I tried listening to the radio for the first time in several years. Most of the stations I used to listen to are gone. I’m not pleased with this development.
If radio and Spotify are the same in terms of what they offer, radio was infinitely better. It was broadcast wirelessly over the air and all you needed was a cheap little AM/FMt tuner to pick it up. No internet or cell service provider (which both cost money), no accounts that track your usage to target ads, if there is a single issue it just gets a big fuzzy, it doesn’t totally cut out.
I miss analog stuff. It was so simple and useful. This new stuff seems needlessly complicated for what is ultimately being provided.
Aww man I miss the days when there was tons of small radio stations playing basically everything. Now it’s jus like 4 radio stations in this region I live in.
Spotify is providing a much better service than radio and it needs the internet to function, but it also isn’t as cheap as a radio broadcast. Don’t judge the entire service by the free plan, which probably shouldn’t have existed in the first place. But that’s how most services attract their users these days, just burn money until you lock in enough people to start monetizing.
I’m on a family plan with a few others and it costs a few euros a month for each of us. Lets you download music too, so cell service isn’t even required. I’ve never had an ad; people complain about sponsored recommendations, but Spotify is “pushing” tiny Japanese indie bands with less than 500 monthly listeners on me. All my Daily Mixes are similar deep cuts. I find it hard to believe anyone is sponsoring those and no way radio would ever have played any of these, unless it’s a short-distance pirate broadcaster in the home town of these indie bands.
I’m comparing radio’s free plan (the only plan), with Spotify’s free plan. When it comes to free streaming music, radio was better. Radio isn’t giving you a taste for free in hopes you’ll upgrade. Spotify is more like a drug pusher in this way… first hit is free, but they are hoping that gets you to pay.
I tried listening to the radio for the first time in several years. Most of the stations I used to listen to are gone. I’m not pleased with this development.
If radio and Spotify are the same in terms of what they offer, radio was infinitely better. It was broadcast wirelessly over the air and all you needed was a cheap little AM/FMt tuner to pick it up. No internet or cell service provider (which both cost money), no accounts that track your usage to target ads, if there is a single issue it just gets a big fuzzy, it doesn’t totally cut out.
I miss analog stuff. It was so simple and useful. This new stuff seems needlessly complicated for what is ultimately being provided.
Aww man I miss the days when there was tons of small radio stations playing basically everything. Now it’s jus like 4 radio stations in this region I live in.
Spotify is providing a much better service than radio and it needs the internet to function, but it also isn’t as cheap as a radio broadcast. Don’t judge the entire service by the free plan, which probably shouldn’t have existed in the first place. But that’s how most services attract their users these days, just burn money until you lock in enough people to start monetizing.
I’m on a family plan with a few others and it costs a few euros a month for each of us. Lets you download music too, so cell service isn’t even required. I’ve never had an ad; people complain about sponsored recommendations, but Spotify is “pushing” tiny Japanese indie bands with less than 500 monthly listeners on me. All my Daily Mixes are similar deep cuts. I find it hard to believe anyone is sponsoring those and no way radio would ever have played any of these, unless it’s a short-distance pirate broadcaster in the home town of these indie bands.
I’m comparing radio’s free plan (the only plan), with Spotify’s free plan. When it comes to free streaming music, radio was better. Radio isn’t giving you a taste for free in hopes you’ll upgrade. Spotify is more like a drug pusher in this way… first hit is free, but they are hoping that gets you to pay.