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A couple of weeks ago, I found a flow in the #Spotify iOS app which played samples of newly released songs by artists I like, and invited me to either like the song, opt to listen to the whole thing, or move onto the next. As terrible as this sounds, I actually quite liked it. But because Spotify is now a complete mess of things I don't care about, I've never been able to find it again, even after swiping past the hundreds of things on the Home tab.
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Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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That sounds cool, and would be nice to find. I should try to see if I can find it, though I doubt it.
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James Scholes
James Scholes
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Good luck! Even if you do, you won't be able to tell me how to find it, because the Home screen is never the same twice.
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James Scholes
James Scholes
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Note that if you do find it, I think it was a three-finger vertical swipe with VO to skip to the next song.
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Tuukka Ojala
Tuukka Ojala
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I believe it's on the search tab. It gives me a few genres to choose from and double-tapping one of them starts playing song previews.
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James Scholes
James Scholes
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Hmm. Okay, I'll take a look, in that totally obvious place! Thank you. @FreakyFwoof
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Pitermach
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I can't check this anymore because I recently switched away from Spotify, but when I used it the home tab had some "content filter" buttons at the top as well as a button for a what's new feed. I know clicking into the music filter gave an interface similar to what you just described with playing previews so I'd also look around there.
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Tuukka Ojala
Tuukka Ojala
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@pitermach @FreakyFwoof Yeah, seems to be a variation of that same thing. It gives me previews of some of their curated playlists (I think?)
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Mikołaj Hołysz
Mikołaj Hołysz
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@pitermach @tuukkao @FreakyFwoof Out of curiosity, what did you switch to and why? I'm strongly considering going back to Apple Music, as it is now apparently available with Alexa here without weird billing address shenanigans, and I have access to a subscription anyway because of Apple One.
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Jonathan
Jonathan
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@miki na, I don't like apple music's design and the algorythm isn't half as good as the spotify one. I'm in a due with my brother, because spotify premium individual is to expensive imo. @pitermach @jscholes @tuukkao @FreakyFwoof
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Mikołaj Hołysz
Mikołaj Hołysz
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@Jonathan859 @pitermach @tuukkao @FreakyFwoof I really don't mind the iOS and Mac apps, though Spotify for desktop is now a lot better than it used to be. Honestly the only reasons I switched were the Alexa skill and the fact that I could get a student subscription for dirt cheap.
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Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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@Jonathan859 @miki @pitermach @tuukkao I care less about algorithm and more about the fact that the UI is less cluttered, and Apple music just sounds great! I have both, and will listen on Apple if I have the choice, and spotify if I *do* want to hear something random I don't know about.
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Pitermach
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@FreakyFwoof @Jonathan859 @miki @tuukkao I also went to Apple. The choice was partly driven by price (after Spotify's price hike last month switching to Apple one for our whole family ended up costing the same as I was paying for spotify+iCloud storage earlier, but with better audio quality and OS integration), and partly phillosofical with spotify further reducing royalties for less popular artists. I still have free spotify if I want to listen to something that's on there and I do kind of miss having a nice new releases playlisst but other than that the transition has been OK.
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Tuukka Ojala
Tuukka Ojala
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@pitermach @FreakyFwoof @Jonathan859 @miki How's the Apple music desktop situation these days? Any chance of not losing my mind with it on Windows?
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Pitermach
Pitermach
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@tuukkao @FreakyFwoof @Jonathan859 @miki The windows app is OK. A lot of tabbing, some hotkeys are weird and for some reason you can't press enter on individual tracks in a playlist and have to click, but everywhere else it's not bad.
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Bryan Smart
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@pitermach @FreakyFwoof @Jonathan859 @miki @tuukkao Using Apple Music on either Mac or PC is crap, but I mostly listen on my phone, so it was the lesser evil. They're all different varieties of crap.
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Jonathan
Jonathan
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@FreakyFwoof hmm get it. Though is it really true that apple music sounds better? Think I wouldn't actually hear a difference :) @miki @pitermach @jscholes @tuukkao
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Andre Louis
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@Jonathan859 @miki @pitermach @tuukkao you don't all the time, but for things with half-decent highhats and top-end, I do. Also as has been said, Apple pay artists more. As an artist myself, I'm always glad when people listen on Apple music for sure.
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Pitermach
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@FreakyFwoof @Jonathan859 @miki @tuukkao Yep, I'm noticing more high end on tracks as well, and spacial audio can sometimes give an impressive effect. Not with every mix, but particularly live tracks, orchestral stuff sounds really great.
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Jonathan
Jonathan
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@pitermach Hmm, might try it cuz well, why not. I have the abillity cuz my dad has an apple 1 subscription for the whole family. @FreakyFwoof @miki @jscholes @tuukkao
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