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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 shrugthug »

chadcatlett wrote: post #223
frakt0x90 wrote: post #181

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…

> - 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?

I'm actively looking for it right now and don't see anything. MacOS user.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by letitbeirie »

tetha wrote: post #207
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…

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…

> You're stuck in the early 2010s. For you, music's been all downhill since Kalax made Time Lapse.

I got the same thing with a different song. What's funny about this one is it's from 2017.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by tonystride »

Wow reading discussion of music consumption on HN is so surreal for me as a working pianist / keyboardist / accordionist / educator. There’s a guilty pleasure I derive from mostly feeling unworthy when reading through HN posts about tech, you all are amazing! At the same time I really appreciate that HN is aware of your minority tech nerd preferences compared to the greater consumer population who are perfectly happy in their walled gardens. I practice tech in the same way some one casually dabbles in piano. I wish I didn’t have to be in a walled in garden but not enough time (for now) to make a website that’s not a godaddy template. The disdain for using gd services must be similar to how I feel about music industry discussion, but I accept that I’m a minority since I can see the ‘source code’ to everything I hear. But yeah pretty funny to be judged by the AI as a consumer for something that I actually use more of as a professional reference tool. I got, 2% basic, jazz-everyones-heard-of-jazz-flex-stuck-in-the-fifties bad. It also made fun of me a lot for listening to every episode of Marion Mcpartland’s ‘Piano Jazz’ that’s available on Spotify...

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by runT1ME »

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'm surprised that they haven't taken a page out of Netflix's book: sign small artists that sound close enough to what's popular to their own internal record label and push them in playlists?

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by shrikant »

zamalek wrote: post #139
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…

> might provide some insight into why my Spotify is so bad, even by my own tastes. That's just Spotify. The AI did a better job of figuring out what I like (138 and uplifting trance) than Spotify does (EDM). I blame it in Armin van Buuren: he is an extremely popular EDM DJ and he plays a very wide variety of EDM. If you listen to EDM chances are he has at least a few dozen sets you'd enjoy. That's the problem: he's p…

Wow, a mention of Armin van Buren! I wonder how much discovery of his work is just happenstance. His track is the first thing on Google and Bing that gets thrust into your face when you search for "this is a test".

That's my default browser bar search term for checking that my interwebs are still wired up, and I've often thought that this was either genius or a really happy accident.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by lostlogin »

frakt0x90 wrote: post #181

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…

Letting a child use your account ruins it too. Even the AI noticed the horror.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by runarberg »

frakt0x90 wrote: post #181

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…

This seems like a lot of work. I wonder why people tolerate this, it seems to me to be a significantly worse UX over the radio.
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