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Goodbye, Slopify

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Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by dmix »

zombiwoof wrote: post #3

AI generated music should be against the terms and what we decided to pay for.

Spotify can't tell the difference.

You're not going to be forced to upload an Ableton project and video of you recording the instruments. AI music usually is heavily processed and arranged by a human anyway, it's not yet like pushing a button (if you want to get listens).

At most it's the 'artists' self-admission of copyright via stuff like Distrokid + some automated analysis for sample royalties.

So likewise AI at most will just be a checkbox they'll choose to ignore during that process just like people who repost other artists music.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by Dalewyn »

anderber wrote: post #63
pjs_ wrote: post #46

Recommend getting an MP3 player. Just feels good man. 500GB of music, no ads, no network, no subscription, no distractions.

No discovery of new music?

In the immortal words of every generation entering their middle age years (~30 years old and up):

"New music is shit. Kids these days have no taste."

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by r3trohack3r »

magnetowasright wrote: post #51

I don't use spotify (primarily buy CDs and use ipod classics, also records because I am a cliche) and this made me think of the articles about the guy who was one of the most listened artists on spotify (piano for study/concentration type stuff iirc?) and he got punished or something because he was publishing under several names? I couldn't quite find that or what actually happened, but I did stumble upon this Wikipe…

I built this to satisfy the new music itch: https://audile.blankenship.io/

Every time you load the page it recommends a random album from Deezer’s catalog. The algorithm is pretty silly: loop Math.random() * MAX_ID until you find an album id that actually exists and return it.

The goal was to recreate that feeling you’d get going down to someone’s basement and thumbing through an old record collection.

Also 1001 Albums to Listen To Before You Die is a pretty decent collection of canonical albums from the record industry that’ll keep you busy for quite a while.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by coder543 »

Philpax wrote: post #71

Of all the problems that I have with Spotify - its frequently changing selection of music, its hostility to power users, its shuffle algorithm, its artist hostile rates, its frequently changing-for-the-worse interface - I can't really say that AI music is one of them. If I come across some and enjoy it, great! I'm not going to let that impact my enjoyment of music as a whole.

100% agree. I still listen to this one from time to time:

https://suno.com/song/da6d4a83-1001-4694-8c28-648a6e8bad0a

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/mit-l...

It's just so good, IMHO.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by zamalek »

magnetowasright wrote: post #51

I don't use spotify (primarily buy CDs and use ipod classics, also records because I am a cliche) and this made me think of the articles about the guy who was one of the most listened artists on spotify (piano for study/concentration type stuff iirc?) and he got punished or something because he was publishing under several names? I couldn't quite find that or what actually happened, but I did stumble upon this Wikipe…

I use SoundCloud from time to time, my taste is really niche and it works great for that (but you need to find a relevant artist first).

I recently jumped off Qobuz exclusively because of their drunk recommendation algorithm, or lack thereof (it seems I'd often end up with whatever is on the front page). I wound up on Pandora: their whole value proposition was finding music you like, and music you might like. I haven't been on Spotify in a hot minute, so I can't make a comparison, but Pandora has been pretty good.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by dclowd9901 »

pjs_ wrote: post #46

Recommend getting an MP3 player. Just feels good man. 500GB of music, no ads, no network, no subscription, no distractions.

On a lark, I refunded up my phone with my mp3 library I keep on my laptop and I built up so many years ago. I enjoyed it just fine for the nostalgia but I still don't understand where I'm going to discover new music without services like Spotify. I used go to shows and see new artists that way, but with kids that's not as much a valid proposition as it once was.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by notatoad »

PullJosh wrote: post #10
dlcarrier wrote: post #2

I thought the headline was mocking Shopify, not Spotify. It shows how little creativity we have in tech company naming. I wonder which suffix is more popular, -ify, -ly, or -r.

I feel like -r is an old school internet thing. I wonder if anybody has data for trends over time.

i know it as a "web 2.0 thing", but i guess that counts as old-school internet now.

that was all set off by flickr - they might not have been the first to do it, but they were the first to get popular enough to set off a wave of imitators.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by tmendez »

dlcarrier wrote: post #2

I thought the headline was mocking Shopify, not Spotify. It shows how little creativity we have in tech company naming. I wonder which suffix is more popular, -ify, -ly, or -r.

My next startup will be called Rifyly

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by lern_too_spel »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #61
muppetman wrote: post #57

I can't understand how people use Spotify. It was great ~10 years ago? It's terrible these days. Pushing Podcasts at you (no thanks, Podcasts are terrible. If I wanted to hear idiots laughing at each other I'd listen to the Radio DJs), terrible music, the UI getting harder and less intuitive to use. It's a shame all good things have to slowly tend towards sucking, instead of getting better. Bitwarden, one of my belov…

> no thanks, Podcasts are terrible. If I wanted to hear idiots laughing at each other I'd listen to the Radio DJs When you inject personal opinions like this which are obviously at odds with millions of other people, it's difficult to take the rest of the comment seriously.

It's at odds with millions of people but also in agreement with millions of others. I also don't listen to podcasts for the same reason. Spotify shouldn't push something that so many people detest without letting them opt out.
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