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How bad is your Spotify?

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Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by blhack »

Huh, I wonder if this is just a mad lib that is being used to gather information about people?

It's sayin stuff like "You know music existed before 2019, right?", but also criticizing me for liking Stan Rogers, who died in 1983, Jay Z, and Trevor Hall, who seemed to peak in the early 2000s.

Maybe I just haven't finished my coffee yet, but I was kindof hoping that this would actually use AI to figure out the musical variety of my listening history and suggest more people to listen to or something like that. Seems like it was just a bunch of mad libbed insults though.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by martin_a »

This obviously isn't a real AI.

My results and text pieces are pretty much the same as everyone else's here in the comments.

It just fetches some playlists, fills the blanks in its text pieces and that's it.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by rapnie »

eli wrote: post #88
tossthere wrote: post #42

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…

I'm not typically one to buy into conspiracy theories, but I really can't help but wonder if the Spotify algorithm favors songs that have more favorable licensing terms. They have already announced they intend to let artists buy their way into playlists in the future https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/could-spotifys-new-discovery-...

I had exactly the same feeling. The daily recommendations contain 80% from albums I've either already downloaded or liked (or auto-liked, which was also a very annoying thing I had for a while). The remaining 20% is recommendations of different songs of the same artists mostly.

With New releases it is different. If I ever play, say, a song someone else sent me to listen to in a different genre, then it screws up my recommendations here for months, sometimes forever.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by anarbadalov »

i cannot wait to try this, but currently my wife is using Spotify to listen to the Lion King soundtrack with my 3-yr-old for the 50th time this week. The kid has for sure ruined the algorithm. But even before that happened, Spotify was bad when it came to discoverability. Reading the other comments here, it sounds like it hasn't improved.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by EvgeniyZh »

trinix912 wrote: post #114
EvgeniyZh wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have no proofs, but I feel that liking/disliking songs does make difference (even though I'm still struggling to get rid of tons of bad covers and mediocre music in Slav languages)

> even though I'm still struggling to get rid of tons of bad covers and mediocre music in Slav languages) What region is your Spotify set to? It seems to base the recommendations on the region (I live in the Nordics, but used the US version for some time and got recommended a ton of spanish music).

I'm in Israel but originally from Russia and listen to some Russian music and Spotify somehow assume Polish would be just as good for me. Leave alone decent amount of German music due to Rammstein.

I also got some Scandinavian stuff too but it usually fits my taste at least.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by Finnucane »

fireattack wrote: post #109
Finnucane wrote: post #84

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.

OKay, I got it to work. It was disturbed that I listen to Daniel Kahn, and seemed to disapprove of listening to jazz. Zero percent basic, whatever that means.

I guess it would be even worse, except that most of the Tzadik Records catalog isn't on Spotify.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by alex_c »

allenu wrote: post #134
rednum wrote: post #38

Looking at title I thought it was rant about product quality. But it's not, so I'll provide mine. Since 2013 when I've started paying for Spotify it has turned from one of my favourite apps to one of those I hate most. On my previous Android phone it would freeze every other day when there was no internet. Why? Who knows. Could be related to me using SD card, or could be something else. The phone wasn't very old, but…

Spotify on the Mac has given me lots of little issues here and there in the last year. It's incredibly frustrating to have to restart it now and again. I have encountered situations where I hit PLAY and nothing happens, or I hit PLAY and it says it's playing, but there's no audio, or I hit PLAY and the app says it's unable to play the track. Restarting the app seems to fix most of these issues. There are also scroll…

Probably related to this 3-year-old unresolved issue with Bluetooth headphones:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Spotify-won-...

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by CydeWeys »

tossthere wrote: post #42

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…

I can't speak to Spotify but YouTube Music seems to do a good job with recommendations. If I start by seeding it with a "radio station" built off an artist I enjoy a lot of the follow-up music is enjoyable and helps me to discover new bands. YouTube Music even has a free ad-supported tier, which is nice.
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