I’m the exact opposite. I love services recommending new artists and songs I would have never stumbled into on my own
Comment on ListenBrainz about to hit 100k users
AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
“Give us more data so we can take any of the effort out of deciding what to like.” is a big miss for me.
I’ll happily take my 30 minutes of scrolling Bandcamp and YouTube at bedtime for new artists if it means that my preferences and habits are none of your fucking business.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Njos2SQEZtPVRhH@piefed.social 1 day ago
Fair enough, personally I don’t mind using algorithms as long as they are fully transparent
AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Meta said at the outset that they were fully transparent.
Miss me with delegating my brain to a machine.
Njos2SQEZtPVRhH@piefed.social 1 day ago
MetaBrainz is a non-profit dedicated to open-source and open-data. So if people don’t like the algorithms LB has integrated, they can just build their own.
About not delegating your brain to machines, that’s a fair point, and I would encourage people to consciously choose where to use machines and where to use their brain. If you enjoy searching for music, it would be foolish to delegate it to a machine. For me personally though it’s usefull, using an algorith here allows me to spend energy on other things that are equally stimulating for my brain. I particularly like LBs ‘fresh releases’ feature, which gives you heads up about new releases by artists that you’ve listened to.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
Yeah, big agree on this front. We should be using technology as a tool to aid us to do the stuff we care about, rather than letting ourselves be made subordinate to the tech itself. For some people, that kind of agency means using an open source system like Listenbrainz, and for some, like the person you’re replying to, that means continuing to discover music in their own way. Both of these approaches are fine — indeed, the whole point of building tech that serves as tools is that if our experience tells us that we have a task that wouldn’t benefit from the tool, we can just leave it in the box.
Personally, I enjoy going for a combination approach — I sometimes use listenbrainz as a catalyst to help me discover new stuff beyond my experience, but once I have a few new artists I’m interested in, I then go and do some manual digging around them. I don’t need to do this manual work part of it, but it’s a key part of my enjoyment of the music discovery process — so I can somewhat relate to the person you’re replying to’s preference