its trash but gonna be effective for this generation
good thing tbh it shows the highlight of the song rather than ppl giving it a chance for 3 sec on the intro before skipping

could be useful for identifying viral clips of a song if the preview is automatically set to the most listened to part of the song

like how youtube shows which part of a video is the most scrolled to, that could be a useful metric for this kind of feature

Doesn't 30 seconds counts as 1 streams? So we should be ready for already inflated numbers to get doubled by next Taylor album release?

just casually innovating and changing the game again

imagine this with radiohead

or pink floyd

or swans

yea I thought this was a whole discog like a portion of a song per album

this is the same ass thing as itunes preview or limewire preview that predated it

back in MY day there were NO phones and the beetles COULD WALK IN THE STREET!!!!

exactly this. i remember people used to make videos playing every snippet in order too so what's really changed

This is the ultimate disrespect to any artist

Maybe the fact that you can just listen to the full song instead of having to buy it like back then? Are you people all this narrow minded?

hate to break it to you but before streaming services i was not buying every song to hear it

art is f***ed man, these kids got no attention span

they won’t count as streams

previews of their songs?

isnt this just free version of apple music

To be fair if I’m checking out a completely new artist, I’ll skip around their music to hear if it’s worthwhile.

this thread:

“spotify introduces previews of songs”

@op: “Spotify introduces feature where you can listen to someone entire’s discography in seconds”

will this count as a stream?

Interesting point but do ppl really scrub through the track in the same way they do on yt?
I imagine there would be spikes at some timestamps but not as strong.
A lot of the time on yt those spikes are cause of the comments too, which spotify doesnt have

Its defs not respectful but theres far worse than this lol

I want to go back to a tape exchange era

i've never experienced that but growing up almost every song i've wanted to listen to in the last 15 years has ended up on youtube. spending money on music is reserved for stuff that i know that i like