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I used Pandora a loooooooooooong time ago, maybe when it first came out. I don't think they even had adds when I started using it. I liked it. It helped me find some new music.
But then the adds started, and I noticed they played a lot of music I didn't like more and more frequently. I also noticed the adds changed every time I un-liked a song. It occurred to me they were deliberately drawing me to the screen to un-like a song so they could change the advert (and guarantee I was seeing adverts - rather than having it run in the background).
I stopped using it years ago. I'm surprised every time someone mentions it, because it is always to say the don't like it. I learned not to like it before most people discovered it
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I searched , but didn't find any articles, hints, or posts about pandora from you.
Thanks for nothing.
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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My main Pandora Pet Peeve is the simple missing algorithm to not play N songs in a row from the same vocalist.
It will play a Mark Knopfler tune, followed with a Dire Straights song, and then one from the Notting Hillbillies. Of course they're themed together - it's all Mark - and thumbing up one gets you all, but it's redundant to repeatedly place the same vocalist from different bands in the pattern.
It also repeats Soundgarden, Chris Cornell and Temple of the Dog.
And repeats Morphine, Mark Sandman, and A.K.O.D.
It gets to be a joke; if I hear a Morphine tune, there's a 99.9% chance I'll hear a Sandman solo tune next. Every freaking time....
Oh, and there's the issue that it is making me thumb down every Tracy Chapman song in her collection one by one. I've never let a track play. I thumb down every track of hers it throws my way. Twenty five thumbs down into my usage, and once a week it still tries to sneak in a Tracy Chapman tune.
"Religion is the most malevolent of all mind viruses." - Arthur C. Clarke
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Spotify premium is worth every single penny. A few bucks a month to have unlimited access to a ridiculously large library of music and the ability to download for offline use. And no adverts.
CPallini wrote: You cannot argue with agile people so just take the extreme approach and shoot him.
:Smile:
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I've been working on a workout playlist on spotify today. It said in the text that you can shuffle. So that's all I really need.
Elephant elephant elephant, sunshine sunshine sunshine
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Meh, I still prefer my MP3 collection over the online services. For certain genres (clasical mostly) I prefer www.iheart.com[^] or XM radio.
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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psst - your tags are showing
Marc Clifton wrote: Prevention/i>
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: psst - your tags are showing
Thanks. I fixed the tag "malfunction"
Marc
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Too late. Google already cached it for all the world to laugh at forever.
Will Rogers never met me.
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Well most people do either drink too much || are actually not alcoholics
Makes sense to me...
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At yeast he gets to have the last wort.
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I'm going to Hop past this...
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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But we barley got started.
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meh, it's only a transcription error.
I do that all the time, when I'm rat-arsed.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I've seen some shocking writing on Google news. Enough to keep me from returning there.
No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly. - Oscar Wilde
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Scientists have revealed that levels of carbon dioxide increase in the Northern Hemisphere during summers each year as plants absorb carbon dioxide to convert sunlight into food.
-- source[^]
No, this isn't a GW commentary, I'm just pointing out the excellent journalism.
And this other article is equally absurd:
It’s a widely known fact that plants inhale carbon dioxide in summers, and they exhale it in the season when they grow. source[^]
Gee, don't plants grow in the summer?
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: don't plants grow in the summer?
Not in Wales they don't!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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What, are they covered in snow then?
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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No, it just rains so much they never see the sky...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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They're afraid of clouds, or they are shy from sky?
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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They do, the trouble is that in Wales the summer lasts 2 days
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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Where do they dig these people up from? My 5 year-old granddaughter quite possibly understands this stuff better than the reporter. Simply staggering!
There are complexities. A monitoring study in New Zealand found that a particular forest gave off much higher quantities of methane than previously thought. Methane is estimated to have between 20 to 105 times more greenhouse effect than CO2 (the range depends on both timescale and expected interactions with other atmospheric compounds). The forest was quite possibly swamp (the report I read didn't include the detail) and anaerobic fermentation favours methane production. Just a glimpse into the complexities of this subject and why climate effect is so very hard to model.
Yet, this reporter doesn't seem to grasp the simplicity of respiration and photosynthesis.
Life is like a s**t sandwich; the more bread you have, the less s**t you eat.
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That's because "global warming" makes it hotter and colder and wetter and dryer. Whoever invented the term made a massive mistake. They should have just stuck with "climate change".
It may have at least prevented such movies as "The Day After Tomorrow" and "2012" but no, someone's got to give Hollywood an excuse to bore us to death (and educate people who can't be bothered to find out what it's all about for themselves ).
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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