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How bad is your Spotify?

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Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Haven't used Spotify in over a year now so it'll judge an older me, but it apparently has my favorite Melon as a reference of good taste so it can't be all that bad.

Well, it absolutely hated me (Possibly because I have one massive playlist) despite noticing enormous amounts of Death Grips on my profile, and recommending me a Neutral Milk Hotel song at the end (which I was quite impressed with although it could've been a lucky guess)

It asked me to listen to a clip of Oh Comely and asked me if I liked it or not lmao.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Honestly it's not too bad. I've pretty much tried every platform, including the ones no longer with us (RIP Rdio) and no Spotify isn't perfect, but it's pretty good in relative terms. Every platform, after some time, gets stuck in a recommend loop. If I listen to enough recommended tracks, it gives me more recommendations of similar tracks, but if I keep listening, the recommendations eventually just become the songs they've already recommended and they get recommended over and over. Spotify does that but their tree of recommendations has far more branches and playlists from users adds randomness to the recommend algorithm. The other platforms aren't as good with that (haven't tried Apple Music in a while though).

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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The problem with this service is that most times, I don't chose what I listen to. Spotify does. I play music all day while working and I'd love to listen to more artists but most times, I'm stuck in the routine between my Release Radar on Fridays, Discovery Weekly on Monday, and Daily Mixes during the rest of the week. I add songs I like to a variety of personal playlists and sometimes I start a "Song Radio" for a so…

I have no proofs, but I feel that liking/disliking songs does make difference (even though I'm still struggling to get rid of tons of bad covers and mediocre music in Slav languages)

> even though I'm still struggling to get rid of tons of bad covers and mediocre music in Slav languages)

What region is your Spotify set to? It seems to base the recommendations on the region (I live in the Nordics, but used the US version for some time and got recommended a ton of spanish music).

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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post #43

Huh, I didn't get the zoomer memes this thing spat at me

It used "stan" as both a noun and a verb and I have no idea what it means.

Just some fun history, but "stan" is actually a millennial portmanteau courtesy of Eminem [0]. It came out around the time the older Gen Z's were born, actually. Although, yes, it has seen a revival amongst Gen Z.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_(song)

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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post #7

This is hilarious... > You are 26% basic. You're trying to be cool with Kapitan Korsakov, but your favorites are the same as everybody else's.. > Your spotify was please-read-my-manuscript-walmart-hawaiian-shirt-sitting-alone-in-the-cafeteria bad. Ouch. Really interesting project by all means. I hope they release the source - I'm curious about how it was built. Edit: This same link was posted 11 hours ago https://new…

> oh great another Rise Against stan... > You've been listening to a lot of Logic lately. > u okay? > >Yeah why > no reason... > Of course Twenty One Pilots.

Not gonna lie, I'm feeling a bit judged by this AI:)

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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post #7

This is hilarious... > You are 26% basic. You're trying to be cool with Kapitan Korsakov, but your favorites are the same as everybody else's.. > Your spotify was please-read-my-manuscript-walmart-hawaiian-shirt-sitting-alone-in-the-cafeteria bad. Ouch. Really interesting project by all means. I hope they release the source - I'm curious about how it was built. Edit: This same link was posted 11 hours ago https://new…

Ha! I also got 26% score and it was ridiculing me for listening to Ed Alleyne-Johnson [1] and David Hicken [2] even though they are not even mainstream performers :)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJwAZMq08xA

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHtdqGy3g5Q or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YftAYq1AHiE if you are in a more upbeat mood

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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post #38

Looking at title I thought it was rant about product quality. But it's not, so I'll provide mine. Since 2013 when I've started paying for Spotify it has turned from one of my favourite apps to one of those I hate most. On my previous Android phone it would freeze every other day when there was no internet. Why? Who knows. Could be related to me using SD card, or could be something else. The phone wasn't very old, but…

Couldn't agree more. Spotify is one of those products that I sort of almost can't live without but yet it's painful how bad they have become in the last couple of years. Instead of improving the service and customer experience, it only got worse (if I had the chance to straight up use an outdated client from a couple of years ago, I would!).

The fun thing is, my company has jumped on the agile train a while back (nothing wrong with that per se in my opinion), and Spotify was always that cool example "where agile works". Well, no idea what they're doing, but if their KPIs mainly consist of how bad of a UX they get away with, they for sure are very successfully improving their product.

It constantly forgets which episodes of a podcast I've already listened to, or where exactly I've stopped when in the middle of an episode. Their support for downloaded songs at this point seems to be almost non-existent (I stopped using spotify offline quite some time ago as it became too much of an annoyance). If a song I liked is not available anymore but is then available again, I have to like it again. It still can't differentiate between studio and live versions of songs which I would like to filter out (I hope someone corrects me that I'm just too dumb to find the right button). I once got an email that one of the bands I liked released a new album - but it was a band with an identical name (and never heard of before!); apparently, they send out mails by matching band names instead of some unique IDs (no idea how that passed any kind of review; must've been some mashed-together 11-hour release).

... the list could go on and on. The thing is; I really want Spotify to be good, it's what made me stop pirating music, it was just way more convenient. It still is, but it could be so much more, especially given all the cash they're rolling in.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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post #62

Funny, but I was hoping this might provide some insight into why my Spotify is so bad, even by my own tastes. Spotify constantly queues and recommends songs to me that are so bad, I can’t even imagine how there could possibly exist any data indicating that any significant sample of listeners has ever enjoyed hearing them. Spotify has 5+ years of my listening history, and orders of magnitude more data from listeners a…

Spotify is fantastic for me with everything. My only complaint is their webapp causes random bugs and eats whatever resources it can find. Just as a counter point.

+1 for the general fantasticness. I use the app on my iphone - no problems whatsoever. They even recently updated their watch app to stream directly (without the phone being nearby). Apple music has had this feature for a while.
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