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I've never used Spotify or any other recommendation service. Music is like food: it's far too important too substitute with junk. I won't eat Subway, I won't li
by raffraffraff 5y ago
I've never used Spotify or any other recommendation service. Music is like food: it's far too important too substitute with junk. I won't eat Subway, I won't listen to auto-generated recommendations. I browse (and support) rateyourmusic.com, I use the last.fm API (to find out what my neighbors are listening to) and I listen to music for free on YouTube before I buy it. I also heavily use tags on my purchased music so I can easily put together a playlist matching my mood.
- amelius 5y agoThe problem: you don't want to be DJ-ing at work, where your time is better spent on more important things than what music you will listen to.
- tjr225 5y ago“More important” :P
- imajoredinecon 5y agoDisagree with the premise - you don’t have to sacrifice productivity to put time into finding good music. For one, you don’t have to do your music research during working hours. But even if you do, it doesn’t mean you’re trading off productivity in order to do it.
- andreilys 5y agoyou don’t have to do your music research during working hours. But even if you do, it doesn’t mean you’re trading off productivity in order to do it. Trying to find music when you could be focusing is by definition, trading off productivity. I’d rather have an algorithm dictate what songs I want to listen to (in order to focus) than spend an hour wading through junk to find something i like before I start coding.
- tjr225 5y agoAnd I would rather not. Obviously plenty of music enthusiasts here are disappointed with the results the algorithms come up with!
- emodendroket 5y agoTo the contrary, that's precisely what I want to be doing at work often enough.
- amelius 5y agoHeh, between DJ-ing and reading HN, do you find the time to do actual work?
- emodendroket 5y agoYeah, of course, and I doubt my colleagues are putting in eight consecutive productive hours every day either. Hard to be on all the time.