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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 progre »

imperfectcats wrote: post #570
progre wrote: post #357

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>Where do you even find this shit?. I don't follow the recomendations, I click "Fans also listen to". Here is the rest of my assesment. > Your spotify was moonshine-renaissance-faire bad. > Thank your obsessions with Johnny Cash and medieval folk for that. > Based on your listening habits, I can also tell you your spotify was... > napping-in-your-mancave bad > Here's what else is going on in your aural trash fire: Yo…

Try having kids: > You listen to these tracks too much: > - Rock-A-Bye Your Bear by The Wiggles Which, to be fair, is my second favourite Wiggle song!

Oh, I have kids. I just give them their own accounts

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by nilram »

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…

> You know music existed before 2019, right?

It gave me the line about being stuck in 2010. Just an insult machine. It would actually be useful if it gave me songs it thought were more "cool" based on my current lists. Still, I'm getting a perspective by reading other people's amusement with the comments here on HN.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by klmadfejno »

Alupis wrote: post #446
klmadfejno wrote: post #436

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I haven't used Pandora in a decade, but when I did, it strongly preferred to play mainstream artists, and within artists, only a handful of specific tracks. They weren't bad choices, but I got pretty bored of them. Spotify takes a lot more risks and I think its highly preferable.

A decade is a long, long time. The catalog is definitely on-par with any service out there today.

I would believe they've improved over time. But my comment wasn't that pandora had a poor catalog. It was that they wanted to play mainstream songs instead. Perhaps not even mainstream, but just very specific songs. They had a lot of artist's whole discographies but only a subset would ever come on. I can still remember a few of them for me:

royksopp - this must be it

trapt - headstrong

ladytron - destroy everything you touch

Some sort of remix of the hand that feeds by Nine Inch Nails (I think it was the photek remix or something)

I got these songs a lot on many stations, and nothing else by those artists ever, haha.

I don't hold a grudge from 10 years ago though

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by rodw »

pjmorris wrote: post #429
rodw wrote: post #316

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What's moody about the placemats?

Well, if you consider drunken sprees a mood... :)

On second thought I do think Paul Westerberg has a strong melancholy streak.

At first I had stuff "Waitress in the Sky" or "Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out" or "Alex Chilton" or whatever in mind, but now that I think about it there's a dark undercurrent to plenty of the songs in the core Replacements canon: "Hold my Life", "Unsatisified", "I Will Dare", "Bastards of Young", "I'll Be You", etc. - not to mention of a handful of slow tempo tracks with obviously dark themes.

I don't normally associate the Replacements with mopey music but in retrospect I'm not sure why. It's kinda all over the place, under a very thin veneer of drunken cynicism.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by zmix »

All I get is (after granting access):

    Loading your music library...Spotify limiting how many people 
    can use this app at once, so you'll need to wait or try again 
    later.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by sitzkrieg »

zmix wrote: post #605

All I get is (after granting access): Loading your music library...Spotify limiting how many people can use this app at once, so you'll need to wait or try again later.

been throttled trying it every few hours for me , seems to be hosed by the popularity. checking network requests spotify may have enabled cors and killed it outright?

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by raindropm »

1_player wrote: post #586
raindropm wrote: post #552

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Gosh I love Ratatat’s Magnifique.

It's about time for their next album. Got any recommendation? So far, I've found Ratatat are in their own league, nobody comes close to that very specific feeling and genre.

Well, unfortunately no. Ratatat is my lucky find. Heard their 'Gettysburg' while watching some random gaming clip that feature their music! and they're not my usual genre I've listen to. So Google is your best friend...

Other of my fav instrumental band is CHON, but they're more of math rock and not really the same.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by sunir »

tetha wrote: post #207
etherio wrote: post #7

This is hilarious... > You are 26% basic. You're trying to be cool with Kapitan Korsakov, but your favorites are the same as everybody else's.. > Your spotify was please-read-my-manuscript-walmart-hawaiian-shirt-sitting-alone-in-the-cafeteria bad. Ouch. Really interesting project by all means. I hope they release the source - I'm curious about how it was built. Edit: This same link was posted 11 hours ago https://new…

Curious, I learned something. > You're stuck in the early 2010s. For you, music's been all downhill since Orden Ogan made The Things We Believe In. Now I wonder if this is because my account is old, or if I really listen to that much old stuff, or if my favorite bands just don't release that much. Weird. But I'm entirely fine with the other assments: > Your spotify was renaissance-faire -too-much-power metal bad. > T…

Everyone got the same message about the 2010s it seems. Don’t fail the Turing test. Or the reverse Turing test where an AI makes you question your own humanity. :)

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by pjmorris »

rodw wrote: post #604
pjmorris wrote: post #429

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Well, if you consider drunken sprees a mood... :)

On second thought I do think Paul Westerberg has a strong melancholy streak. At first I had stuff "Waitress in the Sky" or "Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out" or "Alex Chilton" or whatever in mind, but now that I think about it there's a dark undercurrent to plenty of the songs in the core Replacements canon: "Hold my Life", "Unsatisified", "I Will Dare", "Bastards of Young", "I'll Be You", etc. - not to mention of a handfu…

Exactly. To your point, I'm thinking of 'Swingin' Party,' 'Here Comes a Regular,' even the lovely 'Skyway' is melancholy at heart. Read 'Trouble Boys' by Bob Mehr to find out why.
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