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Why I Finally Quit Spotify | the New Yorker
- While Spotify started as an active, intent-driven platform to find the song you want to hear, today it is a more passive, discovery-led listening experience.
from Why I'm Buying by Jackie Vullinghs
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- After all, what does Spotify do? It takes a corpus of stuff (music) and finds endless new ways to show it to users. Users can save the stuff they know they like (a library), explore things curated by other users (playlists) or turn to the app's machine-learning tools for ultra-personalized recommendations (Discover Weekly and the like).
from Spotify for Readers: How Tech Is Inventing Better Ways to Read the Internet by David Pierce
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- It’s approaching problems the way every late-stage internet platform does, at least before it discovers its limits: by presuming total victory and control over the industry it’s been working to enclose. Spotify’s success as a basic streaming service eventually entitled it to a central role in how music is made and distributed. Why shouldn’t its suc... See more
from Spotify Is Eating the Entire Music Business by John Herrman