It might work there too?
― schwantz, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 18:01 (eight years ago) link
well I really don't want to update my version, but I'll check
― sleeve, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 18:06 (eight years ago) link
Yes, you can search for people by username or actual name. In the desktop version, too!
If only every "all I want is..." were this easy...
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 18:17 (eight years ago) link
I downgraded a while back to keep the apps (love the playlists.net app!), so I guess I lose out on this one.
― schwantz, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 18:34 (eight years ago) link
I downgraded so I didn't have an enormous buggy piece of shit anymore, I am now v happy with my spotify experience and I wish them all the best with their innovative running features :-)
― time trafel 2015 đź’¨ 2012 (wins), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 18:36 (eight years ago) link
friends! friends! friends! what are you doing. this is a fool's errand. give in & upgrade y'all
― markers, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 19:25 (eight years ago) link
I'm personally sympathetic to people trying to hold out until Ctrl-F comes back...
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 19:32 (eight years ago) link
nike fit did the whole hiring artist to make music for you to run to iirchttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O84WZkbFaLcde la soul too i think?
― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 May 2015 16:08 (eight years ago) link
that's a pretty shitty audiosurf track
― katherine, Thursday, 21 May 2015 17:40 (eight years ago) link
i don't see music that matches your running tempo really setting the world on fire as a music discovery mechanism. dunno i could be wrong. (surely even better would be morphing the beat, a la ableton live, so that whatever vaguely house-tempo dance music you're listening to automagically matches your footsteps?)
in general though the durability of radio (and linear television), and the rise of the subscribable playlist, really reinforces the fact that most people just want something handed to them on a silver platter rather than having to decide each invidivual thing. i wouldn't be surprised if netflix started a set of "channels" that serve up content automatically in an effort to mimic broadcast tv. i can't tell you the number of times i've fired up netflix, searched around for upwards of 15 minutes and then just turned the TV off out of fatigue.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 May 2015 17:40 (eight years ago) link
although I just youtubed "audiosurf hardest track" and according to youtube's algorithm it is "thousand" by moby, so, uh
― katherine, Thursday, 21 May 2015 17:43 (eight years ago) link
i can't tell you the number of times i've fired up netflix, searched around for upwards of 15 minutes and then just turned the TV off out of fatigue.
pretty much the modern equivalent of just flipping through the channels without actually watching anything.
I also do the same thing with music. Sometimes spend the majority of my time on public transport just trying to figure out what I want to listen to.
― silverfish, Thursday, 21 May 2015 17:53 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/video/netflix-introduces-new-browse-endlessly-plan-35308
― silverfish, Thursday, 21 May 2015 17:54 (eight years ago) link
spotify needs to curate more music for marathon f-zero sessions
― Mr. Murphy in the wine bar. (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 21 May 2015 18:22 (eight years ago) link
tired of this slow bpm music fucking Captain Falcon's #vibe
― Mr. Murphy in the wine bar. (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 21 May 2015 18:23 (eight years ago) link
algo would probably be limited to something like playinghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/4/41/Guster_-_Lost_and_Gone_Forever.jpg when you've selectedhttp://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/fzero/images/d/df/GusterX.gif/revision/latest?cb=20080420030948
― Mr. Murphy in the wine bar. (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 21 May 2015 18:25 (eight years ago) link
tbf, antonio guster's theme hasn’t changed in nearly 15 years
― Mr. Murphy in the wine bar. (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 21 May 2015 18:30 (eight years ago) link
i think the reason that's available readily in full on youtube is because it has the fig leaf of audiosurf, so that's why i linkedtbf, i think the "procedurally generated" elements of audiosurf were always very iffy; you can always adjust it to make everything easier or harder.
― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 May 2015 18:56 (eight years ago) link
The point of matching your running pace isn't music discovery, it's enjoying your run.
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 21 May 2015 23:54 (eight years ago) link
lol good point
i keep forgetting not everyone is a music nerd
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 21 May 2015 23:58 (eight years ago) link
Even music nerds are allowed to just enjoy a run without trying to collect anything during it.
That said, I've discovered quite a bit of music while working on this feature. But whereas "discovery" in other contexts often means "Oh, I am now going to go listen to all this artist's other stuff", with running music it can also be "I will put on the 145bpm reggaeton mix for pure listening pleasure after I get done with this 170bpm run".
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 22 May 2015 00:42 (eight years ago) link
for me it's more "are there artists who are not demonstrably horrible people [google moby] who can make the track tilt 180 DEGREES, WHAT" more than that, which probably says I need to get out more
― katherine, Friday, 22 May 2015 03:20 (eight years ago) link
I'm a fast walker/"sprinter" anyway so I'm used to whatever I am listening to being quite a bit mistimed
― katherine, Friday, 22 May 2015 03:21 (eight years ago) link
i can't run to anything under 200bpm
― brimstead, Friday, 22 May 2015 05:14 (eight years ago) link
there is something about the utilitarian aspect of music that all the music services are trying to latch onto right now which just entirely rubs me the wrong way, i.e. music to cook dinner to, music to change a baby to, music to do burpees to, etc. i probably should relax and not care. that's how most people have treated music ever since the beginnings of radio.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 22 May 2015 13:43 (eight years ago) link
what rubs me the wrong way is the homogeneity of it...music is functional and this should totally be celebrated but there's this almost authoritarian "THIS is running music, THAT is chilling-out music" about it all. dunno how many of you saw that repulsive "life milestones" infographic going round yesterday - the ages at which Everyone Is Meant to have their first kiss, rent with friends, rent with a partner, buy their first house, become a middle manager - total rat race stuff - but the spotify announcement seemed in much the same line. do this designated activity in this designated way to this designated music and then you'll be a decent member of middle-class western society.
