How bad is your Spotify? • Hacker News Board

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by tyrust » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 4:02 AM UTC

colinmhayes wrote: post #524

sundvor wrote: post #511

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You could check out YouTube Music (edit: changed from "music"), which has a long list of Philip Glass titles that may be up there with Spotify. I gave up on Spotify when they removed the widget functionality on Android. I know they returned it eventually, but not without complete uproar. It burned myself as a decade old (family) premium user though; I used to love them, but that complete disregard completely changed…

Youtube's organization of music is horrible. It clearly wasn't made for listening to music.

I assume they were talking about Youtube Music (https://music.youtube.com/), which is made for listening to music.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by lambda_obrien » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 4:14 AM UTC

tyrust wrote: post #531

colinmhayes wrote: post #524

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Youtube's organization of music is horrible. It clearly wasn't made for listening to music.

I assume they were talking about Youtube Music ( https://music.youtube.com/ ), which is made for listening to music.

I used Google Music until they discontinued it in favor of Youtube Music, and I ditched that crap immediately, the UI was horrible, the recommendations were BAD (Google Music was somewhat good), and I lost about half my playlist items as "not available". It is so bad, that after years of Google Music, I just ditched my playlists (what little there was) and moved to Spotify.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by henry_bone » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 4:21 AM UTC

thankfullyfired wrote: post #208

A lot of people in this thread have no sense of humor and need to seriously lighten up.

That'd be me. Wasn't in a good mood when I commented. :-) ironically, my comment is funny to me (at least) now.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by samename » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 4:51 AM UTC

humanistbot wrote: post #348

Peskier wrote: post #91

Anyone that wants to revoke the access this (or any previously used) app had to your spotify account, you can revoke access here: https://www.spotify.com/uk/account/apps/

Yeah, the absolute lack of any privacy statements makes me wary. They get access to my entire music history and personal info, and just say that they won't post anything? Pass.

The privacy policy is here: https://pudding.cool/privacy/

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by oorza » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 5:00 AM UTC

RogerL wrote: post #494

Alupis wrote: post #437

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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-…

Speaking for myself? Content. Philip Glass has 27 albums on Pandora, 105 on Spotify. Nico Mulhy? 7 vs 14. Maarja Nuut. Only 1 album on Pandora. For her, Pandora makes no recommendations for others to listen to, Spotify lists 20. Pandora has no bio, Spotify does. Third Coast Percussion? 8 vs 10. I'm just randomly clicking in my library and doing a comparison, they aren't artfully chosen examples. I recognize this isn'…

I don't have anything to add but to say I'm glad someone else has discovered the beauty of coding to Glass's works.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by adarshaj » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 5:03 AM UTC

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #491

Alupis wrote: post #447

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I didn't realize Pandora was region locked - what a bummer! The rest of the comment still stands for all US based users, however.

Spotify is too, just not as drastically. I opened an account in Prague and found when I got to the US that it wouldn't play anything. Curious how they knew I wasn't in CZ anymore, yet instead of just letting me play the US version, it wouldn't let me play anything.

This isn't true, may be got to do with specific set of songs? I've an US account, which I use in UK, India and Japan.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by shostack » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 5:07 AM UTC

Is there a way to reset the logic for a recommended play list or set it to not factor in songs played for the next hour?

I often find myself playing songs for others I myself wouldn't want to listen to and as a result my Discover Weekly feed is unusable with no apparent fix.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by shostack » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 5:09 AM UTC

lambda_obrien wrote: post #532

tyrust wrote: post #531

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I assume they were talking about Youtube Music ( https://music.youtube.com/ ), which is made for listening to music.

I used Google Music until they discontinued it in favor of Youtube Music, and I ditched that crap immediately, the UI was horrible, the recommendations were BAD (Google Music was somewhat good), and I lost about half my playlist items as "not available". It is so bad, that after years of Google Music, I just ditched my playlists (what little there was) and moved to Spotify.

I just tried listening to some uploaded music last night. Except the Artists page seems to be in random order vs alphabetical and there is no apparent sort option. I'm not sure how that decision played out.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by lucasgw » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 5:15 AM UTC

RogerL wrote: post #494

Alupis wrote: post #437

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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-…

Speaking for myself? Content. Philip Glass has 27 albums on Pandora, 105 on Spotify. Nico Mulhy? 7 vs 14. Maarja Nuut. Only 1 album on Pandora. For her, Pandora makes no recommendations for others to listen to, Spotify lists 20. Pandora has no bio, Spotify does. Third Coast Percussion? 8 vs 10. I'm just randomly clicking in my library and doing a comparison, they aren't artfully chosen examples. I recognize this isn'…

If Glass is your thing, I highly recommend Idagio. It is explicitly focused on Classical, and its filtering is focused on what you'd want out of a Classical-focused search.

For instance, with Glass - there are 171 albums on Idagio. And it breaks them down with works, instrumentation, ensembles, soloists, genres (piano solo, chamber, secular vocal. etc.), conductors, and recording date.

If you want to compare the 22 piano solo albums that Jeroen van Veen has recorded of Glass's music - easy to pull all of them up quickly.

Their encoding is also vastly superior to Spotify or (yikes) YouTube Music. If you have a decent signal-chain for listening, high-quality components, and enjoy Classical... Idagio is head-and-shoulders above the rest.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by linux_devil » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 5:16 AM UTC

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…

Do share your playlist , if its public