I thought this was going to help me get rid of that annoying ad for a "Charmin fresh booty", but all it did was criticize my listening. Don't care what you say, SkyNet, REM rocks.
How bad is your Spotify?
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#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Your taste is so obscure that's so cool I bet you're super interesting.. After it picked the one very popular song I listen to in order to laugh at me for listening to non obscure things, ignoring the piles of weird random crap I normally listen to that nobody ever seems to know. Funny but not very accurate. Overall all I got a good laugh though.
I think the microtonal stuff I listen to is probably too unpopular to even have reviews to go on.
It picked out Brendan Byrnes as one of my obscure artists, though he is probably one of the more popular microtonal artists. It was able to pick out my own band as one of my "obscure artists", so I don't think "too unpopular" is a thing for it, haha.
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#193this triggered me
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#194Damn, stop criticizing my taste in Taylor Swift's music!
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#195This was great, really spot on and snarky. Though there are some ambient playlists I sleep to and so it weighed those far more than it probably should, but I guess how is it supposed to know that. My spotify recap thingie said the same thing about some of the ambient artists.
> Based on your listening habits, I can also tell you your spotify was...
> stoned-itunes-visualizer bad
> cling-clang-pots-and-pans-music bad
Gotta say, that's a pretty perfect call out of my average music listening.
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#196I see a lot of comments about how bad spotify recommendations are. I have had great experience but I follow a methodology to keep the recommendations curated. I'll also note that I listen to a wide variety of music ranging from EDM to metal to high enery jpop to classical. What I have found is: - Adding things to playlists makes a big difference. If you really love a song, hit it with a heart, if you want to hear mor…
Honestly all I want is for Spotify to differentiate between music I actually like to actively listen to and music that I like to play in the background 24/7 (e.g. chill hop)
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#197Most of the comments here are people that use Spotify complaining about Spotify. I don’t understand what makes it a “sticky” service that people feel they have to put up with. They have many competitors, and tools to copy your music selections between services exist. For example: https://www.tunemymusic.com/ Also, Spotify pays musicians less than most other services: https://www.dittomusic.com/blog/how-much-do-music-…
Spotify is better than the competitors. HN is just filled with grumps who love to complain about everything.
In what way is it “better”?
I tried three competitors as I moved away from Spotify, and found they were all substantially better than it.
I care about music selection, recommendation quality, and library stability (not deleting stuff from my collection).
Re: How bad is your Spotify?
#198Most of the comments here are people that use Spotify complaining about Spotify. I don’t understand what makes it a “sticky” service that people feel they have to put up with. They have many competitors, and tools to copy your music selections between services exist. For example: https://www.tunemymusic.com/ Also, Spotify pays musicians less than most other services: https://www.dittomusic.com/blog/how-much-do-music-…
Spotify is ubiquitous. There is hardly a device that doesn't support it.
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#199I see a lot of comments about how bad spotify recommendations are. I have had great experience but I follow a methodology to keep the recommendations curated. I'll also note that I listen to a wide variety of music ranging from EDM to metal to high enery jpop to classical. What I have found is: - Adding things to playlists makes a big difference. If you really love a song, hit it with a heart, if you want to hear mor…
Honestly all I want is for Spotify to differentiate between music I actually like to actively listen to and music that I like to play in the background 24/7 (e.g. chill hop)
Same, my spotify thinks I'm very obsessed with Ambient and Classical. I mean I enjoy those genres, but they're not my typical "active listening", I just always want some sort of sound going on in my apartment.
Also whenever I'm DM'ing a D&D game the majority of my daily mixes change to video game music for weeks because I use them as backing music.
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#200Everyone is blaming the Spotify algorithm for bad suggestions. I ran this test, it's my OWN TASTE that turns out to be bad according to this :(
Jokes aside, I think this is a really neat toy with a great sense of humor