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Comment by typeofhuman | Hacker News Reader

Spotify is the most valuable subscription I have. $10 for all the music I could ever want. I journey through the discographies of artists I listened to as a kid, I discover new artists, I love it.

My biggest gripe... I don't want to listen to Drake. Ever. Yet he's in every one of my Daily Mix playlists.

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At least in the Android app, you can go to an Artist's page and choose to not ever play that artist. I've done this with a handful of artists (Taylor Swift and Smashmouth come to mind) and it makes it so much better.

Thank you!!! I had no idea this existed.

What we need is the ability to control our own “timelines” and curation policies. Spotify is most definitely incentivized to highlight certain artists over others (using a completely opaque process). Again it all comes back to maximizing shareholder value over maximizing user control and experience.

All the music you want right now until the day they fall out with a record label, or some artist challenges their music on the platform, and so on.

Just remember, everything about Spotify is ephemeral.

This annoyed me a lot. E.g. https://open.spotify.com/album/2qgVJm03eVhUr0GBif7FY0 became unavailable a while ago. At least Spotify is transparent about it: Still listed, just not playable.

I made peace with music disappearing though. The convenience of an online music library is more important to me personally.

Payola is back!

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