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Comment by fabioborellini | Hacker News Reader

Spotify's suggestions are horribly bland and insultingly unoriginal compared to Apple's.

I keep getting Black Sabbath's Paranoid, the song, in various "deep cuts" and "new music" themed lists and suggestions. It's from 1969.

Apple's lists and suggestions may actually have new music.

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I feel the same like, I cannot get away from some songs even when I dislike them.

I got some AirPods and have a few Apple Music subscription I’ll try instead.

I’ve also just started listening to some good radio stations like FBI in Sydney Australia. Best way to find new music in my opinion. I add what I like on Spotify and it spices it up a bit.

I had never heard of FBI radio but it's right up my alley, and I've actually lived in Sydney for many years. So cheers for the inadvertent recommendation there

Yes, I request various bands from the 70s and I get live versions, bootlegs, covers. Never the original.

Going the artist link, it doesn't even list all the albums.

YouTube Music on the other hand has everything and more.

Spotify did a good job until lately. Apple is quite unusable for me, since they can't distinguish between me and my partner - whoever starts something on a HomePod, it's done with my account. We tried to reset Siri often, but gave up on it.

Another downside is the ~4000 Songs shared Spotify Playlist with some friends&co-workers which is not available on Apple Music, and sadly they make it (IMHO) ridiculous hard to import Playlists from other Platforms.

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