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European Alternatives for Music Streaming (choosingeurope.substack.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by IanTwenty@piefed.social to c/buyeuropean@feddit.uk

Deezer (France ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท) Qobuz (France ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท) SoundCloud (Germany ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช) IDAGIO (Germany ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช)

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[-] Asetru@feddit.org 3 points 1 day ago

Kind of same story here, tried qobuz and dropped it almost immediately.

For me, it was the missing assistant integration, as I couldn't get it to properly play music in the car by giving some basic voice commands... If I'm in control of a three ton death machine, I want my eyes on the road, not entering some obscure pop punk band's name in full via the on-screen keyboard in the car's media system. Also, I know that qobuz' content is supposed to be curated instead of generated, but the amount of playlists compared to Spotify was really underwhelming. Add to that that the onboarding was terrible enough for my wife to give up before fully finishing the process and me cursing constantly while trying to set up my kids' accounts, my kids being annoyed they couldn't share music with their friends easily anymore and that it felt oddly hard to discover new music beyond their articles and just based on my preferences and the whole thing just didn't work as I wanted it to.

[-] Creat@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 day ago

Yes discoverability for new music is also critical for me, but I never even got that far to give it a shot. The majority of the time in listening to music is to discover new-to-me artists/songs. I had heard mixed reviews on that, some incredibly happy with it some saying it's just horrible, but the other issues are already showstoppers...

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