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Spotify has automated 'next song' and playlist creation. Those are (or used to be) valuable for finding new music, and for getting out of a rut. But now spotify

by rocqua 2y ago

Spotify has automated 'next song' and playlist creation. Those are (or used to be) valuable for finding new music, and for getting out of a rut. But now spotify isn't selecting what goes into the playlist based on their best guess of what people would like. Instead they put songs there based on what earns them money.

surgical_fire 2y ago
Does this have to be actively enabled by the user? I never really had this "next song" thing play for me, nor I ever looked at any playlists Spotify generated (I always presumed they would be bad). Then again, if people are using these features and they are fine with the results, I fail to see the issue.
- rocqua 2y ago
  Yes, though I think smart shuffle might be a default mode for playlists. People who enable these functions will expect spotify to pick the best guess of what music they would enjoy. Not what music costs spotify the least to play. If this is only a little bit worse, people will likely not notice. But they will miss out on new music. Certainly this is how I normal find new music.
  - surgical_fire 2y ago
    I might have disabled this functionality many years ago. I don't really remember ever having this smart shuffle thing where Spotify would add their own suggestions to my playlist. You see, I don't like Spotify. I don't trust any of those huge platforms, I expect them to actively work against my interests. I always disable or avoid anything they want to suggest me, and view it with suspicion, if now outright contempt. More people should act the same way.
    - johnnyanmac 2y ago
      >I don't really remember ever having this smart shuffle thing where Spotify would add their own suggestions to my playlist. I thought that was always the default behavior unless you paid or something? You find a song you wanna listen to, and then Spotify just spits out a playlist for you, in a Pandora esque radio way where you don't have control over the susequent songs played. I liked Pandora back in the day, but there was something offputting about how Spotify implemented this. So I never really bothered and made my own playlists.
- Gud 2y ago
  You can’t understand why someone would be unhappy with a working product turns into crap, just because others don’t notice, cars or even know? I’ve used Spotify since it was a closed beta and their library was from the pirate bay.

by rocqua 2y ago

surgical_fire 2y ago

Does this have to be actively enabled by the user? I never really had this "next song" thing play for me, nor I ever looked at any playlists Spotify generated (I always presumed they would be bad). Then again, if people are using these features and they are fine with the results, I fail to see the issue.

rocqua 2y ago
Yes, though I think smart shuffle might be a default mode for playlists. People who enable these functions will expect spotify to pick the best guess of what music they would enjoy. Not what music costs spotify the least to play. If this is only a little bit worse, people will likely not notice. But they will miss out on new music. Certainly this is how I normal find new music.
- surgical_fire 2y ago
  I might have disabled this functionality many years ago. I don't really remember ever having this smart shuffle thing where Spotify would add their own suggestions to my playlist. You see, I don't like Spotify. I don't trust any of those huge platforms, I expect them to actively work against my interests. I always disable or avoid anything they want to suggest me, and view it with suspicion, if now outright contempt. More people should act the same way.
  - johnnyanmac 2y ago
    >I don't really remember ever having this smart shuffle thing where Spotify would add their own suggestions to my playlist. I thought that was always the default behavior unless you paid or something? You find a song you wanna listen to, and then Spotify just spits out a playlist for you, in a Pandora esque radio way where you don't have control over the susequent songs played. I liked Pandora back in the day, but there was something offputting about how Spotify implemented this. So I never really bothered and made my own playlists.
Gud 2y ago
You can’t understand why someone would be unhappy with a working product turns into crap, just because others don’t notice, cars or even know? I’ve used Spotify since it was a closed beta and their library was from the pirate bay.