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Spotify will now let free users pick and play tracks | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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[–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Winamp with a cool custom skin and downloaded mp3s was better than Spotify imo.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I know it's cool to shit on spotify and streaming services on Lemmy, but personally I disagree. I loved Winamp and had tens of thousands of songs back in the day, downloaded on my zippy 56k dial up connection. But being able to search for and play virtually any song available instantly and share collaborative playlists, no matter where you are, is so much better.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Why would I decide what I like to listen to when am algorithm can do it for me?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I fully jumped on the Spotify bandwagon hoping the algorithm would decide what i listen to, I'd become stuck in a rut and hadn't really listened to anything new for a good 15 years.

    Well... After letting it figure my music tastes out, every single automatically generated playlist on there starts off with crap I just immediately skip before devolving into the same 5-10 songs I listened to pre-Spotify. So i guess it knows my taste well? But it has turned out to be useless for this too!

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