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My phone lets me listen to over 10,000 different songs.
How many different songs do you listen to each week?
Oh, I just play my 15 favorites on loop.
I blame Spotify for its crappy algorithm. I have over 2000 songs on my liked list and shuffle gets me the same 30 every day.
I was listening to a podcast where the found that Spotifys recommendations are set to play songs you like always. They don't want to challenge your listening habits out of fear that people will cancel their subscriptions. Basically they will always play it safe
It's not just theirs, I swear every fuckin streaming service has made the most dogshit algorithm of all time. If I have a playlist of 100 songs, and I hit shuffle and repeat, I expect a list to be generated with each song in a random order that will get played through until each song has been played once, and then ideally a new randomized list is generated to listen to the same 100 songs again in a different order.
For every streaming service I have used so far, my experience is that it'll just pick a cluster of maybe 10-15 songs, and cycle through exclusively that until the algorithm either decides you want to listen to something not on your playlist, or the internet connection breaks for a second and the algorithm just gives up completely on randomization.
Don’t let ‘em
https://stevenaleong.com/tools/spotifyplaylistrandomizer
(What’s the worst that can happen, Spotify account/credit card stolen… publication of all listening data… I am paranoid, still trusted the guy and his tool for Tru-Ly Random Playlists)
…assume not True-Random Truly 😉
Thanks!
Their recommendations thing is still relatively new and developing, but I love listenbrainz recommendations. You can set it up to follow your music listens on multiple different music streaming apps (and locally too, I think). It made it easier for me to bite the bullet and cancel Spotify.
Thank you. Alternatives are nice to have.
Clear your cache. That supposedly works.
I have and it does for a short while.
If you don't like it, stop using it. There's no one to blame but yourself.
Yeah, you're right. I pick 2000 songs and put them in a list, then tell it to shuffle all 2000 songs, and it plays the same 30 over and over again. That's all my fault.
You keep using a service/app that you know doesn't work the way you want it to. Do you know the definition of insanity? xD
I have 7500 songs downloaded on my phone (actually downloaded, the .opus files) and I use Poweramp to listen to them. It consumes less battery, the quality is the same or better and the shuffle option works as expected. I also don't need to log in to anything.
I have 800 downloaded songs
When was the last time you listened to No. 658?
Mine play at random. Actual random, not depending -on-corporate-feels-random.
Picked by random index or ordered in a random sequence? The former has some small chance of playing the same song twice in a row while the latter plays every song before repeating, so the latter is superior.
Actual random afaik, but it keeps track so I can go back to the correct song. With several hundred a "soon repetition" is not really an issue.
My music folder is 8006 files (53.7GB) but I probably only listen to maybe 200 of them that are actually in my normal playlist.
all 10,k at once.
I have over 6,00 songs on Media Monkey. I let them play at random while I'm cooking. Often I will skip one if I'm not in the mood and sometime I will delete one. Varity is the spice of life!
Not sure, I usually listen to DJ sets on soundcloud