Spotify sucks, I won't pay them until they pay the artists fairly! coalition for fair compensation os artists!
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Spotify Users Growing Impatient and Canceling Subscriptions Over Lack of Native HomePod Support
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they don't pay the artists well. I won't do Spotify out of Principal. Imagine largest streaming service in the world and too cheap to be fair
This shouldn't be a heavy lift to fix, but as a competitor, it may not be a huge benefit to invest the time.
I used to be a Spotify user (mainly for podcasts) but Apple Music just works so seamlessly across all my devices + HomeKit. It's a shame the Podcasts app is always so buggy, for me at least.
I like my HomePods, but they are still kind of questionably crippled: I often listen to radio of my home country, still owning an account in my home country (should change, I know) Fortunately I got a spare account at Apple in the country, where I live now, because I cannot listen to that radio, using the account of my home country, because the iPod is not available there. Siri does not know that radio, using my home-country account. Siri knows that radio, using my spare account in that other country.
Yes, it is incredibly complicated. And now one knows, why. Maybe not even Apple...
They have done the same thing with Lossless support as well. They announced it would be available this year, but no updates, and when you call their support they just read a boiler plate response that says nothing. I will cancel Spotify if no lossless by Christmas. Already have Apple Music & Tidal
It's the other way for me. No Spotify support, no Homepods.
Thanks for this article!!
Users who invested in Homekit and Homepods are lost with spotify. It is ridiculous to use Airplay, when you cannot even use Automations on spotify. So no integration of Spotify-music in scenes either...
This is why i have left them more than a year ago, whe I realized they just dont care about their users. Deezer for example works quite well with Siri on Homepod.
Users who invested in Homekit and Homepods are lost with spotify. It is ridiculous to use Airplay, when you cannot even use Automations on spotify. So no integration of Spotify-music in scenes either...
This is why i have left them more than a year ago, whe I realized they just dont care about their users. Deezer for example works quite well with Siri on Homepod.
Several meaning, quite literally, seven, who approach the precipice of canceling their subscription and then remembering that Apple Music discovery and auto playlists suck and come crawling back to Spotify, growling about their misfortune
Source: me
Apple Music user here.
At my small Asian grocery store, we stream Apple Music all day long from various ethnicities, such as Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, etc. Playlists seems to be updated frequently, so there's always something new being played. How is Spotify doing with non-Western (aka. "non-mainstream") playlists? Do they have as global a footprint as Apple Music seems to be achieving? Yes, no?
I can't stand listening to the same "hit" songs over and over and over again. There's a massive catalog of international (aka. non-English) songs that most Westerners never take the time to enjoy.
At my small Asian grocery store, we stream Apple Music all day long from various ethnicities, such as Japanese, Korean, Indonesian, etc. Playlists seems to be updated frequently, so there's always something new being played. How is Spotify doing with non-Western (aka. "non-mainstream") playlists? Do they have as global a footprint as Apple Music seems to be achieving? Yes, no?
I can't stand listening to the same "hit" songs over and over and over again. There's a massive catalog of international (aka. non-English) songs that most Westerners never take the time to enjoy.
There are over 100 pages of discussions on this. Seems like a sizable number of users were searching for HomePod support and landed on the thread. Seems bizarre that Spotify has ignored it for so long after complaining that they weren’t getting full access to Siri for years.
Far more important : when will Apple update their support for Sonos with lossless and Atmos?
And when will Spotify release lossless?
And when will Spotify release lossless?
Spotify has a deeper global selection than Apple Music, although I think both go in the category of far more music in whatever genre you want from wherever you want than you have time to listen to.
Spotify is rubbish. No wonder.
Apple Music is too focused on one type of music. I have an original Homepod and use Spotify but only the free version so I can't complain. Having been burned by Apple with Homepod, I won't jump into the headphones, the AI glasses, or anything else till it been around awhile. (Airpods Pro are awesome though.) But that's me. To each their own.
So lemme get this straight: a few years ago you complain about how Apple doesn’t let 3rd party music apps support the HomePod, Apple listened and now they can, but now you literally CHOOSE not to build in that functionality to your app.
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The article quoted a subscriber mentioning over 100 pages of comments, not 100 users.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I've had lyrics on my Apple Music plan for years, as well as music that I've purchased outright.
quite a brash statement there,, ofcoruse most "westerners never take the time to enjoy", because its not in their native language, so why would they be listening to it??
Well to be a bit fair, Apple Music was okay, but what I didn't like is:
* Overall too HipHop centric
* Tied to my Apple Account (Unable to Share with Family Members without allowing them to use my CreditCard for other purchases at the same time, and other family features)
* Beats Radio was crap, too HipHop centric too.
* App works bad on Windows and Android
* Music suggestions was crap too compared to Spotify.
Spotify fixed all this!
* Overall too HipHop centric
* Tied to my Apple Account (Unable to Share with Family Members without allowing them to use my CreditCard for other purchases at the same time, and other family features)
* Beats Radio was crap, too HipHop centric too.
* App works bad on Windows and Android
* Music suggestions was crap too compared to Spotify.
Spotify fixed all this!
To be fair, something not being in your native language should not stop you from listening to it. Music is music. Lyrics are only a small part of that.
I would rather change my small Bluetooth speaker than cancel subscription to the best music streaming platform. ??♂️
It was a joke. Hence the lol. Obviously staying within Apple’s ecosystem makes for the most seamless experience. But I just can’t be bothered to migrate a decades worth of playlists and liked songs from Spotify to Apple Music… and so I subscribe to both ?
Well, this isn't Spotify's fault, it's the contracts these musicians signed with the music industry.
Spotify pays what the music industry accepts.
Spotify isn't Caritas!
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The percentage of users dumping Spotify due to lack of Home Pod support is a rounding error.
In fact, Spotify has increased subscribers.
www.statista.com
This is totally a slow news day story
In fact, Spotify has increased subscribers.
Spotify: number of premium users worldwide 2024| Statista
Spotify has a growing number of subscribers. The amount of premiun users has nearly doubled since 2019.
www.statista.com
This is totally a slow news day story