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Spotify is better than the competitors. HN is just filled with grumps who love to complain about everything.

• hedora 6y ago
  In what way is it “better”? I tried three competitors as I moved away from Spotify, and found they were all substantially better than it. I care about music selection, recommendation quality, and library stability (not deleting stuff from my collection).
  • g-erson 6y ago
    I've also noticed songs disappearing from my library, & crappy recommendations in Spotify. What service did you end up going with?
    • hedora 6y ago
      I ended up with Tidal.
  • chaorace 6y ago
    The API, for example. It's a ton of fun to bang out toy projects. Just the other day I built my own podcast picker script that curates a playlist of subscribed podcast episodes in exactly the way I want (balance-wise/order-wise). Sounds minor, but it has been huge for my smart-home listening experience, given how terrible the out-of-box podcast experience is with Alexa.