AMA and I'll answer it

    • abc [he/him, comrade/them]
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      1 month ago

      michael-laugh I get the 'need' some surgeons may have for background music during operations (honestly if I were a surgeon I absolutely would be playing something in the background) but it is insane to me that some hospital board justified paying for a Pandora corporate (?? do they even have corporate licensing lmao) subscription & having IT support it instead of just buying a soundbar or something with an aux input/cd drive and telling the surgeons to supply their own tunes.

      actually i can see some hospital board justifying it given the number of stories i've heard from my parents over the years regarding their hospital's board lol

    • Infamousblt [any]
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      1 month ago

      Cranky, yes very.

      Surgeon, not so much. But neat story regardless

  • Owl [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    I haven't used Pandora since it first came out. Does it still slowly get your music tastes more and more correct, then suddenly collapse on playing 50% "Hungry" by Kosheen no matter what your original preferences were?

    • Infamousblt [any]
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      1 month ago

      I dunno because my station is built around "Hungry" by Kosheen so it is playing that a lot for me

  • Angel [any]
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    1 month ago

    As a believer in YouTube Music supremacy, I couldn't care less. I look down on all you no-taste bozos. smuglord

    • Infamousblt [any]
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      1 month ago

      I never claimed to have taste. One of my favorite hobbies is DJing deep house music. I am keenly aware of my lack of taste astronaut-2

      • Angel [any]
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        1 month ago

        No. I'm paying a monthly subscription to download music and whole ass playlists so I can vibe when I'm offline and going on walks. This also means that I can have a library of whole ass albums too.

        The prime reason why I prefer YouTube Music over Spotify and the like is that you can add YouTube videos to your playlists as well, so this means that I have access to a lot of songs or remixes/variations of songs that you normally can't get on Spotify.

          • Angel [any]
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            1 month ago

            Yes, and I use NewPipe as well on some occasions, but it's not as convenient when it comes to finding artists, getting recommendations, and it doesn't automatically organize things into a library obviously. If I used NewPipe instead, I'd have to take every album in my library and shove it into my phone as .m4a files, and that'd consume a shit ton more of an ungodly amount of space as well.

              • Angel [any]
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                1 month ago

                I'm not interested, okay. Please just leave me alone.

      • Luna [she/her, love/loves]
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        1 month ago
        I didn't even realize Pandora was still alive as a service, I haven't heard of it in so long I thought it had been killed by stuff like Spotify and Apple Music.

        I'm one of those downloaded offline player people, btw