• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
    73·
    10 months ago

    My “Liked Music” playlist has 630 songs.
    Cool, but can we talk about how YouTube Music only shuffles the first twenty or so? I desperately need a way to export my playlist so I can pirate the music and properly shuffle it on an open source mp3 player.

    “Piracy is not a pricing issue. It’s a service issue.” – Gabe Newell

    • affiliate@lemmy.world
      8·
      10 months ago

      i like to make sequels every year or so. i’m currently on “liked songs 4”. it gives me the chaos of a liked songs playlist, but with the comfort that only recently liked songs will play. (i will never unlike a song)

      • BunnyKnuckles@startrek.website
        4·
        10 months ago

        This is my strategy too, except I make new playlists every January and seperate the songs by year. So I have 2017, 2018, 2019, etc playlists of songs that came out that year. Then I go through the songs from that year and add the absolute bangers to an ultimate playlist. I also never unlike a song.

        • Baku@aussie.zoneEnglish
          3·
          10 months ago

          When I was first developing my music taste I did this too. I had “songs I like 2018 edition”, “songs I like 2019 edition” then discovered Spotify and everything morphed into a singular “liked songs” playlist :D

  • Matriks404@lemmy.world
    34·
    10 months ago

    If there’s one thing I’d want AI to do is to organize my music library :)

    Although I don’t unerstand why can’t Spotify just give me list of artists/genres/etc. that I listen to and allow me to play only specific ones. I could even do that on my freakin old iPod Nano and it’s year 2024 for god sake! But from what I see Spotify programmers are more busy with removing features than adding anything useful nowadays. I am also still mad that they have removed radio feature and they didn’t provide an alternative.

    • Mr_Blott@lemmy.world
      17·
      10 months ago

      And while they’re at it, can it sort out the pics on my phone into “pics of dog” and “pics I took to show a client what the problem was then forgot to delete and now take up two thirds of my storage”?

      • 0ops@lemm.ee
        10·
        10 months ago

        Google photos is pretty good for searching photos like this, I don’t know about organizing

          • 0ops@lemm.ee
            3·
            10 months ago

            I’ve wondered about that possibility. Personally, I wouldn’t want sensitive photos to touch the internet PERIOD, even if I’m the one hosting. Incognito camera mode would be a cool feature. Hit a toggle, then all photos and videos are saved to a separate, secured directory not synced to any cloud service. Maybe things in there get deleted after 30 days

      • Gojimbo@lemmy.world
        3·
        10 months ago

        Hey hun, check this out… Let me just get past these 32 pictures of the same door because my client is an idiot

    • cerulean_blue@lemmy.ml
      14·
      10 months ago

      Why should Spotify waste time on your pet feature request when they have dozens of working features still to be ruined.

  • Korne127@lemmy.world
    26·
    10 months ago

    Spotify should support tags. It would be so easy to have one giga playlist and just tag the songs accordingly to Genre, moods, memories, etc.

    • smeg@feddit.ukEnglish
      6·
      10 months ago

      They recently did an update on mobile which basically treats playlists as tags, in that you press the + button and you can easily add and remove songs from multiple playlists with a single click. I’m probably not describing it that well, but it’s one of the best features they’ve added in years!

      • Korne127@lemmy.world
        2·
        10 months ago

        I actually thought of developing an alternative frontend just for this one feature because the Spotify offline mode / listening to playlists / library music is just… bad, but I’m terrible at frontend and don’t have the time :/

    • BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee
      1·
      10 months ago

      they have something similar if you search “mix” you’ll find a bunch of genre and themed playlists with songs you already have liked and some new ones

  • djsoren19@yiffit.net
    25·
    10 months ago

    I don’t make new playlists to split by genre, I do it so the shuffle will actually fucking work. I don’t know what dogshit algorithms Youtube/Spotify employ, but for any playlist over 100 songs the “shuffler” will typically just go through the same ~20 songs and expect you to not notice. I just want a different order!

    Anyway now I have like 40 playlists with 20 songs each.

    • Mario_Dies.wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      14·
      10 months ago

      Apparently back in the covered wagon days when shuffle features were truly random, the listener would occasionally be burdened by hearing two songs by the same artist in a row. Literally no one complained about this, so of course upper management decided that this must be “fixed” immediately, so that’s what led to shuffle features becoming noticeably worse than when they were simply random, which is all anyone ever wanted them to be.

      • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        10 months ago

        Actually, and I don’t mean to be that guy, but people did complain about it.

        True random means that you could end up with songs by the same artist being played four or five times in a row, which makes people think it’s not random at all. Humans are really bad at understanding randomness, so a little help to make it feel more random improves satisfaction.

        But at this point, it’s gone too far and I’m almost certain that shuffling involves always playing the most popular songs by an artist first, then random covers and remixes, then the back-catalog of works.

        On a side note, I wish I could exclude remixes and covers when shuffling through an artist’s stuff.

        • Mario_Dies.wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          1·
          10 months ago

          Humans are really bad at understanding randomness

          Not all of us. I can’t imagine not understanding that if something’s random, there’s a possibility that something like playing the same artist five times in a row might happen. It’s cute when that happens, it’s a thing that should be possible and one of the things that was so much fun about shuffle.

          I don’t want to be that guy either, but do you have a source showing that people really did complain about this? I’ve heard it said so many times that they did, but I don’t believe it. I think it’s just an excuse for big corporations like Spotify and Apple to manipulate algorithms to deliberately promote certain artists. I don’t believe it was ever well intentioned, and I resent that there’s no feature for people who want “shuffle” to work like it should work – in a completely random fashion. Or at least give us the option. The fact that there’s not even a randomization option at all should make clear that this was not development that was done in good faith or for the benefit of the listener. They actually removed a feature in order to promote their corporate crap.

          It’s so obvious that Spotify is promoting certain artists. As soon as I launch the app, it’s always the same shit on the front page. At this point, I could pretty well predict what major-label crap is in all those “recommended” playlists they create for me. It’s so bad. Honestly, if it weren’t so damn inconvenient to do so, I’d just rip songs from the CDs I buy from independent labels and put them on my phone. I’m pretty sure there are some apps that have a genuinely random shuffle. Just got to find one.

          • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            10 months ago

            https://engineering.atspotify.com/2014/02/how-to-shuffle-songs/

            Spotify themselves got that feedback that their truly random shuffle didn’t feel random, so they changed it to an algorithm. And this is from 2014 when they made the switch, so they were only just diving into algorithmic promotion.

            I don’t disagree that Spotify now promotes certain artists and has really messed with their shuffle algorithms, but they left the true random behind because people complained about it.

        • BluesF@lemmy.world
          1·
          10 months ago

          All I want is shuffle not to repeat until I’ve heard (or skipped) every song.

          I mean really what they should do is provide some degree of control over the shuffle parameters… But hey ho, back to listen to whatever Spotify thinks is my favourite song.

  • chrishazfun@lemmy.world
    21·
    10 months ago

    likes more than a million songs on spotify, plays auto playlist on shuffle

    look inside queue

    the same 50 songs you’ve heard already

  • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
    17·
    10 months ago

    I mean the liked songs list let’s you separate by genre. When it knows what genre it is, and no Spotify, the Damned are not a pop group.

  • nifty@lemmy.world
    13·
    10 months ago

    I haven’t been using social media for 10+ years besides some on/off shitposting on hacker news. I’d love to find something for music management that’s not sucky and uber corpo like Spotify. I use Bandcamp for buying from niche artists and sound cloud for finding new labels, but sound cloud is too Spotifyish now. Deezer used to be nice before they started region restrictions.

    • TurtleTourParty@midwest.socialEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      I’m currently using Qobuz. The interface is a bit clunky and the catalog is smaller, but there are no podcasts, audiobooks, or social features.

      My favorite ever streaming service was Mog. It was bought by Beats and ruined.

      • RGB3x3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        For those in the US that can’t use Quobuz (like myself), Tidal has social features, but you can turn them off.

        I moved to Tidal from YT Music because of its awful bloat and love it. It’s simple and I’ve not found it to be lacking in anything. Some listings may be wrong sometimes, but they’re super responsive to feedback for fixing it.

        • TurtleTourParty@midwest.socialEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          Qobuz is available in the US (Qobuz Availability).

          I tried Tidal for a while back when they only had the high-fi tier. It was nice but not worth the $20 a month IMO. It looks like they have cheaper tiers now.

          Another plus is both services sound much better than Spotify.

  • HenryWong327@lemmy.ml
    8·
    10 months ago

    Assuming an average of 4 minutes per song, that is 7 years and 8 months of music. I wonder how much time the ads would add?