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How bad is your Spotify?

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Re: How bad is your Spotify?

#101

Well that was dumb. The entire thing was generic insults that could be applied to literally anything. > You are 0% basic. Have you considered there's a reason nobody listens to Perihelion Ship?. Screw you, they're great. Its Opeth with growling.

Thats the point. Its designed to make fun of you

So much AI for something that seems like a list of random insults that could be used in any situation. Why bother?

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

#102
post #62

Funny, but I was hoping this might provide some insight into why my Spotify is so bad, even by my own tastes. Spotify constantly queues and recommends songs to me that are so bad, I can’t even imagine how there could possibly exist any data indicating that any significant sample of listeners has ever enjoyed hearing them. Spotify has 5+ years of my listening history, and orders of magnitude more data from listeners a…

Spotify is fantastic for me with everything. My only complaint is their webapp causes random bugs and eats whatever resources it can find. Just as a counter point.

Same here. Wonderful playlists. Constant exposure to new music. This discussion seemed to get people in the mood for the airing of grievances, so here we are.

Just a couple of months ago Spotify temporarily blocked playlist exporting and there was an uproar. And it turned out that a lot of the uproar was about those Spotify automagically created playlists. Read some sentiments, coupled with some Apple Music comparative opinions, here-

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24747636

I guess it just turns out that maybe Spotify isn't for all people. Nor is Apple Music. Some discussions just draw out the edges from whatever side and it becomes the narrative.

Taste is a tough nut to crack.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

#103
Spotify mobile has weird issues for me. I'll be playing podcast A, then when I switch to podcast B, the display on the bottom gets stuck on A. I can still use buttons, but unless I restart the app, it will always keep podcast A on display. It'll even keep the timestamp I was on for A, even if I start a new podcast fresh. Mildly annoying...

In terms of recs, it does ok. There are weeks when every discover Weekly track is bizarre ambient music or very quiet music, like I'm supposed to be a spa owner. Then sometimes it has delivered great tracks. But as a musician, it's very rare for me to find new gems, I've heard of so many via friends, class, YT, etc.

Overall, spotify is great, but the app and algorithm could use improvement.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

#105
The insults don’t really work on me. It is also contradicting itself

> Your spotify was jazz-everyones-heard-of-jazz-snob-never-turn-down-a-microphone bad.

> You're too trendy for your own good. You know there's good music from before 2019, right?

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

#106
post #6

This looks really cool, but I wish it displayed some sort of lip service guarantee about not preserving my data. As-is I'm unable to determine whether this is a fun project or a kind of trojan horse to grab as much Spotify data as possible. (and obviously at the end of the day it comes down to trust)

By my reading of their privacy policy, it seems they will keep data they collect as part of a story or project.

Personally, I never use anything that asks me to sign in with something else. My data is my business and IMO there are plenty of ways to get a laugh without compromising privacy.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

#108
Clearly this is flawed solely based on the fact that its "objective" taste in allegedly non-basic music culture is learned from a corpus of Pitchfork reviews and subreddits. I guess that's part of the joke

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

#109

It doesn't seem to work with the desktop web player. I keep getting application errors.

It doesn't care which player you use, does it? It just uses the API to read your account. For what it's worth, I exclusively use web player and it can get my data fine.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

#110
post #97

Funny, but I was hoping this might provide some insight into why my Spotify is so bad, even by my own tastes. Spotify constantly queues and recommends songs to me that are so bad, I can’t even imagine how there could possibly exist any data indicating that any significant sample of listeners has ever enjoyed hearing them. Spotify has 5+ years of my listening history, and orders of magnitude more data from listeners a…

It feels like it's a self-fulfilling spiral of bad music. The more I listen to the recommended music, the more of the same crap keeps getting recommended to me. Even if I skip them. I remember that Spotify actually had pretty good recommendations when I first started using it at the start of this year, because I had only listened to the songs I actually liked so far. But now I'm lucky if I find one decent song out of…

Seems there is exactly the same sort of discussion on another HN thread about poor recommendations from YouTube, also leading into a spiralling decline to more and more rubbish
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