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For those wanting an alternative, do give Tidal a trial (there are services that can port over your playlists). Pros: You can view almost everything as a list,
by zamalek 4y ago
For those wanting an alternative, do give Tidal a trial (there are services that can port over your playlists).
Pros: You can view almost everything as a list, although their UI is optimized for touch screens - so the rows are rather large. Their radio rivals Pandora in terms of properly understanding your tastes.
Cons: After a very quick look, I don't think they do podcasts. Their API support is utter shit, 3rd party clients aren't a possibility, and there is no Linux client. You have to use the their client for "master" quality (which isn't bit-perfect and is definitely snake oil).
Having tried Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Play, Pandora, and Qobuz, I have found that Tidal is comfortably the best.
Amazon Music is a very close second, but suffers from what I call the "Armin Effect". Armin van Buuren plays many genres of electronic music, and so inferior recommendation engines tend to connect this huge umbrella of genres through Armin. Your taste in music may not be affected by this problem. Tidal and Pandora are the only two services I have used that don't suffer from this.
- solarkraft 4y ago> Cons: (...) I don't think they do podcasts. That's a big pro. Podcasts and music don't belong together. A good recommendation engine is important to me, so I'll check it out.