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Why Spotify’s Discover Weekly is getting really boring?

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Re: Why Spotify’s Discover Weekly is getting really boring?

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Post by NegatioN »

ivraatiems wrote: post #18

Discover Weekly in this article is a microcosm of the problems with Spotify generally. Spotify (especially on desktop) has a LOT of issues. From poorly implemented shuffle play to random removal of features (notifications to ctrl-f to playlist organization), and a complicated by a total lack of dev communication on any platform. I think the issue with Spotify is not that their core is bad, it's that they never manage…

I've switched to Google Music. Although that has its own set of problems, I find it has better (or more dynamic) machine learning implemented for playlists and discovery mechanics. You can even reset the information it has learned from, and start over if you wish.

Making Google listen to change-requests (in one of their not-so-prioritized) products will of course not be likely either.

Re: Why Spotify’s Discover Weekly is getting really boring?

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Post by nothrabannosir »

alvion wrote: post #27
ivraatiems wrote: post #18

Discover Weekly in this article is a microcosm of the problems with Spotify generally. Spotify (especially on desktop) has a LOT of issues. From poorly implemented shuffle play to random removal of features (notifications to ctrl-f to playlist organization), and a complicated by a total lack of dev communication on any platform. I think the issue with Spotify is not that their core is bad, it's that they never manage…

Regarding their desktop client; totally true. I recently discovered that keeping the Spotify App idle over 2 days, it had written 50 GB to my SSD. Not worth killing my disk over this service. Recommend this thread, where I became aware of the problem https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/56auoi/huge_amount_o...

How do you check that? (How do I check that?)

Re: Why Spotify’s Discover Weekly is getting really boring?

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Post by spiderfarmer »

ivraatiems wrote: post #18

Discover Weekly in this article is a microcosm of the problems with Spotify generally. Spotify (especially on desktop) has a LOT of issues. From poorly implemented shuffle play to random removal of features (notifications to ctrl-f to playlist organization), and a complicated by a total lack of dev communication on any platform. I think the issue with Spotify is not that their core is bad, it's that they never manage…

Spotify is running for 12 hours a day, 6 days a week here and I have no complaints. I love the UI and responsivess, even on my 3Mbit ADSL line. It's everything I ever wished for in a music app.

Re: Why Spotify’s Discover Weekly is getting really boring?

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Post by cfjgvjh »

alvion wrote: post #27
ivraatiems wrote: post #18

Discover Weekly in this article is a microcosm of the problems with Spotify generally. Spotify (especially on desktop) has a LOT of issues. From poorly implemented shuffle play to random removal of features (notifications to ctrl-f to playlist organization), and a complicated by a total lack of dev communication on any platform. I think the issue with Spotify is not that their core is bad, it's that they never manage…

Regarding their desktop client; totally true. I recently discovered that keeping the Spotify App idle over 2 days, it had written 50 GB to my SSD. Not worth killing my disk over this service. Recommend this thread, where I became aware of the problem https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/56auoi/huge_amount_o...

That's insane. What's it writing?

Re: Why Spotify’s Discover Weekly is getting really boring?

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Post by mikeash »

gcr wrote: post #29
runj__ wrote: post #26

Having talked with people that have close insight into Discover Weekly it actually only checks your last few thousand songs though (weighting them accordingly) and checks if those songs are on other peoples playlists, then choosing the songs on their playlists that are not on yours. This means that you have a pretty big pool of songs to start with (people with similar taste) that is getting smaller and smaller. The f…

Please don't reveal intellectual property secrets on HN. It sounds like you got that information from a privileged source. (EDIT: I was wrong; this algorithm is public knowledge.)

If they didn't tell this person not to share the info, then the problem rests with whoever divulged this information in the first place. Once it's out, it's out.

Re: Why Spotify’s Discover Weekly is getting really boring?

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Post by 2almalki »

alvion wrote: post #27
ivraatiems wrote: post #18

Discover Weekly in this article is a microcosm of the problems with Spotify generally. Spotify (especially on desktop) has a LOT of issues. From poorly implemented shuffle play to random removal of features (notifications to ctrl-f to playlist organization), and a complicated by a total lack of dev communication on any platform. I think the issue with Spotify is not that their core is bad, it's that they never manage…

Regarding their desktop client; totally true. I recently discovered that keeping the Spotify App idle over 2 days, it had written 50 GB to my SSD. Not worth killing my disk over this service. Recommend this thread, where I became aware of the problem https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/56auoi/huge_amount_o...

holy! on Mac or Windows?

Re: Why Spotify’s Discover Weekly is getting really boring?

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Post by spiderfarmer »

wosos wrote: post #7
simonswords82 wrote: post #4

I use Spotify's discover weekly and I'm consistently impressed by the new music that the app shares with me. Bands I've never heard of before that all fit beautifully within the type of music I enjoy. I totally disagree with the author's point.

Same here, still surprises me the songs that has been listed there. Good experience so far for me. The only real caveat I have with spotify is the awfully buggy applications.

I never had the app crash on me. What bugs are you refering to?

Re: Why Spotify’s Discover Weekly is getting really boring?

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Post by spiderfarmer »

the_mitsuhiko wrote: post #10
simonswords82 wrote: post #4

I use Spotify's discover weekly and I'm consistently impressed by the new music that the app shares with me. Bands I've never heard of before that all fit beautifully within the type of music I enjoy. I totally disagree with the author's point.

I am always looking for Mondays because of that playlist. So definitely disagreeing with the author.

Same here. Apart from the couple of songs that keep reappearing it's perfect.

Re: Why Spotify’s Discover Weekly is getting really boring?

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Post by spiderfarmer »

fecklessyouth wrote: post #25
JasonSage wrote: post #19

I definitely disagree with the premise of the article. I have a playlist where I pull in my favorites from Discover Weekly, and it just turned one year old. I still consistently get great new songs to add to the playlist. I've also gleaned some insight into my general disposition over the least year from the playlist. I can tell exactly when I was in a "mood" or a rut... When I was listening to lots of angry music, t…

>I have a playlist where I pull in my favorites from Discover Weekly Do you do this manually, or use the API?

I just drag them in my 'favorites' playlist if I like what I'm hearing.

Re: Why Spotify’s Discover Weekly is getting really boring?

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Post by razvanh »

fecklessyouth wrote: post #25
JasonSage wrote: post #19

I definitely disagree with the premise of the article. I have a playlist where I pull in my favorites from Discover Weekly, and it just turned one year old. I still consistently get great new songs to add to the playlist. I've also gleaned some insight into my general disposition over the least year from the playlist. I can tell exactly when I was in a "mood" or a rut... When I was listening to lots of angry music, t…

>I have a playlist where I pull in my favorites from Discover Weekly Do you do this manually, or use the API?

You can use IFTT to automatically archive the songs from the Discover Weekly playlist to another playlist.
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