Spotify - anyone heard of it?

my generated playlist isn't bad but "FRESH MUSIC" is kind of an odd one since it has two dead rappers (ODB and Tupac) and a bunch of '70s/early '80s New York rock (Dolls, Sonic Youth, etc.)

plus something called Diarrhea Planet

okay i also got "long distance love" by little feat so prob worth it.

this update is a 1 out of 10. approximately zero things are now improved.

the circle of dots while the program loads seems to last longer and longer after every update.

^

got recommended Selda in my playlist, I'm happy to sort through the chaff for one or two things like that a week

selda is legit the greatest - i was just listening to the self-titled last night

Just saw my Discover Playlist.

http://i.imgur.com/0PMrAxS.png

I'm not 52 years old, but I am listening to the whole thing.

here's mine:

http://i61.tinypic.com/f2prpx.png

I got a Hop Along track as well. It's good. Then I found a couple more, and they're good as well. But my best Discover find is a recent comeback from St Germain, of all people; the added Malian instrumentation works very well indeed.

Okay, so the one I got probably isn't as bad after all as I'd originally made it out to be (for instance, there isn't actually any Bon Iver on it), but I think I was just unimpressed because I either already know most of what's presented or at least know I don't care to hear it.

http://i.imgur.com/I79MVg6.jpg

that ata kak is great, johnny - don't know if you've already heard it. what's the st germain comeback w/ the malian instrumentation?

Yeah, seandalai turned me on to Ata Kak a few months ago (probably without his knowledge—I just follow his playlist).

my Discover playlist is weirdly biased towards new songs with 4-on-the-floor beats compared to the stuff I usually listen to. what is the logic behind this?

You broke it.

i still dont have it

the algorithm broke for you because it couldn't find a Lindstrøm track that sounds like Barón Rojo

Discover Weekly is rolling out in stages, so if you don't have it in your playlist list yet, hang in there.

I had the same Tanlines and BC Camplight tracks in my playlist.
The St Germain track is called "Real Blues".

i used to like st germain a lot. first album was great

I'll say this: At least I didn't get one of these from Spotify.

http://i.imgur.com/0uri1gj.png

I quite liked the Unkown Mortal Orchestra track on mine. The Mikal Cronin-Ty Segall axis isnt my thing tho

[And just to be clear: This great Discover Weekly feature is the work of an excellent team at Spotify NYC, not me.]

I just like to assume that Glenn McDonald is responsible for all music related algorthms that pop up online, or at least the ones involving listener habits and discovery, and any problems with them are directly his fault. It makes it easier that way.

Glenn - Do you guys ever plan to have smart playlists like in iTunes? Like, I could save a set of search criteria as a "smart playlist" and it would update every time I open it (or in the background would be even better!). I would love this so much.

Oh, it already has tons of kudos in the suggestion forum: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Smart-playlists/idi-p/18549

Yeah, that's a well-supported suggestion.

My discover playlist wasn't bad - I listened to it yesterday and only rarely skipped anything (also rarely checked to see exactly what I was hearing).
It was all indie rock - slightly craggier than your average NPR pick. I like that stuff fine but I also listen to A LOT of ambient and that area of my listening wasn't reflected at all.

I have always wanted and still want to follow labels but I guess we're a distance from that implementation-wise.

My Discover Weekly is fine and I'm happy it exists but slightly off-target nonetheless. Like everyone else I have recommendations for Nite Fields (who?), Tala and Sharon Von Etten.

I know there's a way to search labels (mentioned up thread). I got super anal about the labels I really had interest in that are on Spotify - made my own playlists for Kranky, Type, Touch, and Erased Tapes (all public playlists fwiw). I just update them whenever I hear about new releases. But then I've always liked doing that kind of thing manually...

interesting read about the inner workings of spotify re: big data / knowledge organisation related to music listening ad discovery

Inside Spotify’s Hunt for the Perfect Playlist
http://www.wired.com/2015/07/spotify-perfect-playlist/

good systems

I haven't got mine yet

Oops!

http://i.imgur.com/35bCDSN.jpg

Funny enough on its own, but what's even funnier is that the album's title got changed to that by an update from the label in late 2009, and seems to have been that way ever since.

I'll see if I can get it fixed.

oooh just received mine
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1484956/spotify%20discover%20weekly.png

I haven't , im beginning to think I wont get it til next monday

for anyone who's interested, there's a program called Spotiamp that looks like Winamp but is actually a Spotify player that has less stuff to load (no link to facebook) and doesn't force the user to wait through the circle of dots. winamp's "eject" button leads the user to a list of their playlists.

Starring?

damn: all the prince is gone
http://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2015/07/04/is-prince-the-newest-tidal-co-owner/

interesting and possibly accidental exceptions: the amazingly obscure 94 East compilation Games, his guitar turn on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" at the R&R hall of fame, a cover of Joni Mitchell's "A Case of You", the disposable "The Song of the Heart" on the "Happy Feet" soundtrack, "We March"on the "One Million Strong" compilation, "20454 Radical Man" from the Bamboozled soundtrack and "Good Love" from "Bright Lights Big City"

yeah prince pulled his stuff a few weeks back, pretty damn annoying. it makes me wonder about neil young cuz he announced he was pulling his stuff and here we are over a week later and he's still on spotify.

Tevin Campbell "Round And Round" sorta counts as Prince.

my discover playlist is really great - i'm very impressed - i was just tweeting about it and others seem to agree.

i discovered tracks i didn't know by artists i know, like dennis wilson, eden ahbez, scott walker, and then some things i wasn't familiar with, like "the dolphins" by fred neil.

and now neil young is basically off spotify

ohh ffs, really?

geffen stuff + decade. i have all the neil i need (which is alot) so i guess if i ever need to remotely scratch that itch i can listen to decade. i wish spotify did a better job of integrating yr music library.

'the dolphins' is fucking fantastic. whole self-titled album is really.

"Prince's publisher has asked all streaming music services to remove his catalog. We have cooperated with his request, and hope to bring his music back as soon as possible."

Daaaamnit i listened to prince on spotify probs more than anyone

Speaking personally, not in any Spotify capacity:

I feel like you could defend not putting new material on a service as a business decision (whether good or bad) between you and the service.

But taking existing material off like this is just saying fuck-you specifically to your own fans, who have been listening to your music and literally paying for the privilege with every stream. I feel like these artists (Prince, Neil Young, Taylor Swift) are not acknowledging this, and maybe on some level not actually understanding it.

it would certainly be magnanimous of artists who pull their material to apologize to fans and explain that - while they're removing themselves from a shitty deal on their end - they appreciate their support and understand why people were taking advantage of what's a great deal for the consumer. but artists bear no responsibility to continue supporting collusive agreement between their label and a distribution service just because they found themselves involved in it.