I've been meaning to distance myself from Spotify for a while now but I've got a lot on my plate and their service has been very convenient. I've been paying for no ads since 2014 so I haven't heard the ads personally but have seen multiple sources online describe them and confirm they they haven't stopped as of today. I cancelled immediately. Not sure how many Spotify users there are on Lemmy but I just thought y'all ought to know what they're up to. Spotify let's you write a message saying why you're cancelling and I was very descriptive. Hopefully they'll back down just like Disney with Jimmy Kimmel.

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[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

For the most part it will play albums fine until it doesn't and won't load the next track getting stuck in a perpetual loading loop and requires being restarted. That is my experience anyway and whilst it doesn't happen all the time it is often enough to just be a little annoying.

For the most part though playback is decent and so if that is your primary use I can see that it would seem like an OK app.

If however you do a lot of your discovery and new music listening on there as I do your opinion would probably be quite different. The search function is dog shit and navigation is horrendous, there are so many illogical decisions. Also the fact that if you click a bandcamp link within the app itself it opens it in a browser rather than opening it in app is absolutely infuriating and has been that way forever.

Unfortunately qobuz still has a some what lack lustre library for my specific niche genre choice but it is getting better and I keep checking it so hopefully soon it will have caught up, although their search is a bit shit as well clumping artists that have the same name but are certainly not the same artist together as one.

[–] clockworkrat@slrpnk.net 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Annoying that our experiences are so different. Makes it hard to recommend since there might be hardware issues.

[–] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 5 days ago

I won't discount hardware issues but my experience is consistent across 6 different phones now so make of that what you will.

All of this aside I still wholeheartedly recommend bandcamp, I still think it is best for both variety of things available (particularly for niche genres) as well as artists actually getting paid.

The app still works absolutely fine I just would never describe it as "great" personally, it is just annoying because a lot of the issues I have could be resolved fairly easily and have been present for many many years at this point.