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Goodbye, Slopify

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Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by lern_too_spel »

askvictor wrote: post #199
muppetman wrote: post #57

I can't understand how people use Spotify. It was great ~10 years ago? It's terrible these days. Pushing Podcasts at you (no thanks, Podcasts are terrible. If I wanted to hear idiots laughing at each other I'd listen to the Radio DJs), terrible music, the UI getting harder and less intuitive to use. It's a shame all good things have to slowly tend towards sucking, instead of getting better. Bitwarden, one of my belov…

> Bitwarden, one of my beloved apps, has done the same with a god-awful UI redesign. +1. Given it's open source I'm tempted to revert to the older one, though it will probably stop working over time as other things change :(

The Bitwarden API is well-documented. There is a popular alternate implementation of the server, and there are alternate client implementations like https://github.com/AChep/keyguard-app.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by zerreh50 »

jcstk wrote: post #142

I'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.

I recently unsubscribed because I definitely saw a lot of AI music. I do think Spotify has the best UI and user created playlists of all platforms though

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by zerreh50 »

kylehotchkiss wrote: post #4

This is an area where Apple can choose to Be Different and not allow their platform to melt into a puddle of slop. I hope they have what it takes.

Apple deletes your entire library if you don't subscribe for a few months. To me that is worse than anything Spotify has ever done wrong

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by conception »

subpixel wrote: post #228
discostrings wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Similarly to making so many of the playlists "made for you", they've completely ruined the "radio" feature. You used to be able to select the radio option on a song, artist, or playlist and get a playlist of songs that seemed to be a good mix of musically similar and being liked by people who liked the selected starting point. Starting at some point around 2 years ago (it seems they A-B tested this for a while becaus…

The tests must reveal what is easily deduced: most, nearly all people do not enjoy much variety. They want to think they do, but their actions prove otherwise. This sucks for you and me but is Spotify giving the masses what they actually enjoy.

A coworker was stunned that my most listened to song for the year was like 40 plays or so. Hers? Over 800.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by abrookewood »

crtasm wrote: post #168
abrookewood wrote: post #109

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you are missing the point. The criticism is that Spotify are actually using third parties to create AI generated music in order to pay lower royalties. There was an article in the last month or so on HN that explained the process.

There were recent articles about musicians being employed to churn out tracks, are you thinking of that? https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machin... ctrl+f "summer afternoon in Brooklyn"

Yes, that's it - thanks.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by eproxus »

jcstk wrote: post #142

I'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.

I’m more curious of the claim that you don’t get podcasts pushed on you.

The last time I used Spotify (and the reason I left) podcast were constantly featured on the start page and it was impossible to remove them (and I have zero interest in podcast in my music application).

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by stevenwliao »

lern_too_spel wrote: post #100
LeoPanthera wrote: post #61

Earlier 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.

Unless I'm missing something, the opt-out is one click away. I don't understand the problem.

Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/2tLoFkQ

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