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How bad is your Spotify?

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Re: How bad is your Spotify?

#201
My badness made me laugh. I like certain show tunes when I program. Don't judge me, the web site already did. But because I read a news story about The Chicks rebranding and got curious about their new album, it got added to my gestalt.

Thus: Your spotify was like-country-but-smoke-weed-with-your-gay-friends-drama-club-tonys-watch-party bad.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

#202
post #141

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 v…

I had the same feeling. It made a spot on joke about how much AC/DC I listen to followed by a funny and relevant comment about too much Slipknot. But then it followed it up by calling me obsessed with two bands I can't even remember listening to in recent years. One of which I never really listened much to.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

#205

This was fun. I like that the AI had a bit of a personality. In terms of bad vs. good, though, music is like a lot of things in life, so subjective that you can't judge another person's taste. If for no other reason than people care about music to wildly different degrees. I've met people who say they don't listen to music. As in ever. Others cannot let a minute go by without having something playing in their head. I…

I'm pretty sure it flags everyone as having bad taste and the algorithm is tuned to customize its mockery. The AI is simulating a record store snob.

That said, I thought it was funny because I realize people making fun of me for not being cool doesn't have any effect on me anymore. Is this what middle-age is about?

It also focused on mocking my musical tastes being stuck in the early 2010s, but I haven't actually used Spotify since 2015 so I guess that checks out from its perspective.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

#207
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…

Curious, I learned something.

> You're stuck in the early 2010s. For you, music's been all downhill since Orden Ogan made The Things We Believe In.

Now I wonder if this is because my account is old, or if I really listen to that much old stuff, or if my favorite bands just don't release that much. Weird.

But I'm entirely fine with the other assments:

> Your spotify was renaissance-faire -too-much-power metal bad.

> Thank your obsessions with medieval rock and power metal (e.g., Sabaton and Dreamtale) for that.

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

> hail-satan bad

> You are 0% basic. Ewigheim and Winterstorm? Where do you even find this shit?.

And I think winterstorm and ewigheim aren't even the most obscure bands.

Oh but there is a new stribog album. nice.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

#209

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 mor…

Honestly all I want is for Spotify to differentiate between music I actually like to actively listen to and music that I like to play in the background 24/7 (e.g. chill hop)

Youtube music distinguishes between them. You can choose one of many supermixes and it clusters the music together.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

#210
This seems to be just a few canned quips with fields to insert a few of your most listened to artists and tracks. Quite funny though.

What's actually more fun is Spotify's yearly playlists with your most listened to songs. I always get a kick out of analysing those.

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