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What's an alternative to Spotify that doesn't play you the same fucking songs over and over? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by sir_pronoun to c/asklemmy

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I am in an intense love-hate relationship with Spotify. It makes good mixes for me, I have found a lot of great bands that way. BUT IT KEEPS REGURGITATING THE SAME SONGS IN THERE. I know about Song Radios and Artist Radios, so please don't recommend those. Smart Shuttle doesn't cut it, either.

The best thing would be several randomness sliders. One for randomness in bands, the other for randnomness of their songs, one for genres. Please tell me some music service has implemented something like that. I am dying over here.

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[–] mlg 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Don't read unless you remember what burning a CD was or if you want a viable answer

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A self curated mp3/opus folder with everything sorted into sub-folders, and a playlist folder that you can mess with on the fly

I'm still surprised all my music fits < 1GB by a large margin. Less than 2GB if you include full video game sound tracks.

If I ever want to add anything, I usually use ytp-dlp and download from whatever source (usually youtube). Everything autosyncs to any of my devices with syncthing, which incidentally is also useful for photos.

But tbf this doesn't introduce you to new stuff. That I just do by random chance by watching yt videos and crap. YT Music is just as bad and will loop the same 3 songs if you let it.

[–] volleyballcrocodile 4 points 1 year ago

I'm always shocked by how quickly a large music collection seems to get stale for me.

I dislike the way spotify seems to push certain songs, but I love that I hear stuff I've never heard a lot of the time.

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