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I've been a paying Spotify subscriber since 2010. Slowly I've grown dissatisfied with their service. They killed the instant notifications of new album release
by guidovranken 8y ago
I've been a paying Spotify subscriber since 2010. Slowly I've grown dissatisfied with their service.
They killed the instant notifications of new album releases of bands that you follow. They replaced it with a weekly 'Release Radar' that comprises a selection of new music catered to your taste. It seems that the feature has a bias towards certain artists. I listened to Martin Garrix a couple of times years ago and he seems to pop up every few weeks in my 'Release Radar' even though all I really listen to these days is improvised jazz. It doesn't make sense and it isn't in my best interest. Perhaps there is an ulterior financial motive behind 'Release Radar' where record companies can bid for a place in that list, but I'm not sure. What I really want is to get a notification the minute my favorite artists release an album. Surely this shouldn't be too much asked in this day and age.
Until recently you could use search operators like year:1968 genre:jazz and now it's gone. I really like it when you can query repositories of data (music, in the case of Spotify) as a database.
These things really irk me and I'd love to migrate to a (legal) service that does this properly and is relatively free of "smart algorithms", and I wouldn't mind paying $50 a month or maybe more for it.
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