I pulled up Daylist and it offered a bunch of Drake songs wtf
― Never fight uphill 'o me, boys! (President Keyes), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 14:09 (one month ago) link
in the days of pandora I remember flipping around trying to find some new age music I liked until the “algorithm” just gave up and started playing Jaheim, which totally hit the he spot somehow
― brimstead, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 14:18 (one month ago) link
he spot? the spot
Seems relevant to post here:Spotify's Former Data Guru Tells All: A Conversation with Glenn McDonald
― ArchCarrier, Monday, 27 May 2024 07:10 (four weeks ago) link
nice! look forward to the book
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 27 May 2024 09:00 (four weeks ago) link
Long-time readers of this thread, where I've been before, during and after my long time at Spotify, will probably recognize many of the themes and sentiments in the book, but hopefully I did a better job of organizing them into a coherent whole than came across in individual comments here...
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 27 May 2024 13:31 (four weeks ago) link
i'm very excited to purchase the book
― pitted (blue6ave), Tuesday, 28 May 2024 03:31 (four weeks ago) link
I haven't popped in here to say "fuck these capitalist pigs" for a while, this is also relevant:
https://www.nme.com/news/music/music-fans-and-artists-hit-back-as-spotify-ceo-claims-the-cost-of-creating-content-is-close-to-zero-3761004
― I painted my teeth (sleeve), Sunday, 2 June 2024 00:12 (three weeks ago) link
this guy is such a piece of shit
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 2 June 2024 00:25 (three weeks ago) link
I use YouTube Music now. Tried a couple of scrobblers on my phone but they don't work :/
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Sunday, 2 June 2024 08:10 (three weeks ago) link
so they're still messing around with the interface while not improving it.
― Stevo, Sunday, 2 June 2024 09:48 (three weeks ago) link
It’s basically become worse in every way in the last year
― I Chet the Holmgren (Spottie), Sunday, 2 June 2024 16:18 (three weeks ago) link
My book, mentioned above, is now out. It contains a lot of stuff about streaming, and a fair amount of stuff about Spotify as an example of streaming, but nothing at all about Daniel Ek.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 21 June 2024 19:11 (five days ago) link
Congrats on getting the book out Glenn!
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 21 June 2024 19:23 (five days ago) link
link?
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 22 June 2024 09:14 (four days ago) link
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/you-have-not-yet-heard-your-favourite-song-how-streaming-changes-music-glenn-mcdonald/7590219
― bae (sic), Saturday, 22 June 2024 09:45 (four days ago) link
My copy just arrived! Exciting
― stet, Saturday, 22 June 2024 10:08 (four days ago) link
awesome Glenn, just bought my copy
― Vinnie, Saturday, 22 June 2024 11:41 (four days ago) link
I'm in the middle of reading You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: How Streaming Changes Music. Quite interesting.
I just read the part of how the Recommended feature to add songs to your playlist causes problems and specifically caused Martina McBride anguish because it took 136 recommendations before her empty playlist named "Country Music" came up with a song not by a man. The book does a good job discussing the implications of that.
I never create empty playlists so never noticed this feature before but I'm not sure if it still works or not.
When I create a playlist "American Classical Music" on Windows anyway, the recommendations are mostly tracks I play from other genres - Led Zeppelin, Bardo Pond, obscure recorder music etc. It does include Terry Jennings, who was arguably an American Classical composer. And it has a song by Stereolab, John Cage Bubblegum, which is at least a reference to my somewhat obscure genre.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6H4wMlqU40uDKQTmjDAhFV?si=60643bd5b20f40d0
― aworks, Saturday, 22 June 2024 16:44 (four days ago) link