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Re:Spotify weighed redirecting white noise podcasts to talk ... by osigurdson on Sunday August 20, 2023 @01:40AM (#37196432)
They should then just have a “gold” version which does an optimal job for the end user.
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Re:Spotify weighed redirecting white noise podcasts to talk ... by reustle on Sunday August 20, 2023 @01:50AM (#37196482)
https://Last.fm connects to Spotify and can give you a bit more of an independent set of suggestions
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Re:Spotify weighed redirecting white noise podcasts to talk ... by danShumway on Sunday August 20, 2023 @09:06AM (#37198747)
Inevitably what ends up happening in these situations is that some product manager thinks, "wait, what if we had a 'gold' version that people payed for and that version also pushed whatever content we wanted at them?"
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