Spotify tells me I’m a Vampire……embracing darkness in my music choices. Not sure how I feel about that.
What are you?
(Spotify wrapped released yesterday…)
I’m an Apple music man myself 
it’s part of a package that also covers cloud storage, TV, fitness and games. Not that I use the last two. I also got a three months free voucher from Amazon music in the post lat week. How many music streaming services are there out there?
I didn’t know there were ‘packages’ or that they put people into categories, I just chose the music I liked, mainly classical, but if I had stayed longer, or go back to it which I might, it would widen I’m sure.
Goth? Heavy Metal? Surely not!
Once a year spotify release a compilation and you can get a summary of what you have listened to, and for how long, etc. Each year they also do a light hearted analysis, and this year they have identified types of listeners by what they listen to. Which for me comes out as being a vampire…
Oh, perhaps I wasn’t there long enough then. 
Haven’t received any such message using the iPhone App.
Possibly because I have everything from The Doors to Die Antwoord in my library and it’s confused….
I listened to 6 genres apparently, for 4801 minutes altogether.
I love a tearjerker, Myfanwy, by a male voice choir, in Welsh. 
I’ve never yet used a music streaming service.
From this evening’s New Yorker -
I don’t understand this cartoon, but you might …
"Oh no - it’s Biblically accurate Spotify Wrapped!"
I think this article explains it. More data gathering.
I loved this…
“a 2020s equivalent of walking around school with an album you were either borrowing or lending tucked under your arm to signify the seriousness of your commitment to prog or punk or metal or soul.”
and this…
“tells you nothing about my regular listening habits and everything about the night I came back from a convivial evening at the pub, was gripped with a sudden, beer-fuelled desire to hear a track I hadn’t played in years, then immediately fell asleep with my headphones on, thus obliviously “listening” to it over and over again for eight hours.”
It depends on my mood. 
nt sounds too much like a dermatological condition for me to subscribe. ANyway, I have a nifty wheeze that lets me listen to more or less anything I want on AMZ without a sub.
There is a free version. I ask it to play a track. A fragrant voice tells me that I can’t listen to that track without a sub but here’s one of a similar ilk. A track plays.
Then, lo and behold! The next track up is the very one I asked for!
A good example is - ask for ‘So What’ from Miles’s album ‘Kind Of Blue’. “Sorry … sub required … etc … but here is …” and ‘Blue In Green’ or ‘Freddie Freeloader’ plays.
Next track - ‘So What’ !
Then there’s YT. Amazing stuff - whole concerts - hours of Bill Evans.
Who needs a skin disease to play you music?
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But I think one of the best aspects of spotify is not only being able to listen to all those old favourites readily accessible, but to go on a voyage of discovery and enjoy so many new artists and songs that you wouldn’t necessarily otherwise be exposed to. I’ve discovered so much new music through spotify, but the problem now is that I have endless playlists of what I consider to be great tunes that I would lose I guess if I unsubscribed.
Oh yes, and the other thing I’m loving is the ability to now also listen to audiobooks 
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Season 3 of Slow Horses just dropped on Apple TV, John. Have you watched the show? Worth the subscription on its own, for me anyway.
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I don’t pay for spotify. But if the artist has a rights agreement they get royalties, or a minuscule amount of money per stream.
I use one other site with more alternative music but 95% of anything I want is on spotify. Plus podcasts and audio books.
No I haven’t Pete but believe it or not I recently read a review and tucked it away as a must do over Christmas. Thanks for the recommendation
It’s great and Gary Oldman (as so often) is brilliant.
OH loves it, but says the books are even better.
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Audiobooks? this could be interesting.
What are the cost effective methods of using spotify? I had been vaguely looking out for another 3 or 4 month trial on AMZ Audiobooks, but put off by the traps.