adios 717 Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 Spotify getting rid of the inbox feature is a right pain. I'm not quite at the point of switching to another service, but it was one of their best features so I'm using them more out of habit than any great enthusiasm now. I think I only ever used that for Earworm, now I just use Discover Weekly for more-or-less the same effect. My biggest gripe is not having better album sorting. That and the random function not being very random. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 14030 Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 I just like being able to share music with friends easily. They reckon the service was underused, which might be because they'd neglected it for years and stopped it from showing notifications and stuff, but oh well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 14574 Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 Is there a setting on Spotify that will make the fuckin thing play an album from track 1, then in an upward ascending order to the band determined final track of said aforementioned album? Apart from that, I really like it. I'd used it for years without a subscription but got a free three month trial when I bought my denon receiver last year which I've just carried on with. Being able to fire the phone at the receiver and just let it play is great. I think I may be wandering down "CT Lane" with that last bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adios 717 Posted April 5, 2017 Share Posted April 5, 2017 Is there a setting on Spotify that will make the fuckin thing play an album from track 1, then in an upward ascending order to the band determined final track of said aforementioned album? I must be rereading this, but have you turned shuffle off? Apart from that, I really like it. I'd used it for years without a subscription but got a free three month trial when I bought my denon receiver last year which I've just carried on with. Being able to fire the phone at the receiver and just let it play is great. I think I may be wandering down "CT Lane" with that last bit Very CT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adios 717 Posted June 11, 2017 Share Posted June 11, 2017 Have now tried Apple, Google, Deezer & Tidal; the latter being the only one that comes close to Spotify. Tidal is the only one to have a fully fledged desktop app on par with Spotify (this might be unfair to Apple if you have a Mac for iTunes). I don't think I can really tell the difference between the CD quality on Tidal (I just listen on headphones), so Spotify just pips it with how well it does everything. And they're adding a lossless subscription soon anyway. Stuff like the seamless integration between devices is really appreciated after taking a wander around the alternatives. Like @ewerk said above, Spotify just seems to work better with other hardware/software. For some reason, it is also the only one that recognises my mouse gestures, though that may be down to something I've set up previously. Can't be bothered to figure it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adios 717 Posted June 11, 2017 Share Posted June 11, 2017 There's an interesting quiz on the bottom of this page to see if you can tell the difference between 180kbps/360kbps & lossless: https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/5/15168340/lossless-audio-music-compression-test-spotify-hi-fi-tidal I totally flunked it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adios 717 Posted June 11, 2017 Share Posted June 11, 2017 Very impressive. What's your audio setup? I actually picked the lowest quality one on the first question. Spoiling this for anyone who hasn't done it yet: The only one I got right I got visually. So I actually did worse than if I'd picked at random. I'm not sure I love their choice of clips though (which may or may not be purposeful on their part). Listening to various stuff like Chopin or Tom Waits is when I most notice it, but I haven't done a blind taste test to see if I'm imagining it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adios 717 Posted June 11, 2017 Share Posted June 11, 2017 I'm just listening on very average wireless aptx headphones. I wonder how much that has to do with it. Just did a non-blind test there with Spotify and Tidal next to each other. Still can't notice any difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adios 717 Posted April 30, 2018 Share Posted April 30, 2018 They still haven't sorted out their feckin' shuffle, so I've found a couple workarounds that are way better than nothing: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jonatastrafaniucapps.shuffly&hl=en Note: You have to use URIs not URLs these days, otherwise it remains the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 3187 Posted May 3, 2018 Share Posted May 3, 2018 We got google home so ditched iTunes and got spotify instead. It seems to be fine tbh, apart from the shuffle but then again I don't care enough for it to spoil my listening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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