I find connecting to speakers at home really unreliable. Usually involves restarting the app or reconnecting the wifi. Sometimes halfway through a song it will start playing through my phone or tablet again. This often ends up with me abandoning all of that and connecting via Bluetooth.
By which time my sandwich is made and I'm going to another room...
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Sunday, 18 October 2020 09:25 (three years ago) link
also my experience connecting from the app
― seven day permanence (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 18 October 2020 14:20 (three years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/oct/28/joe-rogan-hosts-alex-jones-on-spotify-podcast-despite-ban
― Oor Neechy, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
spotify is fucking up
― The Beige of Dadz (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 18:51 (three years ago) link
had some more weird issues lately where I add a track to my library, it doesn't show up in the app, shows up in web player, but can't be played until I un-add and re-add.
― The Beige of Dadz (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
Yeah I often find I have to log out and back in again on my Mac for the desktop client to register tracks that I've Liked on another device, even if it was hours ago.
― Alba, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 19:06 (three years ago) link
lol at the lede in that Guardian article
Joe Rogan, Spotify’s biggest podcast star, has left the platform..............in an awkward position after conducting a lengthy interview with Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist banned by Swedish streaming company for producing “hate content”.
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...in an awkward position after conducting a lengthy interview with Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist banned by Swedish streaming company for producing “hate content”.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 21:41 (three years ago) link
I'm going to take a punt that their response to being put in this awkward position was to do nothing about it.
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Thursday, 29 October 2020 08:50 (three years ago) link
Exasperated laugh after having selected 'I don't like ROOSEVELT' at least twice in Release Radar the powers that be just won't take no for an answer here.
― nashwan, Friday, 30 October 2020 14:43 (three years ago) link
xp they removed it
― The Beige of Dadz (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 30 October 2020 14:51 (three years ago) link
source?
― neith moon (ledge), Friday, 30 October 2020 16:15 (three years ago) link
joe rogan fans on reddit
― The Beige of Dadz (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 30 October 2020 16:34 (three years ago) link
but that was yesterday and i see it back up now?
― The Beige of Dadz (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 30 October 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
there i was thinking "joe rogan fans on reddit" an unimpeachable source.
― neith moon (ledge), Friday, 30 October 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
it was a cache issue with the episode that did cause it to be missing/unplayable yesterday
― The Beige of Dadz (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 30 October 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
you can count on joe rogan fans on reddit to complain first if spotify does pull it
― The Beige of Dadz (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 30 October 2020 17:24 (three years ago) link
fixed that for ya
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 30 October 2020 19:57 (three years ago) link
In response to the "Justice at Spotify" campaign for increased royalty rates, and having paid Joe Rogan $100 million to promote Infowars, Spotify have announced the option for artists to be paid in exposure instead, except without actually providing the exposure:
https://www.thefader.com/2020/11/02/spotify-promotional-tool-discovery-weekly-royalty-rate-union-letter
― edited for dog profanity (sic), Monday, 2 November 2020 21:29 (three years ago) link
I can’t understand if this is a genuine opportunity for extra cash flow for labels/bands or, Spotify monetizing an existing distribution channel like radio and getting an even lower royalty rate to artists. I’ll assume the latter?
I’ve been through a bunch of these services, is there anything out there that pays artists fairly?
― Bjork’s lawyers just would not budge, Monday, 2 November 2020 23:12 (three years ago) link
Bandcamp
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Monday, 2 November 2020 23:32 (three years ago) link
I used to have their app, glad to hear they’re streaming!
― Bjork’s lawyers just would not budge, Monday, 2 November 2020 23:35 (three years ago) link
well it depends on what the artists want to be streamable, but yeah
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Monday, 2 November 2020 23:37 (three years ago) link
i actually use the bandcamp app. it’s nice. sort of a “here’s the music i care about enough to actually pay for” all in one place.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 08:51 (three years ago) link
Top comment on r/indieheads:
extremely telling that they waited for election eve so that they could try to slip this through the cracks. they know how shitty and terrible they are being here and are terrified about how much blowback this rightfully deserves.
I agree this is a despicable thing to do.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:16 (three years ago) link
https://gizmodo.com/spotify-finds-a-pay-for-play-workaround-1845554656
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
Guardian reporting on it too
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/03/spotify-artists-promote-music-exchange-cut-royalty-rates-payola-algorithm
― Oor Neechy, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
"payolgarithm"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:57 (three years ago) link
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/55c6866ae4b05dcc99ee3b4a/t/56352661e4b0270138b3707f/1602669505958/
― kiss some penis reference (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 19:00 (three years ago) link
I mean the problem is that artists already got paid cents with Spotify, and this model makes it so that they get paid to even be invited to the playground. If they're not game, they don't get featured in the top - or not featured at all - of new music releases, spotify playlists, recommendations, radio, etc... so now you have to be paid even shittier amounts if you want in.
It's plain evil and will not only affect artists for the worst but its audience too.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 4 November 2020 06:59 (three years ago) link
it's always been a shit business model
I feel like it is every tech company’s model: hollow out an existing industry or industries and hoover up all the money while passing along marginal savings. No wonder inequality is at Robber Baron levels.
