Spotify - anyone heard of it?

who let them on?

https://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/spotifys-billion-dollar-challenge/

I can see it's sort of tailored to my listening (or at least my Spotify listening which is about 10% of it) but it's badly named if I'm supposed to discover something from hearing 'Release the Bats' or 'O Superman' for the thousandth time.

― ilxors ananimus (onimo), Friday, January 22, 2016 4:14 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

'O Superman' in my Discover playlist yet again this week.

― Don't opine. Dead inside. (onimo), Saturday, April 9, 2016 8:03 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and this week it has 'Release the Bats' again ffs

What's your Spotify username? I can tell the team responsible.

The handful of misfires and repeats that show up on my DW can all be forgiven every time it digs up a barely remembered nugget like Translator's "Everywhere That I'm Not" (warning, do not watch video if you hate the 80s)

K-major & Basmo on this week's Fresh Finds! Nice!

I had no idea until today that my Spotify library had a maximum capacity but according to the Android app it does and I've just hit it.

^ is the reason i routinely check to see whether apple music is working properly yet (it's not) and end up deleting downloads from spotify instead. this offline limit is the only thing that will push me away from spotify one day, perhaps in 2019 when apple gets its shit together.

It's not just an offline limit - even if you don't have a saved album available offline it still counts toward your Your Music 10k limit (I had maybe 5 albums that I had made available offline when I got the notification). Seems that play lists don't count towards this limit so I ended up moving lots of albums from Your Music to play lists.

Btw speaking of play lists I turned on my phone yesterday on the way to work and all my play lists were gone...I almost had a heart attack. Luckily I restarted spotify a few times and they came back. Is the playlist restore feature on spotifys website any good or should I be backing them up some other way?

It's not just an offline limit - even if you don't have a saved album available offline it still counts toward your Your Music 10k limit

well if that's the case it's pretty ridiculous. on ios it doesn't even tell you about any limit, it just stops downloading, and then you leave the house to find half an album/playlist is not there.

I have an iphone and got the message...tho I got it when i was just saving something (a notification popped up), I wasn't toggling the save offline switch on something I had already saved.

Anyway I can see some reason why they'd decide to cap music saved offline but music that's saved online only is basically a collection of shortcuts, idg why that's capped. Especially since that cap doesn't extend to playlists; so all the functionality did was make me unsave a bunch of albums, then add them back as playlists. Not sure what the point of that is...

caps might have made sense a few years ago when streaming services weren't the centre of the music industry. now that it's ~the way~ so many people use music, the limit is just an archaic pain in the arse, and i'm surprised spotify still has it. i've mentioned this itt before but i'm pretty sure no other major service limits to ~3,300 offline songs.

not sure if it's been brought up here but like three or four years ago they took away the ability to see who is following your playlist and have yet to bring it back. Is there a reason for this? it seems like a fairly obvious social media feature to have available and i used it a lot to find people with like taste.

Showing followers didn't scale. One could imagine showing them only up to some cutoff, but that's kind of arbitrary. I feel the pain, too, as a playlist maker, but it's a tricky design problem...

why not show them all? infinite scroll? paginate? there are options

I haven't had any notifications in 11 days...I restarted Spotify and now the notifications icon (the bell) has disappeared completely...

It's going to hang out with the stars.

hm, same thing

12 days since I got my last one. I contacted Spotify about it and they were very helpful, advising me to reinstall via several emails. After I reinstalled and told them that it still wasn't working I haven't heard from them though. At least the bell is still present, I guess.

I haven't gotten any in a while, either. I'll see if I can find out what's going on.

Hey glenn I'm finding you can no longer drag a track from in-browser spotify straight into a playlist on your desktop version - now it just diverts you to the record the track you've dragged is from. Do you know if this is an intentional change or temporary bug or wha?

i do miss being able to see who was following a playlist

this new 'songs based on the playlist you made' feature is blowing my actual mind. the best feature they've ever done,
a freaking brilliant idea.

omg I was just thinking the other day what a great feature that would be.

It was in rdio 2 years ago iirc

is this the list you get if you select Radio for a playlist or is something different?

App is slower than dripping molasses on iOS 7. Wish they still provided an older version.

A fellow iOS 7 user! *waves*. It does take an age to start up and sometimes can take a frustratingly log time to start playing a track from a new album or playlist - generally it works ok for me though.

maybe spotify on ios is some kind of revenge for itunes on windows...

