As per the title, really.
My daughter has the free Spotify, seems to like it, but I'll be buggered if I can find out what sort of music is on Spotify. It's easy for the casual researcher to do this on Amazon. Picture the scene - I hear something good on YouTube (KEXP or NPR Tiny Desk), go to Amazon and quickly discover that it's there on Music Unlimited.
So for me I'm pretty sure Amazon would be fine. I'm not sure why it's touted as a middle-of-the-road service if I can get the obscure stuff on there. The majority of people don't listen to Ukranian folky stuff one minute, Jordi Savall the next, and yet it's all there on Amazon.
I'm pretty sure my wife would be happy with Amazon as well. In fact she usually just listens to LBC these days.
So my daughter is the one I need to investigate for I guess, as I hear Spotify is best for younger listeners. She's 14 but seems to listen to any misogynistic grimy shit she can find.
Obviously the solution is to ask I guess, since she would probably be happiest listening to friends' playlists etc. so she would prefer the Spotify thing.
So what do you subscribe to, and why? Or is there another way?
Some folks like water, some folks like wine.
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Seems to be equal to or better than Amazon for the stuff I have searched for so far....
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My feedback thread is here.
I pay £15 a month for a family subs (me n my lodger, plus 2 friends living elsewhere) and that gets you up to 5 users with their own library, playlist etc.
It integrates with Amazon's Echo so you just say:
"Alexa, fuck off"
But more to the point:
"Alexa, play songs by artist/album/song title on Spotify"
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Was a bit patchy at first, but is a lot better now. I’m very happy with it.
Recommendation engine isn’t so hot, but I use other sources to find new music, the listen via phone.
I connect it to my hifi. I use Apple TV 3 plus a Toppings D30 DAC to output best quality audio. I stream from my phone to the Apple TV, works a treat.
Sounds great. Not quite as good as my very decent CD player, but immensely easy to use, and can flick from album to album without getting my lardy arse off the sofa
I've been using GMusic since the beta. It's not perfect. But the ability to add my own music that is missing from the catalogue puts it above some other services.
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Spotify is about the best I've tried. I can't find/hear any difference with Spotify Extreme and Tidal HiFi.
The only downside is that there are several albums with some horrific file transfer issues (it's the same on Tidal, too).
I have around 3,500 albums, EPs and singles in iTunes stored as 320kbps MP3 or 256kbps AAC files. I have never really considered streaming as a replacement for this but would consider it if I could be sure everything I have is available on say Spotify.
I have some vinyl rips of music never released on CD with B-sides etc. I don't suppose I'm going to find these on Spotify will I?
What about things like music box sets, such as The Jam's 45s singles box set etc?