i sure would like some product right about now (the funk soul brother)
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 09:43 (six years ago) link
christ the tone of that is like those Tumblr posts that end with "and when the executive started to cry the musicians were so amazed that they all shook me by the hand and one of them gave me $100 and a new Xbox and said I could come on tour with them any time"
― stet, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 12:15 (six years ago) link
imo Spotify should follow the Netflix model and get a bunch of broken-up bands back together to record exclusive albums. The Beatles, maybe?
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 21:11 (six years ago) link
Or lock up some a-list podcasters / radio dudes who want to make a few bucks on a platform to augment their patreon and Merch revenue
― calstars, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 21:29 (six years ago) link
Is there any way for Spotify to notify me whenever certain artists release a new track or album? I figured that following certain artists might do this somehow, but if it does, I am not seeing it.
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Saturday, 13 January 2018 01:52 (six years ago) link
They used to ping you with notifications, but now it seems like the Release Radar is the best way. I follow a ton of artists and as far as I can tell, they show up in my Release Radar each Friday. I have to do the extra step of clicking on the release to find out it's a track or a full album.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 13 January 2018 13:20 (six years ago) link
for Windows users the Toastify app may be of interest
I use it for three shortcuts:alt+shift+enter = play/pausealt+shift+left = previousalt+shift+right = next
but it can do a lot more if you like
https://toastify.codeplex.com/
― niels, Friday, 19 January 2018 18:40 (six years ago) link
Why are these Spotify buttons so unresponsive? If I don't click on them from just the right position, they don't respond. If I click on the controls from a spot that would work with just about any other application or website, no luck.
― Salt Lake City Motorcycle Accident Nerve Damage Lawyer (_Rudipherous_), Sunday, 21 January 2018 02:05 (six years ago) link
Some day people will be laughing their heads off at the corny Spotify playlist names and graphics (more universally than they are apparently doing now).
― Salt Lake City Motorcycle Accident Nerve Damage Lawyer (_Rudipherous_), Sunday, 21 January 2018 03:14 (six years ago) link
more universally eh
― Dat Login was the dname u doofus (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 21 January 2018 05:44 (six years ago) link
My account has been hacked! Received an email 1 hour ago informing me of an email address change and now I cannot access the account.
I am very afraid that whoever has hacked it will be deleting the playlists. If they are still available could a kind ilxor do a backup while I await Spotify support? My username is betamaxdk
Dammit!!!!
― niels, Monday, 29 January 2018 06:31 (six years ago) link
Spotify support have responded quickly, thankfully the account is now secured
Googling the email used to hack my account led me to a very unsympathetic site that basically posts account info for hacked accounts
All I can say is fuck you willsmit372 you fucking idiot
and thank you Spotify support!
― niels, Monday, 29 January 2018 07:08 (six years ago) link
and to think the idiot used my account to stream fucking ed sheeran
― niels, Monday, 29 January 2018 07:11 (six years ago) link
now your spotify smells like him
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Monday, 29 January 2018 08:42 (six years ago) link
>:(
― niels, Monday, 29 January 2018 09:22 (six years ago) link
I hear Sheeran junkies will do anything to get their fix
― President Keyes, Monday, 29 January 2018 13:50 (six years ago) link
Spotify is good for listening to ILX top 77 lists!
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Monday, 29 January 2018 15:22 (six years ago) link
Will someone please buy some Doug Hream Blunt records so my Discover Weekly will stop trying to force them on me?
It's all that and limp-wristed neo-psychedelia. Which is neither new, nor remotely psychedelic.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 29 January 2018 15:40 (six years ago) link
https://app.jqbx.fm
this can be kinda fun
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 1 February 2018 22:04 (six years ago) link
https://app.jqbx.fm/room/ilxorlet's test drive
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 1 February 2018 22:23 (six years ago) link
i just kicked a spotify exec out of my meeting for calling his product an app
― Scatperson (ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-whore.) (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, January 8, 2018 9:45 PM (three weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lmao
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 1 February 2018 22:26 (six years ago) link
:-) glad that one reached its target
― Dat Login was the dname u doofus (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 1 February 2018 23:11 (six years ago) link
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/2/5/16974194/spotify-recommendation-algorithm-playlist-hack-nelson
― DJI, Monday, 5 February 2018 18:27 (six years ago) link
I am not going to give Nelson all of the access to my account that it wants, but the link to the API documentation has me wanting to play with that a little bit more. I've been wishing for more granular searching for a long time. I don't even think you can do boolean searching combining things like label, genre, and year from within the app any more.
― beard papa, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:04 (six years ago) link
I tried label:"paper recordings" year:2017 and it seemed to work in the app.
