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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 frakt0x90 »

I see a lot of comments about how bad spotify recommendations are. I have had great experience but I follow a methodology to keep the recommendations curated. I'll also note that I listen to a wide variety of music ranging from EDM to metal to high enery jpop to classical. What I have found is:

- Adding things to playlists makes a big difference. If you really love a song, hit it with a heart, if you want to hear more but don't love it, add it to a relevant playlist

- skip mildly bad songs

- actively dislike terrible songs (hide it on mobile, hit the no smoking sign on desktop)

I got into a chill beats phase and it took a couple months for me to eradicate it from my discover weekly but now it's pretty on point. Just my 2 cents.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by madamelic »

I have to give huge applause for the quality of writing. I genuinely can't tell how expansive the responses are, which is huge for AI.

It definitely has the UX feel of being a bit creepy on how well it responds.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by taneq »

watermelon0 wrote: post #178

My problem with Spotify is that it almost exclusively plays music that I listened to in the past, or that's on my playlists. The more times I listen to a song, the more frequently they play it. You can get around this by closing the account, and opening a new one, but this is too time consuming, since you need to do it frequently.

Ah, the old "this guy bought a car, let's show him ads for cars since he's clearly a car-buyer" style of advertising/recommendation.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by kingosticks »

joseph_grobbles wrote: post #102
zeku wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 comparati…

If I remember correctly, they blocked API access for one user because that user was violating the API usage terms, namely exporting Spotify's content (their playlists) to competing services. I actually though that was pretty reasonable of them.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by majinuub »

> Your spotify was pretentious-hip-hop-god-rock bad.

> Thank your obsessions with Childish Gambino and christian rock for that.

> Based on your listening habits, I can also tell you your spotify was...

> awkward-beatboxing bad

Bruh

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by citrus1330 »

hedora wrote: post #171

Most of the comments here are people that use Spotify complaining about Spotify. I don’t understand what makes it a “sticky” service that people feel they have to put up with. They have many competitors, and tools to copy your music selections between services exist. For example: https://www.tunemymusic.com/ Also, Spotify pays musicians less than most other services: https://www.dittomusic.com/blog/how-much-do-music-…

Spotify is better than the competitors. HN is just filled with grumps who love to complain about everything.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by jehb »

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 made the same assumption about what the link was going to be about.

My solution to terrible music algorithms this year has been to, well, give up on them entirely, and go back to the world of curated music. When Google Play Music died, and YouTube Music left an even worse experience in its place, I was done. So now people curate my music instad of machines. Whether that's in the form of letting the artist curate it for me with albums, letting myself curate my favorites with playlists, or letting a DJ curate music discovery on a streaming radio station, I find that humans do it better.

College radio stations (and their streams) are great, by the way. I can't evangelize them enough. Minimal or no ads, and some of the most interesting and creative sets I've heard in my life.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by sabellito »

watermelon0 wrote: post #178

My problem with Spotify is that it almost exclusively plays music that I listened to in the past, or that's on my playlists. The more times I listen to a song, the more frequently they play it. You can get around this by closing the account, and opening a new one, but this is too time consuming, since you need to do it frequently.

I have such a different experience. Perhaps we use different bits of the service? I almost always listen to the Discovery Weekly playlist, and very often create radio statations for new tracks, which in turn show me more stuff I haven't listened to before.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by perryizgr8 »

newsbinator wrote: post #47

> Your spotify was horny-soundtrack-movie-soundtrack bad. I suppose because soundtracks and 90s dance remixes are what I listen to while programming. For soundtracks, I made a playlist that goes for 28hrs 30 mins full of: * Hans Zimmer * James Horner * John Williams * Alan Silvestri * David Newman * Danny Elfman * Christopher Tin * John Powell * Michael Giacchino * Ramin Djawadi * etc

Do you mind sharing that playlist? Sounds interesting :)
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