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This seems like a lot of work. I wonder why people tolerate this, it seems to me to be a significantly worse UX over the radio.

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You think that being able to favorite, skip, and dislike songs is worse UX than the radio, which just plays endlessly, whether you want to listen to that song (or annoying DJ) or commercial or not? I mean, sure, you can change the station, but, best case scenario, you get a song you want, 3/4 of the way through.

I heard recently that some radio station here had developed an app that they were promoting. One huge feature of the app was that it could send you a notification when your favourite song...

...was playing on the radio station, so that you could then turn on the radio and listen to it.

This was - unironically - the big thing they were using to try to get users to download their app. I can't even. This is so dumb.

Can we just kill radio already? Please?

A music experience where you listen to music industry's preferences instead? That's a step down, even from not curating your spotify preferences at all.

What makes you think spotify isn’t injecting the music industry’s preferences into your playlist? But anyway there are plenty of radio stations that still pay humans to DJ that know more about music then, me with good enough programming skills that even if they play a song I don’t really care about, it is played in a context where I don’t mind listening to it.

> still pay humans to DJ that know more about music then, me with good enough programming skills that even if they play a song I don’t really care about, it is played in a context where I don’t mind listening to it.

Sure, and that's what Spotify IS doing, only they can do it for literally any song/artist/genre, instead of just the mainstream ones. If the RIAA wants to give me some melancholy lofi during my melancholy lofi listening, I don't really mind. I don't have to sit through an Imagine Dragons song, which is the radio alternative

Spotify announced last month that the "music industry" can start paying to put specific songs into people's recommendations.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/03/spotify-a...

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