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[–] 246 points 8 months ago (16 children)

Is this why my wife is constantly complaining that her playlists constantly keep playing the same songs over and over?

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  • [–] 74 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    My favourite example of Spotify being shit is:

    I want to play an album, so I go to it and press play. Then a bit later I want to queue a second album after the first one is done. How do I do that? As far as I can tell the answer is to go fuck myself. I have start a new queue or playlist with both albums in it.

    That's apart from all the basic software quality stuff like randomly restarting the queue.

    Edit: so now I use finamp with jellyfin, which I can actually fix when it does something I hate.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Have you fixed anything when it's done something you've hated? I sometimes think, "I can fix this" and the I let my workarounds last for years. Like a leaky faucet where I fix it by rotating the handle not to 180° but to like 185.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (10 children)

    No, that’s just random being random. In order for something truly random to feel less random to the average person, you have to reduce the repetition.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago (6 children)
  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    ... And here I am, expecting "shuffle" to be a random ordering without repetition at all, like a silly person apparently.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    This, the Shuffle function should play every song exactly once, just in a random order. This is what cd players have been supporting since the late '80s.

    It is a very simple algorithm but Spotify turned it into something complex that barely works. By default, in large playlists, it will heavily prioritize some songs while others are almost never heard. People have complained about this for years and there is an option in the settings for it now, although I am not yet sure if that setting really disables all of the "smart" algorithms Spotify has associated with shuffle.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

    You mean "shuffle" like when you shuffle a deck of cards and have exactly the same cards still but in a different order with no single card repeating because you started out with a deck of cards and why would there suddenly be an extra card or 5 of the same face value in the deck because that's just crazy talk? That kind of shuffle?

    Yeah sorry, Spotify doesn't do that.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    My problem with Spotify shuffle was that it always ended up throwing a similar order of songs. The same group of songs would end up in the same general position on the playlist every time. It's not random, and it stands to reason that people doesn't actually want real random order. But it was super obvious, noticeable and quite annoying to hit the same songs at the same time on your walk every single time. They even admitted publicly that their shuffle function sucks.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    This is why I switched!!! I don't use streaming services much, but I hated spotify's shuffle and general music suggestions. So I tested qobuz and tidal, and can confirm that tidal's suggestions are far superior to Spotify's. I still prefer collecting albums and listening to them individually though

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Idk why the donwvotes. This is how these players implement shuffle, because people don't actually want a random shuffle most times.

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  • [–] 150 points 8 months ago (11 children)

    There is zero chance this is true.

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  • [–] 74 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Probably just lying to their boss. I have an AI obsessed boss and regularly lie about how much I use it because productivity is actually measured entirely by their perception of you and not by any real metric.

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  • [–] 25 points 8 months ago

    I've tried explaining this to me peers that just quietly bust their asses while noisy jerks (including me, but to a lesser extent than most) get perceived as high performers because they engage with their bosses and work on things that have high visibility.

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    And their bosses are just lying to their bosses, and it's lying and yessing all up and down the line, and the rest of us out here just have to live with whatever The Machine pukes out for us.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Truth no longer matters to these clowns. Who cares about it's true? Who cares that Spotify is already good... And the one thing they can do to is make it worse?

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah, I wonder about this often: the product is finished; aside from curation, what else does it need?

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    It’s probably true.

    Think of it with this alternate headline:

    Spotify reclassifies what constitutes a good developer

    And no doubt, they’re capturing what these “good developers” do to better train the clanker to make the “bad developers” redundant.

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  • [–] 82 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    “As a concrete example, an engineer at Spotify on their morning commute from Slack on their cell phone can tell Claude to fix a bug or add a new feature to the iOS app,” Söderström said.

    Cool, so your goal is to replace your senior engineers with AI slop, but it's still generating bugs? Doesn't sound like much of an improvement.

    “And once Claude finishes that work, the engineer then gets a new version of the app, pushed to them on Slack on their phone, so that he can then merge it to production, all before they even arrive at the office.”

    Translation: Want to work as hard as a sole proprietor but not get paid like one? Great! You can work from your car while dealing with bullshit commuter traffic. Also, if you get into an accident, you can't claim worker's compensation or SDL, because you're not technically on the job, yet! Thanks for being a team player!

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Is the idea that they're somehow reviewing the code on their phone during their commute? Or are they just pushing to prod without even glancing at it? Why bother with the middle man. Just have the AI push it. What a stupid admission.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    i assumed the commuting to be done via public transport, but yes, you should not give one minute outside of working hours to the soulless company. I don't know what these engineers are thinking, digging their way in the future when they'll be made redundant.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Right? This article is so full of shit, there's hardly room left for anything else. It's like they only collected soundbites from the employees who are furthest from any actual development role...

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  • [–] 73 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Promotes ICE and uses AI. What a company of assholes.

