How bad is your Spotify? • Hacker News Board

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by chewz » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 9:28 AM UTC

tyrust wrote: post #531

colinmhayes wrote: post #524

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Youtube's organization of music is horrible. It clearly wasn't made for listening to music.

I assume they were talking about Youtube Music ( https://music.youtube.com/ ), which is made for listening to music.

And the idea of integration of music and music videos is brilliant. I love listening to music with video on my TV in the morning.

The implementation and mixing music videos with other video content in my Youtube account is horrible on the other way.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by chewz » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 9:31 AM UTC

I am still missing Rdio..

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by stubish » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 9:43 AM UTC

Might have been some viral marketing and publicity for Spotify, but instead will just dribble away here due to rate limiting of the API.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by anta40 » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 9:52 AM UTC

> Your spotify was retiree-softball-league-walmart-hawaiian-shirt-allegations-of-abuse-have-never-been-proven-in-court bad.

You stan these artists to an uncomfortable extent:

The Beatles

Cream

Led Zeppelin

Rush

Yes

Whoops sorry, I'm a big prog fan :p

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by nvarsj » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 10:22 AM UTC

tossthere wrote: post #42

Funny, but I was hoping this might provide some insight into why my Spotify is so bad, even by my own tastes. Spotify constantly queues and recommends songs to me that are so bad, I can’t even imagine how there could possibly exist any data indicating that any significant sample of listeners has ever enjoyed hearing them. Spotify has 5+ years of my listening history, and orders of magnitude more data from listeners a…

I think it just gets stuck on old songs you played. My kids played "The Bacon Song" a few times on my spotify, you can imagine what my recommendations are like now. I wish Spotify had a way to remove "bad songs" from whatever algorithm is used.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by rurban » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 10:28 AM UTC

bleeding wrote: post #212

rurban wrote: post #125

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That's where it didn't respond anymore, and I had to kill it. The comments before were not enlightening enough, as I was music editor and dj on a local indie radio station, so it should be the other way round. The general taste sucks. Spotify's release radar only recommends shit, but nevertheless it's still the best to find the hidden gems. You won't find them on radio shows, other than KTRU or WFMU.

First time I've ever seen KTRU mentioned on the internet!

KTRU is legend even in Europe. The strongest radio station that times, then destroyed by Rice and politics, now online only. The most uncompromosing programming, in the most corrupt state. Still no mp3's, only Vinyl. Legendary DJ's. I'm sure you don't know 95% of what they play. They hate all the major labels. They have a huge blacklist.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by asutekku » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 10:31 AM UTC

llimllib wrote: post #527

arp242 wrote: post #508

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> Discovery, recommendations and shuffle are at the heart of what made Pandora a thing That's exactly what I'm not looking for; I'm perfectly fine with making my own music choices. I know what I like, have an extensive "library" on Spotify, and play from just that. The biggest thing I'm missing from Spotify (or indeed, most players, except the one I wrote myself years ago) is the ability to say "play random album fro…

mostly the same for me, but I would love to be able to browse record labels on spotify; it does not have the concept of a record label (!) though.

It does. At least some time ago on desktop version every album had a copyright (record label) listed on the bottom. Clicking it would search you all of the stuff released under that label.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by sandravlado » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 10:53 AM UTC

etherio wrote: post #7

This is hilarious... > You are 26% basic. You're trying to be cool with Kapitan Korsakov, but your favorites are the same as everybody else's.. > Your spotify was please-read-my-manuscript-walmart-hawaiian-shirt-sitting-alone-in-the-cafeteria bad. Ouch. Really interesting project by all means. I hope they release the source - I'm curious about how it was built. Edit: This same link was posted 11 hours ago https://new…

6% basic. AI hates me. Apparently, Your spotify was overdramatic-instrumental-yoga-studio-heavy-eyeliner-post-punk bad. And this was just the beginning of the insults.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by dwd » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 11:00 AM UTC

oorza wrote: post #535

RogerL wrote: post #494

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Speaking for myself? Content. Philip Glass has 27 albums on Pandora, 105 on Spotify. Nico Mulhy? 7 vs 14. Maarja Nuut. Only 1 album on Pandora. For her, Pandora makes no recommendations for others to listen to, Spotify lists 20. Pandora has no bio, Spotify does. Third Coast Percussion? 8 vs 10. I'm just randomly clicking in my library and doing a comparison, they aren't artfully chosen examples. I recognize this isn'…

I don't have anything to add but to say I'm glad someone else has discovered the beauty of coding to Glass's works.

Been listening to Glass's excellent score for Tales from the Loop for a few weeks now. It's my current goto album for coding.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

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Post by imperfectcats » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 11:37 AM UTC

progre wrote: post #357

tetha wrote: post #207

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Curious, I learned something. > You're stuck in the early 2010s. For you, music's been all downhill since Orden Ogan made The Things We Believe In. Now I wonder if this is because my account is old, or if I really listen to that much old stuff, or if my favorite bands just don't release that much. Weird. But I'm entirely fine with the other assments: > Your spotify was renaissance-faire -too-much-power metal bad. > T…

>Where do you even find this shit?. I don't follow the recomendations, I click "Fans also listen to". Here is the rest of my assesment. > Your spotify was moonshine-renaissance-faire bad. > Thank your obsessions with Johnny Cash and medieval folk for that. > Based on your listening habits, I can also tell you your spotify was... > napping-in-your-mancave bad > Here's what else is going on in your aural trash fire: Yo…

Try having kids:

> You listen to these tracks too much:

> - Rock-A-Bye Your Bear by The Wiggles

Which, to be fair, is my second favourite Wiggle song!