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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 Sebb767 »

pjmorris wrote: post #169
young_unixer wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You've been listening to a lot of Logic lately. > u okay? Asked the same thing to me, but about Radiohead.

Asked the same thing to me, but about The Replacements.

For me it was Asking Alexandria, which fit pretty well as they have mostly dark songs.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by coffeekitkat »

Didn't expect it will play a music for me haha, had to pick up my earphones. Anyway it was hilarious.

- Your spotify was anime-slow-dance bad,

On "You listen to these tracks too much:" part, well that is because they are on the top of the playlist. I usually start my Spotify day by just playing the playlist (Liked Songs) so it goes just play the music on whats on top and go down to the first song I fav'ed.

- You are 2% basic. Oh wow The Contes and Crown Jewels! Your taste is so obscure that's so cool I bet you're super interesting..

This one got me :) I really like "The Contes" and "Crown Jewels"

- You're stuck in the early 2010s.

Hmm... Kinda not accurate. Does it know when the track was originally released to make accurate one? Like there was an album on my list that it was originally released on 1998-2004 but was released on Spotify earlier this year 2020.

"fuck marry kill.. fast" was fun but got off took me a while to figure it out, I quickly clicked "fuck" and "marry" on SCANDAL (why not right? haha) and thought the A.I. is dead, later I figured out that I need to choose on others too.

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Post by rconti »

runarberg wrote: post #250
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.

You think that being able to favorite, skip, and dislike songs is worse UX than the radio, which just plays endlessly, whether you want to listen to that song (or annoying DJ) or commercial or not? I mean, sure, you can change the station, but, best case scenario, you get a song you want, 3/4 of the way through.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by rodiger »

bb101 wrote: post #135
scamify wrote: post #89

Sounds like a scam, no way am I connecting this to my Spotify account for them to leech out my personal data.

I find it disconcerting how many people here are allowing a random service, most probably unheard of till now, to view their Spotify profile.

It's a spotify profile- would love to see how someone could weaponize music taste

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by TacticalTable »

runarberg wrote: post #250
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.

A music experience where you listen to music industry's preferences instead? That's a step down, even from not curating your spotify preferences at all.

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Post by freetonik »

kamaln7 wrote: post #196
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…

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)

If you're on Family plan, you could sign up for a separate account and use it for background music only. Kind of a hassle, but that's what I'm doing with YouTube so that relaxation recommendations aren't mixed with lectures.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by tinco »

kamaln7 wrote: post #196
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…

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 feel Spotify makes a half decent jab at identifying moods with their "Daily Mixes" feature. Right now for me it's identified 6 sort of genres that I listen to.

It didn't identify that one of them is hip hop, and the other one is dutch hip hop, which obviously to me are the same genre, but that's alright.

It's got a classical music mix, one for rock, one for soundtracks and one for electronic/lo-fi.

It would've been cool if it knew to group electronic/lo-fi, classical and soundtrack together as my background work music, but I'm not sure how it would've learned that as normally I have to pick one of those genres while working, I have no playlists that mix them.

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