As a Spotify user (heavy music listener), I have to say that there are a few things that really bother me. The radio option would be a cool feature, but it only mixes songs into the playlist that I already know and like. Very rarely new content is shown. The playlists generated by the Spotify algorithm mostly contain music that I already like or have listened to before. So I'm only shown music that I already listen to or know and everything starts to sounds similar. Spotify also pushes its playlists and floods the user interface with its computer generated playlists. You can hardly find any playlists that weren't generated by a computer. Also, podcasts keep getting pushed into my recommendation feed, which I don't care about because I want to listen to music, but there's no way to remove content so the algorithm could learn. Since their playlists are mostly bad, I always like to listen to music selected by other users or curators. Another negative point is Spotify's user interface, because it sucks. It's cluttered, makes it hard to find anything and the search function really sucks. You type one letter wrong and the search finds nothing. Adding to it, the playlist and the like system also sucks as it takes more time compared to previous versions.
I agree on the first one, which bothers me so much. When I think, maybe it's time to go again to YTM, I remember that Spotify Connect works so well, that it's so hard to decide. YTM makes a great balance by showing you more new content, but plays safe with playing some you already liked and loved. But lacks the Connect feature and Podcasts, which are a nice bonus for me.
You've miss one thing in this compression, on what devices you can use those services. For example Alexa devices don't support RU-vid music, so that can be a big issue for a lot of people.
if you compare Spotify to YTM alone spotify wins but with YTM you get all the benefits of RU-vid so you get 2 complete useful services for the price of 1. Who doesn't uses youtube in the world ?? (i know china, russsia and some others buts thats bureaucratic bs they can't watch this vid anyway) so getting rid of those annoying adds is value enough . Now if Spotify gives you better recommendations is bc you feed that algorithm more often /constantly.
RU-vid music does have an AI DJ. it's an experimental feature right now. left Spotify since I couldn't justify having it and RU-vid premium and Spotify. I have to admit; I don't miss Spotify at all. been very happy using RU-vid music and find it's recommendations pretty much spot on.
It just seems like RU-vid premium/music is such a better value. I’ve had Spotify since it was in beta in the US. I wish I didn’t have over a decade of liked songs for the algo to work with. Because the algo is quite good. If it wasn’t for that I would just pick RU-vid.
