<story><title>Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a week</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spotify-india-idUSKCN1QL22C</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sanketskasar</author><text>Pretty sure a high percentage of these listeners are using free tier. And most of them using it just to brag that they are listening to music on Spotify.&lt;p&gt;Their music collection is one of the worst among all services present in India. Lots of major international records are not available. Regional music collection is not good. Only the mainstream&amp;#x2F;popular content is available.
Bought the premium subscription on very first day of launch. Tried using it for few days. Found major stuff missing.&lt;p&gt;Cancelled and got the refund. Kudos to them for prompt service on this.&lt;p&gt;But very bad in comparison to Apple Music and other Indian services.
Apple Music costs similar for individual account and much cheaper with a family account, has much better International and Indian collection and really good playlists collections, at least in India.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>giancarlostoro</author><text>I used to pay for GrooveShark (which clearly was sketchy lol) and then Spotify, since I subscribed to Google All Music Access I have never had to pirate music just to get access to it. I can cache all the music I like (download it for offline listening) and it works on my iPad too. I wish they had an official desktop client for offline sync, but Google seems allergic to non-web desktop solutions.&lt;p&gt;I try to avoid getting sucked into Google&amp;#x27;s Ecosystem, but GAMA is pretty damn good. Sadly I don&amp;#x27;t know what the situation for GAMA looks like outside of the USA.&lt;p&gt;Edit:&lt;p&gt;But my point is, I hated Spotify, I still found myself forced to &amp;quot;acquire&amp;quot; music. This is the digital age, sell me digital music I fully own. People who don&amp;#x27;t want to pay for music will not pay for it no matter what you do. At least with Google when I buy music I can sync it to my local machine, but with GAMA I don&amp;#x27;t have to. The other upside is I get no ads on YouTube since I got grandfathered into YouTube Premium. Yes, I know, AdBlock, but I got grandfathered in to no ads, why would I care about AdBlock?</text></comment>
<story><title>Spotify adds 1M unique listeners in India in less than a week</title><url>https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spotify-india-idUSKCN1QL22C</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sanketskasar</author><text>Pretty sure a high percentage of these listeners are using free tier. And most of them using it just to brag that they are listening to music on Spotify.&lt;p&gt;Their music collection is one of the worst among all services present in India. Lots of major international records are not available. Regional music collection is not good. Only the mainstream&amp;#x2F;popular content is available.
Bought the premium subscription on very first day of launch. Tried using it for few days. Found major stuff missing.&lt;p&gt;Cancelled and got the refund. Kudos to them for prompt service on this.&lt;p&gt;But very bad in comparison to Apple Music and other Indian services.
Apple Music costs similar for individual account and much cheaper with a family account, has much better International and Indian collection and really good playlists collections, at least in India.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>blocked_again</author><text>&amp;gt;  And most of them using it just to brag that they are listening to music on Spotify.&lt;p&gt;1 million people using Spotify and wasting data pack to brag to their friends? Seriously?</text></comment>