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I've been a subscriber basically ever since it launched in the US and haven't noticed any discernible difference in the service in that entire time. What has tu

• fbd_0100 2mo ago
  same. long time user, haven't really noticed any major changes
• fwn 2mo ago
  I am on the paid plan since mid-2015 and nowadays I regularly get ads for concerts in the UI. The ads cannot be disabled and there is no amount I can pay to stop them. I even wrote to support, only to get a sloppy reply telling me no: because premium will always only have "an ad-free listening experience".
• bl4kers 2mo ago
  Podcasts are shoved in your face everywhere, and their official playlists have been flooded with AI music.
• schnevets 2mo ago
  Recommendations have gotten noticeably worse since the glory days of Discover Weekly. It's possible that my tastes have just stagnated in my mid-30s*, but I just found myself listening to ~40 essential artists, so I decided to just buy once on Bandcamp, knowing that the music creators are getting a larger cut than Spotify would ever give them. Also, I can only give a thumbs down to Paul Simon's Call Me Al so many times. It's not a terrible song, but the way it snuck into every goddamn radio station I request became comical. *Although algorithm discovery stopped appealing to me, I actually replaced Spotify with Radio Paradise and soma.fm and have been enjoying these public stations a lot more. I'm just a boring dad who now prefers carefully-curated for everyone over automatically-created for me