• Dagwood222@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    My phone lets me listen to over 10,000 different songs.

    How many different songs do you listen to each week?

    Oh, I just play my 15 favorites on loop.

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      4 days ago

      I have over 6,00 songs on Media Monkey. I let them play at random while I’m cooking. Often I will skip one if I’m not in the mood and sometime I will delete one. Varity is the spice of life!

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      4 days ago

      I blame Spotify for its crappy algorithm. I have over 2000 songs on my liked list and shuffle gets me the same 30 every day.

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          3 days ago

          Yeah, you’re right. I pick 2000 songs and put them in a list, then tell it to shuffle all 2000 songs, and it plays the same 30 over and over again. That’s all my fault.

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            3 days ago

            You keep using a service/app that you know doesn’t work the way you want it to. Do you know the definition of insanity? xD

            I have 7500 songs downloaded on my phone (actually downloaded, the .opus files) and I use Poweramp to listen to them. It consumes less battery, the quality is the same or better and the shuffle option works as expected. I also don’t need to log in to anything.

      • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
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        4 days ago

        Their recommendations thing is still relatively new and developing, but I love listenbrainz recommendations. You can set it up to follow your music listens on multiple different music streaming apps (and locally too, I think). It made it easier for me to bite the bullet and cancel Spotify.

      • djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        4 days ago

        It’s not just theirs, I swear every fuckin streaming service has made the most dogshit algorithm of all time. If I have a playlist of 100 songs, and I hit shuffle and repeat, I expect a list to be generated with each song in a random order that will get played through until each song has been played once, and then ideally a new randomized list is generated to listen to the same 100 songs again in a different order.

        For every streaming service I have used so far, my experience is that it’ll just pick a cluster of maybe 10-15 songs, and cycle through exclusively that until the algorithm either decides you want to listen to something not on your playlist, or the internet connection breaks for a second and the algorithm just gives up completely on randomization.

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        4 days ago

        yeah, same here. i think their algorithm must select the songs that cost them the least amount to play at that time.

      • Jay@lemmy.ca
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        4 days ago

        My music folder is 8006 files (53.7GB) but I probably only listen to maybe 200 of them that are actually in my normal playlist.

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            4 days ago

            Picked by random index or ordered in a random sequence? The former has some small chance of playing the same song twice in a row while the latter plays every song before repeating, so the latter is superior.