Introducing Messages, A New Way To Share What You Love on Spotify with Friends and Family — Spotify
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Recommendations have always been at the heart of the Spotify experience. Friends and family share their favorite music, podcasts, audiobooks, and more from Spotify millions of times each month. That’s because word of mouth is one of the most powerful ways for people to discover their next favorite track.  Spotify users have told us they...
    • Thunderbird4@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      7 months ago

      Checked it out. Not a fan. You can’t even browse their catalog until you’ve given them credit card info, but from what I can gather, their selection is pretty lacking outside of the genres they choose to focus on.

    • ISO@lemmy.zipEnglish
      3·
      7 months ago

      No “we” shouldn’t.

      I mean “we” shouldn’t pay a subscription to any service whatsoever, and support our favo(u)rite artists directly (if this happened, and only 1/50 did the support, the artists would still be making more than they currently do).

      But even if “we” are not of that opinion, “we” SPECIFICALLY shouldn’t be using Tidal. Literally any other genuine service with a lossless tier (or lossless only) is better, unless it’s “audiophile”-first, then also avoid.

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    I bet this idea was brought to us by the same person that was responsible for all of those messengers Google dis a few years back in sort succession.

  • fan0m@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    7 months ago

    Who asked for this? What’s better about it than just sending it via text?

    • brian@programming.devEnglish
      5·
      7 months ago

      more data for spotify, and more lock in

      instead of a sharing id in the link that doesn’t withstand secondary sharing, removing, etc, they now get who sent you the link, whether you opened a link sent to you, how long, etc. also encourages people to actually use the follow feature

      instead of your friends sending you spotify links in whatever platform that you can go look up on a different music service, you have to use spotify to get their messages

      I just miss the friend activity panel. that’s as far as the social features should go. maybe it’ll get some love with this

    • paultimate14@lemmy.worldEnglish
      18·
      7 months ago

      This feels like a desperation move. Like the early 2010’s when every company was trying to be the next MySpace or FaceBook by integration social features.