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The Most Loved Digital Audio Streaming Platforms. (cdn.statcdn.com)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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I am surprised that people know what amazon music is.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Qobuz is good: reasonably priced, you get the best quality audio (actual high resolution, not the MQA nonsense Tides was doing), a good catalogue and a decent UI, and it pays the artists a bit more than Spotify and others, and they offer a free migration tool. Plus they have actual full credits and even CD booklets and notes for the albums. And they do their own artist descriptions and reviews. It really feels like they're making an effort to be good, not just throwing some record company catalogues online and waiting for the money to roll in.

Spotify is still a bit better for recommendations and automatic playlists.

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[–] helpImTrappedOnline 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm not, they push it with prime. If you're already paying for prime and they get you hooked on another subscription, its a win for them.

What would be interesting is finding out many people are subscribed to it and have no idea.

[–] gzerod200 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My theory for Amazon music being so high is from Alexa’s being somewhat common now

[–] baronvonj 4 points 1 month ago

Yeah, we had an Alexa briefly and it was definitely a didn't-know-we-were-subscribed-to-this moment. Fortunately caught it pretty quick.

[–] flop_leash_973 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wonder what would happen to that YouTube music percentage if they didn't give it to you along with the YouTube premium subscription.

For me personally, I know of I could get premium without music at a cheaper price I would. I hardly ever stream music.

[–] firewallfail 4 points 1 month ago

I'm in the opposite camp, I only have premium because I wanted music and the price was pretty much the same.

[–] finitebanjo 6 points 1 month ago

TBH the title of the chart sucks. Its not the most beloved at all, just the most commonly paid for by users.

[–] lohky 5 points 1 month ago

Least hated, not most loved.

I use Spotify and every time I use a voice command to play a song, it plays some shitty dance remix. I tried to play You've Got a Friend in Me from Toy Story for my kid but we were ear raped by some Disney approved dance mix instead.

Amazon Music now refuses to play your playlists without first trying to play some shitty iHearRadio mix.

It's about time to go back to pirating music.

[–] FlickeringScreens 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The hell is pandora

[–] fluxion 5 points 1 month ago

A predictive music streaming service from the days before the Great Enshittification of the Internet

[–] BrambinagStoneboots 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Back in... 2005...? I could use it in Germany before they locked out the rest of the world apart from the US. They cited licensing as the reason.

Back then it was like "normal" Radio in the way that you could not search for a specific song, but it would play something similar and then you could give thumbs up/down and over time you had your own curated radio station. You could then have several of those.

Don't know if it still works like this but I liked it very much due to its simple interface.

[–] baronvonj 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The feature I miss from Pandora is being able to list a combination of artists as the basis for a station.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I bought a few mp3s off amazon (but it wasn't amazon music, i think) and they had no DRM, just a unique ID3 tag. If it's still like that, I can recommend it.

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[–] Pacattack57 5 points 1 month ago

If I’m understanding the chart, there are people that pay for multiple music services. Seems pretty wasteful to me.

[–] LANIK2000 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Wtf is an Amazon Music? It's the first time I'm hearing about it. And if it's anything like their other services, then I already have quite low expectations...

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