One of my top songs is the absolute worst. It always comes on and I always click next and cuss at Spotify about it. It came on twice in one day recently. Somehow that song is the artist’s top song, despite it being a bonus track and not even on the official album. Too bad they took away the “dislike” button.
How bad is your Spotify?
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Re: How bad is your Spotify?
#292I 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?
It only works on certain playlists, I think only Discover Weekly and Release Radar. It shows up next to the like button for me.
Re: How bad is your Spotify?
#293I 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…
I use the Spotify heart button as a "mark as listened" button since there is no listening history on Spotify mobile and Spotify adds songs I have already listened to my Release Radar. However, this means I can't use it to tailor my recommendations since I heart everything I listen to.
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#294The problem with this service is that most times, I don't chose what I listen to. Spotify does. I play music all day while working and I'd love to listen to more artists but most times, I'm stuck in the routine between my Release Radar on Fridays, Discovery Weekly on Monday, and Daily Mixes during the rest of the week. I add songs I like to a variety of personal playlists and sometimes I start a "Song Radio" for a so…
I wish the playlists were better but half the time when I search for a playlist to suit a specific mood, It'll have a minimum of 5000 songs on there which means that the overall average quality of the songs is probably going to be pretty low.
You know that the individual who created the playlist in no way hand curated that list, hell they probably haven't even listened to half the songs that they added to their playlist, much less vetted them.
Re: How bad is your Spotify?
#295I 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.
Unfortunately, "private session" resets every X hours.
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#296Oddly, I signed up for Spotify family so it would be more affordable for three kids. I spend way more time in Pandora (premium) because after several years of use, it has built up a good idea what I want to listen to. I find Spotify repeats far to often, but that is possibly from my lack of use. I listen to my own music collection more than I listen to Pandora.
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#297Does it do anything but gives some hipster insults? My activity seems to have messed it up: "You only listen to Obama-era jams like Sleepy Brown Noise by White Noise for Reading" err.. How do I delete my data?
*ponders if "Obama-era jams" means music that came out during the Obama-administration, or music Obama would have jammed to when he was younger
Both have a lot of potential, as it would seem the former President and I have very similar musical tastes (that is: a very strong love for Stevie Wonder)
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#298So I am just supposed to go though a site and give them my spotify credentials? In 2020?
No. It uses oauth and scopes for stuff like playlists and activity.
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#299It didn't roast me, weighted on my most recent listening, and instead went for analyzing my whole history at once.
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#300Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
"One of the most mind-boggling discoveries I made while becoming a professional humorist is that a large segment of the general public has no sense of humor. I mean that literally, in the same way that some people can’t tell the difference between good wine and bad, and some people are tone deaf. Humor appreciation is like every other human capacity. Some have it, some don’t.
My best estimate is that about a third of the public don’t possess the capacity to even recognize humor when they see it. But they pretend they do, for social reasons, the same way I used to pretend I liked expensive wine. The reality is that I couldn’t distinguish an ordinary wine from a great one. Both gave me the same type of headache."
Apply the above principle to music.