So I need to provide them with my Spotify credentials?
Isn’t this like one of those personality harvesting Apps on Facebook?
Can’t we permission The Pudding to see our place instead of logging in as us?
How bad is your Spotify?
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#372Didn't expect it will play a music for me haha, had to pick up my earphones. Anyway it was hilarious. - Your spotify was anime-slow-dance bad, On "You listen to these tracks too much:" part, well that is because they are on the top of the playlist. I usually start my Spotify day by just playing the playlist (Liked Songs) so it goes just play the music on whats on top and go down to the first song I fav'ed. - You are…
I got stuck at the "marry fuck kill" question twice and gave up.
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#373Earlier 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.
Spotify announced last month that the "music industry" can start paying to put specific songs into people's recommendations.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/03/spotify-a...
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#374This made me laugh a couple of times. Pretty good :)
Really well written. Unique responses to many (I thought) relatively unknown songs and artists.
The final score, a rambling "BAD" rating, was very funny.
Great job!
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#375I 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…
I don’t consider it as much as “relying on Spotify” as I just consider the recommendations a great addition to music discovery. A long time ago I relied heavily on last.fm’s radio for music discovery, and Spotify does a decent job filling that gap.
To each their own, I guess, but I’m naturally a “passive” music discoverer, using a combination of recommendations and similar artist radios and whatnot. It works fairly well.
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#376Wow, that was great. Very engaging UX / text.
By the way, I hated the Spotify ads so much I paid up for YouTube Music + Premium. Even though the Spotify Windows app is VERY usable compared to https://music.youtube.com. Good Lord, I hated those ads. I know the conspiracy theory that they were designed to be irritating so that you pay up, but that only works in a world without much choice; ;now you have YouTube Music, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and Deezer. Spotify, I'll readily pay up and switch if you improve those awful ads.
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#377So fun! My score plummeted when I answered the interactive questions. Hit a bug where it asked me “do you recognize this song?” And tried to play some audio, but nothing actually played. (Safari on iOS; could have been caused by an ad blocker)
It played Don't Stop Believing by Journey, and then made fun of me for liking it loool
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#378So fun! My score plummeted when I answered the interactive questions. Hit a bug where it asked me “do you recognize this song?” And tried to play some audio, but nothing actually played. (Safari on iOS; could have been caused by an ad blocker)
My score was pretty okay until it played me don't stop believing and I liked it, hard to argue with that one
It also absolutely disliked the amount of Daft Punk I listened too, and called me pretentious for listening to Periphery, this was hilarious.
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#379Wow, that was great. Very engaging UX / text. By the way, I hated the Spotify ads so much I paid up for YouTube Music + Premium. Even though the Spotify Windows app is VERY usable compared to https://music.youtube.com . Good Lord, I hated those ads. I know the conspiracy theory that they were designed to be irritating so that you pay up, but that only works in a world without much choice; ;now you have YouTube Music,…
I have the same opinion on spotify ads, they are so annoying I refuse to subscribe to spotify. It just feels like if I subscribe to remove the awful ads then Spotify has won. I refuse to subscribe because they've annoyed me so much I pay to make it go away!
I'd rather just not use spotify at all.
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#380I've never used Spotify. I'm not sure I want to.
Pandora was OK. The issue I had with it is that "Liking" or "Disliking" a song seemed to poison the playlist.
YouTube is what I use to discover music today. It can take me down a rabbit hole, but going down one never seems to adversely impact song recommendations the next time I go searching for music.
Newer stuff I tend to like usually ends up being on Bandcamp.