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> This is detrimental to music discovery, because discovering a song is a lot less meaningful than discovering a new album and consuming the project as a whole
by jncfhnb 3y ago
> This is detrimental to music discovery, because discovering a song is a lot less meaningful than discovering a new album and consuming the project as a whole and appreciating its composition.
This is a very silly statement. As someone who prefers to listen the full albums and does so 95% of the time and basically never seek to play a specific single; I’m definitely not going to listen to an entire albums of new artists at a time.
I look at the discover weekly / release radar. If I like a song, I’ll listen to the album. If it I like the album, I’ll listen to the discography.
Most music is not great, but it’s easy to sample and dive deeper.
- qzx_pierri 3y ago>If I like a song, I’ll listen to the album. If it I like the album, I’ll listen to the discography. Not everyone wants to put forth that much effort. Design decisions are often, if not always, centered around the path of least resistance. [1] 1: https://www.usertesting.com/blog/why-users-wont-go-where-you-tell-them https://www.usertesting.com/blog/why-users-wont-go-where-you...
- bheadmaster 3y ago> Not everyone wants to put forth that much effort. How is that more effort than listening whole albums? I personally do my Spotify discovery exactly that way - I listen to "discover weekly", and when a song stands out, I just click on the artist and listen more. I can't imagine any way of putting less effort than that into discovering new music.
- qzx_pierri 3y agoAlbums aren’t what Spotify recommends. Path of least resistance. See my comment above.
- bheadmaster 3y agoAlbums are literally one tap away - you tap on the song title and the album opens. > See my comment above. Please either reply to my comment with new words, or not at all.
- jncfhnb 3y agoListening to albums is a bad way of discovering albums you like. That’s my point.