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An odd discovery on Spotify
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#22The post was interesting, but I also noticed something in the blog that had the same flavor. Even though the link was for a specific post, the page layout neatly flowed into another post. So smooth I thought the second post's title was a subheading of the original article. A strange thing, but maybe that's just me making connections that aren't there.
I listened to the playlist and it's definitely the same song over and over again with slight tweaks. Imagine finding dozens of blogs where posts are all the same, but with very slight changes to vocabulary used in each blog.
I recall reading an article on HN a while ago about how recipe/cooking blogs are basically becoming just that—centrally run networks of independently branded sites that just serve to drive clicks on affiliate links. But then again, I can't find that link, so it's probably a conspiracy theory I just made up
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#23This feels like the Spotify version of the websites you find on Google that just scrape Stack Overflow
As Spotify's recommendations become more ingrained in how people listen to music they'll have to think about how to treat "song spam"
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#25> A single kitchen operating under many names to increase its algorithmic “surface area”; another shape of things to come. I find this infuriating. There's one dominican restaurant in my city that's listed on DoorDash, Grubhub and UberEats under over 20 different names with different subsets of their menu. All of these duplicate listings for the same place make it harder to search or browse the actual restaurant opti…
I wonder if that's a consequence of the "gig economy" working in the wrong direction. Perhaps the relationship should be between the delivery service "gig fleet" and the restaurants themselves. The ratings and feedback information would actually be more useful and would allow different restaurants to post different contract rates through the service based upon these ratings.
That would actually provide a service that doesn't dilute their brand. As it is, these restaurants have just found a way to counter this negative outcome by diluting this third party marketplace itself.
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#26> A single kitchen operating under many names to increase its algorithmic “surface area”; another shape of things to come. I find this infuriating. There's one dominican restaurant in my city that's listed on DoorDash, Grubhub and UberEats under over 20 different names with different subsets of their menu. All of these duplicate listings for the same place make it harder to search or browse the actual restaurant opti…
(Shrug) This is how hotel restaurants, including some very good ones, have always worked. What difference does it make what other ethnicities/varieties of food the restaurant delivers?
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#27The post was interesting, but I also noticed something in the blog that had the same flavor. Even though the link was for a specific post, the page layout neatly flowed into another post. So smooth I thought the second post's title was a subheading of the original article. A strange thing, but maybe that's just me making connections that aren't there.
I listened to the playlist and it's definitely the same song over and over again with slight tweaks. Imagine finding dozens of blogs where posts are all the same, but with very slight changes to vocabulary used in each blog.
I listened to the playlist too and it's definitely the same song with small variations. Imagine finding dozens of threads where comments are all the same, but with very slight changes of words used in each comment.
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#28People have been noticing this a lot recently but what nobody seems to know is that this is a form of money laundering/“scamming.” I know because I used to be active on crime forums and talked to some of the people who engineered this scheme.
People will set up fake Spotify artist accounts with stolen identities and bank accounts, pay a musician for songs that pass as music, and then bot millions of streams on them. At this point there are so many of these fake profiles and songs that the music, which is simple “mood music” normally (which happens to be easy to make), is appearing on real playlists and being recommended to real listeners.
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
> on account of being long-deceased and all posthumous releases are a thing
Not really for the likes of Fanny Mendelssohn.
This is incorrect, but it's principally incorrect because we all abuse the artist field to contain composer information. This is done, I surmise, because figuring out when to display the composer information (performances of composed works) and when not to (bands) is too hard while delivering consistent UX.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I listened to the playlist and it's definitely the same song over and over again with slight tweaks. Imagine finding dozens of blogs where posts are all the same, but with very slight changes to vocabulary used in each blog.
I recall reading an article on HN a while ago about how recipe/cooking blogs are basically becoming just that—centrally run networks of independently branded sites that just serve to drive clicks on affiliate links. But then again, I can't find that link, so it's probably a conspiracy theory I just made up
Or the original whistleblower was offed by Big Recipe.