"I get a kind of shuffle-fatigue from it"
i get ear-fatigue. and sonic claustrophobia. i can only take an hour or two max of spotify. which is also what happened to me with digital radio years ago. but doesn't happen to me with youtube for some reason. maybe the wildly different sound sources of youtube have something to do with that. i have no idea.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 25 April 2017 19:49 (seven years ago) link
karl's story is wild and i like it and taps into something i think about a lot
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 25 April 2017 21:40 (seven years ago) link
" maybe the wildly different sound sources of youtube have something to do with that. i have no idea"
I suspect it's something to do with this, plus the use of YouTube is so much more, I don't know, kinetic (by degrees, of course). There's something too seamless about Spotify, something that encourages the kind of claustrophobia you mention.
I like Karl's story, and kind of wish I was there. My more suburban, middle-class version of that is how dinner parties (not as poncey as that sounds, hopefully) and how playlist curation has become something like a parlour game, where the selecting of the song is everything, and where the listening comes a distant second.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 09:50 (seven years ago) link
how playlist curation has become something like a parlour game, where the selecting of the song is everything, and where the listening comes a distant second.
sadly otm and I'm very much part of this myself, wish I could just let it go like Karl in that story
― niels, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 10:20 (seven years ago) link
rather than carefully constructing playlists, I like to take the approach of designing my own personal radio station. I like to have very large playlists filled with a lot of full albums. I'm pretty liberal about throwing stuff that seems interesting onto a playlist, rather than trying to find the perfect song or set of songs. This allows me to throw a playlist on shuffle and be constantly surprised by what comes up. If there are things I notice I'm consistently skipping, I remove them.
― Moodles, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 14:47 (seven years ago) link
i listened to the best Paradise Garage playlist last night. had the best stuff on it. all the garage favorites and lesser-known Levan nuggets. of course after an hour or so i just listened to the first 5 or 10 seconds of about 50 tracks. but even that was fun. freebasing basslines.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 14:58 (seven years ago) link
I just keep a list of 2194 songs that I like and play it on random all the time.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 15:01 (seven years ago) link
^gets it
― Moodles, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 15:10 (seven years ago) link
yeah, but you aren't going to have 700 garage-era dance tracks on there. sometimes i'm in the mood. and i only listen while playing R:DM for PS4 anyway.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 15:22 (seven years ago) link
DJs or clubs as a focus for spotify playlists are the best
Optimo 250: https://open.spotify.com/user/alex_tea/playlist/1Qrvz1kdf2VJUO0Wjt6ROw
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 21:28 (seven years ago) link
Am I correct that one can make playlists available online in the 'my music' section if it's for iphone/ipad, but for the desktop app you need to make a playlist of the album and then make said playlist available offline? :-/
― On Some Faraday Beach (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 28 April 2017 09:24 (seven years ago) link
sorry wrong thread
really the answer is just to listen to new music. sounds cool. new rap especially. its made for it. i forget that sometimes. i don't listen to a ton of new music but listening to a new rap playlist on spotify is totally addictive. plus, now i am a big kodak black fan.
― scott seward, Saturday, 29 April 2017 16:33 (seven years ago) link
This isn't mine, but dayum it's good: all the originals of songs covered by This Mortal Coil: https://open.spotify.com/user/p.mitchell2/playlist/7rpK9fGA7IhVtxwvZSDJBg
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Wednesday, 24 May 2017 09:12 (six years ago) link
I've spent the last year or so somewhat systematically going through the discographies of loads and loads of bands, including some genres I hadn't previously felt too knowledgable about. Album by album, artist by artist, decade by decade I slowly deleted all filler tracks and/or songs I just didn't like. II created a library of folders and broke them up by decade, genre, and artist. When Spotify allowed you to shuffle folders this made for a bunch of great radio-like playlists. The all-genres decade playlists I thought were especially great because they jumped around so much they felt like the radio but were more interesting than your typical algorithm-generated Pandora station. And, to my ears, the flow was strong because it was just curated enough as to be better than mere discography dumps. No sax solos, no skits, no weird studio outtakes or rando live bonus tracks.
Then Spotify killed the folder functionality which ruined the ease of my system. But lemons, lemonade: I made giant playlists so I could still shuffle, which means they are now shareable. Here are the first three:
1960s1970s1980s
These are all massive playlists - 3,000-4,000 songs. And they'll continue to grow. There are probably some glaring omissions in each (either due to my dislike or I just haven't gotten through them yet). But as they are I think they're still a nice "radio" alternative if you're so inclined. I'll share the later decades once I've finished making them.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 11 June 2017 22:30 (six years ago) link
Looking forward to checking these out.
You can still shuffle folders from the desktop app. I start up my big folder on desktop then switch to phone. A bit of a pain, but works.
― Moodles, Sunday, 11 June 2017 23:04 (six years ago) link
Yeah but I only use desktop at work, unfortunately. So that won't work for home/commute.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 12 June 2017 01:23 (six years ago) link
I made this for summer get togethers. Hit shuffle and have fun for four hours.
