbps is basically indistinguishable from lossless, even with insanely good headphones/amplifier/DAC/speakers.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    but mah 192KHz!!!!!!!!!

    Never mind that the first step in playing that stuff involves filtering all that extra shit out because a) I can't hear it, and b) the speakers can't reproduce it. All because I refuse to believe in the sampling theorem.

    /s

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