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Spotify has raised prices for the second time in a year, with no new benefits, after its CEO sparked outrage by claiming the cost of creating 'content' is 'close to zero' (www.techradar.com)

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 3 months ago (2 children)

the playlist saved for offline playback that will still try to connect to the internet for like 30 seconds when you open it while actually offline. the Discover Weekly playlist that will serve you the song that you've marked as "not interested" over and over and over and

[–] [email protected] 51 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The UI that gets progressively worse with each update, ruining what was perfectly fine before. The attempts to create the audio focused equivalent of TikTok.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The way shuffle constantly shuts itself off even when set within the settings to be the default. The shitty Smart Shuffle that adds in songs that break up my playlists terribly. The way it plays the same song again the first time you enable shuffle and hit next.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Yall are noting not even the reason why I went to Apple Music: no ability to actually consistently sync an offline library across devices, your own files.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

The "repeat" option that activates itself is probably the most frustrating bug. I can't recall the last time I legitimately wanted to listen to a song on repeat but it enable itself very often.

If I could simply remove the feature I would.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I use Tidal and get annoyed because the shuffle clearly has a recency bias to it, and it keeps trying to recommend show tunes to me in my Daily Discovery, and the suggested albums for me has become considerably worse since the last update, but everything i hear about what Spotify has been doing has made me glad i switched over a couple years ago.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

How good is tidal? Is its catalogue as good as Spotify?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I've recently switched from Spotify to Tidal and I'm happy with it...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Yeah, get a trial and see though.