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There's a lot of cases where I've been offered up an artist's "greatest hits" or "latest hit" through an algorithm, and it got me curious enough to dig and disc
by bezier-curve 2y ago
There's a lot of cases where I've been offered up an artist's "greatest hits" or "latest hit" through an algorithm, and it got me curious enough to dig and discover their albums, and listen to them the way they probably intended. I think your comment is a narrow way to look at algorithmic suggestions, and it comes off elitist.
- a-french-anon 2y agoI was talking about music listening, which is a very different act from music discovery, in my opinion. Addendum: elitism may have a very double-plus-ungood connotation in the current year, but I've never heard a valid, factual argument against it; which is even funnier when you realize the kind of people conditioned to react this way to the word have a similar filter for "populism". It's basically one of the modern "witches" arguments.
- bezier-curve 2y agoTo clarify, my point is music listening is ultimately subjective, and there's no objective, "correct", way people can experience and appreciate art.
- a-french-anon 2y agoThat view itself is subjective and isn't shared by everybody.
- bezier-curve 2y agoAll comments on HN are subjective.