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Goodbye, Slopify

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Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by mvdtnz »

lern_too_spel wrote: post #230
mvdtnz wrote: post #169

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know if you think this opinion (expressed in this way) makes you seem insightful, but just so you know, it just makes you seem uninformed. It's like saying "Listen to music? No thanks, I don't want to listen to a guy in makeup screaming about satanism into a microphone". Like, yes, that type of music does exist, but it's uninformed to make the claim that that's all music is.

It is not uninformed to say that podcasts are worse than articles, books, and audiobooks on the same subjects. I know. I've tried. I'm informed.

It is uninformed to say that podcasts are "idiots laughing at each other".

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by mariusor »

dclowd9901 wrote: post #96
pjs_ wrote: post #46

Recommend getting an MP3 player. Just feels good man. 500GB of music, no ads, no network, no subscription, no distractions.

On a lark, I refunded up my phone with my mp3 library I keep on my laptop and I built up so many years ago. I enjoyed it just fine for the nostalgia but I still don't understand where I'm going to discover new music without services like Spotify. I used go to shows and see new artists that way, but with kids that's not as much a valid proposition as it once was.

> where I'm going to discover new music

You can use services like listenbrainz or last.fm.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by ku1ik »

zerreh50 wrote: post #234
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

For me Spotify had best UI in 2012. Native, clean, simple, ultra fast.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by paulcapewell »

JasserInicide wrote: post #134
pjs_ wrote: post #46

Recommend getting an MP3 player. Just feels good man. 500GB of music, no ads, no network, no subscription, no distractions.

Ever since Google Play Music was killed off, I've been putting off setting up a home server and accessing my entire collection like that. There's some Android program that allows one to do that, forget the name of it though. Think it has "fish" in the name

Possibly Jellyfin?

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by ku1ik »

tombert wrote: post #73
Philpax wrote: post #71

Of all the problems that I have with Spotify - its frequently changing selection of music, its hostility to power users, its shuffle algorithm, its artist hostile rates, its frequently changing-for-the-worse interface - I can't really say that AI music is one of them. If I come across some and enjoy it, great! I'm not going to let that impact my enjoyment of music as a whole.

I have put on "I Glued My Balls To My Butthole Again" on YouTube Music, unironically, several times. I don't actually hate AI music.

Thank you for that. You made my day :)

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by mcmoor »

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…

> The "X person/people talking taking 2 hours to discuss something that could be discussed succinctly in 5 minutes" isn't a format I'm interested in.

Yeah same for me too. The only podcasts I can bear are monologues, when there's more than one people at least they're each talking to me not to each other. Things like Hardcore History, Anthropocene Reviewed, and most of 99% Invisible.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by XCSme »

numbsafari wrote: post #107
antigeox wrote: post #89

My Spotify experience was poisoned as soon as I signed up some 8 years ago to try it; I realized there was no way to remove the popular but garbage music from the dashboard. It was essentially advertising space for slop. So I cancelled my subscription within 1-2 days. I instead ended up going with Youtube Music which doesn't try to push propaganda on me and instead either shows me what I have in my library already th…

My wife continues to mourn the loss of Grooveshark and brings it up at least once a year. It was pretty amazing.

I even created a tutorial for making the Grooveshark logo

https://www.tips4design.com/2010/08/ai-draw-grooveshark-logo...

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by robertlagrant »

lern_too_spel wrote: post #229
robertlagrant wrote: post #203

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Zero could hate them and they wouldn't all listen to them. I don't hate podcasts and I've never listened to one on Spotify.

I didn't say that all 540 million hate podcasts. I said that many do. It doesn't take a very large fraction of 540 million to get millions that hate podcasts.

Well, you said "many of". I thought you meant "a significant fraction of", not "at least a tiny fraction of".

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by witty-name »

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.

That's what I'm thinking as well. Spotify ain't great but it's fine. Some people are recommending Apple Music but Apple Music don't even have a client for Linux and their website is awful. OTOH, I can use Spotify even through my terminal.
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