> Spotify is missing that certain ingredient that local radios (before they were sold and cannibalized by Clear Channel/iHeartMedia) and early 1980s MTV really

> Spotify is missing that certain ingredient that local radios (before they were sold and cannibalized by Clear Channel/iHeartMedia) and early 1980s MTV really nailed. This is interesting to me, as someone who's played with Spotify and Tidal but mostly stuck with Apple Music. In part I think this is inertia -- if you stick with any of these streaming services for more than, say, half a year, then it's probably not worth switching unless there's a really compelling reason -- but all three of the services have both human-curated playlists and algorithmically generated ones, and it seems to me that Apple Music has the best curated playlists of any of those three. Spotify has the best algorithmically generated playlists of all three, but I find the best discovery trick for me is to let Apple's algorithms recommend curated playlists. :) (Tidal, at least when I was last a regular user, was genuinely bad at algorithmically generated playlists and pretty mediocre with their curated ones. I'm not really sure what their unique strengths are beyond being willing to deeply integrate with virtually everyone and offering streams with MQA, which is basically a lossy hi-res format.)