A Summer Cook-Out Playlist For Grown-Ass People
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 15:25 (six years ago) link
count me in
― niels, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 21:17 (six years ago) link
it's a good playlist
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 22:23 (six years ago) link
I enjoyed that, ty
― Brad C., Wednesday, 5 July 2017 15:02 (six years ago) link
Thanks y'all
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Wednesday, 5 July 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
I was gonna make a freaks & geeks playlist but there was already one (many, actually) so this is not mine but all the same very enjoyable https://open.spotify.com/user/yoongym/playlist/50UHZcO2MbfwBCtDo4iGq9
must be a matter of time before a wealth of great compilations (like those Rhino Power Pop for instance) turn up as playlists
― niels, Monday, 24 July 2017 09:37 (six years ago) link
ministry of sound sued spotify over playlists that mimicked their comps and settled out of court.. so unless the label themselves make the playlist i'd expect you won't see them
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 24 July 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link
really? wonder if my playlist would get removed if I did one featuring all the available tracks from the Have a Nice Day 70s compilations...
― niels, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 07:26 (six years ago) link
depends on how many followers it gets i'd imagine :)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 15:06 (six years ago) link
Ministry of Sound sued and won? That's ridiculous.
― dance cum rituals (Moka), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 16:30 (six years ago) link
it didn't go to court but presumably spotify paid them something in the settlement
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 16:56 (six years ago) link
but does that mean you can own the idea of a playlist and its contents? that is kiiiinda weird
I know a lot of work went into constructing compilations, but, well, not anymore! Also I'd imagine labels and artist still get payed if "copycat" playlists are played, but perhaps ministry of sound didn't own the tracks they were distributing outside of that specific compilation context?
― niels, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 18:03 (six years ago) link
This almost goes back to that crazy argument mattresslessness tried to put make, that ILXors have no right to pillage ILX lists for Spotify use.
Are you cool with forks making Spotify playlists out of every rolling thread without permission?
― pplains, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 18:22 (six years ago) link
I mean, Capitol doesn't have the Beatles VI on Spotify. Could someone really raise a fuss if I put all those songs together in order so I could hear one of their best American albums?
― pplains, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
yes! particularly if you call it "Beatles IV"!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 20:36 (six years ago) link
uh i mean VI
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 25 July 2017 20:37 (six years ago) link
But -- I'm not selling or profiting from it? I'm not taking away any profits from it? The songs are all there, just not in that particular order?
I mean, sure I couldn't use the album cover for copyright reasons, but ... really?
― pplains, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 00:40 (six years ago) link
Beatles VIhttps://open.spotify.com/user/gojiramonk888/playlist/7tMN4K6z4vF0PoGLFUNQvohttps://open.spotify.com/user/mrotch1212/playlist/67s74xUxPLgEoaEhmtUZIq
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 13:22 (six years ago) link
omg, they're gonna get sued by Michael Jackson.
― pplains, Wednesday, 26 July 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
here's an enjoyable listenhttps://open.spotify.com/user/12126891385/playlist/2E8LN1v4QTt0hepoGjr40z
― niels, Wednesday, 9 August 2017 18:31 (six years ago) link
Here's a playlist of music that makes me think of the countryside: https://open.spotify.com/user/1153731601/playlist/0tVX7rtZTnnT2dDucnaYez
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Thursday, 17 August 2017 08:00 (six years ago) link
my favorites of 2017, 36 out of the 40 records were on Spotify :O
https://open.spotify.com/user/sb0ut0n/playlist/5MkJJjhjUNuXLcXZpegLGW
― sleeve, Sunday, 24 December 2017 16:41 (six years ago) link
lots of overlap this year we have similar taste :P
― Mordy, Sunday, 24 December 2017 16:48 (six years ago) link
<3 for reals
you gotta hear that Eyvind Kang record!
― sleeve, Sunday, 24 December 2017 16:55 (six years ago) link
oh i know it's way on top of my list i just don't know where to find it
― Mordy, Sunday, 24 December 2017 17:00 (six years ago) link
Forced Exposure has vinyl I think but if u PM me I can send you my FLAC rip fwiw
― sleeve, Sunday, 24 December 2017 17:03 (six years ago) link
Thanks for the list!
― Moodles, Sunday, 24 December 2017 21:49 (six years ago) link
I would like a playlist of 70s female singer songwriters that focuses on folkier guitar/piano pop. with like judee sill and sandy denny etc. fo then I would be set.
― plax (ico), Monday, 25 December 2017 00:52 (six years ago) link
Still my favourite Xmas playlist, originally compiled by jody beth rosen (can't remember why I had to clone it) and choral all the way: https://open.spotify.com/user/miketd/playlist/5BFCmB4m1IqIsEFYn4S1hr
― mike t-diva, Monday, 25 December 2017 11:32 (six years ago) link
xpost
How about this? Loosely based on the compilation of the same name. https://open.spotify.com/user/seamusr/playlist/2UGKGoveaDiMGrkmXfmZMG
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 25 December 2017 18:34 (six years ago) link
Yes exactly! seems like you can't just Google them! perfect, thanks for the xmas present!
― plax (ico), Monday, 25 December 2017 23:56 (six years ago) link
My favourite tracks of 2017: https://open.spotify.com/user/miketd/playlist/1LYI9zMam9L776nHZkSour
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 31 December 2017 11:55 (six years ago) link
my party playlist, might come in handy 2nite:https://open.spotify.com/user/betamaxdk/playlist/6LVMYa1ulHlEpQ8mxf0Yny(has a few Danish tracks)
― niels, Sunday, 31 December 2017 12:59 (six years ago) link