<story><title>Spotify Form F-1</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1639920/000119312518063434/d494294df1.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mancerayder</author><text>&lt;i&gt;also think they cracked music discovery. Their discovery weekly playlist is stellar.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Love Spotify, disagree strongly with this.  My experience is terrible music that doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to have anything to do with any of the hundreds of songs I have on my playlist.  I get this curious Millennial mix of soft rock music with long, boring instrumental guitar strumming, a disco beat and a sleepy, sarcastic-voiced gal (sometimes guy).&lt;p&gt;It might be because I live in Brooklyn.&lt;p&gt;And there&amp;#x27;s no Like or Dislike button like (beloved) Pandora.&lt;p&gt;edit:  Don&amp;#x27;t think anyone compromised my account.</text></item><item><author>dopeboy</author><text>Spotify is the reason why I don&amp;#x27;t pirate music anymore. I say this as someone who used to be involved in the scene (low level FXP couriering in the late 90s and early 00s) and has gigs of release from the RNS, EGO, etc days. It&amp;#x27;s much faster and convenient to use Spotify.&lt;p&gt;I also think they cracked music discovery. Their discovery weekly playlist is stellar.&lt;p&gt;My only wish is they&amp;#x27;d get off Electron (EDIT Chromium - thanks jjgod) and go native. A music player is a frequently enough used piece of software to optimize for performance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dheelus</author><text>Agreed. Spotify Discovery is hardly as good as many people tout it to be. Usually Indie music junk that isn&amp;#x27;t really my genre.
Also agree that Pandora is far superior when it comes to curating tracks. A trick I&amp;#x27;ve learned from a friend is to never like a song Pandora; only dislike what you don&amp;#x27;t want to hear.
Spotify Radio is terrible as well. There&amp;#x27;s no good way to reseed a radio station. For example, when I first started using Spotify radio, I was listening to The National a lot. For whatever reason, 3-4 years since, whenever I start my &amp;#x27;Liked From Radio&amp;#x27; station, it plays The National every fifth song or so. Ugghhh!!!
Finally, Spotify on Android has been kinda buggy for me. Once you have a lot of offline music on your device, the app takes forever to load on startup. It complains if there is no active internet connection, etc. When I wrote to Support, they suggested that I clear the cache and re-install the app (which caused me to lose all my prior downloaded music).</text></comment>
<story><title>Spotify Form F-1</title><url>https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1639920/000119312518063434/d494294df1.htm</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>mancerayder</author><text>&lt;i&gt;also think they cracked music discovery. Their discovery weekly playlist is stellar.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Love Spotify, disagree strongly with this.  My experience is terrible music that doesn&amp;#x27;t seem to have anything to do with any of the hundreds of songs I have on my playlist.  I get this curious Millennial mix of soft rock music with long, boring instrumental guitar strumming, a disco beat and a sleepy, sarcastic-voiced gal (sometimes guy).&lt;p&gt;It might be because I live in Brooklyn.&lt;p&gt;And there&amp;#x27;s no Like or Dislike button like (beloved) Pandora.&lt;p&gt;edit:  Don&amp;#x27;t think anyone compromised my account.</text></item><item><author>dopeboy</author><text>Spotify is the reason why I don&amp;#x27;t pirate music anymore. I say this as someone who used to be involved in the scene (low level FXP couriering in the late 90s and early 00s) and has gigs of release from the RNS, EGO, etc days. It&amp;#x27;s much faster and convenient to use Spotify.&lt;p&gt;I also think they cracked music discovery. Their discovery weekly playlist is stellar.&lt;p&gt;My only wish is they&amp;#x27;d get off Electron (EDIT Chromium - thanks jjgod) and go native. A music player is a frequently enough used piece of software to optimize for performance.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nitemice</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m so happy to hear it&amp;#x27;s not just me.&lt;p&gt;When I first started listening to Spotify (about a year and a half ago), I found the dicovery really high-quality, but it just seems to have gotten worse and worse. Discover Weekly is particularly bad. I find that the first 5 or so songs are okay, but from there is rapidly decends into madness.&lt;p&gt;I have the weird habit (though I&amp;#x27;m weening off) of keeping all the music I listen to out of curiosity on a big playlist together, whether I liked it or not, as a way of keeping track. I thought that might be throwing Spotify&amp;#x27;s algorithm off (and it probably still is), but it seems it&amp;#x27;s definitely not the only reason.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve decided to just trust that Last.fm is doing it&amp;#x27;s juob and not add any more to that playlist.</text></comment>