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Re:TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale by sebastiennight on Thursday April 17, 2025 @11:36AM (#43718399)
Just found out that my Spotify client added a Shorts-like feature where instead of playing my entire playlist, it just plays "excerpts" from the songs!

And at the opposite end of the spectrum - I've been using Suno AI to literally extend pop songs I like where the originals are only 60-90 seconds because of gaming the Spotify algorithm :-)

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Re:TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale by ferbivore on Thursday April 17, 2025 @01:04PM (#43719564)
Relatedly, I just found out Spotify spent €2bn on comp last year. Would you say this feature is worth €2bn?
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Re:TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale by sebastiennight on Thursday April 17, 2025 @02:07PM (#43720306)
Well. On my desktop the feature always plays silently, so I figure something in my firewall is blocking some IP or domain it needs to play sound (despite the fact that regular Spotify playlist plays just fine).

So I would say this feature has so far been worth to me exactly two HN comments.

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