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Post by 1stcity3rdcoast »

jqbx_jason wrote: post #174
AlphaWeaver wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? My only experience with Discover Weekly (and any other suggestion algorithms, i.e. radios, etc...) has been pretty terrible... It doesn't seem to suggest songs I like at all, and recently it seized upon one single song in one of my playlist and only plays covers of that song and the other songs in the album for my discover weekly for the past several weeks... I love Spotify, but I use Pandora sometimes _exclu…

I posted this earlier but it got buried: I had the same experience as you and built JQBX[1] to mix it up. It's kind of like Pandora (it's a lot like turntable.fm if you ever used that) but it's user generated so you tend to get more obscure / timely recommendations. [1] https://www.jqbx.fm

We love JQBX at my office. Much more friendly than our earlier solution to pass around the line in cable between everyone’s computers all day! Great work

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Post by lukejduncan »

dopeboy wrote: post #96

Spotify is the reason why I don't pirate music anymore. I say this as someone who used to be involved in the scene (low level FXP couriering in the late 90s and early 00s) and has gigs of release from the RNS, EGO, etc days. It's much faster and convenient to use Spotify. I also think they cracked music discovery. Their discovery weekly playlist is stellar. My only wish is they'd get off Electron (EDIT Chromium - tha…

I have to say, Spotify recommendations is one of their biggest weaknesses. Discover weekly was just bad and most of the discover page seems to be podcasts and non music content. Just may single data point, but after 2 years as a subscriber I paused my subscription and realized I didn’t miss it. Pandora + Amazon music turned out to be more than enough for me.

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Post by RandallBrown »

mancerayder wrote: post #219
dopeboy wrote: post #96

Spotify is the reason why I don't pirate music anymore. I say this as someone who used to be involved in the scene (low level FXP couriering in the late 90s and early 00s) and has gigs of release from the RNS, EGO, etc days. It's much faster and convenient to use Spotify. I also think they cracked music discovery. Their discovery weekly playlist is stellar. My only wish is they'd get off Electron (EDIT Chromium - tha…

also think they cracked music discovery. Their discovery weekly playlist is stellar. Love Spotify, disagree strongly with this. My experience is terrible music that doesn't seem to have anything to do with any of the hundreds of songs I have on my playlist. I get this curious Millennial mix of soft rock music with long, boring instrumental guitar strumming, a disco beat and a sleepy, sarcastic-voiced gal (sometimes g…

Discover Weekly has a like and dislike button in the desktop app. I couldn't figure out how to do it on mobile though.

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Post by holmberd »

I've used Spotify for many years now, especially since growing up in Sweden where its been around for awhile, I currently live in North America.

There is a few things that bothers me though. One is that zero effort is spent on solving developer issues in regards to their public API. Some issues has been open far too long on github and the community is unhappy. The other is that they bought up EchoNest, which provided everything Spotify was lacking in terms of a music API, only to close the service and implement none of those features into their public API.

That's it.

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Post by mancerayder »

jsmeaton wrote: post #217
gcardone_ wrote: post #212

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> Their discovery weekly playlist is stellar. My discover weekly playlist ALWAYS contains at least one song in Portoguese and at least two in German. I speak neither of those languages, and I've never willingly searched and played songs in those languages (except for "99 Luftballons" once). I also get some terrible variation of "Here comes the sun" at least once a month despite not listening to The Beatles at all. [0…

Do you use the Like/Dont Like feature of discover weekly? That's helped tune my weekly lists for the better.

On Android?? Why do I not have this feature?

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Post by nitemice »

mancerayder wrote: post #219
dopeboy wrote: post #96

Spotify is the reason why I don't pirate music anymore. I say this as someone who used to be involved in the scene (low level FXP couriering in the late 90s and early 00s) and has gigs of release from the RNS, EGO, etc days. It's much faster and convenient to use Spotify. I also think they cracked music discovery. Their discovery weekly playlist is stellar. My only wish is they'd get off Electron (EDIT Chromium - tha…

also think they cracked music discovery. Their discovery weekly playlist is stellar. Love Spotify, disagree strongly with this. My experience is terrible music that doesn't seem to have anything to do with any of the hundreds of songs I have on my playlist. I get this curious Millennial mix of soft rock music with long, boring instrumental guitar strumming, a disco beat and a sleepy, sarcastic-voiced gal (sometimes g…

I'm so happy to hear it's not just me.

