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  • fdnomad@programming.devtoMusic@lemmy.world•Spotify Is Social Media Now?English
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    26 days ago

    I think what helped my Spotify recommendations a lot was the option to “exclude from taste profile”. I might listen to lofi for 12 h straight but I dont want any lofi recommendations at all, so that feature was nice.

    Also I never pressed “like” on anything, I only ever disliked things in order to keep recommendations more open. It felt like Spotify understood the assignment while e.g. Tidal kept blasting me with a genre that I accidentally listened to one track of and kept “disliking” every single artists.

  • fdnomad@programming.devtoMusic@lemmy.world•Spotify Is Social Media Now?English
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    26 days ago

    I like streaming music, I dont need to own it, but I have been struggling to find a good music streaming service.

    I used Spotify for years but the amount of garbage they keep adding made me cancel my subscription. The last straw was when “smart shuffle” kept automatically turning itself back on.

    First I switched to YouTube Music but the user experience is honestly trash and I moved on pretty quickly. The separation between video and music service was ridiculously inconsistent.

    I used Tidal for a few months and I appreciated the simple UI. However, the recommendations are insanely bad. Not once have I found a new, good track on the daily mix to add to my library, it was driving me crazy.

    I started using Qobuz only a few weeks ago. The track radio is honestly pretty bad so far. I start the radio on a lofi track and start hearing video game ambience noises 5 tracks later. Literally bird sounds with whitenoise from an OST album. I havent tried the daily/weekly queue a lot yet, but I hope its decent because I dont know what to try next.

    I wish Spotify hadn’t entshittified, it had the best recommendations/radios by far but its just not usable for me anymore.