Wilfrid Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 I have been a Napster (formerly Rhapsody) user for many years. It had everything I needed and of course it had my saved playlists. However, labels have started pulling their catalogues and the music selection has collapsed over the last few weeks. Time to cancel. The obvious alternative is Spotify. What I need is a very extensive catalogue and Spotify seems to have that. What I don't need is recommendations and playlists chosen for me, which seems more a Pandora thing. Posting here in case anyone has advice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StephanieL Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 I've been a Spotify user for years. I "subscribe" to two playlists: Discover Weekly and Throwback Thursday. Every other playlist I listen to is from some other source, especially the New York Times and the Guardian. Because what I end up listening to is a mix of jazz, funk, oldies, and newer music, the Discover Weekly playlist serves me up a lot of that, and I've been getting some great deep cuts over the last few weeks. No fake AI bands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted September 1 Author Share Posted September 1 Okay, thanks. I will obsessively choose my own music, but that's me. Looks like the best option. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orik Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 Compare Spotify and YouTube music as they offer two quite distinct flavors of terrible sound quality and volume leveling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted September 5 Author Share Posted September 5 Signed up to Spotify and I was asked to identify three artists I liked. I went for Hinds, Don Cherry and Burning Spear. Interesting scatter of recommendations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilfrid Posted September 9 Author Share Posted September 9 Spotify seems fine. I was regretting abandoning my Napster playlists, but so much music has been pulled by the labels most of them were empty anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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