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Spotify kinda sucks. And has since they got their first taste of success. I was living in Sweden when they launched and signed up. It was great then. And for a
by chris123 7y ago
Spotify kinda sucks. And has since they got their first taste of success. I was living in Sweden when they launched and signed up. It was great then. And for a couple of years. Then some new investors came in and it went this direction, just extract value by all means possible, winner take all, destroy, destroy, destroy. Except for themselves. Thanks Silicon Valley vampires, you ruin pretty much everything you touch
- wyxuan 7y agoNo, the original people in spotify are the people behind this push into podcasts (see last season of the gimlet podcast Startup). It started from when they saw how german use of spotify exploded as publishers put audiobooks on spotify.
- dikei 7y agoI hate it too, but I can't completely fault them. Companies need to be profitable, and the pricing race to the bottom means they can hardly increase individual pricing, which in turn force them to exploit other directions.
- etrabroline 7y ago>force them to exploit other directions So if recreational heroin had never been made illegal, pharmaceutical companies would today be "forced" to sell it? Some things simply should not be allowed to be profitable, and it is not up to for-profit companies to decide what is and what isn't. It's up to society as a whole, though government, to decide what is allowed to be bought and sold. Personal data should be in the category of "not legal to buy and sell".
- dikei 7y ago> So if recreational heroin had never been made illegal, pharmaceutical companies would today be "forced" to sell it? If one company does start to sell it, its competitors will probably be "forced" to sell it too. > Some things simply should not be allowed to be profitable, and it is not up to for-profit companies to decide what is and what isn't. It's up to society as a whole, though government, to decide what is allowed to be bought and sold. Personal data should be in the category of "not legal to buy and sell". Agree
- Nicholas_C 7y agoI use Spotify every day and think it’s a good product. Why do you think it sucks? I’m genuinely curious.
- jasonjayr 7y agoI used Soundcloud on a daily basis, and I really like the discovery and constant new music available there. A lot of the artists I follow keep moving to Spotify, or releasing there first, and I've tried re-setting up on Spotify, but it's been very frustrating so far.
- jv22222 7y agoMy main issue with Spotify is there is no zombie apocalypse backup. What I mean is, if the zombie apocalypse happened, and you were lucky enough to have solar power to keep your devices going, it wouldn't matter because you would loose access to your favorite songs. There are a lot of folks who's only music source is Spotify. I just hope for their sake, there is never a zombie apocalypse ;)
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- amiga_500 7y agoI started to use their free client to sample music after getting totally sick of youtube advertising. If I like something I get an actual copy of the music. It blows my mind that people would just keep music on the cloud.
- hombre_fatal 7y agoApps backed by the cloud still have a local download option (including Spotify) that does the job for the brief moments you don't have internet. I realized that needing every song I'd ever want to listen to on my local disk was just a form of digital hoarding. I backed up hundreds of gigabytes of my music, deleted it from my computer, and realized I never cared enough to restore it despite years of collecting and organizing it.
- rorykoehler 7y agoCapitalism will eat itself
- seizeheures 7y agothat and Tencent...