Musicians have long criticized the streaming service’s paltry payouts, but a new wave of boycotts is emerging

  • P1nkman@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    recommendation engine

    I’ve been a Spotify subscriber since 2009 (you cannot shame me more than I’ve shamed myself), and their recommendation engine (algorithm, as I prefer to call it) is fucked. First of all, it will recommend music where they pay the artists the least, so they can take more money themselves. And it’s the same fucking songs over and over again, basically no matter the playlist “made for you”. It’s literally the same 200 songs.

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      4 hours ago

      They changed their genre classification tags behind the scenes in 2023, around the time they fired the guy who ran “Every Noise at Once” and ruined almost all value the service had.