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That was funny. However, I'm one of those people with a bona fide, DRM-free MP3 collection[1] But I only use Spotify a) in the car and b) while riding my bike/bike trainer. I have an actual DRM-free MP3 collection[1] for the important stuff--which has a little overlap with Spotify, but not too much. [1] Small - only about 20 GB - and has been contiguously curated, over five distinct "generations" in my life, since I…
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> - 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.
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…
> You are 5% basic. Old Man Gloom and Distorted Harmony? Where do you even find this shit?.
I feel called out, but also kinda proud.
> You're stuck in the early 2010s. You must have peaked right around The Dear Hunter's Act Iv: Rebirth in Reprise.
Early 2010s were amazing era for Prog metal alright.
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…
> You are 0% basic. Have you considered there's a reason nobody listens to Mistabishi?. > > Your spotify was ira-glass-in-your-airpods-manic-pixie-dream-girl bad. Made me laugh!
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> 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:)
> You've been listening to a lot of Logic lately. > u okay? Asked the same thing to me, but about Radiohead.
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If I remember correctly, they blocked API access for one user because that user was violating the API usage terms, namely exporting Spotify's content (their playlists) to competing services. I actually though that was pretty reasonable of them.
I... what? So you think Spotify was justified to stop people from... copying playlists? ?? what????
The playlists that users created? No.
I apologise if that distinction was not clear enough in my original post.
Thank your obsessions with Steely Dan, mellow gold, and Africa for that.
Based on your listening habits, I can also tell you your spotify was...
60s-acid-flashback bad
mercury-idolizer bad
parody-song bad
midwest-classic-rock bad
punk-with-grandchildren bad
But wait, it gets worse:
You listen to these tracks too much:
Calling Occupants Of Interplanetary Craft by Klaatu
Working Man by Rush
WEIT WEG by Rammstein
While My Guitar Gently Weeps - Remastered 2009 by The Beatles
The Dope Show by Marilyn Manson
Ninja Sex Party
Rammstein
Led Zeppelin
Steely Dan
Rush
You're stuck in the early 2010s. You must have peaked right around Ninja Sex Party's Under the Covers.
That's it. I'm done.
I need to go recalibrate my taste levels.
Shutting down."
Yeah, I'm a 90's kid who listened to their parents' music from the Classic Rock stations they always had on. If anything, I'm more stuck in the 70s; the early 10s is just when I stopped paying much attention to new music, though my wife is trying to change that. You can't shame me, A.I.!
What's funny to me, is that I actually discovered Klaatu via Spotify. I'd never heard them before, but they came up in one of my weekly playlists, and (obviously) I took quite a liking. "Calling Occupants" was my #1 song of 2020.
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…
I have a "Queue" playlist into which I copy my "Discover Weekly" every now and then; then I listen to that Queue playlist, which lets me delete the tracks I don't want, and keep the ones I do (you can't modify your Discover Weekly). Then, every time I refresh the Queue playlist from Discover Weekly, I first move the current Queue contents into a YYYY-MM playlist (e.g. 2020-12 for this month).
I've been doing this for several years and it's been great — I've got a timestamped record of what I was enjoying/discovering during those months, and it does seem to have helped Spotify to keep recommending me things I really do enjoy. (Weirdly some weeks seem _really bad_, like I delete virtually everything — but I guess there's some A/Bing going on there.)
(Also: I'll only like/heart tracks I _particularly_ like, and sometimes I'll just listen to my "Liked Songs" playlist; I think this helps teach Spotify what I really like.)