So Spotify recently changed from a green heart and a block song button to and + and a - for liking and disliking. What is your opinion?

My personal preference would be to bring back the green heart and make a deep red broken heart.

And I know spotify is proprietary yada yada I don’t care for music streaming. So pls don’t let it be a part of the discussion.

To reference this is an old screenshot I found on the internet.

  • sab@kbin.social
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    I dislike all the algorithms being pushed on Spotify. I just want to listen to albums and that’s it.

    The radio function is nice in theory, but it tries too hard to guess what I want to listen to to the point where it felt like any radio I played ended up being variations of the same thing. It is just not a good way to discover new music in my experience.

    These days I have cancelled my subscription in favour of actual radio. Fip.fr is brilliant.

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      1 year ago

      I would really appreciate a configurable Radio playlist. Just a slider from “very similar” to “here be dragons” would do.

      Actually, I noticed exactly what you’re describing too. There are like 3-4 clusters of artists that Spotify thinks I love, and that’s it. Unless I’m actively searching for something else.

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        1 year ago

        This was old Slacker Radio. You could create a station with any number of artists and then tweak it to discover new artists or just listen to ones you know.

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          YouTube Music has this feature currently.

          It’s alright, but I’ve left YT Music because of all the bullcrap algorithmic stuff they’re doing too.

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            Yeah, when I tried YT music a couple of times (unpaid) I actually did discover some new stuff, partly perhaps because they have no idea what I usually listen to. Then again I have come to dislike Google enough that I’m not going to pay for their services no matter how good some of them might be. Once YouTube stops working with adblock I’m out of there too.

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            1 year ago

            Eh, kind of. It’s not nearly as customizable as Slacker was. With Slacker I could say I want mostly artists I have selected, but play some new artists, and play the deep cuts instead of the popular songs. You could ban artists from a station or add ones you liked to build it out. And, I think this is most important, all your likes/dislikes/whatever only applied to the current station. I’m tired of YouTube Music playing death metal when I play Blind Guardian radio just because I also listen to death metal.

            It kind of lives on in Liveone, who bought Slacker, but their whole app is a mess and they have a very limited library compared to the other streaming services.

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      1 year ago

      I agree and it’s getting to the point where it’s almost unusable for me too.

      Every “Spotify” playlist which is what they shove down your throat in every search consists of the same few dozen songs that it thinks I want to listen to. Well if I wanted to listen to the same EDM playlist I’ve already created for myself, I would Spotify. I have to search for specific albums to get any value from the service these days, but that’s difficult when it doesn’t really introduce me to any new music.

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      1 year ago

      This is why I switch to Tidal + Plex. It allows you to just maintain a library and listen to albums while keeping the algorithm recommendations out of the way.

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        1 year ago

        Good to know, thanks! I tried it out back when it was known as Wimp, but jumped off the wagon during all the controversies. I’d really rather not use anything owned by Jack Dorsey, but I might be a bit too principled for my own good haha

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      1 year ago

      I know what you mean with the radio function I would also love if it would give me something similar to the song i was listening to not the stuff I usually listen to