Quite a few of my friends seem to have moved away from Spotify (which used to be the most used service). Feels like it’s been ages since any innovation happened in streaming, and there are a lot of boring reasons for that to do with legal constraints, but wouldn’t be surprised if a new service launched soon.
This month I’m giving Amazon’s service a go as it’s free for 30 days. Here’s a link if you fancy giving it a go too.
I actually listen to a lot of stuff on bandcamp these days and occasionally youtube, although legally I guess a lot of stuff on there falls into a grey area?
Have your friends gravitated to one service or a random mix?
I finally decided to stick with Spotify after years of swapping periodically to pick up all the free or nearly free offers.
Honestly don’t think there is much to choose between nearly all the streaming services now, just comes down to personal preference on presentation and interfaces etc. I nearly went with Apple because I actually liked their playlists, unlike the other streaming services. But I didn’t like not having a separate desktop music app - mixing all the streaming stuff with all my actual files just made iTunes too unwieldy (and I’m not one of those people who hates iTunes).
Spotify. It’s the best that I’ve found and even though in many ways I still think streaming is #problematic I am pretty ethically weak and it is super convenient.
Spotify still rules supreme for me, I switched to Spotify shortly after release after Napster [the subscription service] kept on making progressively worse and worse software and have stuck. Dabbled with Tidal and Apple which seem fine but I’m so etched into the Spotify ecosystem there is pretty much no legitimate reason for me to move providers which offer essentially the same product with no real upside.
Spotify, I’ve got the family subscription, which a couple of mates are hijacking as well as my actual family. Haven’t really dabbled with anything else and it gives me everything I need. Google Play when I want to listen to something from my own library that isn’t on Spotify.
Google play for me Clive. Think i signed up to a free trial ages ago and never stopped. Annoyingly i’ve also just paid for another month of Soundcloud Go, depsite only having about 5 songs saved offline and the UI being pish.
Spotify/youtube. As mentioned above the Spotify family thing is pretty great.
To be honest I mostly stream stuff I already own, because it’s easier to use Spotify to download/delete/redownload tracks instead of hooking my phone into the computer and faffing on with moving files into folders like a fucking pleb.