u/orchidfart

Hey see a lot of people on here talking about algo complaints and others saying they love it. I've been in tidal for a few months and it's my key complaint I think so wondering if maybe I'm it wrong

Do you create a playlist with a few songs and let the algo build off that? Or use the daily mix things?

Back on spotufy id usually chuck a song and it would serve up more of the same for hours .

In the last few days I've done things like search "misty" and played the Ella one. I listened through ten songs and one of two were good, several were unrelated tunes called misty, and one song played twice in only ten songs... I'm not interested in hearing every version of misty, obviously!

Same thing happened there other day with eye in the sky by Alan parsons. It played it, a few random songs, then played a remaster. Then a live version etc.

Keen for tips on ways to set and forget some music for a few hours?

So a few months ago I complained to privacy commissioner as when I purchased concert tickets, selected digital delivery. On the day of the gig I was told I must get an app to be able to receive them, I complained to the vendor and was sent the PDF, but logged a complaint with the commission as this was misleading and most people would have given up their PII which was not disclosed. Like always the commission decided to do nothing.

Today getting system tickets there were new banners indicating I must give my explicit agreement to install an app or I can't get my tickets. So they closed the loop the wrong way and you cannot buy tickets to events without giving them whatever access to your personal information their app claws from your device. Being logged in via the browser isn't enough.

Sure I can just not go to any concerts, seminars or sports events any more. Let alone the outrageous prices and nonsense fees you now have to agree to be monitored.

With tourism/tax going into bringing bands here is there anything as consumers/taxpayers we can actually do about this?

Hey I got a letter today from Genesis saying "We’re simplifying your plan". The "what this means for you" section stated my bill would now be clearer and no surprises. It stated they now had a charge for paper bills and I could go online to remove this charge.

It did mention that the simpler plan would have different rates, so I checked the table provided and recalculated my last months bill on the new rates.. it was a 22% price increase. So I contacted them and they confirmed my math, but then clarified that "simplifying my bill" means in addition to this sizable hike I will also be be losing all my current discounts (e-bill and direct debit) which wasn't disclosed in the letter, making this is a 24.4% price hike.

When I contacted them they insisted it was for my benefit and then pushed blame to EA stating "We are no longer offering discounts in line with the Electricity Authority's Better Bills initiative for simpler pricing and more transparent billing". I pointed out that simplification and removal of discounts for clearer bills is a great initiative, but increasing baseline rates on top of that was going to be brutal for most people and their comms omitted the ending of all discounts. They said "sorry that must be upsetting" and ended the chat.

So uhh FYI. I could be on an older plan or something and the impact may be less for others? But definitely check this if you're with them and get this letter.

So now I'm trying to make heads or tails of the other rates in market. Frustratingly most of the comparison sites insist I upload a current bill rather than simply enter my kwh usage? Why they need my name and other info from the bill to compare prices isn't clear from their privacy statement so had a look manually.

For what its worth I can see WHY the Electricity Authority made this change, as the top plans on the comparison sites are all confusing as heck with a bunch of *'s about having to go in and manually manage power hours or something... but i figured surely they're all about to change if this is an industry wide shift as Genesis is stating?

Anyone know how on earth to shop for power if all advertised rates are about to go out the window? Or which providers to look at if i'm quite a high volume user (work from home, heat pumps, big house, last month was 1642 kwH?)