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Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by kkdaemas » Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 7:21 PM UTC

Please, please make this work without Spotify (e.g. type in a few favorite albums from Musicbrainz or something)

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by d0100 » Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 7:21 PM UTC

> Your spotify was sinatra-mug-shot-poster-in-your-dorm-room-massage-franchise-bed-bath-and-beyond-christmas soundtrack bad

I resent this comment

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by circa » Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 7:26 PM UTC

Not sure why the first post didn't catch on - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25513886

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by hurlingfrootmig » Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 7:27 PM UTC

Tried both, Spotify and Pandora. Moved to Pandora. The algorithms work ways better for me on Pandora. On both platforms the rule is to actively rhumba up or down the music.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by mackrevinack » Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 7:29 PM UTC

tossthere wrote: post #42

Funny, 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…

sometimes spotify recommends songs that are so bad it makes me wonder is it some sort of test to check if i am even paying attention :)

i get good results from discover weekly for the most part though. I used to spend a lot of hours on social music sites like thisismyjam and the like, where I would stumble across a gem every 1 in 50, but with spotify it feels more like every 1 in 20 or 30, so I'm happy with that and it's also less work not switching between multiple services

other people I know have nothing good to say about discover weekly so I dunno. maybe I just have low standards!

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 7:31 PM UTC

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Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by mzzter » Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 7:33 PM UTC

young_unixer wrote: post #158

ed312 wrote: post #116

Earlier 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:)

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

Same , but with:

- Ryan Caraveo, u okay? - ...of course, K.Flay

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by richardwhiuk » Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 7:39 PM UTC

kkdaemas wrote: post #361

Please, please make this work without Spotify (e.g. type in a few favorite albums from Musicbrainz or something)

It's only funny if you don't get to deliberately select the music yourself to make yourself seem more edgy/cool/punk/folk/etc.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by corobo » Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 7:43 PM UTC

smichel17 wrote: post #295

adam_albrecht wrote: post #225

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

After 6 hours of inactivity or app restart specifically if you plan on utilising this

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by stuaxo » Wed, Dec 23, 2020, 7:52 PM UTC

Without trying it - my spotify is terrible. I used a website to feed 8 years of lastfm and all my youtube plays, but Spotify just thinks I want versions of all the most annoying songs.