According to the report, Spotify will raise its standard subscription rate by $1 next week, bringing the monthly cost from $9.99 to $10.99.

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    1 year ago

    the reason i used spotify was their reccomendation system and now it is the worst of any other platform. Even if they make it free I won’t use it ever again. I don’t want to listen to Unholy after every fucking song.

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      1 year ago

      Wow I completely disagree. Are you actually liking and disliking songs? And AI DJ is fantastic. I just recently learned about it and have been loving it. I use Apple Music some, but it’s for curation, not recommendation.

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        1 year ago

        yes i have like 5000 liked songs now. Been on spotify for 8 years already. It was way more amazing before. I use to play a song then the next song will be something that other people listened but also liked the song I played.

        Fast forward now. No matter what I pkay the next song is always a song I have heard before ESPECIALLY unholy by sam smith. I use to love that song but I loathe it now. I am playing a japanese song. Next song is unholy. I mean what the hell. Then I searched why is this happening.

        The cause came out to be cache management. Of they have a song cached in your device spotify will play that. Guck the recommendations. So I thought lets remoce the cache. That does not work because their CDN has that songs cached now and I still get that god forsaken song instead of a true song.

        I use to pay spotify yearly basis thats how much I used to use it. Now I have 4 months remaining but don’t use spotify on my android. Only on desktop.

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      1 year ago

      You mean it repeats a lot of stuff? Thats what I found :( A lot of the liked music lists it generated just seems to be stuff I already liked ages ago

      I’m trialing Apple Music, but, only thing is it doesn’t let you download all of your liked songs on your phone it seems

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        What I ended up doing was making a smart playlist on desktop, that contains all of the songs in your library. Then it’s a single button tap to download everything.

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        1 year ago

        I’m sure it did on my iPhone, I relied on it to play music in the car since I don’t have cell coverage for the most part. I’m not sure about the Android app, and my subscription is lapsed now so I can’t check.

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          1 year ago

          You seem to be able to do it for each playlist, but not all… But someone else has a solution it seems

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      1 year ago

      Pandora has amazing stations that randomize like music. I’ve found lots of new artists this way and love it.

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      1 year ago

      Same, i used to sub with Spotify, in the last 2 years i’ve been on Apple music, they even have better collection and playlists of non-english music. Spotify is full of rap music and so hard to discover anything else unless you know what you are searching for.