The "radio" is cool; so far it's mainly helping me remember obvious things that should have been in a playlist, rather than revealing totally unknown things to me. I imagine the algorithm works off of "other people who listened to x..." logic, so that's not so surprising - my playlist full of familiar classic rock radio cuts is logically going to turn up other classic rock radio staples. No worries there.

I do wish it were at least programmed to leave out songs that are already in that playlist, though! Maybe there's some other use for it that I'm overlooking, but it seems like the main value would be to give you new ideas to supplement a playlist, not stuff you're obviously already listening to. Other than that, the only problem is the same as Discover Weekly - the majority of the 'radio' is stuff that I'm very well aware of and have left out of the playlist on purpose, either because I own the album and don't want it to lose its freshness, or because I don't like the song. But I can't imagine how that would be avoided. It's a decent feature. What's the window on it being willing to refresh and give you a new 'radio' lineup for a given playlist, though?

Does the Spotify Discovery playlist take into account everything you've listened to, or only most recent listening activity? Or both, but with a stronger bias towards the most recent?

out of curiosity - does spotify take account of you adding stuff to your own playlist from your discover weekly one?

Does Spotify consider your personal affection for Big Country and Julianna Hatfield, and then factor that into an algorithm that decides how helpful the discover playlist will be?

Uh oh.

I'm slightly disappointed to learn that some of the more interesting/esoteric song choices that pop up in my Discovery playlist seem like they might be a result of said song showing up in an episode of Girls. Or at least that probably explains things like the Oggum Boogum song and Girl by FLiP. It probably doesn't explain the Laurie Anderson track about her giving birth to a dog that she had sewn into her stomach.

my playlist was particularly good this week. a lot of my old faves (not obvious ones either) with some good new picks

xp haha I got that Laurie Anderson track, too!

the email and desktop notifications are both still not working. Now 15 days and counting.

found this via twiiter
https://twitter.com/search?q=spotify%20notifications%20&src=typd

The reason for no spotify notifications, this job vacancy exists?

Product Owner, Notifications and Marketing Automation

Spotify
New York, NY, United States
Full-Time
https://app.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?b=neaRWvwb&j=oLy41fw8

Mine have been gone for 15 days now too. :(

Tips on keeping up to date with mew releases in the meantime

updated regularly:

Brian Askrud: April 2016
https://open.spotify.com/user/baskrud/playlist/3bWf4lNH4tZ5jSopp9ZGvj

Tune New Music stream
https://open.spotify.com/user/tunenewmusic/playlist/7dWUYZIWyt3lE1GlMOsraO

Johan Carlo Olsson: 2016 Best New Music
https://open.spotify.com/user/jagheterjohanheterjag/playlist/62qt00xDiCgp7a42wVL0uf

All Things Go: Emerging
https://open.spotify.com/user/allthingsgomusic/playlist/2VlzkJvSAd3PnLzo6llbL8

Updated Fridays

This Week's Releases
https://open.spotify.com/user/jlarome/playlist/6KErOvRQFEAnY5SdrrBDOD

connected with this website: http://www.spotifynewmusic.com/index.php

Boomkat - April 2016
https://open.spotify.com/user/williemiller/playlist/26ExMZ5XTAgZreiVFJyhoO
by spotify user Willie Miller

Spotify's notifications feature is basically what won me over and made me scrap both apple music and google play. So I'm HOPING it will return soon.

this might have been asked a few times but I'm new to spotify. is there a fast way to create a playlist from a list of artists and tracks in text format?

There's something weird going on in Spotify's listening data. I did some silly Game of Thrones Spotify thing and Spotify told me I listen to 50% EDM, 35% Experimental Electronic and 14% Rock, which isn't even close to true (no Hip-Hop or R&B??). Probably explains why my Discover playlists are all over the map.

I don't actually know what that Game of Thrones thing does, but it probably looks at only a tiny bit of your listening, because it works through an external API. Recent plays, or recent saves or something.

This feels extremely "late period" and I don't know if that's a good thing at this point.

Sorry, wrong thread. Lol.

xps to glenn -- makes sense, sort of like an auditory buzzfeed quiz i guess.

does anyone know how to make the big blue bar across the top begging me to connect to facebook go away? it showed up a few weeeks ago and will not go away.

It's nice to be able to have local file playlists from more than one computer - i.e., not to have to tether the phone to just one device at a time.

Oh, and these location specifics are kind of awesome:

http://i.imgur.com/GgLhJrk.jpg