Once I see how many basic features got cut from the free plan I immediately decided to not use Spotify for my life. Period.
How bad is your Spotify?
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#302Kind of annoying that the site is down, but you still have to wait through 30 seconds of non-functional pauses to get that information. And there's no "retry" button.
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#303As soon as I saw Tiny Desk Concerts in the list of "objectively good music" at the beginning, I was dying. It knows me too well! I'm gonna check out that list...
Spotify has done an excellent job of recommendations lately. It took several years of liking songs and making playlists, but I've been very impressed with Discover Weekly.
The shuffle function is still broken, however. It only "shuffles" from like the top 50 songs.
UPDATE: It told me JERRY MARTIN is basic?! The composer for Sims and Sim City? Bruh...
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#304> You are 0% basic. Elliot Berger and Elènne? Where do you even find this shit?.
This is just awesome, man.
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#305Funny, 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-...
That doesnt require a conspiracy (really hard), just an imperfect incentive structure (really easy)
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#306Earlier quoted context omitted.
> oh great another Rise Against stan... > You've been listening to a lot of Logic lately. > u okay? > >Yeah why > no reason... > Of course Twenty One Pilots. Not gonna lie, I'm feeling a bit judged by this AI:)
If it's any comfort I got the _exact_ same sequence of comments/questions but with different bands I listened to a lot in 2020.. Hope that didn't ruin the magic.
It kinda did. I was enjoying being judged but now that I know that everyone is, I feel less special.
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#307Earlier quoted context omitted.
Spotify really wants people to listen to podcasts... it's oh so much easier to wedge some advertising into podcasts.
I’m really bummed at the amount of effort which is going into building walled gardens for podcasts. Yet another amazing thing on the open web which is dying. I keep hoping that someone will crack the micropayment idea and kill advertising on the web.
> I keep hoping that someone will crack the micropayment idea and kill advertising on the web.
Trying! https://wiki.snowdrift.coop
Ok -- technically not micropayments and technically killing advertising is not a goal. But many of us are personally against advertising, and a viable alternative for funding free/libre/open works would certainly put a dent in advertising coffers.
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#308I 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…
Here's my 2 cents: don't rely so much on spotify for recommendations. It's first and foremost a streaming service, any recommendation features are secondary. My strategy is to use a variety of recommendation systems. I've found things through spotify, pandora, gnoosic, reviews, forums, even wikipedia pages. Hunting for music is really fun! Music tastes are subjective, I just don't think the algorithms are ever going to be perfect.
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#309Most of the other comments talk about why Spotify's recommendations are bad, but I think they are great. Discover weekly is my favourite playlist when I feel like listening to something new.
This tool is also awesome -- `Finding a lot of Above & Beyond.` Yes, you are and there should be even more!
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#310This obviously isn't a real AI. My results and text pieces are pretty much the same as everyone else's here in the comments. It just fetches some playlists, fills the blanks in its text pieces and that's it.
Sounds like any other AI. Surely you weren't expecting some sort of scientific breakthrough with this gag site?
Well, I'd have at least hoped for some "big data" foo and statistics to see how "unique" or niche my playlists are.