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Goodbye, Slopify

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Re: Goodbye, Slopify

#101

Post by doright »

You could use the Spotify API to autogenerate your own playlists and upload them to your library, bypassing Spotify's own recommendations. There are a couple of services out there that connect to Spotify this way. Usually I start with such a playlist then branch out into the album containing a song if I like what I hear.

I also have a personal list of hundreds of albums I want to hear. If I don't feel like anything in specific I pick one at random since Spotify usually has it. Having such a list, I don't see the appeal in listening to Spotify's curated playlists.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

#102

Post by schappim »

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.

Totally! I thought this would be from an app developer lamenting Shopify’s transition from REST to GraphQL…

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

#103

Post by carlosjobim »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #74
jazzyjackson wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Public Service Announcement: there’s a healthy marketplace of refurbished and upgraded iPods from the 2004 era on eBay, the Classic 5.5 comes highly recommended with solid DAC from the factory but iPods mini with upgraded DAC, fresh battery, and large flash memory swaps for the old spinning disks are readily available. I subscribe to Qobuz and buy a lot of lossless DRM free music and can recommend them as well, tho t…

But an iPod from the 2004 era is both hard to use and very heavy. You can get a tiny flash-based modern mp3 player for $30-$40, which is below the apparent price of a 2004 iPod on eBay.

They are awful to use, even if you just want to shuffle songs.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

#104

Post by anal_reactor »

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.

US and USSR

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

#106

Post by tumsfestival »

swyx wrote: post #27
polishdude20 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It may be the worst thing that's happened to musicians but as a listener, I feel like it's been the best for listeners?

really which part? that ui where it switches songs if your finger grazes it even slightly? and starts over completely when you try to flip it back, forgetting where you were? the loud non audio adjusted ads?

The part where you don't need to spend hundreds upon hundreds on CDs and can listen to any music wherever as long as you have an internet connection?

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

#107

Post by numbsafari »

antigeox wrote: post #89

My Spotify experience was poisoned as soon as I signed up some 8 years ago to try it; I realized there was no way to remove the popular but garbage music from the dashboard. It was essentially advertising space for slop. So I cancelled my subscription within 1-2 days. I instead ended up going with Youtube Music which doesn't try to push propaganda on me and instead either shows me what I have in my library already th…

My wife continues to mourn the loss of Grooveshark and brings it up at least once a year. It was pretty amazing.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

#108

Post by autoexec »

swyx wrote: post #11

without any hate to the well intentioned engineers working on the thing, spotify has just exceedingly poor product taste in any number of dimensions - the godawful ai dj they tried to force on pple - buying gimlet media and running it into the toilet. some of the world's best and favorite podcasts, gone because some swedish billionaire decided to throw all his money into foie grasing a perfectly fine niche media comp…

> to this day when you go to a spotify page for a podcast it acts like it has never heard of "RSS" or "mp3". fucking offensive

It seems like most podcasts do everything they can to make downloading an MP3 impossible. This isn't just a spotify problem. Just about every website for every podcast I've seen does the same thing.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by abrookewood »

dmix wrote: post #91
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 m…

I think you are missing the point. The criticism is that Spotify are actually using third parties to create AI generated music in order to pay lower royalties. There was an article in the last month or so on HN that explained the process.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

#110

Post by Sabinus »

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

I agree this format of podcast is terrible, but there are many podcasts that are more like one or a couple of people each giving a presentation and I enjoy them a lot.

Ukraine the Latest by The Telegraph and The History of Rome by Mike Duncan are ones I particularly enjoyed.

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