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How bad is your Spotify?

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Re: How bad is your Spotify?

#61

"I can't judge your music without seeing your Spotify. I mean, I can guess from your browsing history and cookies that your taste is rough, but that's all I'll say for now. Log in with Spotify" I never used Spotify, so he was doing this assessment from my cookies...from where? Youtube? I don't login there either, I just browse it. Anyway, that's my test on this.

It’s part of the joke; it insults your tastes no matter what they are.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

#62

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…

Spotify is fantastic for me with everything. My only complaint is their webapp causes random bugs and eats whatever resources it can find.

Just as a counter point.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

#63

"I can't judge your music without seeing your Spotify. I mean, I can guess from your browsing history and cookies that your taste is rough, but that's all I'll say for now. Log in with Spotify" I never used Spotify, so he was doing this assessment from my cookies...from where? Youtube? I don't login there either, I just browse it. Anyway, that's my test on this.

This is just a generic statement. Even in a container with no cookies it gives that statement.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

#64
post #50

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 always thought my recommendations are that broken because I listen to two very different music directions. For now, I fixed it by finding new Music via YouTube and using artists playlists etc.. Apple Music is probably no option, though, as I'm exclusively on Android.

Apple Music does have an Android app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.andr...

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

#65
post #38

Looking at title I thought it was rant about product quality. But it's not, so I'll provide mine. Since 2013 when I've started paying for Spotify it has turned from one of my favourite apps to one of those I hate most. On my previous Android phone it would freeze every other day when there was no internet. Why? Who knows. Could be related to me using SD card, or could be something else. The phone wasn't very old, but…

I canceled Spotify and switched to Amazon Music Unlimited, primarily due to how buggy Spotify is. AMU does have one annoying bug I've found (that seems to have emerged after the recent redesign) but other than that it's been totally flawless. Reliable apps are such a joy to use. I feel this side of software is not appreciated enough anymore.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

#66
post #38

Looking at title I thought it was rant about product quality. But it's not, so I'll provide mine. Since 2013 when I've started paying for Spotify it has turned from one of my favourite apps to one of those I hate most. On my previous Android phone it would freeze every other day when there was no internet. Why? Who knows. Could be related to me using SD card, or could be something else. The phone wasn't very old, but…

To add to the list of complaints... The Chromecast streaming feature is also broken. It will randomly pause in the middle of playback. This bug has existed for months and months. My configuration is very vanilla. Common phone, TV with built-in Chromecast, no other devices you could stream to on the network, stable internet connection...

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

#68

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…

In my experience Spotify's recommendations for my big anything-goes playlist are terrible, but the one's for my smaller playlist for mostly British D&B music (https://open.spotify.com/track/22Z4p2gRkDPqmw8DgVixML?si=jeb... - for a taste of the genre) can give very specific and quite good recommendations of smaller artists.

Re: How bad is your Spotify?

#69

Or, how to get your app rate limited in one easy step lol. Patiently waiting... The concept of "objectively good music" is hilarious enough that this is already a win in my book.

Aaaannd it's down. I can't wait until this comes back up so I can send it to a bunch of my ex-bandmates lol.
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