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0 pointsskinnymuch8y ago0 comments

Can you give an example of the larger library?

Yeah I like the social feed. Wish you could get to it on mobile though.

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letslightafire8y ago· 2 in thread

GPM has a lack of some international artists.

This Taiwanese artist is on Spotify but not Google Play Music.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/2JBUyLiFvpFPWdZGqIGYLD?si=uq...

https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/sr/crowd+lu

Nothing except youtube, but that's just cheating.

Same with this one.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/0tNjyz75Px29Yuf1sjs25G

https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/sr/cosmos+people

kissickas8y ago

Google Play Music has Jay-Z, as far as my research shows. (unfortunately I can't check as I have Spotify due to their network affect roping me in through a family plan) Is it really fair to say Spotify has a bigger library outright?

Spotify claims to have 35m songs and GPM 40m. Not that that means much, either. The killer feature GPM has over Spotify is that you can upload your own tracks to fill the gaps wherever their library is lacking.

letslightafire8y ago

Spotify has Jay-Z as well.[0] I would say it's hard to really quantify which library has the larger selection as most of the differences would be completely obscure music that no one listens to. However, I haven't seen any artist on GPM that isn't on Spotify while the opposite can't be said.

Spotify has the ability to upload music as well, however that is contingent on you having premium.[1]

[0] https://open.spotify.com/artist/3nFkdlSjzX9mRTtwJOzDYB?si=j1...

[1]https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Can-you-upl...

jklinger4108y ago

I'm not going to dig around for metrics on this, but my intuition is that Google covers a larger base of "established" musicians whereas Spotify seems to be dominating new releases from smaller artists.

Google Music, Pandora, iTunes, are seemingly there to cover bases. The momentum appears to be towards releasing your music on Spotify first for your friends to listen to.

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