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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 everdrive »

t0mbstone wrote: post #252

As someone who listens to spotify all day while programming, here's my secret to success: I create a playlist to fit a mood (for example, ambient electronic music with a good beat and no words), and I seed it with at least 10 songs. Then, I go down to the "Recommended Songs" section and I just play whatever it recommends. If I don't like a song, I hit the skip button on my keyboard. The vast majority of what it recom…

> here's my secret to success:

> effectively, I manually make my own playlist.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by nijaru »

t0mbstone wrote: post #252

As someone who listens to spotify all day while programming, here's my secret to success: I create a playlist to fit a mood (for example, ambient electronic music with a good beat and no words), and I seed it with at least 10 songs. Then, I go down to the "Recommended Songs" section and I just play whatever it recommends. If I don't like a song, I hit the skip button on my keyboard. The vast majority of what it recom…

>I really wish that there was a way to explicitly tell Spotify that I "dislike" a song and to never recommend it to me again.

You can at least for radio playlists. You can specifically say to never play this song or artist again. They used to let you thumb up or down on tracks which I think was a much easier UI.

Skipping songs doesn't seem to do enough for songs in your playlists so you have to go through the whole right click -> never play again workflow. I really wish I could just downvote individual songs as they play and tailor it that way since sometimes I'm just tired of a particular song, but maybe I like the song or the artist and don't want to click on 'never hear this again'. It just seems to repeat certain songs way too much based on your listening history.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by toyg »

randomstring wrote: post #432
t0mbstone wrote: post #252

As someone who listens to spotify all day while programming, here's my secret to success: I create a playlist to fit a mood (for example, ambient electronic music with a good beat and no words), and I seed it with at least 10 songs. Then, I go down to the "Recommended Songs" section and I just play whatever it recommends. If I don't like a song, I hit the skip button on my keyboard. The vast majority of what it recom…

Pandora's suggestion algorithm is much better than Spotify's. What you describe is what I used to do with Pandora. I migrated to Spotify several years ago. Spotify generates some decent genre based playlists based on my listening history. Not as good as Pandora was. Lately with the pandemic, I've created a super-chill, ambient play list (I started with Moby's Long Ambients and expanded from there) to relax before bed…

Yeah, I hate this too. I use citypop and synthwave when exercising, and they then “pollute” everything else.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by semi-extrinsic »

Agentlien wrote: post #202
blhack wrote: post #141

Huh, I wonder if this is just a mad lib that is being used to gather information about people? It's sayin stuff like "You know music existed before 2019, right?", but also criticizing me for liking Stan Rogers, who died in 1983, Jay Z, and Trevor Hall, who seemed to peak in the early 2000s. Maybe I just haven't finished my coffee yet, but I was kindof hoping that this would actually use AI to figure out the musical v…

I had the same feeling. It made a spot on joke about how much AC/DC I listen to followed by a funny and relevant comment about too much Slipknot. But then it followed it up by calling me obsessed with two bands I can't even remember listening to in recent years. One of which I never really listened much to.

For me also, the big punchline revolved around a song from the Dirty Dancing movie that I had to actually look up to find out if I've ever heard before. Now I'm a sucker for 80s synth-pop, don't get me wrong, but that specific song I'm 99.9% sure I've never actually played on Spotify. So it kinda seems like they've hard coded some insults with pop culture cross-references. The "AI" be like

  select case (person%likes)
    case ('80s-synth-pop')
    print *, 80s_pop_insult_char
    case ('single-specific-artist')
    print *, person%likes_artist//'-stan'
    ! (...)
  end select

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by TheSmoke »

i enjoyed this, really nice. every metal band, every metal album and song decreased my score. :)

> Your spotify was music-to-stalk-boys-to-hail-satan-heavy-eyeliner-post-punk bad.

> allegations-of-abuse-have-never-been-proven-in-court bad

> gallagher-brother bad

> instagram-your-tent-at-sunset bad

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by mot0rola »

blhack wrote: post #141

Huh, I wonder if this is just a mad lib that is being used to gather information about people? It's sayin stuff like "You know music existed before 2019, right?", but also criticizing me for liking Stan Rogers, who died in 1983, Jay Z, and Trevor Hall, who seemed to peak in the early 2000s. Maybe I just haven't finished my coffee yet, but I was kindof hoping that this would actually use AI to figure out the musical v…

i did not understand the need for the hostile language.

i regret letting this access my account. i would recommend others to not give this tool access, it is not worth it.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by smcnally »

Alupis wrote: post #437
t0mbstone wrote: post #252

As someone who listens to spotify all day while programming, here's my secret to success: I create a playlist to fit a mood (for example, ambient electronic music with a good beat and no words), and I seed it with at least 10 songs. Then, I go down to the "Recommended Songs" section and I just play whatever it recommends. If I don't like a song, I hit the skip button on my keyboard. The vast majority of what it recom…

I'm dumbfounded people still put up with this mess on Spotify. Pandora's discovery, recommendations, and shuffle algorithms are objectively superior to Spotify - yet, everyone still seems to use Spotify none-the-less. Discovery, recommendations and shuffle are at the heart of what made Pandora a thing... it's literally what Pandora was built on back when it was purely a seeded radio of sorts. Whereas Spotify more-or-…

> Pandora's discovery, recommendations, and shuffle algorithms are objectively superior

IIRC, these algos were part of a project called ~Muse which later forked, and there was a schism between the algos and clickstream data or the personal data and anonymized cohort data. Will have to review / re-search.

The trove of our searches, listens, and skips Pandora has / had did a good job informing recommendations and was an effective moat for my use.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by ricardobeat »

Alupis wrote: post #437
t0mbstone wrote: post #252

As someone who listens to spotify all day while programming, here's my secret to success: I create a playlist to fit a mood (for example, ambient electronic music with a good beat and no words), and I seed it with at least 10 songs. Then, I go down to the "Recommended Songs" section and I just play whatever it recommends. If I don't like a song, I hit the skip button on my keyboard. The vast majority of what it recom…

I'm dumbfounded people still put up with this mess on Spotify. Pandora's discovery, recommendations, and shuffle algorithms are objectively superior to Spotify - yet, everyone still seems to use Spotify none-the-less. Discovery, recommendations and shuffle are at the heart of what made Pandora a thing... it's literally what Pandora was built on back when it was purely a seeded radio of sorts. Whereas Spotify more-or-…

Oh how the world would have been different if Rdio hadn't been acquired and killed by Pandora. It's recommendations were perfect.
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