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Re:Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions by 12bits on Sunday January 31, 2021 @11:35PM (#25985579)
Stuff like this will just have me on bandcamp exclusively. Spotify has been a terrible experience, but for the sake of my teenage son, we decided to get a family account. Spotify is too obsessed with telling me how to consume music, I don’t need an album shuffled by default, the artist picked the track listing for a reason. The way Spotify cues music is bizarre. Their user interfaces are confusing and clunky. For a platform trying to go all in on podcast it’s near impossible to know when new episodes are released (unless I’m missing something). I don’t need something to spy on my mood and suggest music, I’ve figured that out - Dub techno while working Ambient while reading HipHop when hanging with the homies and Slayer when I’m working in the garage!
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Re:Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions by ttt0 on Sunday January 31, 2021 @11:53PM (#25985678)
That's what happened to YouTube. It used to be fine, everything just worked, but they just couldn't stop themselves from fucking it all up.
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Re:Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions by Mashimo on Monday February 01, 2021 @04:31AM (#25987091)
YouTube works well for me. It often suggest videos from channels that I watch regularly but I'm not subscribed to.
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Re:Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions by swilliamsio on Monday February 01, 2021 @09:07AM (#25988778)
> I don’t need an album shuffled by default, the artist picked the track listing for a reason

I don't get you. Isn't the shuffle button on or off based on the last time you changed it? If the shuffle is on, and you play an album, then you'll play it shuffled. I'd much rather that than Spotify trying to predict whether I want to play something shuffled or not, and auto-changing the button status.

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Re:Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions by 12bits on Monday February 01, 2021 @09:57AM (#25989182)
I never shuffle yet its always nudging me to shuffle, mobile or desktop.
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Re:Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions by YeGoblynQueenne on Monday February 01, 2021 @09:24AM (#25988918)
>> I don’t need something to spy on my mood and suggest music, I’ve figured that out - Dub techno while working Ambient while reading HipHop when hanging with the homies and Slayer when I’m working in the garage!

Out of topic a bit but this reminds me of the famous dictum, attributed to Charles V (H.R.E.): I speak in Latin to God, Italian to Women, French to my Men, and German to my Horse.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Charles_V,_Holy_Roman_Emperor

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Re:Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions by 12bits on Monday February 01, 2021 @09:59AM (#25989193)
Music is deeply personal to me, it's taken decades to fine tune a perfect genre based symbiotic relationship
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Re:Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions by stjohnswarts on Monday February 01, 2021 @01:08AM (#25986065)
It's easy to play them in whatever order you like, just build a playlist.
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Re:Spotify patent would suggest songs based on users' emotions by another-dave on Monday February 01, 2021 @04:05AM (#25986921)
That seems an extreme solution for playing the tracks as listed in an album (but a good rationale for Spotify to _not_ turn auto-shuffle on by default)
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