Stations by Spotify

Stations is the easiest way to listen to the music you love.

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Stations is the easiest way to listen to the music you love.

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When you have access to all the music in the world, finding the right thing to play can feel like a challenge. With Stations, you can listen immediately, and switching stations is simple and seamless--no searching or typing needed. As you listen, it learns what you like and creates personalised stations that you’ll love.

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This concept is a lot of "ehh." A lot of it is Spotify flexing their brand power before IPO (not uncommon), but I *still* think it distracts from two major things: 1. Their actual business model & strategies which still leave a lot of fundamental questions unanswered, and 2. Other areas of the music business (outside streaming) which they are pretty much ignoring (to their own disadvantage imo) Actually, one could argue that this is Spotify drawing attention to one of the major flaws in its own system: that its hyper-curative approach is great for recommendations, but crap for serendipity. While they currently win in the curation game, they fall far short in the pleasurable serendipity that characterizes the radio format. Things go in cycles, and it seems that we're at the end of the hyper-curation cycle, and moving back towards a preferred focus on serendipity (not unsurprising, given how curated our music tastes and "discovery" have become). We'll see how it rolls out, but this initial release and fanfare (or lack thereof) leaves me fairly underwhelmed by the overall concept right this moment.

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8yr ago

@adammarx13 You make some valid points. Question for you: when you add 2 whole albums to your queue, do they get placed in proper order or does something wonky happen? Whenever I try to queue up 2 albums, the 2nd album gets placed in between the 1st and 2nd song of the 1st album. I'm talking to Spotify about this issue but I just wanted to see if anyone else had noticed this kind of behavior as Spotify hasn't been super clear whether this is an error for just my account or something they never fixed.

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8yr ago

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@jeffeisley I don't use spotify so I'm not really the right person to ask about technical quirks like this.

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8yr ago

@adammarx13 Ah no problem, thanks anyway

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8yr ago

Foreign Ipsum

Can't wait for this on iOS. I think it will help my dad make the switch from Pandora to Spotify. Something for that smaller, underserved by big streaming platforms, audience.

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8yr ago

@3raxton you nailed it yea

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8yr ago

Switchboard

I think this is actually a pretty smart experiment to run. It will answer questions about user behavior, potential growth strategy options, lateral expansion potential, and it rounds out the experience from a user perspective... I would totally use it if it were available in Canada.

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8yr ago

@jimsrand could not agree more

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8yr ago

BYE

Stop with the teasing, Spotify.

Pros:

Potentially cool

Cons:

Region-locked and Android-only.

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8yr ago

add more countries

Pros:

don’t have to search for music for a long time

Cons:

not available in my country, used it with vpn

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8yr ago

Only available in Australia :-/

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8yr ago

TulaByte

@andym_dc hahahaha it's actually pretty funny. For once we down here in Australia get something before the rest for the world. 😁

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8yr ago

@andym_dc @asingh2 haha hell yeah! cheers m8!

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8yr ago

Smart Templates by Sarbacane

Basically a standalone app for the Daily Mixes?

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8yr ago

@paulodef It looks to be a combination of Spotify's genre playlists (the ones that aren't customized for you) mixed with their user radio learning algorithm so in the end I think the final result will end up being similar to Daily Mixes and probably (hopefully) more music will be added as you listen unlike Daily Mixes which tend to be stale (for me, they tend to be the same 10-15 bands per playlist and these bands never change and no new bands get added in)

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8yr ago

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