666dollarfootlong comments on Spotify playing ads for paid subscribers

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[–] 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world 13 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Convenience of instant access to gazillion songs, though i'm not sure if the average spotify user even listens to anything other than top-lists

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[–] _g_be@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I used to use Spotify but got sick of their recommendations. Vastly different genre playlists would still get top100 songs recommended. Sabrina Carpenter in all my playlists.

I moved to Pandora, their recommendation engine is way less biased. Fewer features in the app, tho

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[–] pieberry@lemmy.today 5 points 6 months ago

FYI Pandora was playing ICE recruitment ads on their service last year.

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[–] 666dollarfootlong@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Back when I was on spotify I listened to premade playlists very rarely since I pretty much always knew what I wanted to listen to and because I'm very picky. The "This is [x] playlists were pretty good though

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[–] Ganymede@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 months ago

The Convenience aspect kind of goes away when you factor in alternatives like YouTube music, apple music or soundcloud

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