New Spotify Patent Involves Monitoring Users’ Speech to Recommend Music (opens in new tab)

Let's see, they treat indie artists with total contempt, they treat their customers with contempt, and yet people keep using their lousy service.

If you care, support artists you like, typically bandcamp and portals with integrity, etc.

...because the artists who are literally paying to be included on playlists are merely another side-revenue-stream economy that has grown up in this sick environment. I'm not joking. Loads of artists are inculcated in the practice of paying to be included on Spotify playlists...

Their business model was never going to be good for music: "let's see, all-you-can-eat subscription model and then they can fight over how to divide their tiny slice of pie"

support individual artists you enjoy and want to hear continue making music.

Why are they trying to do this sort of thing when their usual "recommendations" through their radio are just pre-generated playlists that one has no influence on anyway. I remember years ago the radio was generated as you went and you could up- and down vote songs as you listened, slowly tuning said radio to your personal liking. Nowadays any electronic music radio just turns into a generic EDM playlist in my experience, even if I stared with something fairly niche.

That and the fact that their queue after years and years still sucks compared to competitors made me move in recently. It feels like Spotify has declined over recent years. I still miss their addons as well.

good maybe they'll hear me bitching about playing the same two van morrison songs on repeat for the last five years and do something about it

That's gonna be a FRICKIN NOPE.