Data point of one: I'm not huge into social features in the first place, but I really appreciated how Rdio handled it. Easily spy on everything your friends are listening to. Homepage is a dynamic looking feed of stuff including random recent stuff your friends listened to or things they listen to a lot. I found a lot of cool music this way and the context of a friend-based recommendation, I think, was valuable to me in a way.
I was disappointed that I had to switch to Spotify. Spotify does the bare minimum here. You can only see what your friends are currently listening to. Maybe their history as well, but I don't even feel compelled to check. I hardly even notice it there in the corner of the window. And it only exists on the desktop client, last I checked.
I can't even share a song with a friend within Spotify, I have to copy a link and paste it in a chat window, or connect on Facebook (which I don't have). Why wouldn't they want to encourage intra-platform sharing? The only social feature I've found useful is building playlists.
It's baffling to me. But obviously they know what they're doing.
If one's taste is slightly off-mainstream Shazam won't find many of the tracks you aim it at, for instance older electronic music from the 80s and 90s.
I was disappointed that I had to switch to Spotify. Spotify does the bare minimum here. You can only see what your friends are currently listening to. Maybe their history as well, but I don't even feel compelled to check. I hardly even notice it there in the corner of the window. And it only exists on the desktop client, last I checked.
I can't even share a song with a friend within Spotify, I have to copy a link and paste it in a chat window, or connect on Facebook (which I don't have). Why wouldn't they want to encourage intra-platform sharing? The only social feature I've found useful is building playlists.
It's baffling to me. But obviously they know what they're doing.