Anyway, I don't regret either purchase, my burgeoning classic rock Spotify playlist was just the thing for enjoying some burgers and brews in the back yard, despite the lost classic-rock-radio verisimilitude from the missing auto parts ads.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 17:37 (nine years ago) link
Hey Glenn -
I would LOVE to be able to create auto-updating playlists based on search terms. Like for example
label:"black butter" year:2014
Where every time a new track comes out that matches my search terms, the list gets updated.
― schwantz, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 18:11 (nine years ago) link
Me too. And we are not the first to want these.
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
I want that too
― Mordy, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 20:45 (nine years ago) link
One thing I just realised I could do is run the app but also launch the in-browser version - found it easier to make playlists by dragging tracks from the browser window into the app window.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 2 July 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
a music subscription model where my playlists are autoupdated with anything I have wish list hunts for (especially with a human curating element) is absolutely something I would pay an additional premium for.
― Look at this joke I've recognised, do you recognise it as well? (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 2 July 2014 20:58 (nine years ago) link
I've been on about this before, but the single biggest obstacle to spotify usability for me (or rather, the main thing that keeps me from being able to switch to clouded listening as opposed to stored listening) is the "UMG Problem". Anything and everything which a UMG label released to the digital services before 2013 has that awful, blatant audio watermarking encoded into it which makes pianos, choirs, acoustic guitars and cymbals sound like they're underwater. Starting in early 2013 I noticed UMG labels started releasing certain new things to the digital domain without this defacement, but not everything; based on by-ear research I've done it seems that by June 2013 all new releases, reissues and recompilations were without watermarks. Which is great, but still leaves the vast majority of their holdings (everything they released to digital vendors before then) still sitting there in an unlistenable state.
So like my Spotify playlists and libraries can comprise everything I feel like listening to except Motown, Decca, ECM, Island, Geffen, Deutsche Gramm, Impulse, Arista, etc etc etc. Which is actually a giant slice of things I love. So I still just say fuck it and do almost all of my listening from my packed to the gills ipod.
I like to hope someday UMG will reup all their holdings without watermarks but unless that can be batch automated somehow I can't imagine them assigning someone on payroll to grind out such a monumental job.
Anyway this is not at all spotify's fault and obv affects UMG items on iTunes, eMusic, Amazon MP3 exactly the same way. But if it were ever fixed by UMG, spotify would be a dream.
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 3 July 2014 15:09 (nine years ago) link
Jon I really appreciate your continued efforts to publicize that issue FYI
― polyamanita (sleeve), Thursday, 3 July 2014 15:14 (nine years ago) link
idk how feasible it is, but it would be amazing if you could search spotify by country of origin
― Mordy, Thursday, 3 July 2014 15:16 (nine years ago) link
I had never heard about the UMG thing, that totally sucks. Another reason to holds onto CDs.
― brimstead, Thursday, 3 July 2014 15:28 (nine years ago) link
I'm confounded by how quiet Universal has managed to keep mainstream media outlets from complaining about their watermarking. Maybe people are just fatigued about the notion of bringing up another argument about audio mastering issues that only 20% of people are annoyed by, but that 20% should be at least half of the people on this board
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=universal%20watermarking&safe=off
― Milton Parker, Thursday, 3 July 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
Also, they might still be watermarking the newer things but if they are it is subtle enough to not bother me. I know the technology was originally pitched as an "inaudible" way to track the sources of audio files, maybe it actually lives up to that claim now, idk. I just don't want the backing vocals on "My Old School" to sound like they are singine through a table fan.
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 3 July 2014 15:34 (nine years ago) link
I remember "underwater" cymbals was always the giveaway that an mp3 was 128kbps or lower. Does their watermarking just consist of using really low quality compression?
― Dan I., Thursday, 3 July 2014 16:22 (nine years ago) link
wait is the diff between the "4.99/mo" membership and the reg?
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, 3 July 2014 16:26 (nine years ago) link
No it sounds a lot different than low bitrate compression. I know well the 128 bit cymbal sound and it is much more listenable than what the watermark does.
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 3 July 2014 16:47 (nine years ago) link
Basically, you'll hear a great sounding recording across most frequencies except certain frequencies/tone colors which sound like a 64 Kbps file.
― OutdoorF on Golf (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 3 July 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
New iOS app out today, has sorting and filtering in Your Music. Nice in the album view because you can now sort by artist instead of just by album title.
― Jeff, Thursday, 3 July 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
The sorting turns out to be a temporary casualty of some internal reworking to prepare for bigger improvements...
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, July 2, 2014 9:15 AM (Yesterday)
thanks for the explanation. I figured it wouldn't be a permanent change.
― macklemore looks something like you (unregistered), Thursday, 3 July 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
wait is the diff between the "4.99/mo" membership and the reg?― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, July 3, 2014 4:26 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― socki (s1ocki), Thursday, July 3, 2014 4:26 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
In the UK at least the main differences are offline playlists and high-bitrate streaming.
