skyscraper101
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Tidal is the one platform I’m going nowhere near after that bizarre launch event with all those twats on stage making like it was some kind of international peace accord signing.
Spotify vs. Google Play Music vs Apple vs Tidal and the rest....
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chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
Spotify - Used the free version a lot. It's pretty great. But I need to put more work into creating playlists as its recomendations are often off for me. Must get back into it though for listening to stuff i don't "own" (see Google Play Music below). I don't like the UI though, it's been a pain so far to organise my stuff.
Deezer - Used a free trial of this a bit and liked the ui of it, But didn't carry on with it for some reason.
Apple Music - Had 6 months free of this and it was fine, easy to make playlists etc. But was a big battery sucker in comparison to Spotify and I'm not going to pay for it.
Google Play Music - Had forgotten all about this 'till I got a Pixel phone. Turns out that at some point in the past I had uploaded the contents of my old iPod classic onto it. Thousands and thousand of my tracks. Cool. So that's what I'm using right now, just using my old library.
Deezer - Used a free trial of this a bit and liked the ui of it, But didn't carry on with it for some reason.
Apple Music - Had 6 months free of this and it was fine, easy to make playlists etc. But was a big battery sucker in comparison to Spotify and I'm not going to pay for it.
Google Play Music - Had forgotten all about this 'till I got a Pixel phone. Turns out that at some point in the past I had uploaded the contents of my old iPod classic onto it. Thousands and thousand of my tracks. Cool. So that's what I'm using right now, just using my old library.
skyscraper101
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I remember it took me about 4 days to upload the contents of my mp3 library to Google Play when it first announced free cloud storage of tracks, and even that wasn’t everything.
If only they’d make the interface better and the ability to import playlists from Spotify I might consider a move but I’ve been with Spotify for so long it’d take an age and a day to migrate over.
If only they’d make the interface better and the ability to import playlists from Spotify I might consider a move but I’ve been with Spotify for so long it’d take an age and a day to migrate over.
Throbbing Angel
this is no longer a place of honour
is it laborious or slow? - or is it just volume in your case?
skyscraper101
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It was the volume and the up speed of my internet at the time in 2013.
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hiraethified
Not until Joe Public beings to value music properly - which isn't going to happen because its' been commodified to the point where most/many kids think it would be weird to pay for music when it's available for free online.
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Fresh in-depth comparison here.
The conclusion:
http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/spotify-vs-apple-music-best-streaming-service-2913394
The conclusion:
http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/spotify-vs-apple-music-best-streaming-service-2913394
ska invita
back on the other side
Fez909 pointed out that if you open Spotify in a browser with an adblocker you can use free Spotify without any ads, which seems to work a treat
Funnily enough i was just thinking about Tidal (id forgotten the name though) today and wondering if it still exists....uphill battle for them i expect?
Funnily enough i was just thinking about Tidal (id forgotten the name though) today and wondering if it still exists....uphill battle for them i expect?
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cybershot
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I believe there's also 3rd party Spotify clients for iOS (via sites I don't trust that use the business way of getting custom apps onto phone or via jailbreak) and Android that will allow you to play stuff properly. I.E no adverts and not limited to shuffle, but there were supposedly cracking down on this by notifying free users that accounts would be closed if they carried on using unofficial apps.
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
The thing about Amazon Music Unlimited is that you can sign up to a free month’s trial to Prime, pay for a year’s subscription to AMU for £79 and then cancel your month’s trial. So that’s the full service for £6.66 per month, which feels like a reasonable cost to me. Spotify is 50% more expensive than this, and I don’t know what I’m getting for that money.
cybershot
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A much better interface for one, but I guess it depends on how much you consume and how you use it.
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
Having used both, I can’t say I find either interface notably superior. They both really do the same thing.
Most of my use is through Sonos anyway, mind, so the interface is often redundant.
50% more is a big old mark up!
kabbes
First intersubjective, then internalised
If you only use the Dot, you can get it for £3.99 a month. But if you want to connect to other devices too, I can understand paying the higher fee.
chilango
Hypothetical Wanker
Yeah I listen to on my phone when at the gym, out and about etc.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I just use Pulsar on my phone for sorting and playing the tunes. If I'm playing original music rather than mixed, I use soulseek to get it.
Eta: ignore me, it's an old thread and I've already answered
Eta: ignore me, it's an old thread and I've already answered
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I find Spotify far better for suggestions of stuff I may like. Found the Amazon interface very limited.
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BristolEcho
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I resisted Spotify for ages and hated them for the reasons mentioned here.
Eventually gave it a go and unfortunately it's become pretty esstential to my life. I've never bought much music because I mainly listened to mixes before. Now I've been able to get into loads of stuff I would never have listened too or paid money for either. My girlfriend loves it too.
How do the other services compare for more obscure stuff? I've found some amazing dark ambient on Spotify for example. I've gone to a few gigs on the back of artists I've found on there too which is where most of them are making any money anyway.
I do try to buy stuff I really like on band camp if I can. It's cool that you can then stream it anywhere.
Eventually gave it a go and unfortunately it's become pretty esstential to my life. I've never bought much music because I mainly listened to mixes before. Now I've been able to get into loads of stuff I would never have listened too or paid money for either. My girlfriend loves it too.
How do the other services compare for more obscure stuff? I've found some amazing dark ambient on Spotify for example. I've gone to a few gigs on the back of artists I've found on there too which is where most of them are making any money anyway.
I do try to buy stuff I really like on band camp if I can. It's cool that you can then stream it anywhere.
sim667
All aboard the 303 bus.
^^ This is exactly my experience too.
There's music I want that isn't on spotify, but its easy enough to get that.
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skyscraper101
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Should be banned just for being crap. You could almost picture the ad creative team congratulating their self declared genius over that one.
Bah so Google Play Music is being discontinued, so you can't upload anything to it anymore... It's a pity, I used it to archive all my music files in one library and it was cool being able to access it on any computer or phone anywhere really easily. It's all transferring over to Youtube Music now, apparently the whole library will get transferred, so will see how that works.
hiccup
King of the Vagabonds
You can't stream to a Sonos without paying for it either. Which you could do for free with Google Music.
I need to find somewhere else to stream all my uploaded music from now I guess.
Let me know if you find something
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