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Any app that wants my personal info to "connect me" from the get go creeps me out. Spotify already connects me with others. Although I find spotify UI a bit obt

Any app that wants my personal info to "connect me" from the get go creeps me out. Spotify already connects me with others. Although I find spotify UI a bit obtuse and their music suggestions moronic. I would be more interested on a mobile platform that connects me with independent artists (aka fresh music)...like Soundcloud combined with music guaranteed to get it right on suggestions not because some computer algorithm but because they have competent curators...Like Calmradio.

garrepi 6y ago
That's totally fair. I wish Spotify gave us more granularity in the data we ask for, I don't think we need the blanket permissions a user has to grant us (as someone who just deleted their Facebook and soon Google accounts, this is really important to me). We've reached out to a lot of local artists here in Atlanta and hope to use the platform to recommend and share their content to those interested. Hand curating playlists is also a big feature we've been toying with. That's where something like Apple Music's hand crafted playlists are usually a lot stronger than Spotify's computed playlists. I haven't heard of Calmradio, it's exactly what I've been looking for! I've resorted to listening to music through a cheap FM radio to try and break out of the algorithm hell Spotify tends to put me in. Thanks for sharing!
WaxedLekku 6y ago
I have to agree with your points. I'm someone who uses Soundcloud because a lot of the genres I'm into are not that popular and the producers have between 500 to 5k followers. Because of this, a lot of them simply aren't on Spotify. I would definitely use an app that connects me with other people that are into the same niche genre because it's so hard to find people into this music anyway. The cool thing though is that when you do meet someone in the same hard-to-find niche, the friendship is much more stronger. tldr; OP add SoundCloud support please!

garrepi 6y ago

That's totally fair. I wish Spotify gave us more granularity in the data we ask for, I don't think we need the blanket permissions a user has to grant us (as someone who just deleted their Facebook and soon Google accounts, this is really important to me). We've reached out to a lot of local artists here in Atlanta and hope to use the platform to recommend and share their content to those interested. Hand curating playlists is also a big feature we've been toying with. That's where something like Apple Music's hand crafted playlists are usually a lot stronger than Spotify's computed playlists. I haven't heard of Calmradio, it's exactly what I've been looking for! I've resorted to listening to music through a cheap FM radio to try and break out of the algorithm hell Spotify tends to put me in. Thanks for sharing!

WaxedLekku 6y ago

I have to agree with your points. I'm someone who uses Soundcloud because a lot of the genres I'm into are not that popular and the producers have between 500 to 5k followers. Because of this, a lot of them simply aren't on Spotify. I would definitely use an app that connects me with other people that are into the same niche genre because it's so hard to find people into this music anyway. The cool thing though is that when you do meet someone in the same hard-to-find niche, the friendship is much more stronger. tldr; OP add SoundCloud support please!