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Spotify's Biggest Update in Over a Decade Includes 'Entirely New' Home Feed, CEO Says (cbsnews.com) 46

Posted by msmash from the closer-look dept.
A brand new version of Spotify is being unveiled to millions of subscribers on Wednesday, marking the largest change to the platform since it became available on phones more than a decade ago. From a report: In an exclusive interview airing Thursday on "CBS Mornings," Spotify's CEO and founder, Daniel Ek, said the updates include an "entirely new" home feed that is "completely redesigned from the ground up." "You'll see Spotify, I think, come alive. You're gonna see a lot more interactive content," he said. The popular digital music streaming service allows users to access a vast library of songs and podcasts. Ek said with the change, users will be able to see recommended content in the form of clips, and other visual components.
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  • I mean hell, most any "music" out there with and sense of true musicality...actually people writing their own music, playing their own instruments, actual singing....and not completely overwhelmed with computerized auto-timing and auto-tuning...ended in the 90's.

    I have my playlists of those songs...or at times I'll pick a song from the 60's-early 90's and hit the radio button on Spotify and see if it picks out any cuts I forgot about or deep ones I might have missed back then.

    I really don't need much more

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by Pascoea ( 968200 )
      My 2c on the topic... I was a Pandora user many years ago. I found their playlist building based on a song, and "training" it with the likes/dislikes, was WAY better than Spotify. The only reason I switched is because you couldn't play a specific song in Pandora. The "Daily Mixes" and Song-based radio stations in Spotify are incredibly repetitive and rarely brings in "new" music. It doesn't help that I'm like you and despise pretty much all modern music, especially pop. But still, it just builds the sam

      • My 2c on the topic... I was a Pandora user many years ago. I found their playlist building based on a song, and "training" it with the likes/dislikes, was WAY better than Spotify. The only reason I switched is because you couldn't play a specific song in Pandora. The "Daily Mixes" and Song-based radio stations in Spotify are incredibly repetitive and rarely brings in "new" music. It doesn't help that I'm like you and despise pretty much all modern music, especially pop. But still, it just builds the same pl

    • "Man who says he has a present playlist he spends years developing and no longer uses a UI can't understand why other people would use a UI."

      Did I sum up your post correctly? I guarantee you most Spotify users do not sit there playing the same age old playlist over and over again. These services all now have similar libraries and now live and die on their interface and information and suggestions their platform makes. You're not the target market.

      • "Man who says he has a present playlist he spends years developing and no longer uses a UI can't understand why other people would use a UI."

        Did I sum up your post correctly? I guarantee you most Spotify users do not sit there playing the same age old playlist over and over again. These services all now have similar libraries and now live and die on their interface and information and suggestions their platform makes. You're not the target market.

        No, I have several playlists....and no, I never mentioned

  • That's a fun coincidence. I just disabled Spotify on my out of the box windows builds.

    --
    Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous. - Albert Einstein

  • Who's asking for this crap? I just want it to 1) play music I choose 2) on playlists I define. I don't want anything else. Is there a service that does that?
    • +1 Right On!

    • Audacious playing my ripped CDs from my own server, in my case.

    • The **only** thing I want it to do is play from a playlist, randomly. Don't play what you think I want to hear. Take my playlist, and play it randomly. I'm sick of algorithms always deciding that they're smarter than I am and know what I want to see/hear/read.

      • I don't get your complaint. You can make your own playlist on Spotify and play it on random without anything else.

        • Re: (Score:2)

          by chthon ( 580889 )

          I got some big playlists, and I have the impression when these are played randomly that it still prefers to place more popular things first in the queue, or e.g. recently added things, instead of indeed being truly random.

    • Spotify certainly does that if you want. You don't have to use the other stuff.

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by pacinpm ( 631330 )

      I want stuff like this. I use playlists but sometimes I just want to listen to music IN MY BROADLY DEFINED TASTE but without having to pick and choose. So I use radio feature in Spotify.

  • You're gonna see a lot more interactive content, ...

    That's what I want when I want to *listen* to music. That interactive content will really liven up my run, or drive ... Not to mention eat my cell data. Yay! /sarcasm

  • So it has "more interactive content". Well that is last thing I want when I am driving. When I get my car the last thing I want is to interact with my music, I simply want it to play music from my favorites list while I drive. Interaction is what I do between road hazards and my vehicle, not the music playing in the background.

    Spotify would do well to realise they are a commercial success for one main reason, commercial FM radio started playing too many adverts. I recall the day I commuted to work an

    • Well that is last thing I want when I am driving.

      Just as well that Spotify is only ever used while driving. No chance some people could be browsing through the music on their couch, or trying to find the lyrics to a song at a party or something like that.

      Are you American? You should go visit another country and it may blow your mind to see that the entirety of life does not actually happen behind the wheel of a car. ... Well the obvious drunk drive in induced conception excepted of course.

      • Re: (Score:2)

        by ukoda ( 537183 )
        I'm a Kiwi, not an American, who has visited 26 countries. Please don't make assumptions so lightly.

        Sure, your use case applies for some users, I but would bet the vast majority of users are using Spotify for background music while doing something else such as driving, exercising or working. I chose driving as that the more common use case for me and the one where interactivity is genuine issue.

    • "bUt iT's iNtErAcTiVe"- gotta love that early 1990s way of marketing.

        I think things have gotten too "interactive", and I missed the days where being able to script things to do stuff AUTOMATICALLY was a big selling point.

  • Spotify only exists to feed the beast that made it.

  • Recommendations NOT influenced in any way by the recording industry? Ok. Otherwise, "sponsored" bs can rot somewhere else.

  • I select an artist, and half the stream are other artist I don’t give a crap about.
  • Ongoing request article with thousands of upvotes they've denied for years now - the simple ability to sort your podcasts by most recent on the desktop client. Still not done. Unbelievable. https://community.spotify.com/... [spotify.com]

  • "Spotify's Biggest Update in Over a Decade Includes 'Entirely New' Home Feed, CEO Says"

      A headline like this these days automatically translates in my mind to "things have been made worse and hard to use, users are crying out in a chorus of complaints."

    I don't use Spotify, but whevever someone "improves the user experience", they normally fuck things up way more than improving anything.

  • My wife likes to have music playing 24x7 and she is very particular about her music. I have tried to set up a few old devices (old Samsung phone, iPod, iPad, etc) connected to the Bose system but either their App won't install on an older device or it just stops after not having enough user interaction. We don't want to use a service where we have to play with the UI every few hours just to keep it streaming music. Now they want to add all kinds of cruft to the play list that we don't want. Sorry Spotify, i

  • Bei klassischer Musik gibt es ein großes Problem: Gemischte Alben. Zwei Komponisten gemischt. Sehr beliebtes Werk in https://klingeltondownload.com... [klingeltondownload.com] zehn verschiedenen Alben kombiniert mit zehn anderen Werken

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