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Spot on, apps have optimized our lives... to local maxima. Apps can't guide us to peak happiness because the best is disconnected from the rest. Even when it c
by losteric 9y ago
Spot on, apps have optimized our lives... to local maxima. Apps can't guide us to peak happiness because the best is disconnected from the rest.
Even when it comes to something as "simple" as music, I've never found a "favorite" band through something like Spotify. Good music, sure, but the "bar raisers" alway comes from randomness - radio, odd bar show, personal recommendation, cabbie's CD player, etc.
- thegreekfish 9y agoThat's why I ditched the Spotify recommendation engine and started letting other people pick music for me: https://www.jqbx.fm https://www.jqbx.fm
- throwaway91111 9y agoThis is still subject to a popularity distribution, although you may want that.
- msla 9y agoThe more popular that gets, the more it will approximate Top 40 radio, pretty much by definition.
- throwaway91111 9y agoTo be fair, you can get "true randomness" with apps (spotify particularly) too; it's just something you need to proactively do.
- SolarNet 9y agoThis is why I subscribe to internet radio instead. It's cheaper and has better discovery features. For example di.fm
- tomsthumb 9y agoI find music by choose a word from the dictionary and listening to the top dozen results, or for searching for a song i really like then listening to the dozen or so results that come after it.
- toomanybeersies 9y agoI've found a lot of great new artists through Spotify's discover weekly.
- thejosh 9y agoAgreed, discover weekly is great, I have a couple of different tastes in music depending on what I'm doing, and each discover weekly/daily is separated into genre. It's great.
- WalterSear 9y agoWe call it Spotify week. First week, suggestions are amazing. Second week they are great. From then on, they are terrible.
- endless1234 9y agoThat's just not true IMO. The weekly playlist's "quality" varies, sure, but it doesn't get worse over time for me.
- WalterSear 9y agoWe call it Spotify week. First week, suggestions are amazing. Second week they are great. From then on, they are terrible.
- maxhawkins 9y agoCheck out my Daily Random playlist on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/machinebrother/playlist/6p21dRudS9FmcyGvKWPq2R https://open.spotify.com/user/machinebrother/playlist/6p21dR... It updates with 30 random songs every day.