• recklessengagement@lemmy.world
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    11 hours ago

    I hate spotify with a passion. Despite this, there are a few reasons I’m still on it:

    1. Sharing music is trivial (less so now due to link cleaning)
    2. I love exploring new music and the Discover Weekly feature has been quite effective.
    3. Flawless Last.FM compatibility.

    If anyone has alternative(s) they recommend I’d love to try them out.

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      9 hours ago

      alternatives? tidal / apple music / deezer

      1 tidal’s share feature links to other music services too (you get the option to pick whatever when you share something so no one gets left out) granted, they use a service to scrape other services to know what’s where and who has what, but still

      2 I have both tidal and apple music, and used to have spotify - imo the former two are just better at recommending new stuff close to your preferences as well as adjacents. you also get recommendations for stuff you don’t normally listen to in a separate playlist, so the spread is there. people just haven’t tried to live with them long enough, or just refuse to believe there are other things out there that can be better, or both

      3 tidal is, apple music is, and also deezer

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      9 hours ago

      Discover Weekly feature has been quite effective.

      That used to be me.

      I listen mostly to old swing, jazz, etc. It was fine. How can you mess it up?

      And now I’m getting damn AI slop, pretending to be 1930’s music.