Actually, I would've gone completely off the deep end had it not been for Spotify drowning out my co-workers' continuing coverage of Election '16.
― pplains, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 03:40 (seven years ago) link
I just noticed that the album that Viet Cong put out last year before changing their name is now listed as being an album called "Viet Cong" by Preoccupations (the new band name). I kind of understand not wanting to make it look like a totally new band but this also seems like a confusing and obfuscatory thing to do.
― na (NA), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 22:40 (seven years ago) link
spotify seems to be struggling with differentiating between local files on my PC and songs from the spotify library. This is causing it to drastically limit how many files I can load to my phone because it uses spotify library files instead of the files that I own. Not sure how to get around this.
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 22:55 (seven years ago) link
that was fast http://creativity-online.com/work/spotify-thanks-2016/50063
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Thursday, 1 December 2016 03:39 (seven years ago) link
(technically it wasn't "fast" at all given the datestamp, but)
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Thursday, 1 December 2016 03:40 (seven years ago) link
I may have missed the announcement but apparently Neil Young's catalog has returned.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 1 December 2016 04:45 (seven years ago) link
yes, quite impressive - singles from forthcoming album released there too
― niels, Thursday, 1 December 2016 12:56 (seven years ago) link
it's possible that my work computer is trash and is causing this problem but for the past few weeks as i'm listening to an album after about 4-5 tracks it'll just start over again
This is happening to me too. Also, it often doesn't seem to be able to correctly identify which track I'm listening to. Currently listening to the Tribe Called Quest album, on track 7, but it's indicating I am listening to track 2. Nope. Bugs all over the place in this latest version.
― Position Position, Friday, 2 December 2016 15:17 (seven years ago) link
Sonos just added a feature to stream spotify from the spotify app instead of the sonos app with its terrible spotify interface (no nested playlists, the 100s of playlists I have are all in one long list and sorted strangely). It's what I thought sonos and spotify would do before I bought my speaker, glad I didn't buy it long before they debuted this feature!
― musically, Wednesday, 7 December 2016 22:09 (seven years ago) link
I haven't been able to get the Sonos integration to work from Spotify Desktop. when I click on a device, it only occasionally connects. when it does connect, it plays for a few seconds and then stops and reverts back to my laptop. so the idea is nice, but the implementation is currently lacking.
from my phone it seems to be more reliable, but less so than controlling through the Sonos app.
― fffv, Thursday, 8 December 2016 15:58 (seven years ago) link
me either
when's the spotify personal year in review rolling out this year
― ||||||||, Thursday, 8 December 2016 20:57 (seven years ago) link
Soon. Like, maybe now?
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 9 December 2016 17:39 (seven years ago) link
link?
― ||||||||, Friday, 9 December 2016 17:56 (seven years ago) link
I feel like I've asked this before but...why doesn't spotify provide users with their stats all the time, a la last.fm?
― musically, Friday, 9 December 2016 18:01 (seven years ago) link
You should see a "2016 Wrapped" section in Home/Browse now, or soon.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 9 December 2016 18:04 (seven years ago) link
I see the "Your Top Song 2016" list. Is that it for personal things this year?
― MarkoP, Friday, 9 December 2016 18:08 (seven years ago) link
In general, there doesn't tend to be a very satisfying way to answer questions of the form "Why doesn't (company) (do this thing you want)...?". Usually it's just that there are lots of things to do, and the others are more urgent or seem to offer better return or require less work or entail less complexity. Personally, I love stats.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 9 December 2016 18:09 (seven years ago) link
I figure w apple music and tidal and co. trying to capture market share, each service would try to differentiate itself as much as possible - providing listening stats would be an easy one that people would be into. spotify is the best so far in that it ties into last.fm, but the integration can be tricky and when I signed into last.fm via spotify on multiple devices,spotify lost its mind and I had to go back and forth w customer support for ages.
― musically, Friday, 9 December 2016 19:39 (seven years ago) link
thanks glenn. have the 'your top songs of 2016' pl; was hoping for more of the data visualisation stuff spotify has done in past years. are the songs in the pl in order of plays?
― ||||||||, Saturday, 10 December 2016 17:36 (seven years ago) link
The songs are in ranked order, yes. It's not literally by play-count, because we weight different kinds of plays slightly differently, but it's close.
As for other things, watch your email...
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 12 December 2016 13:39 (seven years ago) link
Glenn, does offline plays count? I swear I've played Vybz Kartel «Fever» more than anything this year but it's nowhere to be found in my top 100.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 12 December 2016 14:04 (seven years ago) link
Offline plays count, yes. Unless they're local files that for some reason we couldn't match to our catalog.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 12 December 2016 14:25 (seven years ago) link
That's... extremely weird.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 12 December 2016 14:29 (seven years ago) link
What's you Spotify username? I may or may not be able to figure anything out about this, but I don't mind looking...