― DJI, Monday, 5 February 2018 20:17 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I don't know recall what I had trouble with. Glad to see it still works. This developer site is still very interesting. I don't know what I would use it for, but I definitely want to play with this.
― beard papa, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 01:04 (six years ago) link
discover weekly has been really useless lately :( too much old stuff! why would i want to listen to the police
― maura, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 01:43 (six years ago) link
I've been ruthlessly clicking on "I Don't Like This Artist" and my Discover has split into two versions, one that's pretty dialed in to my ambient/electronic preferences, and one that's still desperately trying to make sense of the time I played a bunch of Tom Petty songs.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 01:48 (six years ago) link
seems like every week for the last 3 or 4 months that release radar has been giving me a new Fleetwood Mac demo. I guess that these are technically new releases, but this is not what I want from that playlist.
― silverfish, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 01:53 (six years ago) link
After months of training I've found Discovery to be reasonable at giving me disco-y electronica and krautrocky techno. Release Radar giving me Rolling Stones demos is egregious though.
― e-woke (NotEnough), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 13:35 (six years ago) link
Thanks to Discover I now know that there is more of The "classical" music you buy from Boomkat (2010): a thread to discuss Sylvain Chauveau, Johann Johannsson, Peter Broderick, Olafur Arnalds and others than one could ever possibly hope to listen to in a lifetime.
― lana del boy (ledge), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 13:47 (six years ago) link
I've been ruthlessly clicking on "I Don't Like This Artist"
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
pretty sure it's a right click or a button on the individual song that gives you choices? I'll report back when I get a chance to look at home.
― sleeve, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 16:06 (six years ago) link
yeah, please do; it doesn't work that way for me.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link
I'm also using some older version fwiw
― sleeve, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 16:14 (six years ago) link
OK I'm using Version 1.0.73.345.g6c9971ef
When I open Discover Weekly on a MacBook, and hover my cursor over a track, it shows a "heart" and a "null sign" icon on the right side of the row with the song details. If you click on the null icon (really a circle w/a slash through it) you can choose either "I don't like this song" or "I don't like this artist"
― sleeve, Tuesday, 6 February 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link
huh, i'm actually on an older version. Will check it out.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Tuesday, 6 February 2018 23:14 (six years ago) link
Same version and I don't get that option.
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 07:50 (six years ago) link
beta testing it - https://mashable.com/2017/12/04/spotify-discover-weekly-like-dislike-test/#8ykY4l00gsq8
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 07:53 (six years ago) link
Ugh. Spotify on my mac has become completely useless. It takes about 5 minutes for it to start up. I've already disabled the "social" right sidebar, which I thought was the problem. No dice. Latest version and everything else runs smoothly. Spotify can't seem to wake up. Resorting to the webplayer but that's a very limited experience.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 10:58 (six years ago) link
did you try reinstalling? find it unlikely that one of the world's most popular apps would be universally slow on a major OS
― niels, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 11:10 (six years ago) link
xps milo that's very interesting, thanks! now I feel special, like a Nielsen family or something.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
I have the same takes-forever start up experience running on Ubuntu.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 15:04 (six years ago) link
Just checked on my MB Air. 10 seconds from clicking the icon to music playing.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:24 (six years ago) link
Updated phone and Spotify won't read my SD card who do I kill
― Alderweireld Horses (darraghmac), Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:36 (six years ago) link
yeah the desktop version on my mac is so awful.
― Heez, Wednesday, 7 February 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link
It's universally slow on ALL major OSes: the PC desktop version takes forever to get going properly, too
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Thursday, 8 February 2018 00:46 (six years ago) link
Nothing unlikely about world's most popular things being slow/stupid/inept tbh, it's the norm rather than the exception iirc. We put up with it, that's the real problem here.
Yes, I tried reinstalling -_- Tried everything. It's just so fucking slow (and indeed, on Windows as well).
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 8 February 2018 01:10 (six years ago) link
My Windows 10 laptop often can't cope with Spotify auto-starting when powering up; it's already got quite enough to do. Disabling the auto-start and opening Spotify when things have settled down a bit helps. But yes, it's still slow to start.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 8 February 2018 11:24 (six years ago) link
I will never complain about spotify againI will never complain about spotify againI will never complain about spotify again
Pox on me: Last night, *while listening*, everything suddenly stopped: I'd been thrown out of my account. Someone broke in and changed the e-mail address, just like Niels experienced (up in this thread somewhere). Nothing but love for Spotify support for being on the case and swiftly giving me my account back. And most importantly, no playlists were deleted, and no Ed Sheeran was played in my brief absence.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 8 February 2018 13:50 (six years ago) link