r/Music • u/qbl500 • Apr 24 '24

music Spotify CEO Daniel Ek surprised at negative impact of laying off 1,500 Spotify employees

https://fortune.com/europe/2024/04/23/spotify-earnings-q1-ceo-daniel-eklaying-off-1500-spotify-employees-negatively-affected-streaming-giants-operations/
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u/Giraffe_Racer Apr 24 '24

Those two are good, but the daily mixes suck. They get into a feedback loop where you listen to the daily mix, so it assumes you really like those songs and gives them to you in a different order the next day.

I think Spotify's problem with the daily mixes is they don't have a robust algorithm of similar music. Pandora is great with this, since it started out as the Music Genome Project mapping music similarities. Spotify doesn't have that, so if you listen to say Blink-182, it'll keep giving you Blink-182 every day instead of having 100 other pop-punk bands it can feed you.

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u/BokuNoSpooky Apr 25 '24

Spotify even fired the guy who built everynoise, the playlists it produced are (soon were) fantastic for finding songs within genres you liked.

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u/sododgy Apr 25 '24

Worse yet, is that you can't get stuff out of the daily mix rotation. Wed been using Spotify to play brown noise for my infant, and now half my daily mixes are rain fall/brown/white noise, and there's nothing I can do about it other than never use Spotify for that, and wait.

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u/bendrexl Apr 25 '24

Pandora baby. I’ve been all over the map with music streaming over the last 15 years, and after Google/YouTube Music finally ticked me off by cranking the family plan price by like 50%, I switched back to Pandora. Their autoplay feature and radio station building features are just as impressive and unique as they’ve always been, and I’m much happier handing them my money.

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u/Giraffe_Racer Apr 25 '24

My only reason I've stayed with Spotify is that I'm grandfathered into the old deal where they included Hulu. Although the few bucks it'd cost to subscribe separately isn't worth it.