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Re: Dislike button would improve Spotify's recommendations

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Post by fomine3 »

skrebbel wrote: post #542

At the risk of pointing out the obvious: Google's Spotify clone, "YouTube Music", has such miracles of UX design as: - a dislike button - a playlist that works like you'd expect - a "play album" button And tons of other similar totally obvious things that Spotify doesn't have¹ for no good reason at all. If you have no qualms about using a Google product that might end any day, then I think it's simply just Spotify, d…

YouTube Music UI is horrible. I've get used to but still have some compliants.

Web: It doesn't show +1/-1/volume/whatever unless its window is smaller than 1280px IIRC. Volume control is useless because it's too loud even at minimum+1.

Android: Adding playlist/+1/whatever shows toast at the bottom of screen, it blocks pulling drawer for about 10 secs.

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Post by NoPicklez »

As a Spotify user for ages, I can't understand why if I search an artist, I then can't see all of their songs in a list. I need to search their name, then hit the songs tab to then list all the songs under that query.

I swear some time ago I could search for an artist, see their top 5 then scroll down and hit "See all songs".

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Post by lkois »

squeaky-clean wrote: post #546
sparky_z wrote: post #396

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you certain it was Spotify that did that? Unless you downloaded the episode in 2018, it could have easily been the Conan podcast. Podcast episodes aren't immutable, they're just a url. I've seen podcasts that update the ads in their back catalogue to whoever is paying them at the time the episode is downloaded. I've also noticed some location specific ads, which isn't that surprising if you think about. There's n…

When I listen through the apple podcast app I get ads that are clearly from 2018 though. Like for events that are long gone and over. Ads that don't match the year of the episode have only ever happened to me in spotify. Also this is specifically a Spotify feature https://ads.spotify.com/en-US/news-and-insights/streaming-ad... > Spotify Podcast Ads are powered by Streaming Ad Insertion (SAI), which leverages streamin…

I've had the same thing with Pocket Casts and new podcasts.

It's a bit jarring to listen to podcasts full of Americans and Brits and and hear ads for some Australian bank or something

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Post by tempestn »

nonfamous wrote: post #535
tempestn wrote: post #400

I'm apparently in the minority, but I long for a return of the 5-star ranking. I really miss that about itunes, being able to rank each song, and set up smart playlists based on genre and how much variety (how deep in the star rankings) I wanted. I'd have to think an intelligent recommendation engine could do a ton more with star rankings than a simple up/down too. 5=love, 4=like, 3=ok, 2=dislike, 1=hate. It could ev…

Itunes (well I guess it’s Apple Music now) does still support 5-star rankings, it’s just hidden behind a context menu. I still have a Smart Playlist (can you even make those anymore?) of my 4-star and 5-star songs that serves as my daily shuffle rotation.

Yeah, I still use it for listening to my own music, but I'd love to have the same thing for streaming. (Maybe Apple Music supports that?)

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Post by tempestn »

Mehdi2277 wrote: post #444
tempestn wrote: post #400

I'm apparently in the minority, but I long for a return of the 5-star ranking. I really miss that about itunes, being able to rank each song, and set up smart playlists based on genre and how much variety (how deep in the star rankings) I wanted. I'd have to think an intelligent recommendation engine could do a ton more with star rankings than a simple up/down too. 5=love, 4=like, 3=ok, 2=dislike, 1=hate. It could ev…

There are two issues with 5 star ranking. One the more thought required to give feedback the less likely users give feedback. More interactions is very helpful for ml so minimizing the decisions needed by a user helps a lot. Great ui/ux for engagement aims for signals to require as little action from the user as possible. As a side effect short content is very nice as finish/playtime become strong signals that requir…

I think these issues are more significant for public rankings. When I'm ranking songs, it's to curate my own listening. So if I only want to use 1 and 5 stars, fine—no worse off than a thumbs up/down system. But for those of us who do want to be more precise, it just gives more flexibility.

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Post by hn_go_brrrrr »

a5aAqU wrote: post #378
klyrs wrote: post #78

An option to hide all podcasts would significantly improve spotify's recommendations. I don't listen to podcasts (though I have accidentally clicked on one, when a podcast interviewed a musician I like... blech). Why is my screen filled with podcasts multiple times per day? I like the music recommendations, "so and so artist radio," etc., but they make me hunt for them. Also, while I like a broad variety of genres, I…

Pandora's music recommendations are amazing, and the stations stay within their genre. I've discovered a huge amount of new music that way. I've never used Spotify, so I can't compare. I don't like podcasts either. I get more out of audiobooks.

If only the audio quality weren't crap. I switched away from them to get better audio, and would gladly switch back if they provided better than 192.

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Post by darthrupert »

spywaregorilla wrote: post #511
darthrupert wrote: post #414

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?

Apple music isn't run by a profit motivated public company?

Sure they are but the significant difference for the consumer is that Apple has way more than one product.

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Post by tomjen3 »

oceanghost wrote: post #533
graftak wrote: post #470

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With YouTube you can mark them as ‘not interested’ and poof, they’re gone.

I mostly use the YouTube app on my google TV which is notoriously... behind the times. I will look for that thank you!

Even if it isn't, if you login to youtube briefly on a computer, you can set it there, then it should be reflected on your tv.
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