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Re:Eager to Burst His Own Bubble, a Techie Made Apps to Rand... by losteric on Monday August 07, 2017 @04:06PM (#14950821)
Spot on, apps have optimized our lives... to local maxima. Apps can't guide us to peak happiness because the best is disconnected from the rest.

Even when it comes to something as "simple" as music, I've never found a "favorite" band through something like Spotify. Good music, sure, but the "bar raisers" alway comes from randomness - radio, odd bar show, personal recommendation, cabbie's CD player, etc.

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Re:Eager to Burst His Own Bubble, a Techie Made Apps to Rand... by toomanybeersies on Monday August 07, 2017 @06:50PM (#14951933)
I've found a lot of great new artists through Spotify's discover weekly.
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Re:Eager to Burst His Own Bubble, a Techie Made Apps to Rand... by thejosh on Monday August 07, 2017 @07:59PM (#14952321)
Agreed, discover weekly is great, I have a couple of different tastes in music depending on what I'm doing, and each discover weekly/daily is separated into genre. It's great.
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Re:Eager to Burst His Own Bubble, a Techie Made Apps to Rand... by WalterSear on Monday August 07, 2017 @09:12PM (#14952686)
We call it Spotify week. First week, suggestions are amazing. Second week they are great. From then on, they are terrible.
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Re:Eager to Burst His Own Bubble, a Techie Made Apps to Rand... by endless1234 on Tuesday August 08, 2017 @04:30AM (#14955735)
That's just not true IMO. The weekly playlist's "quality" varies, sure, but it doesn't get worse over time for me.
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Re:Eager to Burst His Own Bubble, a Techie Made Apps to Rand... by maxhawkins on Monday August 07, 2017 @10:59PM (#14953618)
Check out my Daily Random playlist on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/user/machinebrother/playlist/6p21dR...

It updates with 30 random songs every day.

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Re:Eager to Burst His Own Bubble, a Techie Made Apps to Rand... by SolarNet on Monday August 07, 2017 @04:47PM (#14951132)
This is why I subscribe to internet radio instead. It's cheaper and has better discovery features. For example di.fm
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Re:Eager to Burst His Own Bubble, a Techie Made Apps to Rand... by tomsthumb on Monday August 07, 2017 @08:06PM (#14952347)
I find music by choose a word from the dictionary and listening to the top dozen results, or for searching for a song i really like then listening to the dozen or so results that come after it.
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Re:Eager to Burst His Own Bubble, a Techie Made Apps to Rand... by thegreekfish on Monday August 07, 2017 @04:23PM (#14950952)
That's why I ditched the Spotify recommendation engine and started letting other people pick music for me: https://www.jqbx.fm
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Re:Eager to Burst His Own Bubble, a Techie Made Apps to Rand... by msla on Monday August 07, 2017 @04:38PM (#14951055)
The more popular that gets, the more it will approximate Top 40 radio, pretty much by definition.
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Re:Eager to Burst His Own Bubble, a Techie Made Apps to Rand... by throwaway91111 on Monday August 07, 2017 @04:31PM (#14951003)
This is still subject to a popularity distribution, although you may want that.
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Re:Eager to Burst His Own Bubble, a Techie Made Apps to Rand... by throwaway91111 on Monday August 07, 2017 @04:31PM (#14951000)
To be fair, you can get "true randomness" with apps (spotify particularly) too; it's just something you need to proactively do.
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