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Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify

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Re: Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify

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Post by kleer001 »

volkk wrote: post #34

Spotify's discovery playlist is a double edged sword. My account is permanently screwed because I decided to listen to a lot of rain sounds when going to sleep for a few months while I had a puppy. Now ALL I get for recommendations are calm sounds. I don't actually listen to these during the day, I want my old stuff. I hate it and want to reset the discovery playlist, but seems I have no way of doing so aside from ge…

Youtube suffers from the same bias in their algorithm. I bet it's just a bias setting or a single falloff that would help things.

It reminds me of Cronenberg's "The Fly" where Brundle had to teach his teleporting pod to reproduce living tissue rather than interpret it.

Re: Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify

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Post by jdminhbg »

aeturnum wrote: post #44
volkk wrote: post #34

Spotify's discovery playlist is a double edged sword. My account is permanently screwed because I decided to listen to a lot of rain sounds when going to sleep for a few months while I had a puppy. Now ALL I get for recommendations are calm sounds. I don't actually listen to these during the day, I want my old stuff. I hate it and want to reset the discovery playlist, but seems I have no way of doing so aside from ge…

I think Spotify would do well to allow users to set a label of some sort on their listening. Like, there are times when you listen to your music for yourself in the car, and there are times when your phone is being used to power the speakers at a gathering. I don't know what the internals of the system looks like, but it seems like allowing users to maintain different profiles would be simple.

I'd be happy with just a simple Incognito mode. Not so much that I'm embarrassed about listening to some things, as I am "I wonder what that sounds like" but don't want my recommendations poisoned.

Re: Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify

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Post by mitchdoogle »

volkk wrote: post #34

Spotify's discovery playlist is a double edged sword. My account is permanently screwed because I decided to listen to a lot of rain sounds when going to sleep for a few months while I had a puppy. Now ALL I get for recommendations are calm sounds. I don't actually listen to these during the day, I want my old stuff. I hate it and want to reset the discovery playlist, but seems I have no way of doing so aside from ge…

Why not just listen to one of the many curated playlists in the genre you like? Go to music review sites and find a few albums that sound good and add them to your saved playlists? I find myself doing these things more often when I want to discover new music. The discover weekly gives me a lot of stuff I've heard already.

Re: Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify

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Post by devalgo »

crispyporkbites wrote: post #50
devalgo wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not Spotify's responsibility to make sure indie artists are getting paid.

It's not anyones responsibility to ensure indie artists, or any kind of art for that matter, exists It would be nice if people cared about things beyond $$$ and worked on art for the sake of art

>It would be nice if people cared about things beyond $$$ and worked on art for the sake of art

True but you generally can't buy groceries or pay your landlord with art.

Re: Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify

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Post by [deleted] »

volkk wrote: post #34

Spotify's discovery playlist is a double edged sword. My account is permanently screwed because I decided to listen to a lot of rain sounds when going to sleep for a few months while I had a puppy. Now ALL I get for recommendations are calm sounds. I don't actually listen to these during the day, I want my old stuff. I hate it and want to reset the discovery playlist, but seems I have no way of doing so aside from ge…

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Re: Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify

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Post by fedorareis »

jdxcode wrote: post #8

I feel Spotify makes it hard to listen to albums. I can queue up a song to play and it’ll then get back to my playlist, but if I play and album eventually it’ll reach the end and quit playing anything. Then I will have to stop what I’m doing and find something else to play. I feel the UX could be improved and it might change listening habits similar to Discover Weekly

You could queue up an album in the same way you queue a song then it will go back to your playlist afterwards. As many others have already mentioned there is an auto play feature.

Re: Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify

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Post by nijaru »

volkk wrote: post #34

Spotify's discovery playlist is a double edged sword. My account is permanently screwed because I decided to listen to a lot of rain sounds when going to sleep for a few months while I had a puppy. Now ALL I get for recommendations are calm sounds. I don't actually listen to these during the day, I want my old stuff. I hate it and want to reset the discovery playlist, but seems I have no way of doing so aside from ge…

You used to be able to like or dislike songs on radios, but iirc spotify switched it to only favorite a couple of years ago. I don’t understand the reasoning, as it would help tailor their data much more.

Re: Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify

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Post by satyrnein »

michaelbuckbee wrote: post #26
monocasa wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Radios don't have to pay anything unless they're an internet stream

I believe that over the air and internet streams are paid out separately. Over the air looks to play 12c to 6c per play https://www.quora.com/How-much-are-music-artists-paid-in-Roy...

US terrestrial radio only pays out to the composition side (whoever wrote the song) and not to the master side (who performed and recorded the song). Internet and satellite radio pay both sides. Non-interactive radio uses rates set by statute across the board; this is all separate from on-demand streaming like Spotify.

Re: Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify

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Post by tlbsofware »

aeturnum wrote: post #44
volkk wrote: post #34

Spotify's discovery playlist is a double edged sword. My account is permanently screwed because I decided to listen to a lot of rain sounds when going to sleep for a few months while I had a puppy. Now ALL I get for recommendations are calm sounds. I don't actually listen to these during the day, I want my old stuff. I hate it and want to reset the discovery playlist, but seems I have no way of doing so aside from ge…

I think Spotify would do well to allow users to set a label of some sort on their listening. Like, there are times when you listen to your music for yourself in the car, and there are times when your phone is being used to power the speakers at a gathering. I don't know what the internals of the system looks like, but it seems like allowing users to maintain different profiles would be simple.

An incognito mode sounds like a pretty easy idea, have a switch that turns it on and none of your listening gets added to your personal data

Re: Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify

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Post by ta17711771 »

_zamorano_ wrote: post #78
volkk wrote: post #34

Spotify's discovery playlist is a double edged sword. My account is permanently screwed because I decided to listen to a lot of rain sounds when going to sleep for a few months while I had a puppy. Now ALL I get for recommendations are calm sounds. I don't actually listen to these during the day, I want my old stuff. I hate it and want to reset the discovery playlist, but seems I have no way of doing so aside from ge…

Same. Sometimes my girlfriend uses my account and she is very much into reaggeton, which I hate. If she listens just two or three songs, I'll get the dreaded reaggeton song in "Discover Weekly" next monday. If she uses the account for a whole day, the playlist is ruined for me.

Almost like they're trying to make each account customized to a single listener.
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