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Re: Fastpotify

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Post by theintern »

rplnt wrote: post #461
Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #459

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The amount of ads they started to push to paying(!) users I have never in the history of paying for Spotify had an ad play.

I get ads in podcasts. Not sponsored segments that the podcast creator inserted/narrated themselves (like used to happen), but ad served by Spotify itself, injected into the podcast. Easily 5 minutes in 30 min podcast[1], though this varies and I'm sure it is configurable by the podcast publishers. 1. This is not by feel, Spotify leaks it by displaying the original length and then updated one once it loads.

Other platforms do this too like pocketcasts. I assume it's the backend distribution network identifying your IP address and inserting 'relevant' ads. I don't believe it's being added by the podcast app (though for Spotify it may be, don't know)

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by whartung »

progbits wrote: post #146

What do you all use to buy music these days? I've been slowly trying to stop my spotify usage and replace it with owned audio files. Mostly I try to use Bandcamp but many artists are not there. Sometimes I just rip the audio from youtube but would prefer a way to buy that gives most of the money to the artist.

A bigger question.

How do you all GIFT music these days?

My brother recently sent me a new album for my birthday. Very kind. But, it's on vinyl. And I don't have a player.

But it just reinforces thoughts I had before. I had wanted to gift him some music too, but, how? He has a phone. He has a computer. He's not particularly tech savvy. I know I can't ship him a CD, he has nothing that can rip it.

I know you buy an album on Amazon, they let you download the MP3s right away. But, how do I even gift that? Can you even download MP3 to an iPhone? From someplace not Apple? I honestly have no idea.

And it just highlights, to me, the entire (seemingly) difficulty of gifting music today.

Me, I still buy CDs and rip them.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by paaloeye »

rot256 wrote: post #238

Spotify is, without doubt, the worst piece of software that I still use on a daily basis. It's incredibly buggy, incredibly slow, and the UI has so many "usability inconsistencies". I find the Android app particularly bad, just a couple of examples: - Under a playlist you get a list of suggested songs, the UI element looks like a "regular song", but unlike every other "song" element the user has been trained to recog…

100% Android version/problem.

Both desktop and iOS ones are very good. As much as a hate Electron, Spotify is a pretty good example of good use of E.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by nsteel »

the_mitsuhiko wrote: post #187
jorisw wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Spotify is in the process of killing the librespot project Source?

https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot/issues/1649

Also, https://github.com/librespot-org/librespot/issues/1737

We are seeing a slow but steady stream of small breaking changes, designed to gradually piss off everyone involved. While avoiding a large breaking change that attracts a load of bad publicity.

Sadly this strategy is the only good idea they've had in years.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by mbonnet »

mogoh wrote: post #264
rot256 wrote: post #238

Spotify is, without doubt, the worst piece of software that I still use on a daily basis. It's incredibly buggy, incredibly slow, and the UI has so many "usability inconsistencies". I find the Android app particularly bad, just a couple of examples: - Under a playlist you get a list of suggested songs, the UI element looks like a "regular song", but unlike every other "song" element the user has been trained to recog…

Why is spotify so popular? There are different solutions to listen to music. What does spotify do that almost no one else does? Is it the music library or something else? I use youtube music, but I am looking for alternatives (but not spotify for various reasons).

Why I stay:

1. family plan that I run. my parents and siblings all use it.

2. social. Sharing playlists matters to me, and everyone else uses spotify. This is also important in my romantic pursuits.

3. It has 10+ years of my listening history; the recommendations are decent, and my playlists go that far back.

4. whatever UI issues it has (and I can name a few off the top of my head), I don't find it difficult to use at all, and I'm used to its quirks.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by JonathanRaines »

rot256 wrote: post #238

Spotify is, without doubt, the worst piece of software that I still use on a daily basis. It's incredibly buggy, incredibly slow, and the UI has so many "usability inconsistencies". I find the Android app particularly bad, just a couple of examples: - Under a playlist you get a list of suggested songs, the UI element looks like a "regular song", but unlike every other "song" element the user has been trained to recog…

When listening to a podcast on Android, the lock screen skip-15-second buttons are reversed.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by MajorTakeaway »

mbonnet wrote: post #520
elboru wrote: post #500

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"...and the recommendations are pretty good" This is so confusing to me, many people say that, but a year ago my wife and I tried to switch to Apple Music. Bad recommendations were the main reason why it didn't stick for us. Every time my children would listen to some kids songs a few minutes later it would start playing "random" songs. Maybe it's similar to Apple Maps, it works good for the American market, but once…

You can disable that behavior in the settings.

It's a terrible default. Period.

Re: Fastpotify

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Post by vostrocity »

theintern wrote: post #531
rplnt wrote: post #461

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I get ads in podcasts. Not sponsored segments that the podcast creator inserted/narrated themselves (like used to happen), but ad served by Spotify itself, injected into the podcast. Easily 5 minutes in 30 min podcast[1], though this varies and I'm sure it is configurable by the podcast publishers. 1. This is not by feel, Spotify leaks it by displaying the original length and then updated one once it loads.

Other platforms do this too like pocketcasts. I assume it's the backend distribution network identifying your IP address and inserting 'relevant' ads. I don't believe it's being added by the podcast app (though for Spotify it may be, don't know)

I use Pocket Casts all the time and have never heard an ad inserted to a podcast.

Re: Fastpotify

#540

Post by stefanlindbohm »

freedomben wrote: post #475
leoedin wrote: post #371

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I worked for a startup in 2019 which was really pushing the "Spotify model" of team structure. Apparently it's all about self-organising teams and having no leadership. The fact the technology output of the Spotify model - the Spotify app - seemed to be kind of crap didn't seem to matter. I think the main output of the Spotify team structure was blog posts promoting the Spotify team structure.

> Apparently it's all about self-organising teams and having no leadership. Gross over-simplification. For anyone curious they have videos out there, though they are 10+ years old now so may no longer be accurate, but in 2019-era this was still a thing (company I worked for did it too).[1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yvfz4HGtoPc

This video was created in 2014 and was more a description of what they strived for at that point rather than of the full messy reality. Spotify quickly after that grew larger than those ideas would sustain (without changes) and rapidly became more alike any other tech corpo. Certainly around 2019-2020 it was not like in the video by any means. Some structures or names of concepts stayed way longer than the actual practices as described.

(I was active as a coach in Stockholm around this period and know multiple people, both engineers and coaches, who worked at Spotify including Henrik the author of the video.)

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