simpsonsshitposting

I miss using Winamp, but I don't miss the awful experience of acquiring music back then.

Being able to bring up one of any many tens of thousands of songs on a whim is an infinitely better experience than the absolute hellhole that was searching through Limewire/Kazaa etc etc. where, if you were lucky, you would find what you were looking for 50% of the time, and for it to be in good quality was even rarer. If you didn't get a radio rip, music video rip, or a recording that could only have come from grandma's hearing aid, you got Bill Clinton instead.

And if you wanted to go the legal route, you had to buy CDs that had maybe 1 or 2 songs on that you actually wanted.

Yeah, I'll take today's music streaming services over having to live through 2005 again.

Spotify however creates a Playlist of a a subset of songs (this size has changed, at one point in time it was 20 tracks, but IIRC it's up to 50 now). As each plays, the last track in the Playlist is "randomly" chosen for that last spot with no context of recent listening history.

This assertion doesn't really pass the smell test - what do you base it on?

For reference, here's a classic article on how Spotify used to tackle the problem of randomness in their shuffle: https://engineering.atspotify.com/2014/02/how-to-shuffle-songs/

That was 2014 though, so who knows. Still, your assertion seems highly questionable.

Much more impactful to hear it aloud.

Did you ever use the plugins Giess or Milkdrop? There is a linux app called ProjectM that uses a ton of the algorithms from the visualizer.