Had a lot of crashes, it often took many many seconds to change between the songs and often getting stuck, the buffering algorithm was nuts and eating a lot of bandwidth.
Everything on a standard Pixel. Full 5G coverage was available.
Alternatives?
Downsides are no native client (same webview approach as Spotify), not as strong recommendations (though slowly improving), good but slightly quirkier UI (also slowly improving). For me the trade offs are worthwhile.
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Fuck Spotify and their rotten leadership. Was amongst the early adopters (2009). I'm sure they won't care for the loss, and I won't miss th when they're gone.
So, Deezer that had a audiophile target audience, has effectively lost the game.
how is a lack of an offline, standard, widely supported option a benefit?
Adding the Bluetooth layer adds more layers of encoding/decoding, and generally speaking it has narrower bandwidth.
Apple Music pays artists better, too.