I use spotify on my tablet when I'm travelling and can't get wifi....so how does that compute to them having all my contacts? Weird.

like not use Spotify.

and private organizations. Says we need to have a conversation about it. I agree.

but I have heard virtually nothing, from any legislator, talking about what private businesses collect.

To be quite honest (and with full knowledge of the contradiction in typing stuff on the internet), I am far more concerned with what private business has on me, than what the NSA has.

Never used it. Never wanted it.

Now if I could just get Facebook off the damned thing, I'd be happy.

And certainly no different than Apple Music.

There are people who were afraid of cookies. Those who were serious stayed off the internet.

There are people who are afraid of app permissions. The ones who are serious don't use smart phones.

I can respect those people. What bothers me is those who jump from one service to the next, not realizing they haven't increased their privacy one iota.

Earlier this evening I wanted to listen to some New Wave music, so I looked to install a music app on my tablet. I was trying to decide between Spotify and Pandora when my thirteen year old daughter recommended Pandora. Lucky, I guess.

I can continue not to use it.

That said, we need laws stating that companies can not require such things for the use of their services.

Also, remember that less ethical app developers won't even tell you they're doing this. That flashlight app you downloaded could be doing the same thing, but selling the info instead.

Nor since they bricked my audio drivers and I had to reinstall Windows to fix it.

But if no one does, they wont

Never used it much anyway

I don't use Spotify, but will pass this info along to friends and family.

Is that kitteh with majestic cattitude yours?

It's a great picture of him!

If so easily answered. If you listen to anything other than pop/rock 3 minute self-contained songs there are precisely 2 streaming services that offer gapless playback across platforms; Spotify and Google Music, and the former has a much better selection and interface. If you've ever tried to listen to classical music (and especially opera, which can easily have 50+ tracks that can change mid-scene or even mid-sentence in what is supposed to be continuous music) with 3-10 second gaps every minute or two you'd know the value of gapless. I would imagine fans of jazz or prog rock or concept albums have similar if less disruptive problems with it.

I'd also wonder how much fans of art music would find on your links. Outside the two I named and to a much lesser extent Rdio and Rhapsody, both plagued with utterly unlistenable gaps, I haven't found much beyond the useless "Best of Beethoven" excerpts or Bocelli-style crossover schmaltz.

And answered in my links.

No, I didn't give much for classical music as, while I like it, I don't listen to much, other than PDQ Bach or Portsmouth Sinfonia.

Gaps don't bother me. If they bother you so much, rip your own music to a media-player/phone as single files for full orchestral pieces (or whatever it is you're listening to that's classical.)

Have a look at the links provided. You'll never know about your need for "art music" until you do

You asked why. I gave you a very objective and factual reason. And by the way ripping single files from streaming sources with gaps is not reasonable as you'd just get a single large file containing many gaps. I could build my own cue sheets to try to eliminate them using "kill" phantom tacks, but the effort involved in getting the exact second and frame gap right between each track. and the likelihood of getting it truly seamless like the original source media, makes this stupid. The library cue masters are of course worthless as they assume no gaps. The problem you are missing is that the gaps are ADDED by the streaming services other than Spotify when they are not present on the original recording

because that was what I thought of your reply to me because I didn't give any links to forms of music you liked.

For your information (and everyone else's) I gave the links as alternatives for everyone here, not just those that didn't like the types of music offered. If you don't like it, you don't really have to comment. Other than to show off your smugness, of course

Thanks for the link

Rad.io is pretty interesting, there are a collection of Internet stations, some pretty esoteric.

Slacker has some good stations like acid jazz. Because you can "like" songs over time the staion becomes more tailored to your tastes.

I'll give rad.io a try, though I've lost interest in the types of stations like Pandora where you can like cuts and they tailor the listening to your tastes. As I grew up with broadcast radio (even did a little of my own) I kind of prefer the adventurous nature of that kind of listening. If I don't like a cut, I can always shut it off for a while or switch to something else.

Slacker sounds good anyway, and I'll look it up

realize that people won't accept it.

Spotify
Windows 10
I can keep going

Almost signed up with them years ago, but stopped when they wanted to "share" what music I was listening to with my FB friends. I thought that was a bunch of bullshit and stayed away from them. Sounds like they've gotten worse as time went on.

And I had to tweak some crap to not get notification every time one of my friends was binging on power ballads, because IDGAF.