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Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by pc86 »

vlunkr wrote: post #308
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…

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…

> Hunting for music is really fun!

I mean, maybe. I only listen to music when I'm a) driving; b) working. Neither are times I'm particularly interested in searching for new bands to listen to, so I'm going to end up relying on my streaming service's recommendation engine.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by tomc1985 »

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…

I also listen to a wide variety of music, and what I've found works really well is letting playlists run past their end, into the recommended tracks at the bottom. Spotify's usually pretty good about keeping to that theme.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by chaorace »

hedora wrote: post #197
citrus1330 wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spotify is better than the competitors. HN is just filled with grumps who love to complain about everything.

In what way is it “better”? I tried three competitors as I moved away from Spotify, and found they were all substantially better than it. I care about music selection, recommendation quality, and library stability (not deleting stuff from my collection).

The API, for example. It's a ton of fun to bang out toy projects.

Just the other day I built my own podcast picker script that curates a playlist of subscribed podcast episodes in exactly the way I want (balance-wise/order-wise). Sounds minor, but it has been huge for my smart-home listening experience, given how terrible the out-of-box podcast experience is with Alexa.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by chaorace »

rosstex wrote: post #303

As 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…

Jerry Martin? No kidding, the Rush Hour OST is legendary! One of my favorite instrumentals to work to, for sure.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by progre »

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…

>Where do you even find this shit?.

I don't follow the recomendations, I click "Fans also listen to". Here is the rest of my assesment.

> Your spotify was moonshine-renaissance-faire bad.

> Thank your obsessions with Johnny Cash and medieval folk for that.

> Based on your listening habits, I can also tell you your spotify was...

> napping-in-your-mancave bad

> Here's what else is going on in your aural trash fire:

You listen to these tracks too much:

    Enter The Ninja by Die Antwoord
    Napalm Sunshine by Lying for Friends
    The Lachrymal Sleep by Doom:VS
    Thousands Of Bees by In Gowan Ring
    The Seer and the Seen by In Gowan Ring
You stan these artists to an uncomfortable extent:

    VNV Nation
    Winterfylleth
    WEH
    Rome
    Falconer
You are 1% basic. Trepaneringsritualen and Svartidaudi? Where do you even find this shit?.

You're stuck in the early 2010s. You only listen to Obama-era jams like Ensigns Of Victory by Winterfylleth and Streamline by VNV Nation.

Analysis completed in 4.012 exhausting seconds.

Thanks for letting me see your music I guess.

Shutting down.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by matwood »

chipotle_coyote wrote: post #344
vlunkr wrote: post #308

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I don't know how much Spotify uses human curation, but Apple Music has a lot of human editors behind the scenes to assemble -- and update/maintain -- what I'm pretty sure are tens of thousands of playlists at this point, based on artist and genre and subject and mood and more. And while this is absolutely one of those Totally Subjective YMMV Works For Me May Suck For You deals, for me it's been far more hit than miss…

It is subjective, but I agree with you and enjoy the human touch on the Apple playlists. I tried Spotify long ago, had some issues and then moved to GPM. I used GPM for years until they started pushing me to YTM, so I moved to AM. AM has been the best experience so far, but like you said, YMMV.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by alexirobbins »

pc86 wrote: post #351
vlunkr wrote: post #308

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> Hunting for music is really fun! I mean, maybe. I only listen to music when I'm a) driving; b) working. Neither are times I'm particularly interested in searching for new bands to listen to, so I'm going to end up relying on my streaming service's recommendation engine.

I highly recommend carving out some time to put on a good pair of headphones, and just listen to music. It can be very much like reading a good book.
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