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ChrisMarshallNYtoday at 9:43 AM2 repliesview on HN

Pandora is the only one that even remotely came close to something worthwhile, for me. It usually picked stuff that I wanted to hear; and that was a decade ago. Every other selection service regularly fed me garbage.

Pandora was worthless, though, because of their skip limit (even in the paid version). Even with its effectiveness, it would still feed me junk.

This guy is a classical music guy, though, and all the pickers suck, for that. Classical has been treated badly, forever. I am extremely disappointed that Apple segregated classical into its own app, because I have always enjoyed mixing it in with my regular music.

One thing about classical music, is that every performance is a “cover.” Who performs the piece is just as important as who wrote it. None of the selection services seem to understand that.

MP3 tags are pretty much worthless. They are incredibly limited, and I don’t know why they have never been improved.


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paradox460today at 4:02 PM

I've fallen back to keeping my classical collection on my Plex server. Many of the recordings are ones I've personally participated in the performance of, and others are just ones that I prefer. Elgar performed by London philharmonic with Daniel Barenboim is what I prefer, and when I hear a different recording, like the Berlin Symphony one that Spotify likes to trot out, it feels wrong. It drags where it's not supposed to and speeds at other times.

It's not wrong, it's just not what I like

kaelwdtoday at 10:42 AM

What would you add to MP3 tags? ID3v2 already has separate fields for section/title/performer/conductor/composer/lyricist, it isn't the spec's fault Spotify doesn't use them.

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