Forgotify Only Plays Spotify Songs That No One Has Ever Played Before
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#2Similar concept but for youtube:
http://www.petittube.com/
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#3Why nobody listens to these songs?
Either crappy songs or failed marketing. Or both.
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#4Is this sustainable? Wouldn't they put themselves out of business pretty fast?
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#5Is this sustainable? Wouldn't they put themselves out of business pretty fast?
Yeap, from the text "A crazier thought: Forgotify itself is, in a way, ephemeral. If the rate at which people are using Forgotify exceeds the rate at which Spotify adds new tracks, Forgotify is theoretically eating itself with each new listen."
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#6Why nobody listens to these songs? Either crappy songs or failed marketing. Or both.
This a good question. But this hits a very interesting point. Let us discard crappy songs for a bit. And focus on marketing and other reasons. Marketing plays an important role. Yet there are artists who cannot afford the marketing or (and this is very sad in my opinion), the produced a piece that was ahead of it's time or just didn't fit the current market trends.
These kind of services allow us to explore the full spectrum of creativity, instead of homing in on current market trends. If we do not support the outlier (or in this case leave them lying by the sidelines and ignore them), we loose a part of cultural diversity. Not everyone has the same taste, but how do you experience new things when you just follow the herd?
Coincidentally I was talking with someone about House of Cards over lunch. And whether this is correct or not, it was claimed that House of Cards was the results of machine learning and figuring out that the majority wanted Kevin Spacey and a political drama. Now if this is the future of tv, this will lead inevitably to less diversity. This would be a very sad development.
This is precisely why I think that services like this one are very important to keep us culturally diverse. (at least in the limited spectrum of songs available on spotify in this case.)
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#7Why nobody listens to these songs? Either crappy songs or failed marketing. Or both.
A lot of it just seems to be outside what I'd imagine Spotify's core demographic listens to. I'm getting a lot of Country and Classical music and also lots of non-English tracks.
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#8This is a cool idea but it needs an small improvement: algorithms should sort things out that can harm listeners badly. Al least as an option. ;-)
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#9Why nobody listens to these songs? Either crappy songs or failed marketing. Or both.
This a good question. But this hits a very interesting point. Let us discard crappy songs for a bit. And focus on marketing and other reasons. Marketing plays an important role. Yet there are artists who cannot afford the marketing or (and this is very sad in my opinion), the produced a piece that was ahead of it's time or just didn't fit the current market trends. These kind of services allow us to explore the full…
>> Now if this is the future of tv, this will lead inevitably to less diversity. This would be a very sad development.
Debatable, surely. Especially since House of cards on NetFlix was a remake of a BBC drama from 1990 [1]. Suggesting that diversity exists because someone could be bothered to make it, presumably without data-mining. The point is that this diversity is, predictably, not in the mainstream.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Cards_(UK_TV_series)
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#10Very nice concept,however I would be happy to filter by genre.