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Spotify boss defends move to AI music, saying it is better than ‘slop’ (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I tried to move to Qobuz from apple music, and it just never 'clicked'. I fed it my am played songs, + last.fm so like 2 decades of listem history, and it just... didn't use the data for playing music or artists I would like.

I remember tidal being kinda similar but that was, jeez, 8 years ago? And I stuck with tidal for like a year. Qobuz was out before the second month was up.

Shame since if it could ingest and actually use data, it seemed pretty good with features I would like.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    People actually want their music service to determine what they listen to?

    I like Apple Music because it basically acts as a music library where I can add every album I want to my collection. I pick what I listen to myself.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago

    I don't like a ton of music. If it's top 500 charts mainstream and it's not 20 years old, or so new that hipsters don't even know about it, I'm probably not interested.

    So finding new music that isn't popular and isn't shit is annoying. I basically use 'discovery' systems that are 98% the same things you have listen to the last 5 years on repeat, but sometimes it'll slip a song I don't know by an artist I've never heard of that's metal screamo and I'm like WTF HELL YEAH. Then the next song is Vanilla Twilight by Owl City.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    I'm using deezer right now. It's decent but still not quite up to the Google play music radio for recommendations. Even Spotify was a bit better. But at least it's not funding that kind of assholes

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Qobuz’s daily/weekly automated playlists aren’t great. The radio stations feature is pretty good now though.

    They’ve been working on their For You tab and it’s getting better.

    Their curated ones are a nice way to discover more music too.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (1 child)

    FY was what I was most interested in, but again it didn't seem to grab my play history, only the songs I had played. For like 18 years. And there was no weight between them so something I listened to once in high school had the same chance of trying to pull me in a direction/genre as a song I have 5k plays of. And everything, everything was favorited. That might have been the import systems fault, but they are partnered with them so...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Yeah, it’s not the best.

    I listened to some Spanish songs and got Mexican or Tejano music for over a month after. Same with listening to K-pop — so much K-pop!

    They’ve got work to do for sure, but in the last year they’ve released a lot to try and improve.

    Maybe I sympathize though, as I work in a small tech company now and I don’t get nearly the time I want to build out our algorithms.

    I would still say try out the Radio feature, it works well. And of course I’m in favour of supporting a more independent tech company outside the US.

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