Comments on: Too many DJs

Too many DJs

anarch — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 12:58:41 -0800

soundsgood bucks the trend of algorithmic playlist generation by allowing curators (née users) to submit playlists and give feedback on others. Playlists are accessible via the web, dedicated apps, and other services such as Deezer, Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, Rhapsody, Rdio, Xbox Music and Beats Music/Apple Music. (via The Next Web)

By: rebent

rebent — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 13:18:59 -0800

hey, this is cool! I think it's much more difficult to find music recommendations than when I was back in college - it could be because technology degraded due to political issues (last.fm) or because I don't have the patience I did (i was *in college* after all).

By: carsonb

carsonb — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 13:32:41 -0800

Neat! But I could view this newfangled thing in one of two ways: Further proof that MeFiSwap is hopelessly outdated and beyond any hope of relevance or, evidence that MeFiSwap needs to be revived ASAP.

By: Itaxpica

Itaxpica — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 14:04:14 -0800

So it's Songza, but curated by other users instead of "experts"? Interesting angle. Thanks for posting!

By: cobain_angel

cobain_angel — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 14:06:59 -0800

This sounds like 8tracks!

By: Wolfdog

Wolfdog — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 14:09:59 -0800

Use of the word "curated" seems to have skyrocketed recently, and it's going down the same road that "artisan" has gone down (that road ends up at TRY OUR NEW AR TISAN SANDWICHES on the sign outside McDonalds.)

By: blucevalo

blucevalo — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 14:30:27 -0800

try our new curated artisan sandwich music

By: chrominance

chrominance — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 14:40:52 -0800

Oh, I thought this was going to be a service that curated playlists that would work on multiple services (as opposed to "here's my Spotify playlist!" followed by "oh wait I don't have Spotfiy crap"). It does kind of sound like 8tracks. I wonder what the legality of either service is, as it always feels like the slightly sketchier services have better playlists due to a lack of pesky rights issues (aka "what do you mean you don't have any Pizzicato Five albums you jerks"). This is especially good in light of Apple Music's utter failure to provide me with a single decent curated playlist.

By: chrominance

chrominance — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 14:44:11 -0800

Oh, one crucial difference between 8tracks and Soundsgood: you can't see a full playlist on 8tracks, apparently for legal/licensing reasons.

By: a car full of lions

a car full of lions — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 15:09:45 -0800

Perhaps this is off-topic, but I've been finding great new music by listening to college radio streams. More people should try it! If you tune in to a student-run radio station in your local area, it'll often happen that the band you heard that you really liked is also going to be playing near you soon, so you can go see them live! It's a win-win!

By: a car full of lions

a car full of lions — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 17:11:27 -0800

In retrospect it looks even more off-topic because I forgot to mention that it was prompted by rebent's comment, "I think it's much more difficult to find music recommendations than when I was back in college"...

By: RobotVoodooPower

RobotVoodooPower — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 17:46:16 -0800

Anybody remember blip.fm? That was fun for awhile.

By: sebastienbailard

sebastienbailard — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 19:47:51 -0800

Does anyone know what happened to youtube playlists? Google seems to have deprecated them in favor of algorithmically generated or cash-sponsored "mixes".

By: andrewcooke

andrewcooke — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 21:27:33 -0800

degraded due to political issues (last.fm) what political issues have affected last.fm?

By: rebent

rebent — Sun, 12 Jul 2015 07:11:33 -0800

Man, too many to count. Remember, last.fm started in a climate of traditional media wanting to strangle the money out of music listeners - and last.fm was an alternative, start up company that was threatening them. First, the laws passed made it very difficult to be profitable, so Last.fm sold itself to CBS in 2007. I remember that it slowly got more and more difficult to actually enjoy last.fm. Here's some key points from wikipedia "[the] RIAA asked social music service Last.fm for data about its user's listening habits to find people with unreleased tracks on their computers. And Last.fm, which is owned by CBS, allegedly handed the data over to the RIAA." On 12 April 2010, Last.fm announced that they would be removing the option to preview entire tracks, instead redirecting to sites such as the free 'Hype Machine' and pay-to-listen 'Mog' for this purpose. The ability to listen to custom radio stations ('personal tag radio', 'loved tracks radio') was withdrawn on 17 November 2010 Upon the introduction of the YouTube player, the standard radio service became a subscriber-only feature. On 26 March 2014,[44] Last.fm announced they would be discontinuing their streaming radio service on 28 April 2014. In a statement, the site said the decision was made in order to "focus on improving scrobbling and recommendations".[5] it's just - one service after another cut, cut, cut. The usual reason: because licensing the content is too expensive

By: 30thdegree

30thdegree — Sun, 12 Jul 2015 07:30:01 -0800

soundslike FIQL (anybody else heard of it?) the thing is, it uses people's playlists to grab music videos from third party video sites (e.g. Youtube). and that's why I'm not wondering why it's now kaput.

By: andrewcooke

andrewcooke — Sun, 12 Jul 2015 07:46:28 -0800

@rebent - oh, that's depressing. i use them only for scrobbling,so had no idea it had such reduced functionality.

By: blucevalo

blucevalo — Sun, 12 Jul 2015 11:21:44 -0800

Perhaps this is off-topic, but I've been finding great new music by listening to college radio streams. College Radio? What's that? Is that anything like Beach House or Vampire Weekend? Pandora/Spotify/Apple Music/[insert service here] will create an algorithmed/curated radio station/playlist for you based on that knowledge!