Spotify Technology SA is considering adding full-length music videos to its app, which could help the streaming service better compete with Alphabet Inc.’s YouTube and ByteDance Ltd.’s TikTok.
I don’t mind this since it’s music focused, but I wish the features were rolling out just as much on purely the music side of there service. It feels so lopsided compared to everything else they’re trying to do.
I keep spotify nearly exclusively for “release radar” and for the song radio/album/band radio features. I’ve found what have turned out to be one of my all time top favorite bands through song radio (Metric, the song was Combat Baby, by searching for song radio with Tony The Beat by The Sounds).
Not sure I ever would have gotten into them without the spotify feature. I used to use pandora for these things, but I’ve found spotify to be quite a bit better, personally
Have you checked out Spotube on GitHub? I just recently started using it but it’s a Spotify front-end which actually consumed Spotify API data but sources all the music from YouTube. No ads and no Spotify premium required.
that sounds pretty wild… my wife has an iphone so may want to switch to apple music, which would mean farewell to the family plan we now use, so I’ll check it out if it comes to it
I don’t know how else to express to them how little I want this. All I want is for Spotify to focus on music streaming. That is it.
I don’t mind this since it’s music focused, but I wish the features were rolling out just as much on purely the music side of there service. It feels so lopsided compared to everything else they’re trying to do.
I would love it if they focused on making their 320kbps stream sound as good as other services.
for real. when I play my records I hear so much more. it makes me wanna stop using spotify
I just canceled my subscription and now just using Plex and Navidrome to listen to my own library.
I keep spotify nearly exclusively for “release radar” and for the song radio/album/band radio features. I’ve found what have turned out to be one of my all time top favorite bands through song radio (Metric, the song was Combat Baby, by searching for song radio with Tony The Beat by The Sounds).
Not sure I ever would have gotten into them without the spotify feature. I used to use pandora for these things, but I’ve found spotify to be quite a bit better, personally
Have you checked out Spotube on GitHub? I just recently started using it but it’s a Spotify front-end which actually consumed Spotify API data but sources all the music from YouTube. No ads and no Spotify premium required.
that sounds pretty wild… my wife has an iphone so may want to switch to apple music, which would mean farewell to the family plan we now use, so I’ll check it out if it comes to it
If you’re on Android, also check out https://github.com/Team-xManager/xManager