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their classical search is miserable
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That is so true. There’s an old cassette player that still works in my “new” car. Yesterday I put one of my old cassettes in it. Just a compilation but it’s Bach pipe organ fugues mixed with earlier music. Anyway, I mean it’s not a high fidelity setting but it hit home quickly that with classical music my record/CD collection obliterates what’s on Spotify in terms of it being the best of the best musicians on the recordings. When I look for classical music (defined here as any pre-20th C western music) on Spotify you have to wade through volumes of ****. You can also search by conductor or by pianist (or musician) but like you say it’s messy to say the least. Really good classical music record stores were a treasure. I can think of three where the staff really knew their ****. I’m sure they’re all long out of business. I don’t know if Spotify has **** musicians or labels paying to get search preference or if it’s just the algorithm but if you run something like Beethoven String Quartets it’s a ****ing nightmare. And the images of the records are so small it’s a pain to look for the logos of the labels you can trust.
For classical especially, catalog number would be really nice but the truth is those premium recordings very often are not available anyway.