When I first started listening to Spotify (about a year and a half ago), I found the dicovery really high-quality, but it just seems to have gotten worse and worse. Discover Weekly is particularly bad. I find that the first 5 or so songs are okay, but from there is rapidly decends into madness.

I have the weird habit (though I'm weening off) of keeping all the music I listen to out of curiosity on a big playlist together, whether I liked it or not, as a way of keeping track. I thought that might be throwing Spotify's algorithm off (and it probably still is), but it seems it's definitely not the only reason.

I've decided to just trust that Last.fm is doing it's juob and not add any more to that playlist.

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Post by mancerayder »

RandallBrown wrote: post #223
mancerayder wrote: post #219

Earlier quoted context omitted.

also think they cracked music discovery. Their discovery weekly playlist is stellar. Love Spotify, disagree strongly with this. My experience is terrible music that doesn't seem to have anything to do with any of the hundreds of songs I have on my playlist. I get this curious Millennial mix of soft rock music with long, boring instrumental guitar strumming, a disco beat and a sleepy, sarcastic-voiced gal (sometimes g…

Discover Weekly has a like and dislike button in the desktop app. I couldn't figure out how to do it on mobile though.

Ahhh. That's it. I only use it on Android. Maybe I should use that feature on the PC, and thumbs down everything for a few weeks!

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Post by Coincoin »

nitemice wrote: post #226
mancerayder wrote: post #219

Earlier quoted context omitted.

also think they cracked music discovery. Their discovery weekly playlist is stellar. Love Spotify, disagree strongly with this. My experience is terrible music that doesn't seem to have anything to do with any of the hundreds of songs I have on my playlist. I get this curious Millennial mix of soft rock music with long, boring instrumental guitar strumming, a disco beat and a sleepy, sarcastic-voiced gal (sometimes g…

I'm so happy to hear it's not just me. When I first started listening to Spotify (about a year and a half ago), I found the dicovery really high-quality, but it just seems to have gotten worse and worse. Discover Weekly is particularly bad. I find that the first 5 or so songs are okay, but from there is rapidly decends into madness. I have the weird habit (though I'm weening off) of keeping all the music I listen to…

Discover Weekly looks at the music you listened to recently. If you listen to 5 random songs this week because you were very busy, it's going to offer you the same thing next Monday. Then if the only things you listen to next week is the bad offering from Discover, it's going to propose you the same crap the week after.

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Post by jartelt »

jonknee wrote: post #3

By far the most interesting part of this is that they are doing a direct listing. There is no IPO underwriter (the bankers that the HN audience loves to bash). The shares will just start trading, pricing should be fun to watch. Update: This nugget from the F-1 [1] alludes to the interesting to watch pricing > Moreover, prior to the opening trade, there will not be a price at which underwriters initially sold ordinary…

Matt Levine has written about the Spotify direct listing in a few of his Money Stuff columns. Overall he seems to think it will be a really interesting experiment given that no one is sure how it will play out. Another point he makes is that Spotify is still paying investment bankers a bunch of money despite the fact that it is not IPO-ing. Even when you try to avoid paying bankers a bunch of money by skipping the IPO, you end up paying bankers a bunch of money...

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Post by propogandist »

gafasRotas wrote: post #177
oxymoron wrote: post #167

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It may also mean that they’ve expanded the user base in countries that have lower purchasing power than western europe, and thus probably lower pricing. That’s surely a good thing?

Can confirm. Countries in Latin America are getting plans for the equivalent of $1.5

how easy would it be to VPN to a LA country, signup for the plan and then just have service for $1.5?
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