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- Soundcloud is the best streaming service
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Soundcloud is the best music streaming service because of its recommendation feature
SoundCloud recommendations/suggestions are on point and get changed up weekly. It suggests artists from every level, not just mainstream artists. You even have these recommendations delivered directly into your inbox.
The argument
SoundCloud's algorithm customizes its users' unique taste as they listen to more music, which creates personal recommendations that will most likely end up in the user's music library. The tool helps users spread their music sphere and taste. The songs that a user's likes adds similar songs to the interface, which creates a constant interaction between the user and SoundCloud.
Premises
Counter-arguments
SoundCloud does not allow it's users to disable the recommended function. It is a way for creators to be played without being searched, but it can become annoying to keep listening to unknown or random artists.
Rejecting the premises
[Rejecting P1] Nothing described here is distinctive to the service. Personalised recommendation built from listening history is standard across every major streaming platform, and several competitors are more often credited with strong discovery, so a feature the rivals also have cannot establish that this one is best. [Rejecting P2] Constant interaction measures engagement rather than quality, and the counter identifies the cost: recommendations that cannot be switched off are an imposition as much as a service. "Best" is also a comparative judgement about an entire platform — catalogue and licensing, audio quality, price, offline playback, device support, artist payment — and one feature cannot settle it.