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Spotify playlist. Is it possible to listen to your favourite songs too much?

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Sparklingbrook · 06/06/2021 18:10

I have had Spotify for about 3 months (only Spotify Poor I'm too tight to get the premium for the purposes I want it for).

Stuck all my favourite songs onto my playlist . It's 3 hours and 47 minutes long. I now find myself wanting to skip songs (you only get 6 skips an hour unless you pay).

I am starting to doubt my favourite songs. Is it possible to listen to them too much do you think? Just get fed up of hearing them? I don't remember this happening wearing out my vinyl in the 80s...

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Andylion · 06/06/2021 18:35

Is it possible to listen to them too much do you think?

I don't have Spotify but I listen to my favourite song multiple times a day, due to WFH and the whole Covid crap fest. It helps me get through the day.

How often do you listen to your favourites?

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Sparklingbrook · 06/06/2021 18:40

@Andylion

Is it possible to listen to them too much do you think?

I don't have Spotify but I listen to my favourite song multiple times a day, due to WFH and the whole Covid crap fest. It helps me get through the day.

How often do you listen to your favourites?

Every day I do a half hour commute each way to work and some long motorway trips every now and again. At home I turn it on and just let it play-it's background noise. The playlist goes on in the car but I find myself wanting to skip to the next song.

I am confused I don't even know what my favourite song is any more. I love music but it's all leaving me a bit cold at the moment.

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PurpleSunrise · 06/06/2021 18:41

I’ve definitely ruined songs before by over listening to them!!

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FakeTanandProsecco · 06/06/2021 18:42

I definitely think you can! I have a thing where I became obsessed with an artist/album for a certain period and it is literally all I think about and will listen to them every second I can. And then one day it just stops and I can not listen to them again for months and months or years! It's really weird!

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Sparklingbrook · 06/06/2021 18:46

Maybe I should just leave the playlist alone for a bit and let it play the stuff it's suggesting for me?

DS2 said 6 skips should be plenty and he was very bemused I would want to skip my favourite songs in any case.

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35andThriving · 06/06/2021 18:47

I personally can overplay stuff and make myself bored of it. I think it's different for everybody though.

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 07/06/2021 20:47

nope

once I listened to Loverboy by Queen on repeat for over 4 hours when decorating a cake. it was brilliant.

I've listened to other songs for even longer.

EduCated · 07/06/2021 20:49

Definitely. I switch my playlists up a lot. Different favourites depending on mood, the seasons, what I at for breakfast. Some days I can listen to the same few songs over and over, others I skip them. I am very fickle!

OliveHenry · 07/06/2021 21:11

My favourite Spotify playlist the the one made up of all the tracks I've ever Shazamed (you can link the two apps so that everything you Shazam is put on a playlist). It's got over 24 hours of music on there now, so if I have it on shuffle I never get bored.

It's not necessarily my favourite tracks, but it brings back so many memories - I can usually remember where I was when I Shazamed a track, so it's a lovely reminder of holidays (by which I mean time spent in bars away from home!)

I do sometimes Shazam a song even though I know what it is, just to put it on the playlist :-)

EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 07/06/2021 21:22

I pay for Spotify and have a REALLY large "Master" personal playlist, and still find the same songs play regularly out of a large list of options.

I read something about artists paying Spotify to promote their songs

I also read about stopping it, hang on

community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Windows/Shuffle-repeats-songs-too-often-and-rarely-plays-others/td-p/480514

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Sparklingbrook · 07/06/2021 21:25

I do find that the same ones keep getting played, i thought that was because i was not paying. I'll have a read of that @EineReiseDurchDieZeit, I don't fully trust Spotify TBH. I get a bit 'not this again Spotify'.

So it seems some of us can listen to songs over and over and love them still and others do get tired of them.

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EineReiseDurchDieZeit · 07/06/2021 21:25

Actually that isnt the solution I found, there's an option where you can tell it to play every song once before shuffling again somewhere, search around Spotify Community

TheVanguardSix · 07/06/2021 21:27

I’m still 80s bad when it comes to grinding my tunes into the ground. You know how on Spotify it’ll say how many listens a song has had? I’m sure I can get my favourites from 30,000 to 30 million over a weekend.

My brother’s funeral was a month ago and in between the tears and utter sorrow, I felt these swells of absolute joy because he literally chose his favourite songs he’s listened to waaaay too much since the 80s. I loved that he did that!

ChateauMargaux · 07/06/2021 21:36

This thread sent me down a happy memory lane of my 'mad Manchester mix tape' made for me by my best friend at school. I hardly had any music of my own and I never got bored of it, though somewhere in the realms of CD's it got thrown away. I was however, between the ages of 17 and 19. This is how it feels to be lonely.

ChateauMargaux · 07/06/2021 21:39

@TheVanguardSix. Sorry for your loss. A friend of mine had a similar brother's funeral late last year. We couldn't go to the funeral but we did ask about her brother's favourite music and played that (80's soft rock!?!) for him after he died and on the day of the funeral.

NewModelArmyMayhem18 · 07/06/2021 21:47

I know my favourite Spotify playlist so well that I know the order of the songs!

Even with favourite tracks, I find there are some that are evidently more favourite than others.

I do think sometimes you need 'space in your togetherness' with favourite music. I can play a track endlessly for a few weeks and then leave it for months, until something jolts my memory and I wish to be there back in that moment with a song that evokes such powerful memories.

For me, most of my favourite songs are BC (before children) which I find quite limiting in a way!

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Sparklingbrook · 07/06/2021 21:52

@TheVanguardSix, sorry to hear about your brother.

I would say 75% of my playlist is pre DC and of another different time. Some songs remind me of specific days and events, and people. Definitely loads from the 80s!

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OhWhyNot · 07/06/2021 22:23

I go through a phase when I don’t listen to certain songs as much but I always always return to them and rarely is a newly realised song added

I have a number of playlist and my favourite songs are on some playlists but not on others

I love Spotify (I pay for it) as I love listening to podcasts too

OhWhyNot · 07/06/2021 22:24

Released ...

Not realised

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Sparklingbrook · 07/06/2021 22:46

I have been listening to podcasts on Entale.

Spotify are now offering me an upgrade for free for 3 months.

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OhWhyNot · 07/06/2021 22:56

Yay

I recently cancelled a few prescriptions I had added over the last year and forgotten about

I cancel Audio every so often and then get a really good deal but recently put it on hold as there isn’t enough time between listening to my playlists and the vast amount of podcasts that are so interesting

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