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My "Top Songs 2017" playlist is exlusively stuff I've listened to, specifically my most listened to tracks. Maybe not 100% in order of most listened to, but I'v
by KozmoNau7 9y ago
My "Top Songs 2017" playlist is exlusively stuff I've listened to, specifically my most listened to tracks. Maybe not 100% in order of most listened to, but I've definitely listened to all of them a lot.
On the other hand, the "ones that got away" playlist is completely filled with pop dreck, scraped directly from top 40 lists, not worth even looking at.
- pavlov 9y agoMy top list is missing a lot of stuff and instead contains songs I can't remember ever hearing, taken from albums where I've listened to only one song a couple of times. The copyright for these songs is owned by RCA / Sony Music, so I guess Sony is paying to insert them into playlists to promote the rest of the album. On the other hand, Spotify's description for the "Your Top Songs 2017" playlist doesn't explicitly make the claim that these would be songs I actually listened to; instead it's more vaguely phrased as "songs you loved this year"... So I guess they're just assuming I would love these. It also helps that Spotify doesn't show play counts, so there's no way for me to verify the actual top list. I'm thinking of buying more MP3s from now on -- files on local disk don't try to actively manipulate me to listen to something else.