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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 jariel »

"4% basic, manic-pixie-dream-girl-jazz-flex-boomer bad."

Too much beebop and nothing past 2015.

A lot of people here revelling in their 'not basic' results, the thing is, that's maybe something interesting, but the vast majority of arcane music is straight up bad. Just because it's 'different' doesn't make it good. Most artists who are actually 'pretty good' have some kind of following - they get picked up, at least marginally. Of course there's nothing wrong with 'liking that band with 2K views'. One reason this happens if if they are 'genre' meaning, a newer band, playing into a past sound or genre, people may not pick up. A local band here in Montreal is really good, but they play a kind of specific Cajun country/rock, so their appeal is 'respectable' but 'quaint'.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by akyang »

dx87 wrote: post #30

I was hoping it was a questionnaire about how bad Spotify recommendations are. I have no idea why Spotify feels the need to clutter my recommendations with radio stations like "Rap Caviar" and "Music for when you know you're the bad bitch", meanwhile it doesn't show me new releases for music I actually listen to because of all the irrelevant suggestions taking up space. I ended up creating a new account because appar…

Release Radar is usually pretty good at recommending new releases, at least for me.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by ant6n »

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…

After playing an album I select (usually soundtracks), Spotify falls into a tiny selection of 10-20 tracks that it plays on shuffle forever. It appears music discovery is incredibly poor.

...I'm also afraid to play something for my son, then the recommendations while coding will surely be polluted by that; just like if you play one or two kid's videos on youtube.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by balozi »

This contraption is the digital equivalence of the proverbial white van that kids are told to never climb into. Don't do it, even if the man said he has puppies or snarky retorts inside.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by have_faith »

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…

Counter anecdote: I've built up playlists full of tracks from good recommendations from Spotify. The genres are relatively niche and electronic (sub-genres of house, techno, uk garage, electronica, etc). The only downside is it gets a bit too eager to recommend the most played few tracks from a given artist, but I've discovered a lot of new artists this way though.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by young_unixer »

ed312 wrote: post #116
etherio wrote: post #7

This is hilarious... > You are 26% basic. You're trying to be cool with Kapitan Korsakov, but your favorites are the same as everybody else's.. > Your spotify was please-read-my-manuscript-walmart-hawaiian-shirt-sitting-alone-in-the-cafeteria bad. Ouch. Really interesting project by all means. I hope they release the source - I'm curious about how it was built. Edit: This same link was posted 11 hours ago https://new…

> oh great another Rise Against stan... > You've been listening to a lot of Logic lately. > u okay? > >Yeah why > no reason... > Of course Twenty One Pilots. Not gonna lie, I'm feeling a bit judged by this AI:)

> You've been listening to a lot of Logic lately. > u okay?

Asked the same thing to me, but about Radiohead.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by joshgel »

jonplackett wrote: post #129

> You are 25% basic. Yeah, you've got some obscure artists like Mojave 3, but your real top ones are ultra-mainstream like Taylor Swift.. You're stuck in the early 2010s. For you, music's been all downhill since Auli'i Cravalho made How Far I'll Go. Connecting my Spotify account to the Alexa my 3 year old has figured out how to use was a definite mistake.

Right, I'm not sure I should get dinged for letting my daughter listen to Baby Shark or Taylor Swift on repeat, but I guess that's life...

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by allenu »

alex_c wrote: post #148
allenu wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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-...

Yes! One of the issues is definitely due to switching on/off Bluetooth headphones during playback. It has actually changed my behavior. I intentionally pause playback now when I turn on headphones.
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