Look up spotx, that’s the patch I use. There are others, and on mobile you’d need a modded apk which is annoying as spotify are currently in a war against those
That’s sort of missing the point - there are alternatives for finding and listening to music that don’t involve a “service”. Choosing those is always better than having a service not only track you, but deciding what you listen to. For some reason people seem to be okay with Spotify despite the mountains of red flags.
Maybe you can use that brain of yours to imagine why people use and like the service rather than assuming they must have the exact same preferences as you but just be idiots
And they also push a bunch of literal AI-created music and allow others to do the same. So literally AI-slop taking away the few meager fractions of a cent that would go to actual musicians.
I mean, maybe that’s just your algorithm? All the AI music I’ve seen has been goofy novelty stuff like Obscure Vinyl, which I sought out intentionally and doesn’t affect my other listening. They haven’t pushed anything I didn’t look for.
It’s sort of difficult to provide good “recommendations” without user data.
I guess you could look at recent releases, and let users pick what genre they prefer. But with users play history, playlists, etc available, it becomes a lot easier to create a good recommendation engine
“tracking you”
It’s their service, of course they know what you listened to.
They also collect a bunch of telemetry. There are ways to disable that of course
Wait? What? Is there a guide?
Look up spotx, that’s the patch I use. There are others, and on mobile you’d need a modded apk which is annoying as spotify are currently in a war against those
That’s sort of missing the point - there are alternatives for finding and listening to music that don’t involve a “service”. Choosing those is always better than having a service not only track you, but deciding what you listen to. For some reason people seem to be okay with Spotify despite the mountains of red flags.
Deciding what you listen to is a feature, you can just choose a playlist and go about your day.
And I have discovered some amazing shit letting Spotify ‘decide what I listen to’
I use YouTube music, but same here.
The majority of the cool music I’ve found has been through carefully curating a playlist, and then going to Playlist Radio.
“always better”? Really?
Maybe you can use that brain of yours to imagine why people use and like the service rather than assuming they must have the exact same preferences as you but just be idiots
Yep, you’re right - some folks evidently just love stepping up to a trough of music slop without thinking about it.
You tried. Not very hard though.
What do you mean “music slop”? I’ve found tons of great music through Spotify recommendations.
And they also push a bunch of literal AI-created music and allow others to do the same. So literally AI-slop taking away the few meager fractions of a cent that would go to actual musicians.
I mean, maybe that’s just your algorithm? All the AI music I’ve seen has been goofy novelty stuff like Obscure Vinyl, which I sought out intentionally and doesn’t affect my other listening. They haven’t pushed anything I didn’t look for.
This is a well-documented and much written about story: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversy_over_fake_artists_on_Spotify
Huh, TIL
And what reason do you have to believe that the person you’re chastising listens to that AI slop?
Never said they did. But they’re supporting a platform that has been literally caught doing it.
“That’s sort of missing the point…”
Boy now that’s the single best encapsulation of Lemmy comments I think I’ve ever seen.
We have indeed successfully rebuilt the old reddit spirit that so many of us missed!
It’s sort of difficult to provide good “recommendations” without user data.
I guess you could look at recent releases, and let users pick what genre they prefer. But with users play history, playlists, etc available, it becomes a lot easier to create a good recommendation engine
It would probably be harder for them to anonymize your account.