Welcome to the era of only Spotify Plays matter - let’s take a look at the underbelly of streaming scams affecting independent artists.
Welcome to the era of only Spotify Plays matter - let’s take a look at the underbelly of streaming scams affecting independent artists.
I dont go into depth that much, but i do a lot of manual labor getting everything in place when I get new music. Maybe I never spent a good amount of time figuring it out, but preset id tags done automatically never worked out for me. I check them all and edit a few things on some, and then I run it through music Picard using someone’s script to only update genre tags and give up to 5 per track. After that, I add them in. My biggest complaint about Spotify was that I didn’t feel anything when it recommended me stuff, and it always felt off as to what I heard. Something about looking it up, finding what’s new, and wanting to hear it is why I keep coming back. Spotify, I didn’t learn anything about who came on unless I looked. Weirdly enough, I feel like I discovered way more myself than with the algorithm.
Wish I had your money experience tbqh, because Spotify algorithm is the only algorithm I use (that I’m aware of, anyway) and it’s the only one I find that doesn’t just suggest me random crap, but is almost dead on to what I want every time I’m building a new playlist, and while I had a fairly developed and diverse taste to start with, I have found hundreds of artists that I would consider myself a fan of through Spotify. It’s genuinely a lot to give up to never find any artists like that again and go back to a much more narrow cone of vision for music :(
Even though I talk a big game about quitting algos everywhere else on Lemmy, I also can’t say I was ever particularly impressed with recs of YT’s, Google’s, Tumblr’s or Insta’s or TikTok’s algos in comparison, hence why all those were very easy to delete/block/disable.
Worth noting though, your phrase “came on” makes me think you are talking about some sort of smart shuffle or auto-generated playlist feature, which I never used. My only interaction with the Spotify algorithm is scrolling to the bottom of a playlist I’m making and seeing the list of songs that are listed at the bottom as recommended, if I like it and there’s a place for it on the playlist, I will add it. The only flaw in this mode of interaction is after many many playlists, and the fact that I try not to repeat any songs between playlists, I find that what it tends to suggest is just songs I already have in my other playlists.