• SoundCloud

    SoundCloud lets you share music fast & easily. The platform takes the daily hassle out of receiving, sending & distributing music for artists, record labels & other music professionals.

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    • not so many musicians and songs as in Spotify maja_andersson • Dec 2017 • 5 agrees and 10 disagrees Disagree   Agree

  • Deezer

    Deezer is an Internet-based music streaming service. It allows users to listen to music content from record labels including EMI, Sony, Universal Music Group, and Warner Music Group on various devices online or offline. Created in Paris, France, Deezer currently has 40 million licensed tracks[4] in its library, with over 30,000 radio channels, 16 million monthly active users, and 6 million paid subscribers as of 29 Jan 2017.

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    • You can select tracks from popular artists, just like with Spotify. Guest • Jun 2016 • 4 agrees and 2 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • It includes synchronized song lyrics for most popular songs. Guest • Jan 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • A great catalogue, better ethics than Spotify, UI more friendly dikiz • Jan 2018 • 0 agrees and 1 disagrees Disagree   Agree
    • But after a while you have to pay for the premium option Guest • Oct 2015 • 4 agrees and 6 disagrees Disagree   Agree

  • Google Play Music

    Google Play Music, a service available for people who have a Google account, lets people upload their personal music collection and access it instantly on the web or any compatible device. Upload your personal music collection to a single library, even if it's scattered across multiple computers. You can upload music files from any folder or add your iTunes library and all of your playlists.

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  • MusicUp

    Is a streaming platform, here you can create your own room and collaborative playlist with online users, the participants choose by voting the following songs in queue. So listening to music becomes something social with musicup.fm.

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    • Yes, its free and content all the playlist of spotify musiicup • Apr 2017 • 7 agrees and 4 disagrees Disagree   Agree

  • Apple Music

    We are profoundly passionate about music. It’s a force that’s driven and inspired us from day one. So we’ve set out to make it better. To bring you more music than ever with access to millions of songs. To give you personal recommendations from people who know and love music. To deepen the connection between artists and fans. To reimagine radio with a 24/7, global station. This is Apple Music. And it’s just the beginning. Individual plans are $9.99 a month. And family plans are just $14.

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    • It does not have a free version like Spotify. SecurityChecker • Jun 2017 • 3 agrees and 3 disagrees Disagree   Agree

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Service-independent playlist tool?

Comment by Anamon
about Spotify · Mar 2017 · Helpful Not helpful 2 Helpful Report as spam

Spotify keeps removing features regularly, particularly those related to social and sharing. It's gotten to a point that it became too tedious for me to keep curating my usual "mixtape" playlists on Spotify that I used to share with the world.

I will try to keep curating my playlists in a service-independent fashion, and store them locally. But I was wondering if there was some kind of service that would allow me to share these playlists, without having them be tied to a particular streaming service.

There was a German website called "playlistr" that did something similar, but it was shut down last year. There's also a service for labels and artists (I forgot the name) that allows them to share their music across all the streaming platforms they're on.

I'm thinking of something that would allow me to add tracks "in abstract" by artist/title/album/… metadata, share that playlist, and anyone who calls it up would get to play whatever tracks are available from the streaming service(s) they personally subscribe to. If you're a Spotify Premium subscriber, you can listen to the playlist there. If you're on Google Music or Apple Music, you can listen to it there.

My search only led me to something called Spinlist.fm, but it's both invite-only and iOS-only at the moment – I don't have either. If nothing like this exists, I might have to do it myself :)

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Mobile app

Comment by banksliza
about Spotify · Feb 2016 · Helpful Not helpful 2 Helpful Report as spam

Love the desktop version of Spotify. Lots of songs, playlists and very easy to discover new music and artists. I do feel that the app version needs a lot of work. I tried using on my phone (Android OS) and found it very difficult to use. No option to choose song, have to listen to whole playlist.

Note: opinion solely on free version of Spotify.

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it's great

Comment by rondapuck1206
about Spotify · Apr 2016 · Helpful Not helpful 1 Helpful Report as spam

i particularly think is great, i like how easy it is to find the music i like and to choose the songs i prefer

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Spotify in Germany: Simfy

Comment by Muhkuh
about Spotify and Simfy · Sep 2011 · Helpful Not helpful 1 Helpful Report as spam

Spotify isn't available in Germany, but you can use "Simfy".
Its exactly the same software and offer as Spotify. Of course, there is a free version, too.

[Edited by Venom88, March 14]

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Comment by futureworm21
about Spotify · May 2017 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

no adds any music just music you want it spotify has it

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love it

Comment by louisbeckler784
about Spotify · Aug 2016 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

i think this is great, i use it all the time, I can find the music i like really fast and works great for me. I think it's worth it.

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I have some Spotify invites!

Comment by Ola
about Spotify · Jul 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam
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There you go. I have more so if you are a contributor, mod or admin i will hook you up. Just message me!

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Reecespragg · Sep 2012

Can you send me some


Spotify is coming to the U.S.

Comment by OmgItsTheSmartGuy
about Spotify · Jul 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Party! :D http://www.spotify.com/int/coming-to-the-us/

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Ola · Jul 2011

Good news for you guys! Spotify is the best thing from Sweden since Volvo, IKEA, The Pirate Bay and AlternativeTo ;)

OmgItsTheSmartGuy · Jul 2011

Yay, Spotify has been officially releasedi n the U.S. It's invite-only, though. :(

Also, I like IKEA.

Ola · Jul 2011

I have some invites. Posted a separate thread about it but let me know if you missed them :)


If you like Spotify, take a look at SongZilla

Comment by DarkLight
about Spotify and SongRepo · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Might be worth taking a look at SongZilla if you like Spotify

[Edited by Venom88, March 14]

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Comment by wormwood
about Spotify and Grooveshark, Groovylists · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Spotify is getting greedy.

Just head to groovylists.com and convert your Spotify playlists to Grooveshark.

[Edited by Venom88, March 14]

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Comment by derek_belrose
about Spotify · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Please release in the US...I'm sick of working around your 'rules' in order to enjoy spotify...

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Comment by pcwiz11
about Spotify · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

It's slightly faster but overall I prefer We7. We7 tends to have more music I like and also you can earn an ad free day on We7.

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I prefer to download

Comment by Satuim
about Spotify · Jul 2013 · Helpful Not helpful -1 Helpful Report as spam

Sorry I like to have a .mp3 on a hard drive rather then streaming. Or watch it on YouTube since the official artist uploads it.

Also I saw somebody use it and it had an ad (die)

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Comment by OmgItsTheSmartGuy
about Spotify · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful -1 Helpful Report as spam

Spotify doesn't work in the U.S.! So I can't use it.

That's an ironic twist, considering the usual complaint is that software "doesn't work outside the U.S."

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dragonheartnm · Nov 2013

Yes it does, use it everyday

steamariavonsteamenstein · Mar 2015

Yes it does, use it everyday

Well, you were replying to a 3 year old comment, and when he wrote that, it was true.