Genius Sells to Media Lab for $80M

Re:Genius Sells to Media Lab for $80M by gfaure on Thursday September 16, 2021 @12:50PM (#28554130)

I love the artist-provided annotations when they're available, but they really need to take a good look at the low quality of the vast majority of their user-generated content. It doesn't help that so much of it is pure speculation, highly subjective, or plain wrong.

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Re:Genius Sells to Media Lab for $80M by acjohnson55 on Thursday September 16, 2021 @03:12PM (#28555947)

Agreed. The quality is spotty and just not great, on average. Every now and then, I hear a lyric and go check Genius, but most of the time, there are no annotations at all for a given lyric. No disrespect, it's extremely challenging to get quality right for user-generated content, and even if they had, it's not obvious to me that it would have been a great business.

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Re:Genius Sells to Media Lab for $80M by colecut on Thursday September 16, 2021 @07:55PM (#28559372)

I'd be happy if they just consistently got the lyrics right.

It's amazing how all lyrics websites have the same incorrect lyrics to so many songs. It's like a microcosm of how the whole world works.

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