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@thomholwerda Who in the west is going to use Tencent, Netease or Yandex?

Everyone I know uses Spotify. If I was to switch I would lose

1. Shared sessions (multiple ppl controlling player)
2. All my own playlists
3. All the playlists of my friends
4. Playlists by random users that I love
5. Access to culturally relevant playlists, curated by Spotify
6. A feed with all the latest releases from hundreds of artists that I follow
7. Decently trained suggestion algorithm
8. Concert suggestions

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FAP

@thomholwerda Granted, I don't care that much for 5., but for some people this is important.

Maybe there are good third party services to transfer followed artists and playlists. But afaik there is no way to export my listening history so the suggestion algorithm won't suck.
Last time I tried to export my followed artists to a different service (Songkick) I just gave up as they only import up to 400 artists, which is not helpful.
support.songkick.com/hc/en-us/

@thomholwerda Granted, I don't care that much for 5., but for some people this is important.

Maybe there are good third party services to transfer followed artists and playlists. But afaik there is no way to export my listening history so the suggestion algorithm won't suck.
Last time I tried to export my followed artists to a different service (Songkick) I just gave up as they only import up to 400 artists, which is not helpful.
support.songkick.com/hc/en-us/

FAP

@thomholwerda And exporting a playlist created by someone else will cut you off from updates. People continually expand and rearrange their playlists.

FAP

@thomholwerda Do I get a Youtube Music or Apple Music Wrapped? Do I get cute video greetings by my favorite and most listened artists?
I wouldn't know because I don't know anyone who uses those services.

Music streaming services don't work exactly like a classical social network, but I think there is a considerable network effect. You want to be on the service that all your friends are using.

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