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Spotify killed the thrill of the hunt

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Re: Spotify killed the thrill of the hunt

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Post by pydry »

aleqs wrote: post #5

Spotify is one of the apps I've noticed continually getting worse and more buggy over time. The Android app is very annoyingly buggy and the WebOS (LG tv) Spotify app is completely unusable at this point. Also, a bunch of (non-English) music/lyrics I listen to have recently become strongly censored.. which makes them unlistenable to me... I wonder if there is (or should be) a censorship-free, decentralized, open alte…

Theyve hopped on the vibe coding bandwagon.

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Post by roxolotl »

webdood90 wrote: post #4

I think this translates to a few different mediums. I'm thinking about modern matchmaking in video games today. I used to play a game called SOCOM II back on the PS2 and it was all lobby based. You had to jump around to find the right lobby with the game mode you liked, find people to play with and build community. There was time between games for banter. Now everything is automatic and instantaneous. It has its adva…

I think it's true across most of society today. There's value in removing friction up to a point but we're finding that by treating everything as an end to optimize results in loss of meaning. Most of life is lived in the in between moments and by fully removing them we lose something important.

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Post by adventurejs »

This is not just a Spotify thing, but is endemic to all streaming media. When I was a kid (way back in the 1970s) I first saw the Japanese anime Reideen when my dad took me to a friend's house for movie night, which meant showing movies on a film projector from his collection of (what were probably) 16mm film rolls, which were likely purchased from bootleg traders at comic book conventions. It was incredibly rare at the time. I loved it and fondly remember the experience fifty years later. Nowadays you can easily find the entire series on YouTube, along with every other damned thing.

There's a philosophical point of view that equates art to "making special", as in, art offers something different from the dull routine of survival. In my memory, seeing Reideen for the first time in that way was special. Now that it's part of the infinite buffet, it's just flattened out with everything else into mundane fungibility.

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Post by anonymouscaller »

I'd say the ways of discovering underground music have just evolved. In my (younger) circles those who are passionate about music still hunt out non-mainstream music. Their listening isn't dictated by the algorithm, they instead follow small Instagram music pages, read small blogs, keep in touch with communities, etc.

I've discovered a share of my favorite artists through friends and relationships, I don't think that will ever change.

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Post by al_borland »

This is one of the reasons I’ve gone with Apple Music. The way the app is setup, I can treat the catalog like an online store and my library like my personal CD collection. I made a self-imposed rule to respect this paradigm. When I hear about a new band or album, I go the “store”, add it to my library, and the next time I’m looking to listen to some music, I can see some the recently added list has a couple albums I added that were recommended to me organically as if it was 1994 again. The only real difference is that I’m not out $19 if I don’t like it. I can simply remove it from my library (akin to retuning it to the store), so my library contains the albums I actually like, or am currently exploring.

This has helped me a lot to avoid the infinite choice and overwhelm of having a 100 million song library, which is the case when engaging with a streaming service library directly.

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Post by injidup »

aleqs wrote: post #5

Spotify is one of the apps I've noticed continually getting worse and more buggy over time. The Android app is very annoyingly buggy and the WebOS (LG tv) Spotify app is completely unusable at this point. Also, a bunch of (non-English) music/lyrics I listen to have recently become strongly censored.. which makes them unlistenable to me... I wonder if there is (or should be) a censorship-free, decentralized, open alte…

I love these posts from randos on hackernews.

> XXXX is completely buggy and unusable

Which is amusing because experience shows that XXXX is not buggy and very much usable.

Re: Spotify killed the thrill of the hunt

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Post by Ethee »

This goes beyond music honestly. All forms of media used to have a kind of social underground or niche. Remember when you played that one video game you found on a video retailers shelf and couldn't wait to tell your friends all about it the next day knowing for a fact that none of them had ever heard of the game before? How about when you found that basement horror film randomly made by the guy from the next town over? There are so many small niche forms of media that used to speak to us and now all of them have to sink or swim against the millions upon millions of pieces being shared on social media every day. The effort the author describes here in finding these pieces really was part of experiencing them and in our new extra-social and commodified world I'm not sure many would go out of their way in that same way any more. Which is a shame.
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