(fwiw, several years ago i did a big project on running music, and interviewed several djs and producers for it, and i was really surprised at the range of answers and justifications i got - no, running music doesn't have to be at a particular bpm, everyone does it differently!)
(fwiw, as a music nerd and a runner, i don't listen to music at all when i run, because that's when i clear my head and get away from music that i spent most of my non-running life listening to) (also i get tangled up in my own headphones)
― lex pretend, Friday, 22 May 2015 13:55 (eight years ago) link
also i am currently using spotify for once and if you're going to match anything up can you at least advertise music that has some vague resemblance to what i'm listening to? this caterwauling rock dude in the middle of my afropop, fuck off :(
― lex pretend, Friday, 22 May 2015 13:56 (eight years ago) link
please link that infograph I didn't see it
― Mordy, Friday, 22 May 2015 13:59 (eight years ago) link
yeah, running is actually my favorite time to listen to classical music! it's one of the few times i'm able to actually listen in detail and thoroughly get into it
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 22 May 2015 14:00 (eight years ago) link
also podcasts. maybe spotify could match the pace of my footfalls with appropriate spoken subject material.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 22 May 2015 14:28 (eight years ago) link
There's something very Compilation Zeitgeist about those playlists, like they're designed to appeal to people who are a bit insecure about picking the appropriate social context for music. There's one called 'Hipster House Party' that surely no real hipster would touch with a bargepole.
― Matt DC, Friday, 22 May 2015 14:44 (eight years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/5e/89/d2/5e89d2b0e549f7424783c6b1e20c17a5.jpg
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 22 May 2015 14:49 (eight years ago) link
otm
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 22 May 2015 15:42 (eight years ago) link
i listen to lots of songs while i jog that i would never listen to otherwise but it don't mean my tastes change completely
― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Friday, 22 May 2015 16:45 (eight years ago) link
Right, so the "personal" running mode tries to pick songs that are both good for running to the beat, and either songs you've played a lot, or things we think are in the same vein as things you've played a lot. Nobody is trying to make you run to any particular music you don't like.
But the running app is very definitely for running to a beat. Lots of people run to music or podcasts or whatever, and there doesn't need to be any special mode for that. But if you want to run to the beat, it has been next to impossible historically, because you had no good way to even find a critical mass of songs at a given tempo to begin with, never mind how much you like them or how good they are for running.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 22 May 2015 17:17 (eight years ago) link
Def in a Stereo Mood right now.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 22 May 2015 17:39 (eight years ago) link
Never say that Spotify won't listen to user complaints, the latest mobile update fixed the issue with connecting to BMW ConnectedDrive.
― JoeStork, Saturday, 23 May 2015 16:20 (eight years ago) link
so is the running thing live yet or....? would like to try it.
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 26 May 2015 15:15 (eight years ago) link
It's rolling out gradually, but you ought to have it soon.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 15:24 (eight years ago) link
NYT article yesterday about the Sony leak, no new information that I could see
― sleeve, Tuesday, 26 May 2015 15:25 (eight years ago) link
Evidently the new windows version of spotify has playlist searching back? But not for local files. Mac version doesn't seem to have been updated yet.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 11:47 (eight years ago) link
Controlling my phone with the PC interface seems to work really well now. Which is great because it saves me from needing to buy a DAC for my laptop.
― Mr. Murphy in the wine bar. (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 27 May 2015 19:11 (eight years ago) link
Not being able to resize columns now is a reeeeeeal bummer
― Spottie, Wednesday, 27 May 2015 22:03 (eight years ago) link
New mac version this morning has playlist filtering. Still totally incapable of handling my local music library though.
― Jeff, Friday, 29 May 2015 12:11 (eight years ago) link
i'm trying to find the old spotify version from before the awful March upgrade. anybody have a link?
― example (crĂĽt), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 04:23 (eight years ago) link
the thread linked above that had the old version has been deleted.
the new version is still. completely. unusable.
― example (crĂĽt), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 04:24 (eight years ago) link
Aw shit, I had the exe saved on my desktop until just a couple days ago. I could've sent it to you.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 04:50 (eight years ago) link
crut, this still seems to have working dls for PC and Machttp://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4430815
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 2 June 2015 05:03 (eight years ago) link
wow local file management on spotify is hot garbage- either it doesn't recognize or play tracks at all, or it will produce three entries for a single track. sort of ridiculous
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 2 June 2015 16:21 (eight years ago) link