Spotify debuts Gen AI ads, programmatic ad buying : technology

[+] fakeplastic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 93 points 3 months ago (6 children)

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[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 13 points 3 months ago

I've been using bandcamp and normal music playing apps. Always hated Spotify.

[–] passepartout@feddit.org 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Therefor we got Finamp now, which is really good and about to get even better.

[–] Supernova1051@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

it's only gotten better. now you can run it in your browser and play local files

https://webamp.org/

[–] vane@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I only use foobar2000 and soulseek

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Plexamp is fantastic. Sweetfades and radio/mix features, which can also include songs from shared libraries, are dope as hell. One of my favorite audio players of all time. Bridges the gap between old school local library playback and modern algorithm stuff really well.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Plex is all aboard the enshittification train too.

[–] deranger@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Yeah, might be switching to Jellyfin eventually, but I want to milk my lifetime plex pass for a bit longer. The enshittification hasn’t reached terminal levels for me yet. I’d have to talk all my non-nerd friends through setting Jellyfin up as well, so there’s a significant effort barrier to switching there.

[–] chamaeleon@fedia.io -1 points 3 months ago

Plexamp is awesome. Got a couple of playlists and coupled with the dj options to add other songs in between I can just let my playlists play, or do the same with genres or decades. Works wonders for me.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 23 points 3 months ago

I went back to curating my own library

Fuck these parasites... Deny them profit and engagement

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Programmatic advertising should be forbidden on state level. It is a vector in malvertising and misinformation (and thus is a danger to democracies) and makes the user-experience worse in everything it touches.

[–] heavydust@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

malvertising and misinformation

You pretty much described most ads. What is the difference?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

That your "most ads" are programmatic advertising.

[–] drdiddlybadger@pawb.social 12 points 3 months ago

So glad I canceled my sub holy fuck.

[–] oshu@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've been a Spotify subscriber since 2012 and every year it has gotten worse and worse in term of UX.

I think this is the year I quit and go back to buying and ripping CDs.

[–] Muffi@programming.dev 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Tidal is pretty good except for the lack of podcasts. AntennaPod replaced that feature for me and made the switch easy.

[–] oshu@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Lack of podcasts is a plus for me. Thanks for the suggestion.

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 3 points 3 months ago

Hehe I switched to the exact same things last year. Didn't regret it.

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 1 points 3 months ago

How's the music and recommendations?

For example, does it have a really niche artist I listen to?

What the fuck it does

What about recommendations? I have yet to try it though, but it has the music of an artist with less than like 600 views per track that's crazy

[–] Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 7 points 3 months ago

You guys get ads on Spotify? HahahaYarrrr

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

And no "AI" was involved...

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