Spotify - anyone heard of it?

i do not work for spotify, if that is the impression you are getting

but I'd guess we are probably the only ones

I don't think anybody needs their own thread. But consider whether this one wouldn't be better if you behaved like your real name were on your posts and sometimes pictures of your workplace appeared in public.

jesus christ, i wrote "should i feel bad that i've never worked on a laptop in front of a desktop, is that the thing to do now" - do you want me to apologize for implying it looked hip

spotify is a huge controversial company dramatically affecting an industry and getting a lot of attention. can you imagine if some uber employee was like "HEY REMEMBER I WORK THERE, BE RESPECTFUL" in the thread about it? seriously, if you're going to etiquette police to the point where somebody noting the desk set-up has you tongue-clucking, maybe these convos shouldn't co-exist with "hey glenn any chance stars are coming back?" so you can feel less attacked

but it's not even a desktop. maybe a picture of a monitor should be in your discover weekly next monday.

^being a dick bc Sufjan Grafton is not my real name tbf

but it's not even a desktop. maybe a picture of a monitor should be in your discover weekly next monday.

next to a picture of a ps2, because i like ps3s and ps4s

lol

I'm not sure that Discover Weekly would be better if it started assuming that you've heard things, even if you haven't played them on spotify. I suppose there could be a way to set your affinity for artists that you don't want to spend time listening to, though. It's probably in the works, if it's a good idea.

it's pretty elegant that all of the DW data is collected passively. I don't want to spend time sorting through artists and rating them 1-10 like this is some horrible Netflix algorithm. The DW algorithm seems to be onto something good.

i'm not sure, either. that's why i've noted it recommends i discover not just artists but songs i've played and playlisted on spotify.

I don't think anybody needs their own thread. But consider whether this one wouldn't be better if you behaved like your real name were on your posts and sometimes pictures of your workplace appeared in public.

this thread is fine, get over yourself

the irony is i conducted myself waaaaay worse when i was a penn state employee posting under my real name

they might yet melt your statue

lol

glenn don't let croup get you down. i enjoy spotify and yr contributions here. i don't know why he hates you.

pretty sure balls knows this, but just in case anyone's genuinely confused, i neither hate glenn nor want him to leave ilx. i simply think we should have separate threads for discussion OF a company and interacting with a company employee in that capacity, as there's some needless static being caused by the conflation.

i'm glad someone at the company wants to hear all the random suggestions and criticism of the product by meganerds on a micro-level. i also want the freedom to snark about a corporate monolith and discuss its wheelings and dealings, as we do so many companies, without being told i'm hurting that employee's feelings.

The algorithms behind Discover Weekly finds users who have built playlists featuring the songs and artists you love. It then goes through songs that a number of your kindred spirits have added to playlists but you haven’t heard, knowing there is a good chance you might like them, too.

― djmartian, Friday, October 2, 2015 12:17 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

1) oh cool, now I can blame actual humans
2) does it make me more of a shit or less of a shit to blame people than some amorphous idea of an algorithm that almost certainly doesn't resemble reality

croup otm

should probably add

3) which is more of a winning strategy: to go through and spotify-listen to everything I've already heard to knock them permanently out of contention (and throw the artist some extra fraction of a cent), or to avoid doing so knowing that will only further cement whatever it is that it thinks I like

4) all this time and energy could probably go to something more useful, like extreme couponing or gaming referral contests

or more time on ilx

Just listen to what you like. If it's practical, listen to things that you like more than things you don't like.

but when you're in trouble you call DW

but that would be too simple

I'm already on a paid account, but I would totally pay cash money (even more of it) to blanket exclude individual artists so that Spotify Hipster Boyfriend never, ever tries to tell me about Joy Division ever again, OK?

50 Genres With The Strangest Names On Spotify
https://insights.spotify.com/uk/2015/09/30/50-strangest-genre-names/#more-1888
by Eliot Van Buskirk

Are those "Deep" categories really genres though?

Also didn't Echonest used to have a "Sexy" genre or something like that?

I take a very broad view of "genre". Think of them as listening clusters.

I retired "sexy" a while ago. When the Echo Nest was an independent company, "sexy" demonstrated an important point about how we could have "genres" based on any idea. We imagined that our partners would want to create their own individual genre systems, so flexibility seemed critical. In practice, though, nobody ever actually wanted that.

Could they at least bring it back next year for the ten year anniversary of Futuresex/Lovesounds?

while spotify is refining DW i hope they come up with a way to clump together re-recordings so they don't put the same song twice on the same playlist. i get it spotify, you think i'll like sleepwalk by santo and johnny and sleepwalk by santo and johnny-il meglio (which means best in italian so i assume it's a remnant of a poorly cataloged greatest hits album or something). instrumentals from the 40s-60s in particular have recordings all over the place on spotify so i hope they are able to consolidate how they treat them with their recommendations.

also i need to reprimand spotify again for its lack of chill in recommending older tracks...roger miller, floyd cramer and slim whitman are three of my most played artists of 2015 but you are gonna recommend "i'm sorry" by brenda lee to me? come onnnnn.

my account was hacked the other night...I logged in and someone else was playing some shite music. I could control it from my phone however, so I maxed out the volume on their end. They turned it back down, and I turned it back up. This went on and on until they dropped off.

anyway despite changing passwords, and wifi credentials, this happened again the following night. not sure what is going on.

Go to spotify's website and log out of all devices in your account settings. then change your pw again.

https://ifttt.com/recipes/313128-archive-spotify-discover-weekly-tracks

I use this for auto archive of discovery list

Pretty sweet. I'm gonna try it.

Spotify are now archiving all Spotify Fresh Finds on this mega playlist

https://open.spotify.com/user/predict0/playlist/6Rz1nHuFleZtPxcdy9rFlB

527 tracks so far

I didn't get an updated DW today

what time zone are you? in the UK it arrived later than normal

East coast US

ok got it now

Really really poor stuff when it comes to the updates undoing/reverting your settings every time. Does this happen for everyone? If so they could at least include an alert message suggesting we check settings on launch.

as with iTunes, I will update this program only when forced to

really getting tired of locating and re-setting the "please don't start this program when I start my computer" setting. I mean resetting that is just rude.

forilz

"Enjoy a relaxing evening."

Thanks Spotify, I will. Just after my 2 minutes hate, when I am ready for peaceable recreation.

my desktop app won't boot up anymore :/

the ultimate flag post from glenn