“The new station will play a curated selection of songs based on what you’ve been listening to but haven’t heard before.”
Looks interesting. To me, Apple’s curated playlists have always been superior in quality to Spotify’s but they really don’t have as vas of a selection of curated playlists. Apple Music stations are often excellent, too, if you know how to crate them.
It takes Apple forever to add obvious features like this but I’m glad they have. I’ll use it a lot.
Call me an Apple sheep, but they usually get it right when they finally get around to something.
I miss human DJ’s.
To be more specific, I miss the left-of-the-dial 11pm variety.
And Shoutcast-style radio with live DJ’s. I still spin up a stream every now and then, but it’s not the same as it used to be.
Apple surely can see the complete catalog of The Who that I have in my library, including the vinyl albums that I’ve ripped. Not that the Music app could see it, but Apple could also see the eye-watering amounts of money we’ve spent on tickets to watch 75 year old men prance around on stage (via the tickets from the last three tours in Wallet).
So what’s the first song played on this new Discovery station? “Who Are You?” by…wait for it…The Who. Whether you’re a Who fan or not, is there anyone walking this planet over the age of 21 that hasn’t heard that song?
I don’t know… I’m over 40 and bump into songs from the 70s, 80s and 90s I don’t think I’ve ever heard before. And then I find out that they were hits at the time. Just a month ago I listened to the album Dreamboat Annie by Heart for the first time. And I haven’t really listened to The Who either.
There’s just too much out there.
edit After an hour of listening through this activity list, it gave me the hauntingly beautiful metal song https://music.apple.com/fi/album/a-war-of-our-own/848156513?i=848156526 from 2014. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of this band before.
Did people forget about Pandora? That’s basically what Pandora was, at least back in my day. back creaks
yea, for those not paying attention … the “enshitification” has been a slow development for a while now. There was a moment back circa 2010, before google stopped being “not evil” and when the iphone/smartphone was still new and web pages were capable of doing anything and problems could be solved with apps etc etc … that tech just seemed “good” and to be doing “good”, and there were reasons to think so. But good things have been falling away slowly for years and big things turning shit too.
Has enshitification already reached “gaslighting” status where people just use it when it’s not appropriate?
Merely inappropriate usage of a word isn’t gaslighting. Ironic really.
There’s a reason I put it in quotation marks, it was an example not a part of the sentence
I used it today for 8 hours and damm, I must say that it is quite good. Definitely better than the “keep playing song when playlist ends” or the curated weekly lists. I had to skip songs only few times and I didn’t mark ANY as “dislike”, where I often that to do so few times in a row on the other options.
Perhaps a change in how I use Apple Music made this better, cause I learned from some comment here or on Reddit, that the algorithm acts better if songs are marked as love/dislike to tell it the taste, not like in Spotify where it just goes along the lists or what I listened to in the past.
I have been using endless shuffle for a few years now that keeps playing songs based upon what is being played.
I start a playlist and it keeps playing until I realise it might have gone a bit off track.
