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Takumidesh@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

A radio station is a small selection of music curated by an individual and meant for the masses.

Modern music streaming has dynamically curated music from a nearly infinite source, it’s really not the same.

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Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Spotify tried to shove Doja Cat at me the other day. I have never ever EVER listened to anything that would even remotely suggest I would like Doja Cat. It may be infinite but there is still someone behind the scenes pushing particular songs and artists.

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- ScoopMcPoops@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If you don’t like the artist, then block them. It’s not that hard. I blocked Travis Scott after he got those people killed at his concert and I haven’t seen a single thing with him since.
  
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  - Spuddlesv2@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    On my iPhone it’s 5 taps, which seems excessive but whatever. It’s impossible to do when I’m driving, and also impossible from the Windows app (yes, really, the feature is not available - community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/…/5027612 )
    
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HessiaNerd@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Gen Xer here…

It didn’t use to be this bad. The FCC (and ftc) dropped the bag (regulatory capture), letting clear channel gobble up stations.

When I was a kid had a couple great local stations back in the day. One was a highschool station that local bands could send in cassette tapes and they would play them on Tuesdays. They had a Mosh Monday curated by local metalhead kids/young adults (there was vocational training at the radio station in evening classes).

Even the commercial channels were better. Not great or anything, but they had a lot more variety.

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linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Sucks to have your radio stations. Mine rotates crap through all the time.

Funny story, when I started doing curation, I wanted to get a good list to start from. I looked at the API for Jack FM because I kind of like their mix.

I knew that there was going to be a substantial amount of repetition because you hear the same stuff a lot. Turns out there API doesn’t have any limits on it. If you talk to the iHeartRadio API and ask it for 20,000 of the last played songs it’ll give them to you.

I went back 3 years. Their entire roster was 600 songs. As I started pulling my own curation together from their list I noticed some things were absent. I noticed that some of the things that were on the same album and were arguably better songs weren’t in the curation list. My guess is that whatever catalog they were licensed to pull from they only had a certain number of top hits. A lot of the stuff was the b side of the singles, It was probably a cost savings scenario.

Later on I decided I wanted some other collections to pull from so I started pulling serious XM stations and my local radio stations. Unfortunately for this phase of the date I had to collect for a long period of time so I don’t have years of history. My local radio station had 6,000 unique songs played over the period of 1 and 3/4 years. Which I never would have guessed because again you just hear the same stuff over and over but it’s confirmation bias.

Obviously it’s nothing like the catalog Spotify has where you might hear two new things to every old thing. But there was a fair amount of discovery there. The whole concept of adding pop as it comes in you know.

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