Am i missing something about syncing up between 2 different devices apparently supposedly playing the same queued playing list. Seems like half the time I put on my phone and its gone back to the queue from the last time I used it and sometimes it picks up the queue after the show its playing ends.Also found it getting rid of the queue I had set up whej i swapped from phone to the desktop.
― Stevolende, Friday, 5 April 2019 10:56 (five years ago) link
I've found that the queue can be dramatically different from device ti device. I've tried shuffling a large playlist on my phone, which works reasonably well. When I bump it over to the roku app the queue changes a lot because the roku app can only shuffle from a small portion of a playlist.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 5 April 2019 12:16 (five years ago) link
Wtf case study : Add an album to your library Playing album...oh I don’t like this song...tap the ellipsis Uncheck “like” and be told the song has been removed from my libraryGo back to album track list and it’s still there???
― calstars, Friday, 5 April 2019 13:04 (five years ago) link
works for me (desktop & android app)
― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Friday, 5 April 2019 13:10 (five years ago) link
― calstars, Friday, April 5, 2019 6:04 AM (twenty-one minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh yeah, this happens now too, it sucks complete ass
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Friday, 5 April 2019 13:26 (five years ago) link
apple will make a commercial with "limit to your love" playing where person touches the little spotify heart on a track and is told about the 10k limit.
― say it with sausages (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 5 April 2019 14:13 (five years ago) link
I've been using Spotify for nearly a decade and I still don't really know what "Your Music" is. Is this the stuff you've downloaded for offline listening, or just some list of favorites? Do people listen to these huge lists on shuffle or something?
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Friday, 5 April 2019 14:20 (five years ago) link
It is the lists of artists, albums, and songs you like. The songs list is long and useless. The other two are nice to have.
― say it with sausages (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 5 April 2019 14:23 (five years ago) link
My workflow is: I hear a song, add it to my library/save it/like it/star it/whatever it is this week, then every so often I go through the what I've added and put them in suitable playlists. I never listen to the whole lot on shuffle.
― Alba, Friday, 5 April 2019 14:28 (five years ago) link
I see. It's the that list of stuff I've accidentally + on
― We were never Breeting Borting (President Keyes), Friday, 5 April 2019 14:28 (five years ago) link
clicked
Alba flow is otm
― say it with sausages (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 5 April 2019 14:35 (five years ago) link
I stay away from the 'add to your library' functionality - be it star, heart, add to saved tracks etc - precisely because I can't work out what goes where and it seems to change all the time anyway. I just playlists, which work just fine for me.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Friday, 5 April 2019 14:42 (five years ago) link
my approach is an evolving mess.I did notice something recently on desktop that I'd like to see on mobile... an option in the saved Albums view to only show albums I've saved (and/or downloaded?) in full. I don't "save" any songs aside from albums because it makes the "album" view useless. For tracks, I'll throw them on a playlist instead.I'm tripping over myself now because I have some songs from saved albums on playlists that I have downloaded, making the album show up on my album view when I am in offline modeI know that if anyone would understand, it'd be y'all
― maffew12, Friday, 5 April 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
I'm sure this isn't an entirely new thing but it feels like it: using apps is a lot like watching modern telly programmes in that you have to surrender to them basically making shit up in front of you. Which makes me sound really old but there it is.
Fwiw, ethical implications aside, I'm still very much in the Spotify has been a total fucking revelation camp.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Friday, 5 April 2019 15:26 (five years ago) link
Is it not really feasible for third parties to create alternative Spotify clients/front-ends?
― mick signals, Friday, 5 April 2019 15:41 (five years ago) link
in previous years i tried to track my listening with different genre playlists but some of them i'd rarely get to and managing so many different playlists was a pita so this year i just made one Best Of list and one To Listen list and now i'm hearing much more of the stuff i intend to but the To Listen list has gotten out of control it's too huge.
― Mordy, Friday, 5 April 2019 15:44 (five years ago) link
Yeah this is basically how I approach it too, my big list of favorites and my periodically rotating new music list. I have lots of other lists, but none get a fraction of the play of these two.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 5 April 2019 15:47 (five years ago) link
I've gone from a to listen playlist to a to listen folder but it's terrifyingly vast - like a Borges library. Ach, the tyranny of permutations.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Friday, 5 April 2019 15:49 (five years ago) link
In full on 'and another thing!' taxi driver mode here but why does the 'repeat' button get so much real estate? I was just looking at my CD player and thinking I've never used that button.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Friday, 5 April 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link
Everybody otm. I think we should unionize.
― maffew12, Friday, 5 April 2019 16:20 (five years ago) link
One day I went to smarterplaylists.net and got all of my Discover Weekly recommendations to archive to one big playlist every week.Don't be like me.
― maffew12, Friday, 5 April 2019 16:23 (five years ago) link
I'm currently maintaining my digital collection with Logitech Media Server
fist bump
― mick signals, Friday, 5 April 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link
I’ve experienced that offline thing while commuting. Even while in offline mode, it seems to try to connect to their servers and hangs for a while. I usually get past it by selecting different tabs or closing/restarting the app.
