Introducing Messages, A New Way To Share What You Love on Spotify with Friends and Family — Spotify
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Recommendations have always been at the heart of the Spotify experience. Friends and family share their favorite music, podcasts, audiobooks, and more from Spotify millions of times each month. That’s because word of mouth is one of the most powerful ways for people to discover their next favorite track.  Spotify users have told us they...

I’ve done it. I’ve finally reached my “old man yells at cloud” moment. Why, why, WHY is Spotify adding features straight out of the social media playbook?

Anybody have recommendations for alternatives?

In my head there’s:

YouTube music (google, gross)

Apple music (no way they’re not on a similar trajectory)

Bandcamp (limited, but at least bands see some money from it)

SoundCloud (weird reputation, though haven’t come back around to it in a good 10 years)

Tidal maybe? Would love to hear some recommendations.

Edit: I neglected to mention why I don’t like the messaging feature. I’ve never used it, yet with a few of my friends there are already dozens of song exchanges in the thread. It’s clear that spotify has been using user-specific links for a while now to track who sends what to who. That’s a pretty clear anti-feature for me, and is enough to make me jump ship.

    • Shayeta@feddit.orgEnglish
      5·
      10 days ago

      Same, but I still want some form of a recommendation engine. I also want to discover new music.

      • realitista@lemmus.orgEnglish
        2·
        10 days ago

        I do use Spotify for that as I have a family plan for the family, I have also tried Apple Music. Spotify I tried to seed only with the newest stuff I listen to and Apple Music knows most of what I already listen fo.

        Both can work but they are both a lot of work before I come up with something I really want to buy. It’s hard to guide them to more obscure stuff, even if you explicitly only train them on that kinda stuff.

        I tend to have better luck just with being on subreddits for specific types of music or discussing music with friends. The quality to obscurity ratio can be quite high if a real genre expert shows up and gives a brain dump. Last.fm can be quite useful too.

      • t0fr@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        10 days ago

        Can always discover using YouTube Music with an ad blocker. Then add what you like to you local collection. Or use something like last.fm to track everything you listen to, no matter the platform, and get recommendations that way