Streaming Is Stalling: Can Music Keep Up in the Attention Economy?

Re:Streaming Is Stalling: Can Music Keep Up in the Attention... by ghaff on Saturday December 19, 2020 @08:46AM (#25477357)

>And lots of songs I don’t like

One of my wishes is that I could tell Apple Music/Spotify that I don't want its playlists/discovery to ever play me music from $X genre because I just don't like even if it's considered really good by the standards of the genre.

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Re:Streaming Is Stalling: Can Music Keep Up in the Attention... by maxfurman on Saturday December 19, 2020 @09:13AM (#25477487)

I think you can say "don't play this song again" (the UX has changed a few times so I'm not sure where the button is.) Do that enough times and the algorithm will get the drift.

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Re:Streaming Is Stalling: Can Music Keep Up in the Attention... by ghaff on Saturday December 19, 2020 @10:57AM (#25478178)

I assume if I skip to the next song in Apple Music that does something to tickle its algorithm but, in general, Apple doesn't provide much to enable you to tell it what's good and bad in a playlist. (And, TBH, the device playing the music is often in the next room anyway.)

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