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Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by graeme on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @01:52AM (#34607324)
> I noticed that Spotify would consistently "rabbithole" me into the same ~150 songs

I’ve noticed Apple Music doing this too. It used to not do it: discovered some wonderful music by saying “Play some music” and it would suggest new songs

Now, same small set of songs. Is there a way to force it to change? Like a different prompt

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Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by californical on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @03:08AM (#34607802)
Just a theory, but I bet they (and Spotify) are sticking to songs that cost them less per play, when you get stuck on a group like this
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Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by bluepizza on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @04:15AM (#34608229)
There is no song that costs more. Labels are paid by the amount of streams they get in total. The distribution of money is made by the labels.
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Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by hnburnsy on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:18PM (#34613856)
I wonder if the streaming services considered favoring longer songs to save on per stream fees.
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Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by skeeter2020 on Friday February 03, 2023 @10:55AM (#34642757)
Doesn't everyone just say "Play me one of the songs that someone else on the same CDN edge node recently listened to"? :)
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Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by bluepizza on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @06:37AM (#34691423)
It wouldn't save fees, because what Spotify does is allocate a percentage of their income to pay artists, and that's it. So whichever way this income is allocated, they are paying the same amount of money anyway.
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Re:Spotify is first music streaming service to surpass 200M ... by hnburnsy on Wednesday February 01, 2023 @12:16PM (#34613817)
clear the cache on the mobile client, Spotify may be caching songs locally to save on bandwidth.
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