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Goodbye, Slopify

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Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by chrisshroba »

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.

Agreed. I just navigated to my home page on desktop and I see the following categories:

- A section with 8 of my recently played playlists

- A section of "Made for " with 6 Daily Mixes (which I generally like), Discover weekly (which I like now that it's tailored to me: I used to hate that it only contained pop/hip hop hits), Release Radar (love it), and the AI DJ (which I find very annoying)

- A section called Recently Played which looks like all legitimate things I've played

- "New Releases for You", which are all by artists I've listened to very recently

- "Jump back in", which has several playlists and artists I've listened to recently

- A sidebar of all of my playlists I've created or followed

Of the ~50 actionable items on the page, the only one I dislike is the AI DJ, but it by no means feels forced on me since it's just a single square.

https://i.imgur.com/RKsIgLR.jpeg

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by apricot13 »

I have a slight y different issue on Spotify and YouTube music. during the day I listen to lo-fi and at night sometimes as background music. this has lead to my entire suggestion list being 4 hour long tracks and nothing related to my actual music I like! I guess most of that lo-fi stuff is now AI generated as well.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by moltar »

davepeck wrote: post #178
moltar wrote: post #16

Does anyone have any good tools for migrating off of spotify? And where to go? I’d like Apple but their apps are horrendous and they completely bastardized the classic Music app pre streaming.

“Their apps are horrendous.” I’ll give a counterpoint: with a subscription, Apple Music for iPad is quite literally the best personal music exploration/listening app on the market. A quiet room and good pair of headphones is all the rest you need.

Well, I don’t use iPad and usually either desktop or iPhone on the go.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by lern_too_spel »

robertlagrant wrote: post #249
lern_too_spel wrote: post #229

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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".

I said millions of people. Millions of people is many. I have been consistent. You're living in a bubble.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by aworks »

conception wrote: post #236
subpixel wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Interesting way to analyze listening. From last year's last.fm data, I played my top track 31 times. And that seems like a lot to me.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by P-Nuts »

conception wrote: post #236
subpixel wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Many years ago my most listened song (on ripped CDs in iTunes) had a few thousand plays because I turned off my headphones (analogue wireless!) while I had a track on repeat, only actually planning to listen to it a second time, and went on holiday for a week.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by lern_too_spel »

mvdtnz wrote: post #241
lern_too_spel wrote: post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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".

It is also uninformed to say that they aren't. You're being pedantic. You know what muppetman meant.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by robertlagrant »

lern_too_spel wrote: post #274
robertlagrant wrote: post #249

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I said millions of people. Millions of people is many. I have been consistent. You're living in a bubble.

It's not many out of 100 million. 4% would not be many out of the total. That's why I said: I thought you meant "a significant fraction of", not "at least a tiny fraction of".

You meant "at least a tiny fraction of". That's all. When you say "many", we should read "at least a tiny fraction of".

> You're living in a bubble.

This is a bit of a strange comment.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by lern_too_spel »

robertlagrant wrote: post #278
lern_too_spel wrote: post #274

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I said millions of people. Millions of people is many. I have been consistent. You're living in a bubble.

It's not many out of 100 million. 4% would not be many out of the total. That's why I said: I thought you meant "a significant fraction of", not "at least a tiny fraction of". You meant "at least a tiny fraction of". That's all. When you say "many", we should read "at least a tiny fraction of". > You're living in a bubble. This is a bit of a strange comment.

> This is a bit of a strange comment.

You refuse to believe that millions of people hate podcasts, to the point that you apparently need a survey with millions of people saying that as evidence. You live in a bubble of people who haven't told you they hate morning DJs and podcasts. If I instead told you that millions of people detest vlogs, would you also require hard evidence?

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by crtasm »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #268
crtasm wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With the HDD swapped out for flash the weight is going to be much less, isn't it?

So what, you want to modify a good mp3 player to look more like a bad one? With the classic iPod you've got a bad UI instead of a good UI and a large object instead of a small one. And while it will be lighter without the hard drive, it will still be a lot heavier than an mp3 player. It's pure downside on several different dimensions. If you want to play your music on a device shaped like an iPod, it's even easier to…

I have no idea what a classic iPod weighs without the drive inside. No need to dismiss other people's requirements and preferences though.
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