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Song quality is terrible. The features are lacking and rarely useful. Now they have increased the rates and take away car play. I left when I realized my top artists and songs were the same every year. Much better to buy the songs when the quality is way better and I actually own the media
Do you and I live on a different planet? I grew up when you downloaded actual poor quality music. I stream Spotify at the highest bitrate it has, and it sounds fine. I have a nice system at home.
You talk about features and whatnot, and admittedly I am a simple user. I have albums I like, I turn on album and listen through cover to cover. I throw on Smartless, because for some reason I find Jason Bateman and Will Arnett's abuse of Sean Hughes to be endearing.
As per usual, people on Lemmy seem to make up problems, and it ruins any sort of argument against anything. Spotify's audio quality is not the issue. The issue is obviously the artist remuneration. To create this fake argument is to dilute any worthwhile argument, but Lemmy and Reddit before it seems to take this tack wherever possible.
I have discovered numerous artists because of Spotify. Spotify has linked me to their tickets (albeit Live Nation and fuck them) and merch stores, and I've bought their shitty tshirts and vinyls. I would say that's a benefit. And I like some obscure nonsense.
Is it perfect? I don't like how Spotify has handled its personnel. I think they can make their business model related to plays a little more friendly, but holy shit, the idealism here is ridiculous. You have people demanding perfection, without recognizing the alternative is nothing.
I'm gonna sound like a fanboy, but the alternative is Tidal.
Better audio quality, better (imo) suggestions, and not wasting money of podcasts and weird AI bs.I don't understand why everyone suddenly hates Al .
Because it's everywhere and it's being shoved into our throats.
Well his Song "Eat it" kinda has this theme. But he made many other songs with other themes.
I don't understand the whole audio quality thing. I have produced (shitty) music, been playing music my whole life, and my ears just don't had beyond 320, 41k, I guess. I will say, when messing with samples, higher quality led to much less artifacting (practically none with flac), but when I'm just cranking tunes, the returns beyond 320 are nonexistent.
Suggestions, I'm always open to more. Spotify has been good to me, I discovered some bands and albums that have gone on to be number one in my rotation, and I like all sorts of music and am nostalgic to a fault. But more suggestions is good so I'll accept that point.
Podcasts I can take or leave, although as I mentioned I discovered the stupid Smartless podcast because of Spotify so I need to give them a nod there.
So yeah that's it, that's all I got! Thanks for taking!
Well, I'm glad compressed audio is good for you. I know many people that couldn't care less.
The person you commented on and myself have both found Spotify quality to be lacking.
I've found tidal, and it's Spotify without the chuff and pays artists better. And it's cheaper.
Maybe I can't actually hear the difference, and a true A-B blind would show the truth, but I don't care enough to do that. I'm enjoying music more, and I'm saving money