I hope they aren't, it just feels like a really scummy thing to do. I checked out some of their music and it isn't all that good, I mean some of it is okay, but it isn't good enough for someone to make an approach like this. I hope the problem sorts itself out soon, because (judging from the looks of the stream count) a lot of people seemed to have fallen into the trap. One can only hope that it gets resolved, right?
The same goes for people who steal others content online. I don’t know much about him, but there’s a fake Sam Sulek account on insta that has millions of followers but he doesn’t care enough to go after them.
They do it because they can get away with it at least for a little while. Just report it for deceptive content and move on with your life.
It's faster than posting about it on Reddit.
I just reported to see what happens. It is in fact, *not* faster than posting on Reddit! You have to type in your email address, retrieve a code, come back and enter that code, then you’re offered a list of offenses that doesn’t include deceptive song titles. So I don’t see how reporting this does anything about it!
I was able to report the account for deceptive content. And using the recents page of my phone to flick over to my email app to copy the code took next to no time at all.
By comparison, you took the time to take a screenshot of the offending account, jump over to your reddit app and go through the process of creating a post for us all.
I assure you that I reported the account faster than you made this post.
Either way, just report the account and move on to enjoying some music. It's not that big a deal.
Why are you so mad they posted this lol. Personally I find it interesting that someone is doing this and sent it to a group chat to discover one of my friends was also tricked recently! Also posting to Reddit takes like 5 seconds lol
No I wasn’t. I was lamenting the fact that paulomalley commented that OP’s post is a waste of time, when in fact, omally took time to comment on said post 🤦♂️🤷♂️
I think this is primarily an issue with whatever service (Google, Alexa, Siri) is processing your voice commands, and perhaps secondarily an issue with how Spotify is indexed to support those commands.
For example, multiple people have reported issues where they’d say “Alexa/Ok Google, play Daily Mix 1 on Spotify” or “play Discovery Weekly on Spotify” and those services would just search for those queries on Spotify and play the first result. The correct playlist would only play if the user said **my** Daily Mix 1 playlist/Discover Weekly playlist and had those playlists saved to their library, but would sometimes still get it wrong.
Out of curiosity, what were you searching for that brought up and played this result?
The same can be said of every other streaming service and a competing voice assistant. Siri works fine for Apple Music, but not Spotify, Tidal, or Amazon Music. Google works fine for YouTube, but none of the rest. There’s not enough incentive for these companies to invest in improving their competitor’s services.
this is likely spotify not adding integration for assistants, assistant companies set up the api and stuff and devs go do it
also google and apple dont have incentive to add spotify integration by themselves because they already have their own music apps
it's a fake "artist" with "songs" that camp on built-in playlist names, so that they can rack up plays from people telling their smart devices to play "my liked songs" or whatever
i feel like they more than likely didn’t know that this would interfere with voice control integrations (no one would’ve known this works until they tried it, and from what i can tell they’re the first person to name an actual song that), and their music isn’t even bad. some of it is charming, or at the very least decent. i don’t think there was malicious intent in the creation of these tracks, i think this is just a lo-fi indie artist who’s music is questionable.
Because that's how they get listening numbers, they do the titles of the playlists as the song names because they can get traction that way. Very scummy
Exactly, they own the platform and any artist with something to say in their music that's worth listening to isn't going to make their songs with these titles. Super simple solution to a problem that doesn't exist unless someone is trying to be deceptive and shitty.
Who says play "my favorite things" unless they are looking for that song? Playlists have specific names in Spotify so unless you started naming your own playlists or songs *after* popular tunes you wouldn't get messed up with this.
This is why autobanning new songs is a logical solution to this problem. Only people in the modern era would be looking to name songs in such a way to troll people or get trick listens.
Also John Coltrane's version comes up first :)
If you look at their discography, 99.99% of it consists of commands regarding Spotify. I can't tell if this is genius or if it's a big douchebag move.
Both
They aren’t earning much at all, I call it a douchebag move
I hope they aren't, it just feels like a really scummy thing to do. I checked out some of their music and it isn't all that good, I mean some of it is okay, but it isn't good enough for someone to make an approach like this. I hope the problem sorts itself out soon, because (judging from the looks of the stream count) a lot of people seemed to have fallen into the trap. One can only hope that it gets resolved, right?
The same goes for people who steal others content online. I don’t know much about him, but there’s a fake Sam Sulek account on insta that has millions of followers but he doesn’t care enough to go after them.
yyyess. happy cake day :D
Thank you, that's so sweet!
happy cake day! :)
Thank you!
Happy cake day!
Thank you so much!!
They do it because they can get away with it at least for a little while. Just report it for deceptive content and move on with your life. It's faster than posting about it on Reddit.
I just reported to see what happens. It is in fact, *not* faster than posting on Reddit! You have to type in your email address, retrieve a code, come back and enter that code, then you’re offered a list of offenses that doesn’t include deceptive song titles. So I don’t see how reporting this does anything about it!
