Last week I set up Navidrome on my PC, and connect to it with an app (Tempo) on my phone.
It’s like having my own Spotify. Snappier too.
And while we’re on the subject, if Spotify could also stop lumping several artists of the same name together on the same profile, that’d be great. There’s an old surf-rock band called the Astronauts that I listen to sometimes, and at one point there were albums from at least four different bands included on their discography page. There’s still at least two.
At least you can have separate pages for artists with the same name on streaming services, it’s been a nightmare on last.fm since it’s/audioscrobbler’s inception. I know, I know, what year is it?!
There’s a kid calling himself Prince.
No.
I keep getting served some supremely mediocre eastern European hip-hop in Release Radar and other Spotify-generated playlists because of some guy who performs as Devo. Same with guys performing as Slayer, Poe, etc.
A lot of the time they’re listed on the track along with two or three other people, so I go to the pages of those associated acts and tap the “don’t play this artist” option in the three dots menu, and that usually cuts down on how much I see them in my feeds. At least until they do a new collab.
If its any consolation every streaming service has this problem.
I saw this when I was confused how SAMURAI, the fake band from cyberpunk, suddenly got a new album release, and yet it didn’t sound anything like the rest of their songs
Most systems were designed with the assumption they would not be deployed in an adversarial environment.
But capitalism makes everything an adversarial environment.
Them’s fightin’ words.
People look to find vulnerabilities in systems for fun, it’s not necessarily because of capitalism.
Moderation is always understaffed, in one way or another.
