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This seems like a lot of work. I wonder why people tolerate this, it seems to me to be a significantly worse UX over the radio.

rconti 6y ago
You think that being able to favorite, skip, and dislike songs is worse UX than the radio, which just plays endlessly, whether you want to listen to that song (or annoying DJ) or commercial or not? I mean, sure, you can change the station, but, best case scenario, you get a song you want, 3/4 of the way through.
- henrikschroder 6y ago
  I heard recently that some radio station here had developed an app that they were promoting. One huge feature of the app was that it could send you a notification when your favourite song... ...was playing on the radio station, so that you could then turn on the radio and listen to it. This was - unironically - the big thing they were using to try to get users to download their app. I can't even. This is so dumb. Can we just kill radio already? Please?
TacticalTable 6y ago
A music experience where you listen to music industry's preferences instead? That's a step down, even from not curating your spotify preferences at all.
- runarberg 6y ago
  What makes you think spotify isn’t injecting the music industry’s preferences into your playlist? But anyway there are plenty of radio stations that still pay humans to DJ that know more about music then, me with good enough programming skills that even if they play a song I don’t really care about, it is played in a context where I don’t mind listening to it.
  - TacticalTable 6y ago
    > still pay humans to DJ that know more about music then, me with good enough programming skills that even if they play a song I don’t really care about, it is played in a context where I don’t mind listening to it. Sure, and that's what Spotify IS doing, only they can do it for literally any song/artist/genre, instead of just the mainstream ones. If the RIAA wants to give me some melancholy lofi during my melancholy lofi listening, I don't really mind. I don't have to sit through an Imagine Dragons song, which is the radio alternative
- YinglingLight 6y ago
  "One of the most mind-boggling discoveries I made while becoming a professional humorist is that a large segment of the general public has no sense of humor. I mean that literally, in the same way that some people can’t tell the difference between good wine and bad, and some people are tone deaf. Humor appreciation is like every other human capacity. Some have it, some don’t. My best estimate is that about a third of the public don’t possess the capacity to even recognize humor when they see it. But they pretend they do, for social reasons, the same way I used to pretend I liked expensive wine. The reality is that I couldn’t distinguish an ordinary wine from a great one. Both gave me the same type of headache." Apply the above principle to music.
- bbatsell 6y ago
  Spotify announced last month that the "music industry" can start paying to put specific songs into people's recommendations. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/03/spotify-artists-promote-music-exchange-cut-royalty-rates-payola-algorithm https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/03/spotify-a...

rconti 6y ago

You think that being able to favorite, skip, and dislike songs is worse UX than the radio, which just plays endlessly, whether you want to listen to that song (or annoying DJ) or commercial or not? I mean, sure, you can change the station, but, best case scenario, you get a song you want, 3/4 of the way through.

henrikschroder 6y ago
I heard recently that some radio station here had developed an app that they were promoting. One huge feature of the app was that it could send you a notification when your favourite song... ...was playing on the radio station, so that you could then turn on the radio and listen to it. This was - unironically - the big thing they were using to try to get users to download their app. I can't even. This is so dumb. Can we just kill radio already? Please?

TacticalTable 6y ago

A music experience where you listen to music industry's preferences instead? That's a step down, even from not curating your spotify preferences at all.

runarberg 6y ago
What makes you think spotify isn’t injecting the music industry’s preferences into your playlist? But anyway there are plenty of radio stations that still pay humans to DJ that know more about music then, me with good enough programming skills that even if they play a song I don’t really care about, it is played in a context where I don’t mind listening to it.
- TacticalTable 6y ago
  > still pay humans to DJ that know more about music then, me with good enough programming skills that even if they play a song I don’t really care about, it is played in a context where I don’t mind listening to it. Sure, and that's what Spotify IS doing, only they can do it for literally any song/artist/genre, instead of just the mainstream ones. If the RIAA wants to give me some melancholy lofi during my melancholy lofi listening, I don't really mind. I don't have to sit through an Imagine Dragons song, which is the radio alternative
YinglingLight 6y ago
"One of the most mind-boggling discoveries I made while becoming a professional humorist is that a large segment of the general public has no sense of humor. I mean that literally, in the same way that some people can’t tell the difference between good wine and bad, and some people are tone deaf. Humor appreciation is like every other human capacity. Some have it, some don’t. My best estimate is that about a third of the public don’t possess the capacity to even recognize humor when they see it. But they pretend they do, for social reasons, the same way I used to pretend I liked expensive wine. The reality is that I couldn’t distinguish an ordinary wine from a great one. Both gave me the same type of headache." Apply the above principle to music.
bbatsell 6y ago
Spotify announced last month that the "music industry" can start paying to put specific songs into people's recommendations. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/03/spotify-artists-promote-music-exchange-cut-royalty-rates-payola-algorithm https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/03/spotify-a...