― Bjork’s lawyers just would not budge, Wednesday, 4 November 2020 22:43 (three years ago) link
Ok, nice customer service story:I’ve subscribed to Spotify Premium pretty much since the beginning. I’ve held off upgrading to Family bc the Hulu deal goes away if you have Family. At any rate, my older daughter uses my account on their iOS – and tells me last week: “I signed up for Duo.” And of course, two days later comes and tells me, “What’s our Hulu password? It isn’t working.”Anyway I chatted online w customer service and asked if they could undo it and was told they couldn’t bc that the deal was no longer available in their computer system. I said I was a little disappointed bc I was a longtime and happy customer. Before the chat ended, I told the person I understood it was out of their hands but asked if there was poss. a supervisor who could manually do it. They said they’d ask – and an hour later I got an email from a supervisor restoring the deal. I wasn’t expecting Spotify to even have customer service as a digital company so this was surprising to say the least. Good stuff.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 9 November 2020 03:28 (three years ago) link
i'm laughing as i type this, but the play button keeps fucking up on my spotify, just does nothing, i keep clicking it
nb. laughing as i type this
― dogs, Tuesday, 10 November 2020 20:15 (three years ago) link
Great news! Every penny of value that musicians have earned for Spotify has been paid back to them, so Spotify can drop another another $235 million on a loss-making podcast advert company35 million on a loss-making podcast advert company, in order to onsell their own data-mining services to the creators of podcasts that use that company.
― @oneposter (👍) (sic), Wednesday, 11 November 2020 00:37 (three years ago) link
spotify:album:47frms8fSk3Cp9ZCA80tfxis very much NOT tr/st, but someone called Trust
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Monday, 16 November 2020 21:51 (three years ago) link
anybody heard of it?
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Monday, 16 November 2020 21:58 (three years ago) link
Why Is The Obscure B-Side “Harness Your Hopes” Pavement’s Top Song On Spotify? It’s Complicated.
https://www.stereogum.com/2105993/pavement-harness-your-hopes-spotify/columns/sounding-board/
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 04:43 (three years ago) link
It's becoming really erratic recently. I keep getting multiple duplicates of one podcast turning up in the queue or having the queue and recent searches disappear.I reinstalled it last night and it was still doing the multiple podcast thing afterwards.
Also ads turning up when I'm being charged for premium.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 07:17 (three years ago) link
Oh yeah for some reason it's decided to play back silently for the last few days.May have something to do with webinars I've been at but other sound on the desktop work.youtube,audacious etc. & trying to swap etween other sound outlets does nothing.
Ubuntu updated recently not sure if it's anything to do with that.annoying though.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 07:21 (three years ago) link
Think it was mentioned upthread but are the ads when you're listening to podcasts as think some have ads embedded in them?
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 09:05 (three years ago) link
yeah most podcasts have baked-in ads
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 10:10 (three years ago) link
I keep losing my place in podcasts across devices. If go tablet > phone > tablet it forgets everything I've listened to on the phone in between.
That Stereogum/Pavement article is interesting. There's an upside in that guys like Malkmus presumably make a bit more money than they would otherwise have seen and I like the idea of a deep cut rising to prominence and popularity but something seems a bit off.
Like in the same way your daily mixes all end up sounding like they never change, are the impersonal algorithms driving us towards the platonic ideal of lo fi indie rock at the exclusion of anything that doesn't quite fit the unpublished criteria?
(not sure I'm expressing that very well, sorry)
― Clean-up on ILX (onimo), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 11:51 (three years ago) link
ads I was referring to seem to be ore localised on US or UK podcasts I'm listening to in Ireland. So can't see how an ad relevant to Ireland would be embedded n a foreign show which is what i seem o keep hearing at least. Also ads creeping in between shows
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 12:59 (three years ago) link
i was about to comment on the targeted podcast ads. I get ads for Canadian banks when i download, like, Reply All in Pocketcasts. But in Spotify I just noticed that the episode runtimes are a few minutes shorter, and i couldn't find ads in the episode i just fast forwarded through. Interesting.People on the Gimlet subreddit just seem to be annoyed that the hosts aren't reading the ads anymore.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 13:18 (three years ago) link
i've heard of spotify
― treeship., Wednesday, 18 November 2020 13:22 (three years ago) link
Have heard hosts reading ads. POd Save crew still seem to pretty regularly at least for their sponsors etc.I think others do too still. Daily Beans crew too.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 18 November 2020 16:18 (three years ago) link
I should've said that Spotify owns Gimlet. Have they bought any other "networks" or just some single show deals?
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 16:42 (three years ago) link
https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/10/spotify-buying-podcast-hosting-and-ad-company-megaphone-for-235m/?Ah i guess this has something to do with their podcast ad experimenting. Bleh.... sticking to my podcast app.
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 16:53 (three years ago) link
I get pretty frustrated by Spotify trying to overguess what I'm searching for. Like if I search for the band Come and look in the artist results why isn't that band one of the first results rather than result number 116 (literally)? And after artists named Corey Taylor, Honeycomebear and Friggen Comedy Network?
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 18:53 (three years ago) link
Searching for classical pieces is a big pain.
― Ape Hole Road (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 18 November 2020 19:28 (three years ago) link