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Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by glouwbug »

uhoh-itsmaciek wrote: post #60
blackeyeblitzar wrote: post #13

Spotify is terrible but mostly because the interface is bad. It has so many frustrating changes that no one asked for that have accumulated over time and little annoyances / bugs that’ll never be fixed. I feel like basic things such as managing playlists or navigating my library are harder than they need to be. They deserve to lose. I’m curious about some of the newer services such as Qobuz or Deezer or Tidal. Are th…

I'm also planning to leave. It's offensive that they decided to do podcasts and audiobooks and not allow you to turn that off in the UI. I want an app to listen to music! But someone there apparently thinks they can engage me more if they throw in a bunch of other irrelevant functionality. Ugh.

What's most offensive is having to pay for audiobooks on top a monthly subscription

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by nichochar »

muppetman wrote: post #47
dlcarrier wrote: post #2

I thought the headline was mocking Shopify, not Spotify. It shows how little creativity we have in tech company naming. I wonder which suffix is more popular, -ify, -ly, or -r.

The most hilarious startups are all called "get(name)" I guess the hope is they won't end up in the toilet and they might, in the future, be able to buy a domain not prefixed by "get"

Reasoning:

.com is the best TLD by a long shot but it's really saturated, so as a startup you have no chance.

As you say, the hope is to make it and be able to buy the X in getX.com where hopefully you've checked that X belongs to a squatter and not an existing company (they're both bad the latter is worse).

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by dmix »

dlcarrier wrote: post #2

I thought the headline was mocking Shopify, not Spotify. It shows how little creativity we have in tech company naming. I wonder which suffix is more popular, -ify, -ly, or -r.

It's mostly about domain names, real words are all gone long ago so people self-funding the early days chose the real words with modifiers.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

#84

Post by dmix »

Tronno wrote: post #48
theandrewbailey wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Feels like late 2000s to very early 2010s. And note that it was never -er, the -r was invariably preceded by a consonant. Thankfully, subsequent naming schemes stopped disemvoweling words.

Not quite "never": e.g. Napster

I think they mean -r as in Tumblr

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

#85

Post by autoexec »

jim-jim-jim wrote: post #70
pjs_ wrote: post #46

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

My criteria are: - 500GB+ - Ability to sort by the albumartist tag (listen to heaps of compilations) - Ability to export play log - Functions like any other external storage device for transfer purposes Anything out there? Last I checked (10 years ago) there was nothing that hit all these marks. I had a Sansa Clip with Rockbox and just dealt with the low storage capacity.

Anything that takes SD cards should make storage a non-issue and make file transfer dead simple. Even microSD cards can hold over well over 5TB

Dedicated players are getting harder to find though. I had a Cowon mp3 player for a few years which was pretty nice. Maybe see if they've got something you like? http://www.cowonglobal.com

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by thaumasiotes »

jazzyjackson wrote: post #79
thaumasiotes wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But an iPod from the 2004 era is both hard to use and very heavy. You can get a tiny flash-based modern mp3 player for $30-$40, which is below the apparent price of a 2004 iPod on eBay.

Mmm agree to disagree, iPod classic is not a heavyweight device and the UX is what we had when I was a kid so easy AND nostalgic, but agreed the little sandisk clips solve the problem just as well. Edit: I can't imagine swapping HDD for flash saves more than a few grams, can it?

I had an iPod in 2004. I gave it away because it was too heavy to carry around.

I ultimately replaced it with a Zen Stone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Zen#ZEN_Stone/Stone_P...

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by jsheard »

Philpax wrote: post #72
muppetman wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The most hilarious startups are all called "get(name)" I guess the hope is they won't end up in the toilet and they might, in the future, be able to buy a domain not prefixed by "get"

My personal favourite is PostHog, which sounds like something one might say on Grindr.

It doesn't just sound like that, it was used to mean exactly what you think well before PostHog was founded. I'm still not sure if that was an accident or the founders were in on the joke.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by NoboruWataya »

swyx wrote: post #27
polishdude20 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It may be the worst thing that's happened to musicians but as a listener, I feel like it's been the best for listeners?

really which part? that ui where it switches songs if your finger grazes it even slightly? and starts over completely when you try to flip it back, forgetting where you were? the loud non audio adjusted ads?

Presumably they mean the part where it gives you easy access to a huge amount of music all in one place (unlimited and ad free, if you pay for a subscription). Most of the time I'm listening to music in the background so the UI isn't really much of an issue.

Re: Goodbye, Slopify

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Post by antigeox »

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 that I have saved and/or uploaded myself, and music that they think I'd enjoy based off of my library.

Prior to this like many other people I was a hardcore Grooveshark fan/user. There were other services, but their names escape me at the moment. I was looking for a replacement and platforms kept coming and going, but Youtube Music (for all of Google's faults) seem to have stayed all this time. I'm still using it, it's still not pushing slop on me. I'm happy.

As an aside, accepting that I'm in the minority here speaking on behalf of them, I am not someone who would write a blog post announcing that I'm leaving some shitty platform. I'll just cancel my sub and move on. I don't need nor want to grandstand regardless of AI or just people's shit taste.

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