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  • [–] 71 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    That explains how Anna's Archives got in

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    I was so excited to get my grubby hands on that music only to later learn it was hundreds of terabytes...

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  • [–] 43 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Is that supposed to be impressive? Spotify is among the dumbest, shittiest apps. It's literally just a music library player.

    Spotify doesn't exist because it's some genius app. It exists because of legal control. They have no reason to make the app better. Indeed their shitty capitalist motives continue to enshittify the app.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking

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  • [–] 115 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Spotify’s best dev reporting for stand-up

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I need to watch scary movie again. Haven't seen that since ... Probably some time in the 00s. It's probably super problematic though.

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  • [–] 35 points 8 months ago

    Their best developers.

    The worst ones are still there checking the vibe coded garbage.

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  • [–] 27 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    How is that still a reason to brag about

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    [–] 25 points 8 months ago

    Hm. A new way to tell something is shit without actually using these words

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  • [–] 22 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    The same company who got their whole DB of songs leaked?

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    More like scraped. You can't really leak smth that's already publicly accessible

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago* (1 child)

    Spotify has public databases? That's so nice of them. Really progressive.

    So where can I download my fave albums?

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  • Well, IMO, "public access" includes semi-restricted stuff, like the requirement for an account. E.g. rutracker is closer to public than to private, compared to REDacted. As for downloading, there's not much technical difference between it and streaming, I.e. nothing really prevents you from playing into a virtual soundcard or even reverse-engineering the protocol and saving data directly (moreover, there are such projects on github)

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  • [–] 20 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Glad i moved away from Spotify a year ago. Happy to ve using Qobuz and bandcamp

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  • [–] 39 points 8 months ago (1 child)
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    LOL. Exactly. This reminds me of a slop code change my manager recently posted. It was a million lines, where really it just needed to be like 3 or 4 lines. I refuse to do a real review for slop PRs.

    Later in standup he proudly proclaims, "You know, that PR was mostly Claude." ... ... ...

    I know! It was bad! You should feel bad! The fact that he was proud of it showed he doesn't know what the hell he's doing. More lines of code means higher performance, right?? 😂

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    That's why it keeps telling me I'm offline while having an active WiFi and 5G connection of which both work and no other apps have any issues with the internet.

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I'm pretty sure the only way this is true, is if they qualify their best developers as the developers who use AI the most and by absolutely no metric which would indicate this is actually good code.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    How many lines of code have they had to fix thanks to AI?

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    [–] 16 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Is fixing all those AI written lines of code not counted as writing line of code?

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  • [–] 30 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    This sounds like such a fucking nightmare. I got into software because I like writing code. Their job is now the equivalent of a full time PR reviewer.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    PR reviewer but the dev was drunk, sometimes is a genius, sometimes is eating sand, doesn't follow guidelines, likes to duplicate code, and forgets what was in the original task description after a while.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    And even if you babysit it and carefully tell it all the mistakes, it will learn nothing and suggest the same stupid mistakes next tim. I did actually know a human just like AI and he kept his job for years before quitting to grift another company because management refused to believe he sucked. So I'm not optimistic about AI screwing up discouraging business leaders.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    I don't review that shit. Those PRs tend to be huge walls of text. If you didn't take any effort into preparing something for me, then I'm not making any effort into reviewing it for you.

    Let the slop flow! 🔥🔥🔥🔥

    When it breaks, I'm also not jumping in to fix it.

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago

    Yeah they're gonna need to save all the money they can because everyone I know is cancelling their subs to basically every service, from Amazon to Spotify to Crunchyroll to Netflix.

    These fucking companies think they can do whatever they want and we'll just roll over and take it and continue to give them cash every month.

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  • [–] 39 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

    Do you know what we call someone that doesn't write a single line of code?

    Anything other than a "developer".

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago

    A manager. This tool is for what managers think software development is: managing the production of code. From that perspective this hype makes a lot of sense, just turn all your current developers into managers with AI and you now have grown the team by 10x. You can go back in time and find many jokes about how adding more developers doesn't speed up delivery but slows it down. I don't see how AI would suddenly make that less true, especially since the AI is not accountable for its results, you are.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    Good thing Anna's Archive exists and just keeps getting better.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago

    Explains a lot

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    Always the fucking suits.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Why would anyone think this is a good thing? You're actively telling the world that your product is likely full of bugs and hard to maintain.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago

    Or even to true believers, they can just vibe code up just as good of an app.

    It basically declares point blank that the technology does not matter, it's their marketing and music rights only that matter.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    They ate lying without a question.

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  • [+] 37 points 8 months ago (8 children)
  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Find a musician you like. Buy their music on Bandcamp. Download as FLAC.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    It may be waiting to enshittify, but as it is still DRM free, that's not a huge deal breaker (as long as they don't change this policy). Plus, they're still doing Bandcamp fridays, so it's still the best way to financially support a musician at the moment.

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