Spotify Form F-1

Re:Spotify Form F-1 by sharkweek on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @03:26PM (#16486489)

On the other side of this, I love how easy it is to find new music on Spotify! Every week, the "Discover Weekly" playlist nets me at least one or two new artists I end up loving.

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Re:Spotify Form F-1 by jqbx_jason on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @04:08PM (#16486931)

If you ever get tired of Discover Weekly give JQBX[1] a try. I built it so that I could bust out of the same old genres Spotify tends to re-suggest every week.

[1] https://www.jqbx.fm

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Re:Spotify Form F-1 by rileyt on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @04:15PM (#16487017)

This is neat! It's cool how powerful Spotify's API is.

I built Amplitude [1], which uses Spotify's recommendations API to create artist based discovery playlists, if you need more new music than Discover Weekly provides and also Rediscover [2], to save your discover weekly playlists so you don't lose songs.

[1] https://amplitudeapp.com/

[2] https://rediscover.rile.yt/

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Re:Spotify Form F-1 by sp00ls on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @05:17PM (#16487641)

This looks great, I'm definitely going to give it a try. Spotify has been slowly driving me crazy with the same exact songs in my daily mixes day after day just reshuffling.

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Re:Spotify Form F-1 by dabockster on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @06:08PM (#16488109)

This is the big reason why I switched to Apple Music. Spotify has an amazing UI/UX, but it doesn't change the fact that I don't want to listen to the same stuff each week. I have FM radio for that.

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Re:Spotify Form F-1 by tim-- on Thursday March 01, 2018 @12:43AM (#16489949)

Jason, this is amazing! Every few years I look for something that will be able to suggest new/different music to listen to, and the product gets killed.

Spotify used to have apps which had something like this (... I forget the name of the app), it's good to have a replacement.

I would happily pay $1 a month for this. Where is the $12 a year subscription?

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Re:Spotify Form F-1 by tj-teej on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @03:42PM (#16486681)

Discover Weekly will suggest a song I loved 10 years ago and completely forgot about. It's really great stuff.

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Re:Spotify Form F-1 by lolive on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @04:52PM (#16487422)

I am a subscriber of Spotify, because I follow the "This Week's Releases" playlist of jlarome. It is some kind of ancestor of the automatic algorithms, but I always find some interesting new stuff in genres that I rarely listen to, otherwise. cf https://open.spotify.com/user/jlarome/playlist/6KErOvRQFEAnY... (and https://open.spotify.com/user/jlarome/playlist/6CfIDri6dejaB... for "Last week's releases").

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Re:Spotify Form F-1 by shostack on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @03:54PM (#16486804)

I've found I almost exclusively listen to "Discover Weekly" and "Release Radar" during my commutes, and every now and then grab a song for some playlists for other times.

I do wish there were better ways to shape what songs end up in there as sometimes it can be a bit of a miss.

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