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An odd discovery on Spotify

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Re: An odd discovery on Spotify

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Isn't it principally an industry thing to hide the composer, they don't want us to know that the pop is from a "factory" and picked for the artist, they want the public to believe the myth that the manufactured band sit on mountaintops with their instruments coming up with new grooves (or whatever). Can't you just let the user decide "artist + track" or "artist + composer(s) + track" or ...

That's their point though, it's not the same across musical industries. Pop music? Yeah people don't care about the composer credits. Classical music or a jazz standards band? You want the performing artist and the composer.

I was trying to express the idea that it was pop industry who made the decision that composers didn't matter rather than pop consumers and maybe that given the information pop listeners might well be happy to know where the pop comes from.

Re: An odd discovery on Spotify

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Spotify's recommendation system is so bad, that when I find a song I like, I put it into Pandora's free tier to find more songs. I hate how Spotify likes to prioritize every other song from that artist, and every other song from that genre, over songs from other artists and genres that sound similar to the song I want recommendations for. Pandora seems to prioritize the sound of the song, and actually finds similar s…

Sites like Pandora, and many other "underdog" sites, operate as expected because they are trying desperately to please users in a bid to capture market share. Once they gain market dominance they begin to operate in an unexpected/unfavorable manner, just like Spotify does now, because "tailored" recommendations (strategic content recommendations) generates the most annual revenue for them. The saying "power corrupts"…

I think Pandora's Music Genome Project is just superior. It always has been for me, and more importantly, it's always been consistently superior.
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