Can’t even seek through songs.

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    … Except they gather your data and use it to try and make profit.

    Say least radio required them to give genuine value to you. Radio had to give away shit and run contests to get caller info to figure out how many listeners they had, to get advertisers etc. It was a real business.

    Spotify just buys the music catalogue and then forces you into their ecosystem.

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        Your search data and history.

        Listening profiles: what tastes do you have, and what other things do you like? If you like Ray Lamontagne and Taylor Swift what else might keep you on the platform?

        What % of people like X? What sorts of trends are happening in music? Chord preferences, rhythms, bpm, etc

        All of this aggregate data can be sold to different companies, record labels, etc.

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          Search data no

          Because you never choose

          History no

          Because you never choose

          Listening profile no

          Because you never choose

          What you like no

          Because you never choose

          None of this can be sold if they never chose what to listen to. It’s data suicide

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            You pick songs, they squeeze ads and other songs in between (IIRC) and can gather data from how you interact with all of that.

            You’re understanding the value of big data.

            It’s why I reject all of these services. CDs, baby!