I’ve been meaning to distance myself from Spotify for a while now but I’ve got a lot on my plate and their service has been very convenient. I’ve been paying for no ads since 2014 so I haven’t heard the ads personally but have seen multiple sources online describe them and confirm they they haven’t stopped as of today. I cancelled immediately. Not sure how many Spotify users there are on Lemmy but I just thought y’all ought to know what they’re up to. Spotify let’s you write a message saying why you’re cancelling and I was very descriptive. Hopefully they’ll back down just like Disney with Jimmy Kimmel.
Annoying that our experiences are so different. Makes it hard to recommend since there might be hardware issues.
I won’t discount hardware issues but my experience is consistent across 6 different phones now so make of that what you will.
All of this aside I still wholeheartedly recommend bandcamp, I still think it is best for both variety of things available (particularly for niche genres) as well as artists actually getting paid.
The app still works absolutely fine I just would never describe it as “great” personally, it is just annoying because a lot of the issues I have could be resolved fairly easily and have been present for many many years at this point.