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Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020)

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Re: Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020)

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Post by Causality1 »

Cd00d wrote: post #283
Causality1 wrote: post #217

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Do you find a significant difference between that and comedy podcasts?

I don't know of any comedy podcasts that are more like comedy albums - recommendations would be appreciated! The podcasts I listen to from comedians is more along the lines of interviews, like WTF, or a few people spitballing on various topics. Not well formed jokes.

Sounds like the podcasts from Sanspants Radio are right up your alley. "Shut Up a Second" is spitballing on a different random topic every show, and "Plumbing the Death Star" is discussion on different pop-culture related questions such as "what if Professor X ran Hogwarts?"

Their D&D podcast is probably my favorite of the genre as well.

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Post by meristohm »

tshaddox wrote: post #112
Lendal wrote: post #76

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No, but they could lose subscribers due to Podcasts. See, I pay for Spotify because of their playlists. Playlists have nothing to do with podcasts. I listen to my podcasts using a different app. Yet Spotify keeps throwing its podcasts in my face. Spotify is not good at podcasts. That's why I use a different app for that. I'm getting tired of scrolling past all the podcast spam in my Spotify UI, and yet Spotify provid…

I recently gave Spotify a try for about 8 months but just switched back to Apple Music. My reason for switching back had nothing to do with podcasts, it was simply Spotify's terrible interface that makes it impossible to just browse all the music in your library . But I had also started to notice podcasts infiltrating UI that used to be only music playlists. A few times I even mistakenly clicked on a podcast thinking…

When we subscribed to Spotify (I don’t use it unsubscribed, as I have difficulty with interruptions from adverts) I found the UI infuriating (an opportunity to notice what I’m feeling and then decide whether to rage or not, but that’s another topic). Trying to tap (on iPad) the options for a song other than the one playing carried the chance that this song might start playing, as the hitbox is too small. Same with Tidal. Neither have an option to increase the size of useful buttons. I don’t consider myself to be differently abled physically, but I do try to promote broader accessibility, understanding there’s a cost in time and effort.

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Post by dankwizard »

emayljames wrote: post #193
tachyonbeam wrote: post #135

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What's losing my interest more and more is that their music recommendations are terrible, rarely match my taste... And, uh, I wish there was an easier way for me to just browse music by category. I just want to see all the new releases under electronic music and browse through them quickly. I don't need to be spoon-fed things as part of "discover weekly". Also, the Spotify Chromecast integration is utter shit. It has…

YT Music has it all, categories, easy library listening, no podspaming, Chromecast. Spotify is like a salesman who has been drinking too much coffee.

Doesn't YouTube Music suggest music based on Youtube Video watching habits?

I think I read something about that which turned me off instantly.

Re: Spotify is killing the open podcast ecosystem (2020)

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Post by devoutsalsa »

dankwizard wrote: post #293
emayljames wrote: post #193

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YT Music has it all, categories, easy library listening, no podspaming, Chromecast. Spotify is like a salesman who has been drinking too much coffee.

Doesn't YouTube Music suggest music based on Youtube Video watching habits? I think I read something about that which turned me off instantly.

It used to for me. I don't think it does at the moment.

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Post by piva00 »

nitrogen wrote: post #273
piva00 wrote: post #269

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I don't see the connection between Smashing Pumpkins and Aphex Twin though, what kind of genre matching do you think would enable that on your specific example? Not nit-picking, just piqued my curiosity about how you would connect those artists.

That's exactly the problem, those songs are not in either artist's genre. The artists don't sound similar, but the songs do. By "genre" I mean the effective genre (mood/vibe, instrumentation, pacing, chord progression, etc) of the song, not the nominal genre of the artist. I would listen to those two songs in a row and be completely satisfied by the transition.

I was a huge Smashing Pumpkins fan when I was young, I'm a big Aphex Twin/Richard D. James fan and I don't know if I'd ever connect those two songs on a playlist or even play them together. That might be the issue, it's too much a subjective judgment.

I've worked and interviewed for companies that do music analysis to find moods, atmospheres, similar timbres, chords and structure to mix and match automated playlists for business needs (restaurants, cafés, retail stores and so on), would like to see what kind of similarity scores they could get between the songs you mentioned.

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Post by kmmlng »

Red_Leaves_Flyy wrote: post #275
cbozeman wrote: post #221

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> A "Is Joe Rogan a racist?" conversation is not interesting, and this place is about hosting interesting discussions. Yeah... because it's a bullshit conversation that people know is false, and any attempt to try to argue otherwise would see you utterly destroyed with facts. Rogan and Chappelle are great friends. Rogan was friends with Patrice O'Neal. He's friends with Colion Noir and has him on the show about every…

I won't go so far as to call Rogan a racist, but it is undeniable that he platforms known racists and does little to challenge their hateful beliefs. In effect Rogan is re-platforming those rightfully cancelled from forums with even the smallest amount of decorum, allowing hateful rhetoric to spread unabated. >Yeah... because it's a bullshit conversation that people know is false, and any attempt to try to argue othe…

In the context of their relationship (comedy), Chappelle is certainly much higher status than Rogan.

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Post by Red_Leaves_Flyy »

kmmlng wrote: post #296
Red_Leaves_Flyy wrote: post #275

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I won't go so far as to call Rogan a racist, but it is undeniable that he platforms known racists and does little to challenge their hateful beliefs. In effect Rogan is re-platforming those rightfully cancelled from forums with even the smallest amount of decorum, allowing hateful rhetoric to spread unabated. >Yeah... because it's a bullshit conversation that people know is false, and any attempt to try to argue othe…

In the context of their relationship (comedy), Chappelle is certainly much higher status than Rogan.

That's tangential to my point and inaccurate. Rogan is worth double Chappelle while enjoying far more of the current limelight to boot. Rather, my point is that saying someone isn't racist because they're friends, at least in public, with black people is fallacious and racist itself.

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Post by lucb1e »

lobocinza wrote: post #261
lucb1e wrote: post #251

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Also, for anyone who (like me) doesn't regularly keep up with micro-SD prices, you may be happy to find that 128GB cards are now dirt cheap. You don't have to juggle what's on your phone anymore. I don't know when this happened, but that's multiple months' worth of audio with all your internal storage free for pictures or the like.

> You don't have to juggle what's on your phone anymore. Unfortunately, sometimes you have. Apps can not moved to SD card depending on Android version or vendor. Also, I use a Syncthing oneway folder to automatic sync downloaded music to phone.

> Apps can not moved to SD card

but data can; you'd put the audio on the sd card.

If you have to juggle the number of installed apps, yeah that I can't help

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Post by lobocinza »

lucb1e wrote: post #298
lobocinza wrote: post #261

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> You don't have to juggle what's on your phone anymore. Unfortunately, sometimes you have. Apps can not moved to SD card depending on Android version or vendor. Also, I use a Syncthing oneway folder to automatic sync downloaded music to phone.

> Apps can not moved to SD card but data can; you'd put the audio on the sd card. If you have to juggle the number of installed apps, yeah that I can't help

Sure. I personally have plenty of free space on the internal memory but some friends with not so old but entry phones do have this problem.
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