Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations • Hacker News Board

Re: Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations

#411

Post by raffraffraff » Sun, Oct 17, 2021, 6:48 AM UTC

01100011 wrote: post #385

Things I want from Spotify: - Fix the damn album artwork in the browser. A big part of enjoying an album is viewing the cover and liner art. Let me do that full-screen with zoom. - Let me create genre-limited radio stations from my likes. Don't just play songs from my likes. If I'm in the mood for , say, 80s hip-hop, I want a radio station based off my liked 80s hip-hop songs which includes related artists. - Hide th…

Last.FM would have worked for you 17 years ago because it did most of that, until they mismanaged it into obscurity.

Re: Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations

#412

Post by nickstinemates » Sun, Oct 17, 2021, 6:57 AM UTC

The more I use Spotify, the less intuitive it becomes. The left bar is a mess. Playing specific albums, looking up discography for a band is painful. The home screen is less than useful.

Re: Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations

#413

Post by ant6n » Sun, Oct 17, 2021, 6:59 AM UTC

californical wrote: post #207

Oddskar wrote: post #84

Of course they can't add this: they're too busy rebuilding the UI so the (I assume) new Art Director can climb the corporate ladder.

Yup - cancelled my Spotify account a year ago, after they changed the UI for the 15th time, making features that I wanted to use harder, and pushing things on me that I don't want (podcasts). And introducing bugs constantly in some of the non-default features that I used a lot (eg. changing playlist sort order was broken at one point). Add to that their shuffle playing the same ~20% of songs in my playlists, and neve…

I find Spotify is riddled with small annoying bugs and antagonistic UI, I'm really really sick of it.

Instead of having a discussion about how it could be improved, maybe we can have one about which alternatives exist and how good they are (tidal, is it?)

EDIT: I tried Tidal, that app has a confusing mess of an interface just like Spotify. Plus they have a "convenient" bug during sign up that may sign up students with more expensive non student accounts.

Re: Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations

#414

Post by darthrupert » Sun, Oct 17, 2021, 6:59 AM UTC

Spotify going IPO was the number one reason I dropped them on the floor. They now officially care only about profits and since they pretty much have just a single product, this means users are fucked.

I begrudingly went to Apple Music and am missing my cd-ripped/torrented mp3 collections...

Why does the free market have to consistently ruin every service?

Re: Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations

#415

Post by hilyen » Sun, Oct 17, 2021, 7:01 AM UTC

Spotify should have an accessibility feature that shows the lyrics for people who are hard of hearing or have APD.

Re: Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations

#416

Post by ascorbic » Sun, Oct 17, 2021, 7:04 AM UTC

simlevesque wrote: post #4

I'll never use Spotify again. My account was hacked by a latino and now my recommendations is 100% latin music. They told me there is nothing they can do to fix this. My recommendations are broken and my only option is to create another account, cancel my subscription, buy it again... Not gonna happen.

I once didn't properly unlink Spotify when I returned my car to the leasing company. The driver taking it back played bhangra for about half an hour using my account before I noticed. Changing the password, unlinking devices nothing worked. I eventually got him to stop by constantly switching it to the Barbie Girl by Aqua and then finally Spotify support was able to unlink it. I was then recommended bhangra for months. Four consecutive Discover Weeklies were 100% bhangra. Now I like the odd track every now and then, but playing less than an hour of a genre should not be enough to do that.

Re: Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations

#417

Post by devoutsalsa » Sun, Oct 17, 2021, 7:04 AM UTC

No dislike button is why I didn’t use Spotify.

Re: Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations

#418

Post by mostelato » Sun, Oct 17, 2021, 7:05 AM UTC

I always thought the skip button would get treated as a dislike

Re: Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations

#419

Post by anakaine » Sun, Oct 17, 2021, 7:10 AM UTC

01100011 wrote: post #385

Things I want from Spotify: - Fix the damn album artwork in the browser. A big part of enjoying an album is viewing the cover and liner art. Let me do that full-screen with zoom. - Let me create genre-limited radio stations from my likes. Don't just play songs from my likes. If I'm in the mood for , say, 80s hip-hop, I want a radio station based off my liked 80s hip-hop songs which includes related artists. - Hide th…

Also, how about giving me the ability to not hear songs with certain words in them. I'm not a tea totaller or holier than thou Nancy, but I really don't want to hear any more songs from the hood rapping about their gangsta money hoes and all the other things that are basically domestic violence, gun violence, racism, gang mentality and "I'm so tough" stories all in one.

Spotify keeps recommending them even though I skip nearly every one of them nearly every time. I'm on premium and this annoys me to no end.

Re: Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations

#420

Post by [deleted] » Sun, Oct 17, 2021, 7:10 AM UTC

01100011 wrote: post #385

Things I want from Spotify: - Fix the damn album artwork in the browser. A big part of enjoying an album is viewing the cover and liner art. Let me do that full-screen with zoom. - Let me create genre-limited radio stations from my likes. Don't just play songs from my likes. If I'm in the mood for , say, 80s hip-hop, I want a radio station based off my liked 80s hip-hop songs which includes related artists. - Hide th…

[deleted]