I don't see why Spotify's suggestions are all that important. I use it when I want full control over what I'm going to listen to. I search for artists and songs I learned about somewhere else and make my own playlists.
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#182AI music is fine take it or leave it.
The killer app of Spotify has been expanding my horizons past the 30 tracks on my MP3 player. But that seems to have stalled. I do like being notified when bands I like release new music. I am hopeless at keeping up with music so thats useful.
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#183Even before the rise of AI music, they started "customizing" playlists based on the algorithm, so that you see different songs compared to someone else who subscribes to the same playlist. This was one of the reasons why I left Spotify. There are hundreds of posts about this issue on the Spotify community site, e.g. https://community.spotify.com/t5/Content-Questions/Option-to... https://community.spotify.com/t5/Conte…
I really don’t like this feature—I enjoyed their genre/mood oriented running playlists explicitly as a way to listen to stuff well outside of my usual listening while out on runs, but since they made them “made for you” they’re strictly worse. Relentless algorithmic sameness is everywhere and I’m sick of it. Spotify is also funny for maintaining the existence of their feature suggestion community boards while just ut…
My super basic feature request is to be able to report wrong metadata. It's just impossible right now unless you're the artist as far as I can tell. For example Dreaming Bull (https://open.spotify.com/artist/7s6vcAnBioL2PJisG8YMww) with a single actual album in 2014 is either taken over by or merged with some random crap. But Spotify doesn't care enough to even let me let them know. (Yes, I filled out the contact form multiple times - it's ignored)
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#184Is the belief that these tracks are being generated and placed by Spotify themselves, or is it possible that third parties are uploading generated music? Are other streaming services liable to encounter the same issue?
Spotify have been shown to deliberately promote songs which they call Perfect Fit Content that cost them less in terms of royalties. This includes AI generated songs and you can find the same song under 50 different names according to this article: https://www.honest-broker.com/p/the-ugly-truth-about-spotify...
Was there some proof that PFC includes AI generated content? While it seems most likely true I'd like to see e.g. a quote from someone involved.
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#185I'm reading these comments and I'm thinking "are we using the same Spotify?" I don't see any AI music, I don't get Podcasts pushed on me, the UI is fine, playlists are fine and I get new music I like suggested to me often.
It's the HN effect, as well as selection bias. People here are highly technical and may notice things that regular people don't, or they do things in a very idiosyncratic way. I remember seeing comments here before about how some people have no cell phone, run only a very old school terminal based computer, etc, for example. They also seem to be annoyed at very specific things as you can see in the comments here, things that the average user wouldn't even think about. Ultimately, HN and other technical fora are not representative of the average user's experience.
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#186youtube with ublock on is the ultimate music website
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#187Are they greyed out because you blocked them? I'm confused?
I'm 99% my discover weekly hasn't had one yet... and I have a full archive of all my discover weekly's from the last 4 years... Can anybody show me a simple way to check for AI Gnerated content in this list?
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#188You can’t avoid something you can’t notice ;)
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#189Tidal
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#190Earlier quoted context omitted.
> no thanks, Podcasts are terrible. If I wanted to hear idiots laughing at each other I'd listen to the Radio DJs When you inject personal opinions like this which are obviously at odds with millions of other people, it's difficult to take the rest of the comment seriously.
It's at odds with millions of people but also in agreement with millions of others. I also don't listen to podcasts for the same reason. Spotify shouldn't push something that so many people detest without letting them opt out.
Weird take. I don’t know anyone who detests podcasts. They just don’t listen to them.
Having such strong feelings about something you can just ignore is unhealthy.
FWIW, I cancelled Spotify last year and their focus on podcasts was one of the reasons. But there are plenty of other services that cater to music lovers so I just increased my bandcamp spend and moved on with my life.