― beard papa, Friday, 5 April 2019 18:20 (five years ago) link
I guess I’ll convert all of my saved albums to playlists just for the sake of being able to edit individual songs out of the albums. Ok ok ok
― calstars, Friday, 5 April 2019 18:23 (five years ago) link
Salute to those still hanging in with Logitech Media Server ... I broke down and switched to Plex
― Brad C., Friday, 5 April 2019 20:23 (five years ago) link
why does the 'repeat' button get so much real estate? I was just looking at my CD player and thinking I've /never/ used that button.
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 6 April 2019 09:13 (five years ago) link
I don't think I've ever thought 'this morning, I am going to listen to x FOUR times' - wow, a handy 'repeat' button. I might think 'I'm going to listen to that again' and press rewind or whatever.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Saturday, 6 April 2019 09:26 (five years ago) link
Most frequent use for me: having the same lullaby repeat over and over for my baby.
― Alba, Saturday, 6 April 2019 09:39 (five years ago) link
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 6 April 2019 09:43 (five years ago) link
The very thought of being that programmatic is giving me hives: I genuinely don't enter into a listening experience thinking 'I'm going to listen to this 3 times in a row'. Shit is getting existential.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Saturday, 6 April 2019 09:47 (five years ago) link
Where did I even say that? I’m talking about wanting to hear the song you’re listening to at that particular moment again. It’s as spontaneous and spur of the moment as it comes: there is no programming involved in that at all, leave alone programming the number of times you’re going to listen to it in advance (which isn’t even possible in Spotify, unless you want to queue up the same song back to back.(why do I even have to explain this?)
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 6 April 2019 09:56 (five years ago) link
Sorry, not being entirely serious - was thinking more about on a CD player at that point. On a Spotify thread. I should probably go get some fresh air.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Saturday, 6 April 2019 10:16 (five years ago) link
I’m getting some too lol
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 6 April 2019 10:29 (five years ago) link
I don't think I've ever felt the need to relisten to a song again immediately after having listened to it. I agree, relisten button serves no purpose
― silverfish, Saturday, 6 April 2019 12:15 (five years ago) link
Another alien lol!
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 6 April 2019 12:17 (five years ago) link
Songs you could listen to on repeat for hours...Songs you could listen to forever?Song on repeat...and of course: Songs to listen to while high?
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 6 April 2019 12:32 (five years ago) link
I can testify that there is a non-trivial set of people for whom the Repeat button is a core part of their listening approach.
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 7 April 2019 13:34 (five years ago) link
(they are all infants)
― Alba, Sunday, 7 April 2019 13:39 (five years ago) link
Those old threads have got some real gems in them - thanks.
― Alba, Sunday, 7 April 2019 13:43 (five years ago) link
i didn't realize there was a way to listen to "old town road" besides Repeat ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― musically, Sunday, 7 April 2019 20:40 (five years ago) link
if i want to listen to a song again i hit the back button, or scroll back to the part i want to hear again
i tried experimenting with listening to songs on repeat as a side effect of some fairly severe mental illness and i found that listening to songs more than twice in a row is probably not a good idea
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Sunday, 7 April 2019 23:33 (five years ago) link
for a while there was a radio station that had an unexpectedly long transfer of ownership and during that period it played the same songs at the same time every day, that was actually very nice, for several months i would expect to hear "give up the funk" at precisely 5:02 pm, followed by whatever the song after that was, etc. as fixed as the nature of most radio stations is i am surprised that there aren't any stations that have deliberately adopted that approach.
― Jaki Liebowitz (rushomancy), Sunday, 7 April 2019 23:35 (five years ago) link
one station where i live (which prominently touts ''''variety'''' in its branding) basically plays the same playlist every day and sometimes barely even varies the order or timing-of-day compared to the previous day
― dyl, Monday, 8 April 2019 01:30 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I was going to say: does the repeat button work for playlists? I imagine that would be a big use case for shops etc.
― Alba, Monday, 8 April 2019 05:29 (five years ago) link
it does work for playlists. i leave it on.
― buttigieg play the blues (crüt), Monday, 8 April 2019 05:44 (five years ago) link
if i want to stop listening to an album rather than having it repeat i hit the stop button
What's a stop button?
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Monday, 8 April 2019 18:04 (five years ago) link
it's what the kids are calling ambien these days
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 8 April 2019 18:54 (five years ago) link
I'm noticing that shuffling large playlists for roku seems to work better when I launch them in the roku app rather than launching from a separate device. For some reason, hitting shuffle on a different device and then connecting to roku causes it to diminish the range of tracks it shuffles.
I really wish the roku app would give you a menu for songs that takes you to the related album/artist page/radio list. Also wish the search function was better at searching up artists. It strange that it can't do this.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 04:14 (five years ago) link