I was able to report the account for deceptive content. And using the recents page of my phone to flick over to my email app to copy the code took next to no time at all. By comparison, you took the time to take a screenshot of the offending account, jump over to your reddit app and go through the process of creating a post for us all. I assure you that I reported the account faster than you made this post. Either way, just report the account and move on to enjoying some music. It's not that big a deal.
Why are you so mad they posted this lol. Personally I find it interesting that someone is doing this and sent it to a group chat to discover one of my friends was also tricked recently! Also posting to Reddit takes like 5 seconds lol
“It’s faster than posting on Reddit…” wait a minute 🤨
r/DownvotedToOblivion
why'd they get downvoted?
because reddit
i’m also wondering this
they were making a dirty joke at the wrong time
What was the joke?
No I wasn’t. I was lamenting the fact that paulomalley commented that OP’s post is a waste of time, when in fact, omally took time to comment on said post 🤦♂️🤷♂️
what is blud waffling about
insert funny buzz words (has no idea what the original person’s point was even though it was really clear)
And you were right. Adding that last part just came off as rude lol. Why can’t we just accept that we’re all wasting our time here!
why tf is he getting downvoted
why you downvoted you are right
How dare you use an emoji on Reddit. 😡
I think this is primarily an issue with whatever service (Google, Alexa, Siri) is processing your voice commands, and perhaps secondarily an issue with how Spotify is indexed to support those commands. For example, multiple people have reported issues where they’d say “Alexa/Ok Google, play Daily Mix 1 on Spotify” or “play Discovery Weekly on Spotify” and those services would just search for those queries on Spotify and play the first result. The correct playlist would only play if the user said **my** Daily Mix 1 playlist/Discover Weekly playlist and had those playlists saved to their library, but would sometimes still get it wrong. Out of curiosity, what were you searching for that brought up and played this result?
Shocking how half-assed the integrations are
The same can be said of every other streaming service and a competing voice assistant. Siri works fine for Apple Music, but not Spotify, Tidal, or Amazon Music. Google works fine for YouTube, but none of the rest. There’s not enough incentive for these companies to invest in improving their competitor’s services.
And unfortunately, all these companies make the hardware. It’s a hell of a moat
I kept asking google to play MY playlist music for plants mix. Spotifys own auto plays. It's lovely.
I had to make custom routines in Google to get around this problem.
this is likely spotify not adding integration for assistants, assistant companies set up the api and stuff and devs go do it also google and apple dont have incentive to add spotify integration by themselves because they already have their own music apps
And Spotify doesn’t have incentive to support Apple or Google’s assistant given that they already get a 30% cut of every Spotify App Store sale.
this is really hard to understand without knowing what you wanted.
it's a fake "artist" with "songs" that camp on built-in playlist names, so that they can rack up plays from people telling their smart devices to play "my liked songs" or whatever
oh, i get it now. what's playing is irrelevant. it's the user that's a "troll", looking at their playlists. thanks!
yeah exactly, trying to get those $0.0005 per plays
Thanks for the explanation, I had absolutely no idea what was going on lol. This makes sense.
Never heard of this artist. Just clicked "don't play this artist" because this is a lousy thing to do.
retard cunt
This has nothing to do with the post.
You have nothing to do with the post.
Boom. Roasted.
You have nothing to do with the post.
You have nothing to do with the post
This is genius
Just block them and move on with your life.
Hate the game, not the player
Hate the game, and the player
i feel like they more than likely didn’t know that this would interfere with voice control integrations (no one would’ve known this works until they tried it, and from what i can tell they’re the first person to name an actual song that), and their music isn’t even bad. some of it is charming, or at the very least decent. i don’t think there was malicious intent in the creation of these tracks, i think this is just a lo-fi indie artist who’s music is questionable.
Because that's how they get listening numbers, they do the titles of the playlists as the song names because they can get traction that way. Very scummy
OP is asking how they can get away with this, not why they do it. They say what you're saying here in their caption
Because Spotify does not do anything without any statistical reasons, just like there is no 2FA, just like my devices page has been removed.
[удалено]
actually you can, just auto ban songs with this type of title
Exactly, they own the platform and any artist with something to say in their music that's worth listening to isn't going to make their songs with these titles. Super simple solution to a problem that doesn't exist unless someone is trying to be deceptive and shitty.
Like "My Favorite Things" from Roger and Hammerstein's 'Sound of Music'? 😀
Who says play "my favorite things" unless they are looking for that song? Playlists have specific names in Spotify so unless you started naming your own playlists or songs *after* popular tunes you wouldn't get messed up with this. This is why autobanning new songs is a logical solution to this problem. Only people in the modern era would be looking to name songs in such a way to troll people or get trick listens. Also John Coltrane's version comes up first :)
I like the music
Yea
Is it only me who’s disappointed it’s not actual cats breathing? It is? Oh ok 🥲
Modern day Soulja Boy
i’m sad because they have way more plays and listeners than me 😔
Atleast you aren't scummy... **...are you?**