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The day I canceled my Spotify subscription
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#432I believe, Spotify is pretty much the best thing ever. I understand the criticism - but to me, this is just a sign of how far we've come. I was born in 1984 and, from a very early age, was really into Metal. That was a problem - since there were literally zero ways to discover new songs. The radio and MTV didn't play Metal. None of my friends shared my taste in Music. The listening stations at HMV & Co (remember thos…
I was lucky to have a few friends sharing my passion for metal. Anyway there were quite a lot of magazines about metal music. They really helped me to discover new styles, bands, and releases.
Oh how I enjoyed reading the reviews of the new albums back then! Some journalist were very talented in describing the music in tasty details and I was longing for the moment, when I buy and listen to the long awaited CD.
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#433> The lack of customization feels like a slap. Like Spotify designers telling me “you don’t know what you want, we know better,” but the problem is they don’t, and they haven’t for a long time. Warning: extremely broad stereotyping to follow. This is macro level stuff, not micro level stuff. Real individual humans are far more complex and nuanced than what I'm about to say and don't fit neatly into these categories.…
Interactive design should be interactive. I've always believe this. It's in the name. The very concept of interactive design should be that its user should be allowed to change it, and that's true of essentially any serious software application that's stood the test of time. They are malleable. The current, Apple-inspired "we know better" is just a cultural aberration that emerged from the post-iPhone landscape.
Everyone's thought was "the iPhone only has one button". Well yeah but it had a huge touchscreen that could do about anything. It was malleable. Software must be malleable, particularly in bigger screens.
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#434I believe, Spotify is pretty much the best thing ever. I understand the criticism - but to me, this is just a sign of how far we've come. I was born in 1984 and, from a very early age, was really into Metal. That was a problem - since there were literally zero ways to discover new songs. The radio and MTV didn't play Metal. None of my friends shared my taste in Music. The listening stations at HMV & Co (remember thos…
Oddly enough, I feel like streaming music service algorithms only reluctantly serve up new music. To me it feels like a constant reversion to the mean, not a portal to endless possibilities. It’s closer to listening to the radio than digging crates in a record store.
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#435If you want something that just works: YouTube Music + uBlock origin
Some may dispute the algorithms, others may note it's not as easy to get it to work on mobile, but it has an extremely large collection
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#436Earlier quoted context omitted.
"I assume the artists are reasonable rational adults. If they're on the platform, its economically advantageous to them." - Your assumption is wrong though. Artists aren't on spotify because it's economically advantageous for them, they are on spotify because they have no other alternative. It doesn't matter if it's streaming platform A or B or C, they are ubiquitous and as an artist you want your music to be heard,…
> skewing the gains towards the top of the pyramid Hasn't Spotify been losing money for all/most of its existence? Or is there some other top of the pyramid?
Daniel Ek sure hasn't lost any of his own money.
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#437Every time I get on an airplane and go to listen to my downloaded music on spotify, most of my downloaded library is gone and needs to be redownloaded. Sometimes when I play music on lte connection the app also would rather use my poor data connection to serve me a choppy buffering track of one I already downloaded locally, that apparently spotify app won’t chose over seeking a new download even on a cellular data co…
It will forever drop your downloads, or fuck with you in offline mode in some other way.
I ride deep tube lines in London so offline content is a must have. I built an extensive library downloading flacs from Deezer with Deemix and serve it with Plex/Plexamp
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#438I once submitted a bugreport to spotify regarding a problem with the chromecast integration. The support-agent asked me the following questions in turn, which I all followed:
- Can you reinstall the app and try again?
- Can you describe step by step how to reproduce the bug?
- Can you make a screencast showing the problem?
- Can you factory-reset your phone and check if the issue persists?
I've never heard back after doing the last step. They probably didn't think I would report back again. (Thanks god I had an old phone lying around...)
Needless to say the problem is still there today...
Re: The day I canceled my Spotify subscription
#439I believe, Spotify is pretty much the best thing ever. I understand the criticism - but to me, this is just a sign of how far we've come. I was born in 1984 and, from a very early age, was really into Metal. That was a problem - since there were literally zero ways to discover new songs. The radio and MTV didn't play Metal. None of my friends shared my taste in Music. The listening stations at HMV & Co (remember thos…
CDNow was amazing before Amazon bought and killed them. Their recommendations were great and turned me on to artists I wouldn't have ever thought about otherwise. For discoverability these days? Radio, mostly college radio. Much of it is streamed over teh intertubes. KXSF (ex-USF), KEXP (UW), KALX (Cal). Of course there's internet only stuff like SOMAFM or Midlands Metalheads. And there are aggregators like Sound Gar…
CDNow had more in their catalog than the huge onion-skin book that the local independent music store had.
They were selling things online very, very early -- it seems like they were doing that an eternity before "e-commerce" became a part of the vernacular.
In the days before Sir Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web became common, I used to browse CDNow using telnet from a borrowed dialup account on a university VAX system, with a terminal emulator running on MS-DOS.
Fun stuff. (I never bought anything from CDNow -- I used it as a service to find the catalog numbers of the CDs I wanted to buy, which I'd then order from the local shop downtown.)
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#440Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nobody can hear the difference between 16bit and 24bit. 24bit makes zero difference for playback purposes.
Recording, editing, and remixing with anything higher than 16-bit makes a big difference though, which is important in this digital music age where everything is sampled
For recording and editing certainly, just not for your output file for distribution and listening to.