― dem bow dem bow need calcium (seandalai), Thursday, 3 July 2014 20:27 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, I think offlining stuff and/or getting it on other devices are the main thing. This user-made chart may be out of date, I don't know, but perhaps it gets at the gist: http://community.spotify.com/t5/Newcomers-and-Contribution/Subscription-Comparison-Chart/td-p/666916
I can see lots of good reasons to pay the extra money, but they didn't fit what I need out of the site, so I was glad to save the money and very glad my friend told me about this secret, speakeasy-style system just as I was about to enter my CC info for Premium.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 3 July 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link
has sorting and filtering in Your Music
holy crap, gave up on this ever appearing on the mobile app a long time ago
― original bgm, Thursday, 3 July 2014 22:33 (nine years ago) link
There's a $4.99 student rate now too
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Friday, 4 July 2014 11:27 (nine years ago) link
Wait, really? Where's that? What's it offer?
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 4 July 2014 13:21 (nine years ago) link
https://www.spotify.com/us/student/
― relentlessly pecking at peace (President Keyes), Friday, 4 July 2014 15:05 (nine years ago) link
Sweeeeeet!
― brimstead, Friday, 4 July 2014 19:07 (nine years ago) link
Hmmm, this is interesting but strange - I passed the student eligibility test, but when I try to go back and upgrade to Premium it's still talking about $9.99 a month.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 4 July 2014 20:13 (nine years ago) link
what was your score?
― socki (s1ocki), Sunday, 6 July 2014 14:53 (nine years ago) link
i really love how there are two sizes for album art on the windows app: really small and extremely small
― brimstead, Tuesday, 8 July 2014 02:28 (nine years ago) link
Does anyone know roughly what percentage of recorded music is on spotify? Like, how many albums have ever been released, and how many are on Spotify?
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 03:03 (nine years ago) link
I went through a list of 1000 albums released in 1971 and around 500 were available on Spotify. So half.
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 11:28 (nine years ago) link
That must have involved some serious typing. Thanks!
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 11:54 (nine years ago) link
the amount of stuff getting put out through means other than a significant label now is so huge I bet that % is dropping
― ogmor, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 13:46 (nine years ago) link
oh yeah, my percentage is probably wildly off the mark, even for stuff from the early 70s, as most private press and indie stuff only shows up if it was reissued at some point.
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 13:54 (nine years ago) link
I wonder how many hrs of music youtube has by comparison
― ogmor, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 14:07 (nine years ago) link
i bet you could listen to music on youtube for an entire day and never have to repeat a song
― socki (s1ocki), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 14:36 (nine years ago) link
I went through a large bunch of my stuff. It came out around 70% on Spotify.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 14:47 (nine years ago) link
Certain licensing-sensitive genres like film scores are probably only about 10% present on spotify. But that's a genre where the majority of the music is out of print physically for the same reason.
― a drug by the name of WORLD WITHOUT END (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 18:00 (nine years ago) link
the vast majority of ALL recorded music is out of print and/or has never been translated digitally so I'd be shocked if it was above single digit percentage pointshttp://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub133/sum133.html
― Steve 'n' Seagulls and Flock of Van Dammes (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 18:17 (nine years ago) link
OTOH 85% of groovy Italian schlock soundtracks are represented so who gives a twat about crappy American soundtracks.
― Threat Assessment Division (I M Losted), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 18:21 (nine years ago) link
1989 isn't available so spotify should just quit imo
― $0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 18:45 (nine years ago) link
it was a good run
Red wasn't on there for a full calendar year and we all survived.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 29 October 2014 18:46 (nine years ago) link
most of us anyway
― $0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 18:49 (nine years ago) link
I will wait until christmas when someone will def give me a starbucks gift card. I will then buy the album at starbucks with the gift card.
― $0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link
Dumb 1989 is better
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 18:54 (nine years ago) link
$9.99 auto-rip from amazon is tempting, but then they're going to send me a cd! why don't they just offer the album digitally for $9.99?! what a disaster for the environment.
― $0.00 Butter sauce only. No marinara. (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 19:03 (nine years ago) link
YouTube has the acetates of yer grandad farting in the bathroom, with all of the attendant good and evil about that...
I know this absolutely ACE garage rock album wasn't on Spotify in its entirety about six mod ago, so:
http://open.spotify.com/album/2rPBcCdWIUOo8iJ85Ks5Ed
Now you can hear We the People's "My Brother the Man"! And other fuzz punk gems!
― Threat Assessment Division (I M Losted), Wednesday, 29 October 2014 19:22 (nine years ago) link
is it true that apps are due to be killed?
not sure how i'm going to live without the blue note app :(
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 1 November 2014 18:47 (nine years ago) link
what apps do you mean?
― socki (s1ocki), Sunday, 2 November 2014 05:31 (nine years ago) link
I never really understood the apps but I usually just construct playlists like Albums Released in April of 1965
― you walk on the street, grab the rock (President Keyes), Sunday, 2 November 2014 14:29 (nine years ago) link