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codeine  ·  4623 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Presto.fm - a music streaming service to find niche artists that just works
No problem, I'll see what we can do about filtering that result out.
codeine  ·  4623 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Presto.fm - a music streaming service to find niche artists that just works
Wow, thanks for the well thought-out feedback. We've had a great time building and designing Presto, so it's great to hear such a positive response, especially regarding the user interface. We are also working on improved mobile and tablet support (for both Android and iOS), so please do check back to see how we're progressing.

YouTube has a vast and truly amazing catalogue of music and we're working intently on our algorithms and interfaces to bring that music to listeners in a unique way. Presto.fm definitely does have aspects that are similar to the Pandora-style of music service, although our catalogue of music is quite a bit larger and we do have some unique features all our own (and some that are more similar to Spotify & Songza).

Thanks again for you feedback, and happy listening!

p.s. The great thing about YouTube is that anyone can publish content, but it does mean that occasionally the wrong video sneaks into a playlist. Sometimes it's a serendipitous discovery of a new artist covering an old favourite...and sometimes it isn't.

We aim to make it a very rare occurence for Presto to interrupt your playlist with an incorrectly labelled track and Presto has quite a few filters in place to exclude them. We're always fine-tuning the algorithms to improve them, so let us know how we go!

codeine  ·  4623 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Presto.fm - a music streaming service to find niche artists that just works
Thanks, we've had a lot of fun building the service so far and have discovered tons of great music along the way.
codeine  ·  4623 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Presto.fm - a music streaming service to find niche artists that just works
Thanks for the feedback, I'm glad you found some new bands to check out.
codeine  ·  4863 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why it's suddenly trendy to speak like an idiot
The article doesn't really explain why it's suddenly trendy to speak like an idiot. It just provides a list of slang and commonly misused phrases that happen to annoy the author.