They need that assigned to specific use accounts so that people can look at their play history. A thing that people often want to do with their music players.
They only need aggregate data for that, they don’t need them to be assigned to a specific user account.
PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca 4 days ago
shasta@lemm.ee 5 days ago
If they did that it would be far too easy for people to boost listens and ratings with bots
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
Music players have been keeping play counts since before the invention of the iPod. It’s a datapoint that users have come to expect. I actually wish services like Spotify or Apple Music did a better job of displaying this data throughout the year rather than just in end of year infographics.
Like I dunno, Google is literally collating your location data, I hardly think music plays is top secret info.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Preach
Spotify > Search > Made For You > “On Repeat” / “Repeat Rewind” = not sufficient
Chad Google Play Music > sort by plays = perfect
princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 days ago
I thought Google Play Music didn’t exist anymore?
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Sure doesn’t yeah, guess I was just reliving a good feature memory 😉