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Spotify doesn't make profit from music streaming, despite having over 400M monthly active users, because it pays two-thirds of all its revenue to the rights holders. (open.substack.com)
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[+] -30 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Ok, but why not find a human that curates the kind of music you like? They are called DJs.

I don’t understand why we need to get rid of human DJs that seems like the last job we need to replace.

edit why do y’all think I am talking about radio DJs? You…. know there are wayyyyyyy more DJs out there than just radio DJs right?…..right?

….like y’all know mixes exist right? Like mixcloud or whatever?

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sometimes my car decides to play some radio before connecting to my phone. It’s an unfortunate side-effect of owning a not-too-nice car.

    Radio DJs are little more than advertising agents nowadays. Or worse, wannabe entertainers.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Compare the top 40 to your Discover Weekly and the answer is obvious.

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  • [+] -7 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

    I hate the radio, I’m not talking about radio DJs unless it is the very occasional weird college radio station that is fun just for the curveballs.

    I’m talking about all the other DJs, real life human beings who for fun spend hours hunting down the kind of music you listen to and arrange it into mixes. Like a recommendation algorithm but a human! There are plenty of them, you might not know of one that exists for your specific niche, but rest assured they definitely exist.

    They play sets for bars and stuff with music they have collected in whatever genre they are into, it is a whole thing.

    I don’t know why I am explaining the concept of a DJ.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    You're explaining because people know DJ to mean radio or in person, and neither are practical in context, so everyone is confused on how it’s relevant. People who use streaming service algorithms probably aren’t looking to go to a bar or event every time they want a recommendation.

    Not to mention that bars and stuff with music usually cater towards upbeat music. If you’re sure these niche DJs exist, why not name some, or at least provide vague instructions on locating one? It would be a lot more useful to provide actionable advice to people looking for recommendations based on their taste

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    There's a classical station in Dallas that calls their programming music with context. And they're right! When there's a good DJ in the booth you will end up learning something about the music being played.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah, let me go ask my DJ friends I totally know and are also a Californian who enjoys South African Deep House and Prog House, or post rock, but not post metal.

    Do you know how many people exist that can do that for me? Exactly zero. It’s perfect for computers and algorithms. Humans are amazing at creating music and knowing where it fits, but they aren’t the end all be all of knowing where more like it exists. Especially when it’s not like I can reach out to my favorite artists of South African Deep House (like Kyle Watson) and ask him personally for recommendations. He’s busy with a job.

    Mixes also don’t often times give you the full song for you to understand whether you truly like it, and they often have obscure remixes that aren’t released due to creator copyright or other rules. You’re creating a problem to complain about.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, let me go ask my DJ friends I totally know and are also a Californian who enjoys South African Deep House and Prog House, or post rock, but not post metal.

    Do you know how many people exist that can do that for me? Exactly zero.

    Hmm, let’s see if I google “South African Deep House DJ Mix”

    First result: https://m.soundcloud.com/deephouse_sa

    This is what drives me up a wall, people WANT to believe that only robots can help them with their super specific artistic tastes because they are too niche even if it means ignoring tons of artists and curators out there who’s passion it is to collect and share that specific type of music.

    We have been sold AI curation as a way of placing a corporation between you and the communities of listeners and curators who share and find the types of music you like so art can further be corporatized and divorced from the artists who actually create the art. A corporation isn’t going to promote humans sharing music they have collected with humans because if that human gets popular they could just go somewhere else with their fans, i.e. there is a community and corporations see that as a threat compared to an algorithm they own and can manipulate any way they want.

    I am not saying never use algorithmic recommendation, but it is depressing how the vast majority of people seem to have utterly abandoned the idea of being interested in communities of humans collecting music and sharing it in artistically arranged mixes.

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