I'm looking at the reviews and they're not good. Apparently tracks just disappear from one day to the next, searching doesn't work, bad UI, hi res downloads often don't work, cancellations are being ignored, etc.

[–] JustEnoughDucks 1 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Spotify is also not good.

They arbitrarily mute playing albums instead of Spotify playlists and you can't unmute them until you skip forward or backwards.

Downloads are a total shit show to SD cards even though it has been logged as a bug for around 8+ years.

They insert AI-generated bullshit slop into Spotify playlists to avoid having to pay royalties. Especially in ambient music playlists or jazz where people are less likely to notice.

They pay artists one of the lowest (Pandora is lowest) in the industry and have arbitrary threshold to not pay artists until they hit a certain amount of streams per month. Then when they hit that threshold, they don't back-pay them for total streams, but instead begin counting streams for payment after that threshold that resets monthly.

They partner with AI "battlefield tracking" companies trying to build the tracking machine from "the dark knight". Hmm, I wonder if they will use their app in the future to further their partners' goals?

They give a bunch of money to very right wing organizations.

Really the only good thing about Spotify is Spotify connect.

[–] ChilledPeppers@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Funny, because I have all those problems with Spotify! I mean, search works, but only for well known music, and every once in a while one of the tracks in my playlist will just be grayed out and unplayable.

[–] Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago

Never had any of those problems

[–] BrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If true, disturbing.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago

They have a free trial, so it's easy to find out. :)