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wow just wow while i can't say i didn't see this one coming but it always amazes me where greed could lead someone

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[–] Ragerist@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I get that servers, bandwidth, manpower, utilities and buildings aren't free, and with more and more people using ad blocking, all that user data they have harvested isn't worth much anymore. So I think we are going to see an increase in subscription based services, and man do I hate it.

Because You just know it's going to increase and squeeze evey last dime from their users. Because it's never enough to have their expenses covered and earn some money.. They constantly need to earn more. Just look at Netflix, declining in contents, increasing restrictions and rising price.

The way that YouTube treats their users and content creators for that matter, I'll never enter a subscription from there. Removing features, blocking people with no way of appealing and letting scammers and spammers run rampant on their platform. Yeah, no thanks.

I used to love using YouTube for music, it was great at suggesting new and exciting music. But then it was split into a separate service and they nuked the algorithm. Now I can discover music by popularity or moods, and as someone whos into EDM, hardstyle, rock, metal and heavy metal.. that's a piss poor way to find new music.

[–] duckef@lemmynsfw.com 16 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I'm finding this with my Spotify. The discover new music algo just feeds me the same 30 or so songs that I've listened to a million times it must be broken.

[–] cuchilloc@vlemmy.net 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Don’t you have access to “Discover Weekly” anymore? My MO is: start curating some playlist based off a genre or theme, start radio from it, keep adding suggestions that fit and I like. Then have a huge playlist with my “I really liked and would play this anytime” and if I find I’m replaying a new song it goes there as well, then, based on your new searching and adding stuff, your next week’s discover might get a lot more interesting. Also shazam stuff on the go and add it to respective playlists, even maybe IFTTT to a Shazam playlist, and even (we need to find a fediverse alternative but I had IFTTT setup to add to a Reddit playlist picking from Music and ListenToThid top posts as well) . So, basically, you need to branch out first so spotify can continue to branch out for you.

[–] Djeikup@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IFTTT is insane. I did this a few years ago that I added new songs from my discover weekly list. I have several days of music I've not yet listened to by forgetting to go through my discover weekly every week.

[–] cuchilloc@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yess!! I had a “Discover Weekly Archive” too, somehow it got broken and I never set it up again. IFTTT got weird, never sure what’s supposed to be free or paid or what.

[–] Djeikup@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I think I had to set it up twice since it got broken once, but I haven't logged in in literally years and the tracks keep on being transferred. 380 hours of music so far.

[–] Djeikup@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

IFTTT is insane. I did this a few years ago that I added new songs from my discover weekly list. I have several days of music I've not yet listened to by forgetting to go through my discover weekly every week.

[–] Djeikup@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

IFTTT is insane. I did this a few years ago that I added new songs from my discover weekly list. I have several days of music I've not yet listened to by forgetting to go through my discover weekly every week.

[–] Djeikup@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IFTTT is insane. I did this a few years ago that I added new songs from my discover weekly list. I have several days of music I've not yet listened to by forgetting to go through my discover weekly every week.

[–] Chickerino@vlemmy.net 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

your comment seems to have been posted like 5 times, idk why lol

[–] Djeikup@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Jeroba snapped I guess. Network error a bunch of times, so I tried again like five times. Gave up. Then five comments popped up.

[–] HopperMCS@lemux.minnix.dev 2 points 1 year ago

A lot of comments here seem to be

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