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The project looks cool, however, I find using 'Spotify' in the title very very clickbaity. It's just a music streaming service + player. There's nothing wrong w

by gedrap 11y ago

The project looks cool, however, I find using 'Spotify' in the title very very clickbaity. It's just a music streaming service + player. There's nothing wrong with that, I am not saying that the project sucks or anything, it's just uncool to use a popular brand to attract clicks and call it a clone when it's something totally different. It's like calling VLC self-hosted netflix clone.

cwyers 11y ago
I mean, I think clone is the polite way of describing how this looks.
OJFord 11y ago
> It's like calling VLC self-hosted netflix clone. Only with a VLC skin to make it look like Netflix. And even then, what about library browsing? They're fundamentally different. Netflix recommendations are awful, but they do exist.
- gedrap 11y ago
  > Netflix recommendations are awful, but they do exist. That's odd, they were amazing to me for about 2-3 years :) but that's one of the things that probably varies a lot from person to person because of different preferences, different availability based on region, etc.
  - cballard 11y ago
    The problem I have with Netflix recommendations is that while they understand genres, they're not good at recommending good shows. Since I've watched Archer and Arrested Development, Netflix thinks I'd like every mediocre comedy show, since I've watched Sherlock and Luther, it thinks I'd like mediocre non-serialized detective shows, and anything made by the BBC. Watching all of BSG (which isn't even on Netflix anymore, RIP) has given me a permanent section of terrible sci-fi recommendations.
  - OJFord 11y ago
    It recommends me things that it expects me to rate (as in, when it guesses your rating with red stars) less than 3/5. It also recommends me kids shows and cartoons, despite my painstaking completion of the huge preferences list, and many ratings/"not interested"s that clearly state I "never" watch cartoons or kids shows.
SmellyGeekBoy 11y ago
Surprised it wasn't "Spotify killer" - now that's clickbait
dang 11y ago
We changed the title from "Self-Hosted Spotify Clone", which was arguably both misleading and baity. Since the original title was neither of those, the submitter should have used it: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

by gedrap 11y ago

cwyers 11y ago

I mean, I think clone is the polite way of describing how this looks.

OJFord 11y ago

> It's like calling VLC self-hosted netflix clone. Only with a VLC skin to make it look like Netflix. And even then, what about library browsing? They're fundamentally different. Netflix recommendations are awful, but they do exist.

gedrap 11y ago
> Netflix recommendations are awful, but they do exist. That's odd, they were amazing to me for about 2-3 years :) but that's one of the things that probably varies a lot from person to person because of different preferences, different availability based on region, etc.
- cballard 11y ago
  The problem I have with Netflix recommendations is that while they understand genres, they're not good at recommending good shows. Since I've watched Archer and Arrested Development, Netflix thinks I'd like every mediocre comedy show, since I've watched Sherlock and Luther, it thinks I'd like mediocre non-serialized detective shows, and anything made by the BBC. Watching all of BSG (which isn't even on Netflix anymore, RIP) has given me a permanent section of terrible sci-fi recommendations.
- OJFord 11y ago
  It recommends me things that it expects me to rate (as in, when it guesses your rating with red stars) less than 3/5. It also recommends me kids shows and cartoons, despite my painstaking completion of the huge preferences list, and many ratings/"not interested"s that clearly state I "never" watch cartoons or kids shows.

SmellyGeekBoy 11y ago

Surprised it wasn't "Spotify killer" - now that's clickbait

dang 11y ago

We changed the title from "Self-Hosted Spotify Clone", which was arguably both misleading and baity. Since the original title was neither of those, the submitter should have used it: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html