Too many DJs
July 11, 2015 12:58 PM Subscribe
soundsgood bucks the trend of algorithmic playlist generation by allowing curators (née users) to submit playlists and give feedback on others. Playlists are accessible via the web, dedicated apps, and other services such as Deezer, Spotify, YouTube, SoundCloud, Rhapsody, Rdio, Xbox Music and Beats Music/Apple Music. (via The Next Web)
Neat!
But I could view this newfangled thing in one of two ways: Further proof that MeFiSwap is hopelessly outdated and beyond any hope of relevance or, evidence that MeFiSwap needs to be revived ASAP.
posted by carsonb at 1:32 PM on July 11, 2015 [2 favorites]
But I could view this newfangled thing in one of two ways: Further proof that MeFiSwap is hopelessly outdated and beyond any hope of relevance or, evidence that MeFiSwap needs to be revived ASAP.
posted by carsonb at 1:32 PM on July 11, 2015 [2 favorites]
So it's Songza, but curated by other users instead of "experts"? Interesting angle. Thanks for posting!
posted by Itaxpica at 2:04 PM on July 11, 2015
posted by Itaxpica at 2:04 PM on July 11, 2015
Use of the word "curated" seems to have skyrocketed recently, and it's going down the same road that "artisan" has gone down (that road ends up at TRY OUR NEW AR TISAN SANDWICHES on the sign outside McDonalds.)
posted by Wolfdog at 2:09 PM on July 11, 2015 [7 favorites]
posted by Wolfdog at 2:09 PM on July 11, 2015 [7 favorites]
try our new curated artisan sandwich music
posted by blucevalo at 2:30 PM on July 11, 2015 [12 favorites]
posted by blucevalo at 2:30 PM on July 11, 2015 [12 favorites]
Oh, I thought this was going to be a service that curated playlists that would work on multiple services (as opposed to "here's my Spotify playlist!" followed by "oh wait I don't have Spotfiy crap"). It does kind of sound like 8tracks. I wonder what the legality of either service is, as it always feels like the slightly sketchier services have better playlists due to a lack of pesky rights issues (aka "what do you mean you don't have any Pizzicato Five albums you jerks").
This is especially good in light of Apple Music's utter failure to provide me with a single decent curated playlist.
posted by chrominance at 2:40 PM on July 11, 2015 [1 favorite]
This is especially good in light of Apple Music's utter failure to provide me with a single decent curated playlist.
posted by chrominance at 2:40 PM on July 11, 2015 [1 favorite]
Oh, one crucial difference between 8tracks and Soundsgood: you can't see a full playlist on 8tracks, apparently for legal/licensing reasons.
posted by chrominance at 2:44 PM on July 11, 2015
posted by chrominance at 2:44 PM on July 11, 2015
Perhaps this is off-topic, but I've been finding great new music by listening to college radio streams. More people should try it! If you tune in to a student-run radio station in your local area, it'll often happen that the band you heard that you really liked is also going to be playing near you soon, so you can go see them live! It's a win-win!
posted by a car full of lions at 3:09 PM on July 11, 2015 [3 favorites]
posted by a car full of lions at 3:09 PM on July 11, 2015 [3 favorites]
In retrospect it looks even more off-topic because I forgot to mention that it was prompted by rebent's comment, "I think it's much more difficult to find music recommendations than when I was back in college"...
posted by a car full of lions at 5:11 PM on July 11, 2015
posted by a car full of lions at 5:11 PM on July 11, 2015
Anybody remember blip.fm? That was fun for awhile.
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 5:46 PM on July 11, 2015 [1 favorite]
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 5:46 PM on July 11, 2015 [1 favorite]
Does anyone know what happened to youtube playlists? Google seems to have deprecated them in favor of algorithmically generated or cash-sponsored "mixes".
posted by sebastienbailard at 7:47 PM on July 11, 2015
posted by sebastienbailard at 7:47 PM on July 11, 2015
degraded due to political issues (last.fm)
what political issues have affected last.fm?
posted by andrewcooke at 9:27 PM on July 11, 2015
what political issues have affected last.fm?
posted by andrewcooke at 9:27 PM on July 11, 2015
Man, too many to count. Remember, last.fm started in a climate of traditional media wanting to strangle the money out of music listeners - and last.fm was an alternative, start up company that was threatening them. First, the laws passed made it very difficult to be profitable, so Last.fm sold itself to CBS in 2007. I remember that it slowly got more and more difficult to actually enjoy last.fm. Here's some key points from wikipedia
"[the] RIAA asked social music service Last.fm for data about its user's listening habits to find people with unreleased tracks on their computers. And Last.fm, which is owned by CBS, allegedly handed the data over to the RIAA."
On 12 April 2010, Last.fm announced that they would be removing the option to preview entire tracks, instead redirecting to sites such as the free 'Hype Machine' and pay-to-listen 'Mog' for this purpose.
The ability to listen to custom radio stations ('personal tag radio', 'loved tracks radio') was withdrawn on 17 November 2010
Upon the introduction of the YouTube player, the standard radio service became a subscriber-only feature.
On 26 March 2014,[44] Last.fm announced they would be discontinuing their streaming radio service on 28 April 2014. In a statement, the site said the decision was made in order to "focus on improving scrobbling and recommendations".[5]
it's just - one service after another cut, cut, cut. The usual reason: because licensing the content is too expensive
posted by rebent at 7:11 AM on July 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
"[the] RIAA asked social music service Last.fm for data about its user's listening habits to find people with unreleased tracks on their computers. And Last.fm, which is owned by CBS, allegedly handed the data over to the RIAA."
On 12 April 2010, Last.fm announced that they would be removing the option to preview entire tracks, instead redirecting to sites such as the free 'Hype Machine' and pay-to-listen 'Mog' for this purpose.
The ability to listen to custom radio stations ('personal tag radio', 'loved tracks radio') was withdrawn on 17 November 2010
Upon the introduction of the YouTube player, the standard radio service became a subscriber-only feature.
On 26 March 2014,[44] Last.fm announced they would be discontinuing their streaming radio service on 28 April 2014. In a statement, the site said the decision was made in order to "focus on improving scrobbling and recommendations".[5]
it's just - one service after another cut, cut, cut. The usual reason: because licensing the content is too expensive
posted by rebent at 7:11 AM on July 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
soundslike FIQL (anybody else heard of it?) the thing is, it uses people's playlists to grab music videos from third party video sites (e.g. Youtube). and that's why I'm not wondering why it's now kaput.
posted by 30thdegree at 7:30 AM on July 12, 2015
posted by 30thdegree at 7:30 AM on July 12, 2015
@rebent - oh, that's depressing. i use them only for scrobbling,so had no idea it had such reduced functionality.
posted by andrewcooke at 7:46 AM on July 12, 2015
posted by andrewcooke at 7:46 AM on July 12, 2015
Perhaps this is off-topic, but I've been finding great new music by listening to college radio streams.
College Radio? What's that? Is that anything like Beach House or Vampire Weekend? Pandora/Spotify/Apple Music/[insert service here] will create an algorithmed/curated radio station/playlist for you based on that knowledge!
posted by blucevalo at 11:21 AM on July 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
College Radio? What's that? Is that anything like Beach House or Vampire Weekend? Pandora/Spotify/Apple Music/[insert service here] will create an algorithmed/curated radio station/playlist for you based on that knowledge!
posted by blucevalo at 11:21 AM on July 12, 2015 [1 favorite]
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