I am in an intense love-hate relationship with Spotify. It makes good mixes for me, I have found a lot of great bands that way. BUT IT KEEPS REGURGITATING THE SAME SONGS IN THERE. I know about Song Radios and Artist Radios, so please don’t recommend those. Smart Shuttle doesn’t cut it, either.

The best thing would be several randomness sliders. One for randomness in bands, the other for randnomness of their songs, one for genres. Please tell me some music service has implemented something like that. I am dying over here.

  • @thorbot@lemmy.world
    30•2 years ago

    I’m ready for downvotes but I use Apple Music and it plays me new music all the time. And if it repeats a song I just say suggest less and it goes away. I play my station and it’s a nice mix of music I like and new stuff.

    • @SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de
      18•2 years ago

      And it is free to stream! (2015) And it is only 2.99 $ (2018) And it’s only 4.99! (2020) And it’s only 10.99! (2023)

      We went from free to 132$ in 8 years for (check notes) listening to the radio.

      Is everyone cool with paying 20$ a month in 2028?

      • @TheDarkKnight@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8•2 years ago

        The service has improved every time though in Apple’s defense…and if there’s one company I actually trust to improve on its services it is Apple (not a fanboy, they have their own issues, just delivering quality consistently isn’t one of them).

      • lol3droflxp
        6•2 years ago

        I think most people use it in bundles with other Apple subscriptions like iCloud and TV

        • @SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de
          3•2 years ago

          They have all gone up in price:

          The most marked increase is in the overall Apple One bundle. Its lowest, or individual tier, used to cost $16.95 per month but as of now, it is $19.95 per month.

          Similarly, the Family Apple One tier has risen from $22.95/month to $25.95/month. And the Premier tier is now up from $32.95 to $37.95.

          The price rise for Apple One comes at the same time as increases for many of its major constituent services.

          Apple TV+ was $6.99/month, now $9.99 Apple News+ was $9.99/month, now $12.99 Apple Arcade was $4.99/month, now $6.99

          • lol3droflxp
            2•2 years ago

            We’ll have to see how long subscription services will be able to raise prices. I hope that there will be some disruption soon.

      • @rusticus@lemm.ee
        1•2 years ago

        I am when Apple Music pays the artists 3x what Spotify does per stream. At least my money is going to the content creators, not some dickhead Spotify exec.

    • @sir_pronoun@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      5•2 years ago

      Thanks, I think I will try it for a bit. Other people recommended YouTube music, I’m a bit torn between those rn

    • lol3droflxp
      5•2 years ago

      I’m using Appel music as well and I think it’s great for the most part. It sometimes has a weird bug where it won’t play downloaded music unless you have internet though.

      • @Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world
        2•2 years ago

        Spotify has that bug too, and it’s infuriating. Whenever I’m on a plane or something I have to put Spotify in “offline mode”, otherwise it just refuses to play all the music I’ve downloaded.

    • Resol van Lemmy
      4•2 years ago

      It’s also got actual radio stations. This is how I found out about Studio Brussel.