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Spotify is great, people on HN like to complain. Aside from having nearly any artist's catalogue available for almost free, their recommendations have helped m

Spotify is great, people on HN like to complain. Aside from having nearly any artist's catalogue available for almost free, their recommendations have helped me find a lot of great songs. I don't personally listen to the curated playlists but many of my friends love them.

gfxgirl 6y ago
Spotify objectively sucks compared to plenty of other services. Is it possible you haven't tried those other services? Having access to lots of music is certainly better than not but we've had services that do that since the early 2000s. I subscribed to Rhapsody in 2004. It gave me access to "nearly any artist's catalogue available for almost free". As 2 examples of things it did better, instead of using a shitty recommendation system that when I pick some electro swing band it recommends death metal, instead for every artist it showed their lists of who influenced them and who they influenced. I found tons of great bands that way. Way more than i've found on Spotify's crappy system And that's just one example. The now dead Google Play Music's recommendation system actually worked where Spotify's does not.
- kick_in_the_dro 6y ago
  Haha that's funny, I guess I haven't experienced any of recommendations personally. Usually they're very good in my experience.
- konart 6y ago
  >Spotify objectively sucks compared to plenty of other services. Is it possible you haven't tried those other services? It's just your personal experience that is different. Same for the other guy, same for me. I've been on a paid accounts for Apple Music, Google Music, Yandex Music and even Youtube's adhoc solution for music. At least 1 year each (almost for entire time since the launch of Yandex music). Spotify beats them all. Both recommendations and content (though we have to agree that content part can vary based on your location). Never had a chance to try Rhapsody. >that when I pick some electro swing band it recommends death metal That's how Google Music worked for me though, not Spotify. Yandex had best UI but worst recommendation system (and lack of content). Apple's recommendations are about as bad as Google's. Better UI but again - did not have music I wanted.
- amaccuish 6y ago
  > Spotify objectively sucks compared to plenty of other services. Is this a new thing? "Everyone else's opinion * objectively * sucks". Just because you write "objectively", doesn't make it so.
  - t0mbstone 6y ago
    Opinions are, by definition, subjective

gfxgirl 6y ago

Spotify objectively sucks compared to plenty of other services. Is it possible you haven't tried those other services? Having access to lots of music is certainly better than not but we've had services that do that since the early 2000s. I subscribed to Rhapsody in 2004. It gave me access to "nearly any artist's catalogue available for almost free". As 2 examples of things it did better, instead of using a shitty recommendation system that when I pick some electro swing band it recommends death metal, instead for every artist it showed their lists of who influenced them and who they influenced. I found tons of great bands that way. Way more than i've found on Spotify's crappy system And that's just one example. The now dead Google Play Music's recommendation system actually worked where Spotify's does not.

kick_in_the_dro 6y ago
Haha that's funny, I guess I haven't experienced any of recommendations personally. Usually they're very good in my experience.
konart 6y ago
>Spotify objectively sucks compared to plenty of other services. Is it possible you haven't tried those other services? It's just your personal experience that is different. Same for the other guy, same for me. I've been on a paid accounts for Apple Music, Google Music, Yandex Music and even Youtube's adhoc solution for music. At least 1 year each (almost for entire time since the launch of Yandex music). Spotify beats them all. Both recommendations and content (though we have to agree that content part can vary based on your location). Never had a chance to try Rhapsody. >that when I pick some electro swing band it recommends death metal That's how Google Music worked for me though, not Spotify. Yandex had best UI but worst recommendation system (and lack of content). Apple's recommendations are about as bad as Google's. Better UI but again - did not have music I wanted.
amaccuish 6y ago
> Spotify objectively sucks compared to plenty of other services. Is this a new thing? "Everyone else's opinion * objectively * sucks". Just because you write "objectively", doesn't make it so.
- t0mbstone 6y ago
  Opinions are, by definition, subjective