Reading up on Spotify
9 deep · digging since dec 19, 25
- The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ
Spotify's AI DJ fails to understand classical music requests, highlighting its pop-oriented design and the author's frustration with the technology's limitations.
- Subscriptions Will Survive in Exactly Two Places
The subscription model survives only for genuine utilities and continuously-fresh-context services; the middle—static SaaS and exhausted catalogs—collapses as income shocks, context saturation, and AI repricing erode its math.
- Software companies buying software: a story of ecosystems and vendors
The software industry is shifting from building tools in-house to buying from vendors, creating deeper supply chains and driving fast startup growth, thinner margins, and AI FOMO.
- Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension
Anna's Archive lost its main annas-archive.org domain due to a surprise suspension, but the shadow library remains accessible via alternative domains amid ongoing legal pressure.
- 50% of U.S. vinyl buyers don't own a record player
A study finds 50% of U.S. vinyl buyers do not own a record player, treating records as merchandise, art, or a way to support artists.
- OpenAI’s Sam Altman Is Trying to Take On Apple’s App Store. He’s Got a Long Way to Go. - WSJ
OpenAI's ChatGPT app store, designed to rival Apple's, remains largely dysfunctional and far from replacing traditional apps, early tests show.
- I'm a Tech Lead, and nobody listens to me. What should I do?
A tech lead who feels unheard should build influence through visible impact and trust rather than relying on hierarchical authority.
- 2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web
The article recounts how Last.fm and Audioscrobbler pioneered social music tracking and recommendation in the early 2000s.