In their defense, for a while there, they were the best algorithm out there. It was actually really good. Not anymore. It’s fucking awful. One of the worst shuffles I’ve ever seen, super repetitive and actually insulting suggestions.
But also, everybody should dump Spotify for a shit ton of ethical and political reasons.
Lol… It was okay for a very very brief time. After di.fm and before grooveshark. And tbh, even then, it wasn’t very good. There was some music services that I swear I’m forgetting that were right around that time that were really good and then a lot of people loved pandora for some reason…
I love Pandora specifically because if you put in something as specific as a song it would recommend other similar songs.
And not just similar in terms of year genre or artist, but similar in terms of how they sounded. And you could even open the details and you could see how their music staff and genre experts had tagged each song. And that was really cool.
Stuff like “hand claps”, “breathy vocals,” “virtuosic acoustic instrumentals”, etc.
Tidal has gotten insufferably repetitive lately, too. I’m about to go back to a local music player if the situation doesn’t improve, because I suspect the rest are just as bad.
In their defense, for a while there, they were the best algorithm out there. It was actually really good. Not anymore. It’s fucking awful. One of the worst shuffles I’ve ever seen, super repetitive and actually insulting suggestions.
But also, everybody should dump Spotify for a shit ton of ethical and political reasons.
I remember when Pandora was originally great
Lol… It was okay for a very very brief time. After di.fm and before grooveshark. And tbh, even then, it wasn’t very good. There was some music services that I swear I’m forgetting that were right around that time that were really good and then a lot of people loved pandora for some reason…
I love Pandora specifically because if you put in something as specific as a song it would recommend other similar songs.
And not just similar in terms of year genre or artist, but similar in terms of how they sounded. And you could even open the details and you could see how their music staff and genre experts had tagged each song. And that was really cool.
Stuff like “hand claps”, “breathy vocals,” “virtuosic acoustic instrumentals”, etc.
Tidal has gotten insufferably repetitive lately, too. I’m about to go back to a local music player if the situation doesn’t improve, because I suspect the rest are just as bad.
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