Do you hate brown people?
Do you enjoy cosplaying like a weekend warrior?
Then come down to your local ICE office and get paid by following your two passions!
Plus above, increased move to ownership/physical media as people realize continued monthly costs are not worth it.
For me it’s the opposite. I tend to get really into a pandora station for a few months, then get tired of it and it’s almost permanently played out to me. Even going back to it years later it will feel old. For someone like me, physical media just doesn’t make sense. Paying pandora $5/month to have ad free (and DJ free) music when I’m driving or exercising is worth it to me.
Whatever works, but music, or the music the algorithm provides for you, being permanently played out after a few months, does indicate the algorithm is not providing you with music of any depth.
People used to listen to albums for many years, or longer. I still listen to music I grew up with my parents listening to.
Like I said that’s cool if it works for you - great, but I think you might be missing out on depth. I would say this is a big check mark against streaming services. It might be that many people now consuming music this way are not really getting the music listening experience they would have pre-streaming services. (Don’t get me wrong there have always been people who never really had that deep a connection to music, and just listened to whatever was in the charts at the time.)
I’ll tldr this without even watching the video:
For me it’s all of these plus the ICE recruitment ads.
…People listen to ads with their music?
If you don’t pay for Spotify Premium, and you don’t have an ad blocker, Spotify Free is riddled with VERY LOUD AND DISRUPTIVE ADS.
Quiet Sufjan Stevens song fades to silence
”PISSING ALL BY YOURSELF HANDSOME?”
I only used Spotify briefly years ago. I had no idea you could actually block the audio ads they send you? That’s pretty cool if so.
It’s surprisingly easy. I use uBlock Origin in Waterfox (Firefox fork). The audio ads still “play”, but silently.
Not me, but i guess so. Either way there’s no way I’m supporting that.
My phones DNS does it. I still usually use one of the free modded APIs though, because the lack of control is annoying.
I guess… Haven’t heard it.
Haven’t watched it either, but it’s a great list. I’d add
Spotify has also pushed AI music more, as it means they don’t have to pay the artists.
don’t forget they gave $250m to Bro Rogan. weird priorities for a music streaming service.
For me it’s the opposite. I tend to get really into a pandora station for a few months, then get tired of it and it’s almost permanently played out to me. Even going back to it years later it will feel old. For someone like me, physical media just doesn’t make sense. Paying pandora $5/month to have ad free (and DJ free) music when I’m driving or exercising is worth it to me.
Pandora has been and hopefully will always be fabulous.
Whatever the ‘music DNA’ system they use predates a lot of algorithms and works incredibly well.
Whatever works, but music, or the music the algorithm provides for you, being permanently played out after a few months, does indicate the algorithm is not providing you with music of any depth.
People used to listen to albums for many years, or longer. I still listen to music I grew up with my parents listening to.
Like I said that’s cool if it works for you - great, but I think you might be missing out on depth. I would say this is a big check mark against streaming services. It might be that many people now consuming music this way are not really getting the music listening experience they would have pre-streaming services. (Don’t get me wrong there have always been people who never really had that deep a connection to music, and just listened to whatever was in the charts at the time.)