Comment by walthamstow
9 days ago
I didn't get past the wanky declaration that he listens to classical, listing out dozens of composers.
The term DJ is synonymous with modern, electronic music, anyway.
9 days ago
I didn't get past the wanky declaration that he listens to classical, listing out dozens of composers.
The term DJ is synonymous with modern, electronic music, anyway.
Yeah, that's where he lost me too. Strikes me as very pretentious.
He didn't even say "classical", he was circumspect with "that moste illustriouse of musical traditionnes".
The entire thing is written in a curmudgeonly fashion, led by that massive list of musicians.
We get it, you like classical music and Spotify is a poor fit. That's... the article?
For my classical music use case, listening to new releases, Spotify works very well, particularly with the help of 3rd-party services.
I follow several thousand composers and musicians. I then get daily playlist creation by crabhands.com of any new releases by those I follow. I then export the crabhand playlist into my own local database via exportify.net. I then create Spotify playlists of music I haven't heard that I may like as well as the released works I like best. Then I score the works I've listened to and feed that back into the system. So I get a deluge of new releases but play it in an organized fashion.
It's not a long article, and is quite amusing to read. People have such high expectation of free articles on the internet.
Because most of that list isn't classical music
Yes it is. "Classical" without further context means any part of the tradition of Western art music with written score. Classical-era classical music is a subset of classical as a whole.
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Or someone cueing up well-known pop/dance tunes at a wedding/disco. Last time I was at one they weren't generally firing up symphonies, string quartets then doing a deeper drop of a heavy hitting baroque banger to see the bodies hit the floor.
Glad I wasn't the only one. Love how he goes on to say how he's aware that people are unfamiliar with all those names he just dropped.
The Spotify AI DJ makes some pretty cool sets for me, but I listen to Hyperpop and Outrun type electronic music, stuff like that. A DJ spinning sets of classical music is pretty weird haha. I’d recommend just listening to the Classical New Releases playlist, which is excellent.
It almost feels like he asked an AI to write out a list of composers
Me three. I thought it was an attempt at humor, but I got to the end and didn't find a punchline?
I learned Windows programming from his book, I'm sort of shocked he doesn't seem to have a base-level understanding of how transformer models work..
That, and instrumental music. Seems to believe the set of all music = pop songs + western civilization tradition classical music
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Author comes off as what days is called “performative man”.
"wanky"
Austraian/New Zealander detected lol
Thats a term thats used a lot in the British isles too, I doubt its an Australasian thing
Specifically one who disliked The Hard Road: Restrung and Metal in general.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hard_Road:_Restrung
It's a great album, but the term was around long before it.
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