added by Andrew McCluskey · updated 1mo ago
How to break free of Spotify’s algorithm
Breaking the Spotify algorithm
https://tompendergast.substack.com/p/digging-my-way-out-of-an-algorithmic
- To start I like to describe where music consumption is now. It's quite obvious to avid music consumers that you can create a better playlist yourself than could an algorithm. If you really wanted to sit down to create that perfect playlist for your day, you'd probably be able to do a pretty good job by yourself doing it. Spotify will do an okay job... See more
from A Chat With The King of Music: An Interview With Daniel Ek by Daniel Ek
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Spotify, for example, has invested heavily in its own curation services — both algorithmic and human — after finding that many of its listeners were baffled by superabundance, burdened by excessive choice and uninterested in charting their own paths through the digital wilderness.
from Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents by ROGERS BRUBAKER
- Spotify has already learned that there’s no money to be made with exclusive rights to superstar offerings. “After pouring billions into podcasts and audiobooks to little effect,” explains tech journalist David Pierce, “it seems to have largely given up on the idea that exclusive content is the path to riches.”
The more profitable move is to manipula... See morefrom Nobody Will Tell You the Ugly Reason Apple Acquired a Classical Music Label by Ted Gioia
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