Spotify - anyone heard of it?

yeah I just noticed that yesterday!

I think we have ilxor glenn macdonald to thank for that.

Excellent. I will now be credited/blamed here for all changes to Spotify.

Thanks Glenn!

Good evening, thanks for coming out, we're the Velvet Underground, that's my brother Glenn at Spotifyon bass.

We saw the Eagles and "Rhinestone Cowboy" on your My Music. You ought to give other people a little chance, on Spotify anyway.

This is a song about love between man and streaming. It's called "I'm Waiting For My Music."

So after adding a big playlist to Songs in Your Music, I returned to my desktop app to find the list completely empty. I re-added the same list again and just now returned to it to find it blank again.

I've found that my iPod doesn't display album artwork when offline. I thought that meant that Spotify doesn't load artwork to the iPod and just grabs it when online, but then I realized that the artwork shows up fine on my lock screen, just not in the app.

I took your art. Sorry.

Damn you!

glenn mcdonald couldn't be here tonight, he usually sings My Music way way better than I do.

these hyper-masculine advance auto parts ads are really annoying

"SO YOU CAN GET BACK IN THE GARAGE" uh no thanks advance auto parts

Having annoying ads is Spotify's game plan though. Or at least it should be.

No, we don't want to annoy you with ads. Eventually we hope to be able to filter at least the ones with musical content to not play in musically inappropriate contexts. The non-musical ones are a harder problem, but we're aware that it's annoying, and we don't consider that a virtue...

How the fuck anybody could stand listening to spotify with ads is beyond me.

'cos its a small price to pay for all the free music?

There used to be this thing called commercial radio with ads...

It would not surprise me if some executives were taking Spotify payola in exchange for having their companies buy ineffective, irritating Spotify ads to induce Spotify users to go premium. I mean, by far, the most annoying ones have been running the longest and most frequently. Advance Auto Parts, the Home Depot, that thing about a dude making dumb conversation at a meeting (can't even recall what they're advertising). I do wish Spotify would notice that all I listen to is weenie music from the 70s and accept that I am not going to go buy a power drill or get my nonexistent transmission checked anytime soon. Maybe I should scrap this New Country playlist I just started - seems like a recipe for auto parts.

For eleven years, I worked at two radio stations - one right-wing/talk that morphed into complete sportstalk and one classic rock station that added only one song the whole time I was there: Santana's "Smooth".

Those Advanced AUTO. PARTS. spots faze me like the sound of air brakes bothers a trucker.

Some empirical analysis of how often people skip songs on Spotify: http://musicmachinery.com/2014/05/02/the-skip/

Didn't realize they had an analytics API for researchers.

awesome link.

Am I missing something, or does the search drop-down now just get in the way of everything? Particularly the playlists I was hoping to drag my search results into? This is really poor UI.

Yes, the search is terrible and barely functional. Kind of funny in a way. The first thing you need to use to find music on there, and it takes about five goes to get it working. Brilliant.

I have also gotten stuck on the search page with no search window lately and had to kill/restart the app to get it back (on ios)

the UI on this thing is completely the pits. hate it to death. but i still pay and use it every day.

Want stars back.

ya

So looking at the new win/mac apps, they have this plus/check thing that adds songs to "Your Music", which would be a decent substitute for the Starred list, but "Your Music" is already the best place to save Albums (instead of creating playlists for each album). So when you go to Songs under "Your Music," you see all the songs of all the albums you've saved as well. I want my songs to be like a singles list. I could do that if I removed all albums from "Your Music."

I also detest that it is called "Your Music." It's not my music, I'm just renting it until you go out of business.

Also in Windows, lately, sometimes when you Start Radio, it defaults back to the last Radio you Started. Kind of a mess. Also I hate how every Radio you Start is now saved as some kind of station - clutter, clutter, clutter, especially since I start a lot of stations just by clicking on some random thing in a playlist, looking for new stuff of the same kind. I really don't need fifty different similar-sounding stations.

idk how they manage to fuck this up more with every update

I also detest that it is called "Your Music." It's not my music, I'm just renting it until you go out of business.

QFT. This is awesome.

Ha. Hate that term whenever it is used.

"QFT" or "Your Music"?

"Your [Cultural Object of Choice]"

There is always something vaguely patronizing about it, even when or maybe even especially when it is meant to be sympathetic.

do u see?

I made a playlist called "starred tracks" and it worked fine for me, but if you're starring shit left and right, the extra click might be too much hassle

Did they finally do away with default Starred playlist altogether? I still have the Starred Playlist on my phone, and have gotten used to extra click.

(Xp)
May be reading too much into it, but said location at its worst can convey an implication of the most naive sort of fandom delivered in the grating tone of the most cringeworthy cheer-up pep talk.

"I've been thinking about this, Mr. Hand. If you're here listening to it and I'm here listening to it, don't you think this is Our Music?"

implicit contract with "My Music", I now have the right to sell it as granted by Spotify
let's get this party started

huh, this looks pretty fucked up:
http://www.musicweek.com/news/read/youtube-sparks-indie-revolt-over-indefensible-terms/058532

hmm I'd upgrade that to "super fucked up", damn

similar to the way amazon has bullied even huge publishers likes elsevier

jfc that's crazy

Here's another thing I miss about starring songs. If I want to add a song to the Starred playlist, I can't quickly look at it and see if it is already added. The visual marker in my playlist isn't there. So I end up with duplicates on my Starred playlist, which is UNACCEPTABLE.

I thought the starred list didn't allow duplicates

Important Notice to Our Users
May 27th, 2014 15:00 by Oskar Stål, CTO, Spotify

We’ve become aware of some unauthorized access to our systems and internal company data and we wanted to let you know the steps we’re taking in response. As soon as we were aware of this issue we immediately launched an investigation. Information security and data protection are of great importance to us at Spotify and that is why I’m posting today.

Our evidence shows that only one Spotify user’s data has been accessed and this did not include any password, financial or payment information. We have contacted this one individual. Based on our findings, we are not aware of any increased risk to users as a result of this incident.

We take these matters very seriously and as a general precaution will be asking certain Spotify users to re-enter their username and password to log in over the coming days.

As an extra safety step, we are going to guide Android app users to upgrade over the next few days. If Spotify prompts you for an upgrade, please follow the instructions. As always, Spotify does not recommend installing Android applications from anywhere other than Google Play, Amazon Appstore or https://m.spotify.com/. At this time there is no action recommended for iOS and Windows Phone users.

Please note that offline playlists will have to be re-downloaded in the new version. We apologise for any inconvenience this causes, but hope you understand that this is a necessary precaution to safeguard the quality of our service and protect our users.

We have taken steps to strengthen our security systems in general and help protect you and your data – and we will continue to do so. We will be taking further actions in the coming days to increase security for our users.

I thought the starred list didn't allow duplicates

― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Tuesday, May 27, 2014 8:50 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You're right! My outrage was before testing. I still miss the quick visual reminder though.

Here's a question... I am a weirdo and don't want any of my playlists to be visible on my profile. But I also have a bunch of ILXor or friends' playlists that I've subscribed to, and some of them appear to be shared playlists. If I choose "Make Secret" instead of "Make Public" on another ILXor's playlist, will that make it secret for them as well, or just for me?

ashamed ilxor