As a music lover, I was all in on Spotify when it dropped in the US. Lately, though, I'm very much understanding the New Yorker writer you mentioned - there's no discoverability; Spotify will just keep playing you the same twenty songs over and over again simply because the algorithm can't seem to understand "yes, I listened to Pearl Jam's 'Daughter' a lot because I like it, but I don't need you to play it to me EVERY SINGLE DAY".
Additionally, if they were really interested in user experience, Spotify would provide ways to "swipe away" or mute all the random garbage they've placed on their home page. I got Spotify to listen to music; give me a button that simply removes audiobooks and podcasts from my experience; that's not why I come here.
One last gripe - I wish you'd have had a chance to ask about "sponsored" content - it's literally a reinvention of payola from the early days of radio and I'm really concerned that it's going to get as bad as Netflix (where the goal used to be to show me movies I might like, but now the goal is to show me nothing but Netflix-created content because that's what's most profitable for the company, regardless of what is best for consumers).
This is a really interesting interview and a good complement to some of the writing about Spotify issues even the Netflix documentary.
I did find the first 20% a bit blah as it felt like all the standard talking points "Spotify is for creators blah blah..." But from there it seems like he relaxed and got into some really interesting discussion. Thank you!
Interesting interview. Thank you. Its challenging to face this amount of AI media. Because main idea (and know how) might be humn-based and then only processed via AI tools. How to identify that pieces in huge number of totally generated?
I always find there's quite a big gap between what Spotify is saying about their product, their philosophy behind it etc, to my own personal experience...
As a music lover, I was all in on Spotify when it dropped in the US. Lately, though, I'm very much understanding the New Yorker writer you mentioned - there's no discoverability; Spotify will just keep playing you the same twenty songs over and over again simply because the algorithm can't seem to understand "yes, I listened to Pearl Jam's 'Daughter' a lot because I like it, but I don't need you to play it to me EVERY SINGLE DAY".
Additionally, if they were really interested in user experience, Spotify would provide ways to "swipe away" or mute all the random garbage they've placed on their home page. I got Spotify to listen to music; give me a button that simply removes audiobooks and podcasts from my experience; that's not why I come here.
One last gripe - I wish you'd have had a chance to ask about "sponsored" content - it's literally a reinvention of payola from the early days of radio and I'm really concerned that it's going to get as bad as Netflix (where the goal used to be to show me movies I might like, but now the goal is to show me nothing but Netflix-created content because that's what's most profitable for the company, regardless of what is best for consumers).
Thanks for reading, and for the feedback!
Excellent interview Alex! I'm going to mention it in my weekly Substack, Charting Gen AI, tomorrow. https://grahamlovelace.substack.com
Nice, thank you for sharing!
And here's the mention! https://grahamlovelace.substack.com/p/waiting-game-continues-on-trumps
This is a really interesting interview and a good complement to some of the writing about Spotify issues even the Netflix documentary.
I did find the first 20% a bit blah as it felt like all the standard talking points "Spotify is for creators blah blah..." But from there it seems like he relaxed and got into some really interesting discussion. Thank you!
Thanks so much for reading and sharing :)
Interesting interview. Thank you. Its challenging to face this amount of AI media. Because main idea (and know how) might be humn-based and then only processed via AI tools. How to identify that pieces in huge number of totally generated?
Thank you for reading. I think that's going to be the big question moving forward and I'm not sure I have answers. Thanks!
Insightful.
I always find there's quite a big gap between what Spotify is saying about their product, their philosophy behind it etc, to my own personal experience...