I have one with a Rdio button (a dead service) and another with a shortcut to CBSNews. I have 3 Roku TVs and a Roku stick, but they definitely aren’t the model I prefer - “I give you money and you give me stuff and leave me alone”.įor starters, the shortcut buttons on their remotes are hardwired and branded to whoever gave them the most money this month. The last 18 years are full of failed and failing music subscription services - from PressPlay and MusicNet back in the early 2000s, to Zune, to whatever the service that MS launched with MTV, Napster 2.0, Tidal, etc.Īs far as Roku, that’s not a great example. There is no reason you shouldn’t want more competition but the odds are against them. I would like to see Spotify become healthy and profitable. These things really irk me and I'd love to migrate to a (legal) service that does this properly and is relatively free of "smart algorithms", and I wouldn't mind paying $50 a month or maybe more for it. I really like it when you can query repositories of data (music, in the case of Spotify) as a database. Until recently you could use search operators like year:1968 genre:jazz and now it's gone. Surely this shouldn't be too much asked in this day and age. ![]() What I really want is to get a notification the minute my favorite artists release an album. Perhaps there is an ulterior financial motive behind 'Release Radar' where record companies can bid for a place in that list, but I'm not sure. It doesn't make sense and it isn't in my best interest. I listened to Martin Garrix a couple of times years ago and he seems to pop up every few weeks in my 'Release Radar' even though all I really listen to these days is improvised jazz. It seems that the feature has a bias towards certain artists. They replaced it with a weekly 'Release Radar' that comprises a selection of new music catered to your taste. They killed the instant notifications of new album releases of bands that you follow. Slowly I've grown dissatisfied with their service. I've been a paying Spotify subscriber since 2010. Last weekend on my flight to LA, Play Music had cached/downloaded the two playlists I use the most. ![]() In fact, I don't have to tell it to download anything. And I'm stuck on the plane in offline mode with no music to listen to. This is extra annoying for flights because I KNOW I have playlists set to download, I KNOW they finished downloading, I KNOW they were downloaded and playable for a few weeks, but still every damn time I get on the plane, after a few weeks of the playlist being downloaded, the files are gone. Oh and ANOTHER super obnoxious bug/feature: after a while, downloaded playlists just aren't downloaded anymore. So any time I wanted to hear a specific song in my 300+ song playlist, I had to turn shuffle on again. I had a super annoying one a few weeks ago where I have shuffle on, and if I manually picked a song to play, that would turn shuffle off. It's super obnoxious for playlists that have classical music in them because oftentimes the piece gets cut off. I really wish Play Music or whatever started integrating Youtube video music as well, and that it actually stopped skipping during play so I could make the switch. ![]() Spotify's UI and their response to features is the worst thing ever.
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