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 12 December 2016 14:36 (seven years ago) link
I just followed you on spotify. Let me know if you can't see me.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 12 December 2016 14:39 (seven years ago) link
I do realize that I've probably played my favorite songs in Serato more than I've played them in Spotify, but for that song not to have made the top 100 while the Kendrick Lamar album I listened to while reviewing it in... January? February? but never since is up in the top ten seems exceedingly strange.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 12 December 2016 14:43 (seven years ago) link
Seems like further down the list are some examples of "the track after the track I really like" that got played halfway by accident and maybe not all always the way through.
― I Walk the Ondioline (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 December 2016 14:45 (seven years ago) link
Er, it's reasonable to think that that would work, but no, I can't tell which one is you. You can email me. glennm at spotify.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 12 December 2016 14:47 (seven years ago) link
For most purposes, though, we only consider it a "skip" if you play less than :30 of a song.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 12 December 2016 14:48 (seven years ago) link
Ah, thanks.
― I Walk the Ondioline (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 December 2016 14:54 (seven years ago) link
If a track's less than 30 seconds long does it get recorded as a play?
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 12 December 2016 15:04 (seven years ago) link
Most recommendation-related stuff just ignores <30s tracks completely...
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 12 December 2016 15:30 (seven years ago) link
android app has been so buggy for me as of late. never had a problem before.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 12 December 2016 19:27 (seven years ago) link
lol that "Your Top Song 2016" list for me is nuts. I'm not sure if there's a single song I actually listened to on there. Maybe someone who's a big fan of RHCP and Linkin Park has been using my account.
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 15:27 (seven years ago) link
send me your Spotify username (email to glennm at spotify) and I'll take a look...
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 16:50 (seven years ago) link
(I mean, this isn't a list of songs we THINK you'd like, it's a list of songs your account has actually played. Any chance you use multiple accounts, or switched accounts during the year?)
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 16:54 (seven years ago) link
I do like "Airport Bar" by Martin Courtney but I'm 100% certain it isnt in my Top 3 of most listened tracks this year. Not even Top 10
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:42 (seven years ago) link
Did your phone make a pants call to Spotify whilst that song was on repeat?
― I Walk the Ondioline (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 18:51 (seven years ago) link
Maybe. Its either that or I feel asleep drunk while it played on repeat
― Neptune Bingo (Michael B), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 19:11 (seven years ago) link
The song-ordering isn't simply by play-count, we try to weight different kinds of plays differently. But mostly it ends up about the same.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 20:06 (seven years ago) link
can you elaborate on what those "different kinds" are? just curious.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 20:07 (seven years ago) link
Mainly we try to give more weight to songs you actively choose over ones that get programmed for you in radio and things like that.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 13 December 2016 20:23 (seven years ago) link
There are a ton of songs on this "Wrapped" list I only played once, and lots of songs I listened to more than once which aren't here. But yeah, I listen to a lot of albums and other people's playlists on Spotify, and the one-plays on the Wrapped list are things I remember hearing on purpose: i.e. searching for artist name, scrolling to the song, playing that particular song.
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 13 December 2016 20:40 (seven years ago) link
are songs that are a part of someone else's playlist weighted less? the only way i listen to spotify outside of podcasts is by adding songs to my own library or downloading other peoples' playlists, and i generally listen offline. the one song that i've played as much as any (lucy by destra) is all the way down at #26, but i did listen to it a lot off of the ilx 2015 tracks playlist. also i tend to listen to it like 12 times in a row (lol), probably pressing the back button before the song is finished, maybe those don't count?
― qualx, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 02:57 (seven years ago) link
it does look like it really values songs that you add to your library. there's a bunch of songs from albums i listened to once over songs i listened to a million times off of playlists
i have no idea how baby hold on by eddie money is #10 when i listened to it once, realized i hated it and then only listened to the first few seconds accidentally forevermore. are you shaming me for adding baby hold on by eddie money to my personal library, glenn? i was already ashamed, i only kept it there to keep myself humble
― qualx, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 03:03 (seven years ago) link
I have yet to get this but an ad really wants me to play the chainsmokers
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 03:14 (seven years ago) link
oh hey a new version of my 2016 list popped up this morning with stuff I've listened to on it. cool
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 14:21 (seven years ago) link
Oh, if you got your 2016 list way early, you may have been part of an early test-group, and may actually have gotten a test version that really did have songs you had barely played. So yeah, worth checking yours again if it seemed crazy at first.
On the subject of the Chainsmokers, I happened to collect up this playlist of "Closer" covers yesterday: https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/5vW8k7Y9rqEzM473kpmcGg
I wasn't much into the original, but I'm finding the marathon series of covers kind of mesmerizing.
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:43 (seven years ago) link
Spotify still doing that thing where it will randomly jump back to the first track of an album. So annoying. Surely someone must be fixing this.
― Position Position, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 16:21 (seven years ago) link
Under investigation according to the latest updates. https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Spotify-restarts-albums-somewhat-randomly/idi-p/1505230#comments
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 20 December 2016 16:47 (seven years ago) link