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How bad is your Spotify?
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Re: How bad is your Spotify?
#222Earlier quoted context omitted.
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)
Same, my spotify thinks I'm very obsessed with Ambient and Classical. I mean I enjoy those genres, but they're not my typical "active listening", I just always want some sort of sound going on in my apartment. Also whenever I'm DM'ing a D&D game the majority of my daily mixes change to video game music for weeks because I use them as backing music.
Spotify's daily no es solve that problem for me. I always have one or two mixes with chill-hop music accumulating things I listen to when working, plus different mixes with different genres and 0% ambient music.
I wish other websites had similar recommendation systems. Spend an afternoon watching shitposting videos and YouTube will only recommends low-effort videos.
Re: How bad is your Spotify?
#223I 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…
> - actively dislike terrible songs (hide it on mobile, hit the no smoking sign on desktop)
I see this suggestion a lot, but for whatever reason I never see an option on desktop to dislike songs. Unless I'm really blind.
Does it show up near the track controls?
Re: How bad is your Spotify?
#224Earlier quoted context omitted.
Spotify is better than the competitors. HN is just filled with grumps who love to complain about everything.
In what way is it “better”? I tried three competitors as I moved away from Spotify, and found they were all substantially better than it. I care about music selection, recommendation quality, and library stability (not deleting stuff from my collection).
I've also noticed songs disappearing from my library, & crappy recommendations in Spotify. What service did you end up going with?
Re: How bad is your Spotify?
#225I 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…
Another tip: Spotify seems to ignore anything you listen to during a "Private Session".
I listen to a lot of ambient and instrumental music while I work, but I don't want recommendations based on this, so I always start a private session.
Re: How bad is your Spotify?
#226I 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)
I've wanted this for video streaming too. After getting rid of cable, I'll often want to put something on in the background while I'm browsing the web or playing switch or something. I feel like almost everyone has a completely different thing they are looking for in active vs passive consumption and being able to tailor it would be very nice. Very straightforward example: I really don't need subtitled shows when I will be half paying attention at best. I also don't want to watch something that is new to me and also "good" when I won't really be paying attention.
Re: How bad is your Spotify?
#227This 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. > T…
That reads like high praise to me.
Re: How bad is your Spotify?
#228Oh please tell me whats good music two random guys who wrote an algorithm .... Gimme a break
Re: How bad is your Spotify?
#229Somehow, the one time we babysitted a friend's kid made a kid song go to the top of my most listened tracks...
I definitely don't use my Spotify account enough for it to do meaningful recommendations. Too much time on the Discover Weekly and it is more and more diverging from tracks I actually like. The algorithm feed itself and lose precision.
I miss the recommendation capabilities of rdio.
Re: How bad is your Spotify?
#230This 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. > T…
this is about how mine went. It's very concerned about where I found Necropanther and Wasteland Riders