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Some time last year I finally realized it's really only going to become worse in the foreseeable future (I could've seen this earlier, but had faint hope left t

Some time last year I finally realized it's really only going to become worse in the foreseeable future (I could've seen this earlier, but had faint hope left that at some point they'd have to listen to their customers). It has consistently gotten worse over the last 5 years I've been a customer and podcasts were my final straw. I moved to Tidal. It's not exactly perfect either (still pushing crappy playlists on you), but at least they take their job somewhat seriously: Playing me my damn music without too much fuss. Their algorithmic recommendations have become quite good too - even this Spotify somehow managed to mess up, playing me the same 10 songs all the time.

tvink 4y ago
I've migrated too, but the biggest letdown for me so far is the total absence of genre playlists. If you're lucky you'll find 3 playlists by users when you search for something like "Deep House", it's really not great for deliberate discovery :/ But the quality of the audio has locked me in hard.
- MavisBacon 4y ago
  I’ve found that their editorial playlists are pretty badass but the problem is they don’t have obvious names. Like I’ve got one I really enjoy that is basically non-country music with pedal steel guitar that’s titled “Space Western” and there’s a slowcore playlist I dig called “Sad & Slow To The Core”. All of that to say- you’ve just gotta poke around. They didn’t even introduce user-generated playlists until fairly recently I think
MavisBacon 4y ago
Yeah I made the switch to Tidal a few years back and am quite happy. UI is simple, usable, attractive, software works mostly flawlessly, and the algo is indeed amazing. Spotify’s recommendations were so shallow for me compared to Tidal. I actually now discover most of my new artists through the Tidal algo Oh and my favorite aspect of Tidal is being able to browse the credits for releases and find things like names of producers, writers, session players

tvink 4y ago

I've migrated too, but the biggest letdown for me so far is the total absence of genre playlists. If you're lucky you'll find 3 playlists by users when you search for something like "Deep House", it's really not great for deliberate discovery :/ But the quality of the audio has locked me in hard.

MavisBacon 4y ago
I’ve found that their editorial playlists are pretty badass but the problem is they don’t have obvious names. Like I’ve got one I really enjoy that is basically non-country music with pedal steel guitar that’s titled “Space Western” and there’s a slowcore playlist I dig called “Sad & Slow To The Core”. All of that to say- you’ve just gotta poke around. They didn’t even introduce user-generated playlists until fairly recently I think

MavisBacon 4y ago

Yeah I made the switch to Tidal a few years back and am quite happy. UI is simple, usable, attractive, software works mostly flawlessly, and the algo is indeed amazing. Spotify’s recommendations were so shallow for me compared to Tidal. I actually now discover most of my new artists through the Tidal algo Oh and my favorite aspect of Tidal is being able to browse the credits for releases and find things like names of producers, writers, session players