This has to be stopped. Just look at what Napster did to the music industry. That’s right, there used to be a music industry and now it’s just…gone. No more music, no more money to be made in music. Don’t let these evil streaming services do the same to poor defenceless Hollywood, bastion of women’s rights!

[–] CurlyMoustache@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I haven't been able to listen to music since year 2000 😢

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Jokes aside, I have paid for Google's music service since it launched (RIP Play Music), but I am a millisecond away from canceling my subscription because Google does not provide me with any way to randomize playlists. I don't mean shuffle play. That shit is broken and always has been. It would not be a big deal if I could randomize my playlists on demand, but no.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com -3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There's no such thing as pure randomness in computer science.

[–] Menteros@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Pure randomness isn't great for music playlists. The algo needs to account for recency so you don't hear the same some 6 times in a row. Technically still random but no one wants that.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

That's the difference between randomizing a playlist and shuffle play. If you randomize a playlist, the songs will never repeat unless you have them in the list twice. YouTube Music's shuffle play often plays the same twenty songs over and over out of a playlist with over six hundred songs.

[–] GONADS125@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I've still got some songs (including horrendously misattributed artists/titles) from limewire in my music library, all these years later.

[–] FoxBJK@midwest.social 4 points 10 months ago

I still have some too, but thanks to Musicbrainz it's all tagged properly now. Guess System of a Down never made a Zelda techno after all.