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Spotify Will Soon Let You Mute, Block Artists (theverge.com)
Spotify, one of the largest music streaming platforms available, is readying a "don't play this artist" feature in its apps that will let you mute artists you don't want to hear from. "The feature simply lets you block an entire artist from playing, so that songs from the artist will never play from a library, playlist, chart list, or even radio stations on Spotify," reports The Verge. From the report: The block feature works on songs by an individual artist, but it doesn't currently apply to tracks that an artist is featured on. Thurrott first spotted the feature, and notes that Spotify originally decided not to offer blocking "after serious consideration" back in 2017. Spotify has now reversed that decision.
Searching for Michael Jackson in Spotify and being redirected to Drake for marketing reasons alone, is the problem with Spotify.
Let users search for who they want to listen to and stop forcing them to listen to unrelated artists,.
Sorry to say it, but there are quite a few people who claim to make music that is better categorized as audio pollution. Some border on assault. There is a reason I don't have a radio or TV anymore.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Does it come with a default Nickleback setting?
That is all.
If they'd change from Individual artists to a category, say Hip-Hop or Rap, or Religious, I'd pay full price. Being able to mute individual songs would be nice, too just because I like a musician doesn't mean I like ALL they do.
If the universe is someone's simulation -- does that mean the stars are just stuck pixels?
Would definitely like block genre. I fucking hate Country Music and some other varieties. That said on things like my daily list, I can already select "block artist" as one of my options when I block a song. Have been able to for months. Haven't been using it long. Switched to it when it was announced XM was buying Pandora.
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I fucking hate Country Music and some other varieties.
You should try Western then!
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
Pandora could really use this feature as well.
There is a lot of music out there, unfortunately, most of it is just plain bad. I honestly don't want to listen to a bunch of crap to maybe hear one decent song. With few exceptions ( a few you tube music videos) I mostly listen to stuff from http://www.opengameart.org/ because not only is it all freely licensed, it sounds better. But even that can't compare to the music I composed for my game, Wograld You can get all the music right with the game client. I actually listen to the Wograld music when I work out. https://sourceforge.net/p/wogr... I wish sorting by genre worked, but it doesn't because bad is bad, and a decent song, regardless of genre is still good.
Spotify doesn't let you make stations based on genres or tags? I remember last.fm and Pandora having features to that end, 10+ years ago. They also both had a "ban track" button. Seems like basic stuff, especially when you're asking for payment. If all it lets me do is pick individual songs to play and make them into playlists - I can already do that very well without paying anyone a monthly subscription.
You can make a station based on a song in Spotify. I never do it, but the the option is there. It also makes a station based on your recent listening that you can optionally use.
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November of 2012 we have been trying to get these fools to allow us to change an accidental (or otherwise) thumbs up or thumbs down to the opposite, or simply remove either choice, and they still haven't implemented such a basic feature. It's ridiculous. And it's things like this that will continue to ensure they never get any money from me.
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I haven't subscribed in a while, but Slacker Radio had ban artist, ban song, create a station from a song, curated genre stations... I'm surprised that the more popular Spotify lacks these features.
Or any other streaming music service, for that matter...
You can't link tracks that were meant to be played together, so multi-track works sound absolutely horrible when part of a playlist on shuffle mode, or played as part of a radio station.
Take Pink Floyd, for instance... If you wanted Another Brick in the Wall to be a part of your playlist, someone decided to slice that into three separate tracks on the album. There's a lot of good music out there that's affected by this problem.
Not good enough. 'The Cure' is on multiple channels, god they suck.
The problem is YouTube takes money from the owners of shit groups to be suggested based on completely dissimilar music. e.g 'The Cure' as a suggestion based on bands that know how to play their instruments.
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R Kelly's best video.
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John McAfee 'It was like that time I hired that Bangkok prostitute; to do my taxes, while I fucked my accountant'