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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 bosie »

Alupis wrote: post #475
mike_d wrote: post #473

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spotify won the same way Dropbox and Slack did. They didn't invent anything magical, they just had a client for every platform that worked when people tried it. Like web apps? Here you go. Linux nerd? Here is a deb repo. Have a smartphone? Cool, we don't care what kind. Even now I googled "Pandora windows app", clicked a few times, and ended up on some Microsoft Store page. Interestingly enough if I add "mac" to my s…

What's wrong with Pandora in the web browser?

Can you control pandora in the web browser with your keyboard? can you jump to pandora in the web browser with a single keyboard shortcut?

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by AsyncAwait »

will_pseudonym wrote: post #514
arp242 wrote: post #508

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Discovery, recommendations and shuffle are at the heart of what made Pandora a thing That's exactly what I'm not looking for; I'm perfectly fine with making my own music choices. I know what I like, have an extensive "library" on Spotify, and play from just that. The biggest thing I'm missing from Spotify (or indeed, most players, except the one I wrote myself years ago) is the ability to say "play random album fro…

foobar2k wins again ;)

So does cmus :-)

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by henrikschroder »

rconti wrote: post #265
runarberg wrote: post #250

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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.

You think that being able to favorite, skip, and dislike songs is worse UX than the radio, which just plays endlessly, whether you want to listen to that song (or annoying DJ) or commercial or not? I mean, sure, you can change the station, but, best case scenario, you get a song you want, 3/4 of the way through.

I heard recently that some radio station here had developed an app that they were promoting. One huge feature of the app was that it could send you a notification when your favourite song...

...was playing on the radio station, so that you could then turn on the radio and listen to it.

This was - unironically - the big thing they were using to try to get users to download their app. I can't even. This is so dumb.

Can we just kill radio already? Please?

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by antihero »

I just wish they put radio back as what it used to be. Now if you create artist/song/playlist radios they seem to be the same few tracks and artists looping, it used to be infinite, ie, the whole point of radio.

If you do radio for a decently sized playlist, it is basically just akin to using shuffle. What is the point in that? Absolutely useless for music discovery.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by antihero »

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 is also US only unless you use a VPN.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by antihero »

will_pseudonym wrote: post #514
arp242 wrote: post #508

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Discovery, recommendations and shuffle are at the heart of what made Pandora a thing That's exactly what I'm not looking for; I'm perfectly fine with making my own music choices. I know what I like, have an extensive "library" on Spotify, and play from just that. The biggest thing I'm missing from Spotify (or indeed, most players, except the one I wrote myself years ago) is the ability to say "play random album fro…

foobar2k wins again ;)

How great is fb2k for music discovery? Also their macOS player is kind of...bad. I'd recommend Cog for local files.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by zero_shift »

mot0rola wrote: post #468
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.

Same. I gave it access to my data, it spat out a bunch of vague insults that just... didn’t mean anything.

It called me a “manic pixie dream girl” - I’m male.

It said I was “local-talk-radio-bumper-sticker-bitch“, which isn’t even an adjective.

I revoked access afterwards but like you I felt a bit conned.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by danielscrubs »

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-…

Pandoras was better but is now much much worse. Spotifys recommendations are the fold standard.
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