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How bad is your Spotify?

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Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by fao_ »

kingosticks wrote: post #317
fao_ wrote: post #285

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I... what? So you think Spotify was justified to stop people from... copying playlists? ?? what????

The playlists they (Spotify) created? Yes. I think there's an argument they own that data. The playlists that users created? No. I apologise if that distinction was not clear enough in my original post.

I wasn't aware that playlists can be copyrighted. And what's the difference between someone mechanically scraping playlists (because, quite frankly, spotify alter their playlists all the time -- I've experienced this with the Soul playlists they have), and someone hiring people via mechanical turk or getting 3 other people together to make text-based lists?

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by Avamander »

mancerayder wrote: post #322

It's a shame because "Discover Weekly" is a complete flop for me. It's beyond strange what it's sending me. I tried hitting the "-" / don't like button several weeks on almost everything... but eventually I gave up. I'm not sure how customized it is to me, honestly. Your Daily Mix # - that works better but it's mostly repetitive stuff I already have in my Library. They need toggles of some sort, or some dial of some…

Discover weekly is better if you spend time during the previous week listening to songs you like (and also add them to likes).

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by the_arun »

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…

Sorry, I am not going to let an external AI engine sneak into my Playlists :) I would let the AI engines of Spotify do the same job for me - whenever that happens.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by szatkus »

coffeekitkat wrote: post #262

Didn'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…

Your spotify was pour-over-coffee-too-much-symphonic metal bad.

> Thank your obsessions with Of Monsters and Men and symphonic metal (e.g., Luca Turilli and Van Canto) for that.

> Here's what else I learned in that hellscape:

You listen to these tracks too much:

[too embarrassing]

You stan these artists to an uncomfortable extent:

You are 4% basic. Мёртвые Осы and Zabili Mi Żółwia? Where do you even find this shit?.

You're too trendy for your own good. You only listen to music made in the last year like...

It's amazing that it correctly spotted objectievely shitty songs on my playlist.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by rodiger »

anoncake wrote: post #387
smichel17 wrote: post #295

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Unfortunately, "private session" resets every X hours.

That's an awful idea for a privacy feature.

You can disable sharing altogether if you want. This is specifically for a single "session." Like if you want to listen to a guilty pleasure and don't want your friends bugging you about it

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by Raphael_Amiard »

forgetcolor wrote: post #388
scottmcdot wrote: post #386

Is anyone fed up with seeing a song in their Release Radar, getting excited about your favourite artists releasing a new album, then being disappointed that the artist has decided to only drop one song from the album, which you will likely get sick of before the album releases?

This drives me nuts. I want to listen to an album, not a song. But I'm guessing this is an old-school POV that the younger demographic doesn't agree with.

I'm not young anymore (35) but I really don't care about albums

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by WillYouFinish »

rednum wrote: post #38

Looking at title I thought it was rant about product quality. But it's not, so I'll provide mine. Since 2013 when I've started paying for Spotify it has turned from one of my favourite apps to one of those I hate most. On my previous Android phone it would freeze every other day when there was no internet. Why? Who knows. Could be related to me using SD card, or could be something else. The phone wasn't very old, but…

I agree about the Spotify desktop app. It got worse and worse. But for me there are different reasons. Especially the performance got worse enormously. Still running the 0.9.7. The old Android apps were way faster, too. I really miss those times. Hardware got better but software got so much worse it's pure insanity.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by matwood »

alexirobbins wrote: post #360
pc86 wrote: post #351

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> 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.

Sometimes I do this with music videos. Unfortunately a song has to be popular enough to have a video made, but I'm routinely surprised which songs do have videos. I'm sure this is a bit of nostalgia, since I grew up in the era when MTV still showed music videos.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by Tostino »

rodiger wrote: post #405
anoncake wrote: post #387

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's an awful idea for a privacy feature.

You can disable sharing altogether if you want. This is specifically for a single "session." Like if you want to listen to a guilty pleasure and don't want your friends bugging you about it

Wait wait wait, Spotify notifies my friends of what I am listening to (not a user, so honest question)?

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by thatguy0900 »

Stupulous wrote: post #279
soneil wrote: post #44

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12 hours ago was what, 5am London, Midnight East Coast? Timing is everything. If a tree falls in the forest and 75% of the potential readership are fast asleep, does it make a sound? (Numbers are fictional - and possibly eurocentric - for the purpose of conversation. I think the point stands with or without their veracity, it's just easier for form a sentence with values)

In theory you could account for this, right? HN (and reddit, etc.) could score based on how many typical voters have seen it, or just bias directly based on average active times across a week.

Dang sends email to people suggesting they repost it if he thinks it should have gotten more traction, probably an easier system. I could see reddit doing something like that but hn seems pretty basic
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