ok got it now
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 12 October 2015 14:09 (eight years ago) link
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.
― nashwan, Monday, 12 October 2015 18:31 (eight years ago) link
as with iTunes, I will update this program only when forced to
― sleeve, Monday, 12 October 2015 18:50 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Monday, 12 October 2015 19:14 (eight years ago) link
forilz
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 October 2015 20:51 (eight years ago) link
"Enjoy a relaxing evening."
Thanks Spotify, I will. Just after my 2 minutes hate, when I am ready for peaceable recreation.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 October 2015 20:53 (eight years ago) link
my desktop app won't boot up anymore :/
― Comme Si, Kamasi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 12 October 2015 21:18 (eight years ago) link
the ultimate flag post from glenn
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 17:07 (eight years ago) link
Spotify Support is another really good thing for which I can take absolutely no credit. They can fix you.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link
The Android version is better than the it's in that the hamburger gives you the full menu. Including search. So you don't have to go all the way back.
― calstars, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 00:59 (eight years ago) link
*ios
― calstars, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 01:02 (eight years ago) link
I'm not sure how to report this, but Suicide's second album has a track mix-up. Track 5, "Touch Me," has the audio for track 6, "Harlem," and vice-versa: http://open.spotify.com/album/4X26FOEhz57Q7y6xKF9MrO
― welltris (crüt), Friday, 16 October 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
"Spotify is like a villainous cabal of major labels. The business is built from the ground up as a way to circumvent the idea of paying their artists."
http://pitchfork.com/news/61661-joanna-newsom-spotify-is-the-banana-of-the-music-industry-it-just-gives-off-a-fume/
― scott seward, Friday, 16 October 2015 17:21 (eight years ago) link
new username up for grabs with that link headline...someone should snap that up.
― scott seward, Friday, 16 October 2015 17:22 (eight years ago) link
original interview:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-joanna-newsom-spotify-villainous-cabal-garbage-system-20151015-story.html
― scott seward, Friday, 16 October 2015 17:23 (eight years ago) link
http://wiki.godvillegame.com/images/thumb/b/bf/Banana_Head.jpg/175px-Banana_Head.jpg
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 16 October 2015 17:46 (eight years ago) link
related issue re songwriting royaltieshttp://www.wsj.com/articles/songwriters-lose-out-on-royalties-1444864895
i'd have a lot more sympathy for spotify's "look we gave billions to Rights Holders, whaddyawant" stance if they were more transparent about their relationship with certain Rights Holders. you can't claim you're pro-artist & that the majors are the swindlers while in a collusive relationship with the majors.
― da croupier, Friday, 16 October 2015 18:22 (eight years ago) link
http://assets0.thefourohfive.com/data/6920/feature/Gaz-Coombes-April-2012.jpg?1337666628
― Vaz Coombes (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 October 2015 18:23 (eight years ago) link
spotify just decides not to connect like 30% of the time for me now, regardless what device i'm using. endless spinning circles.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 16 October 2015 19:21 (eight years ago) link
Whats w nv imagebombing every thread
― Οὖτις, Friday, 16 October 2015 19:28 (eight years ago) link
Gaz Coombes
― Vaz Coombes (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 October 2015 19:29 (eight years ago) link
Yes i know who it is who cares
― Οὖτις, Friday, 16 October 2015 19:30 (eight years ago) link
Gaaaaz Coooooooombes
― Vaz Coombes (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 October 2015 19:31 (eight years ago) link
Are you okay?
― Οὖτις, Friday, 16 October 2015 19:31 (eight years ago) link
Gz Cmbs
― Vaz Coombes (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 October 2015 19:32 (eight years ago) link
gaz coombes?
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 October 2015 19:42 (eight years ago) link
Gaz. Coombes.
― Ms Bozo Cage (Noodle Vague), Friday, 16 October 2015 19:44 (eight years ago) link
Gaz it.
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 October 2015 19:44 (eight years ago) link
Pretty damning to be compared to a nutritious, healthy food.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 16 October 2015 21:57 (eight years ago) link
Also is she shaming crust punks here? Dumpster diving is an excellent way to reduce waste.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 16 October 2015 21:58 (eight years ago) link
overripe bananas have a lot of use.
― Spottie, Friday, 16 October 2015 22:00 (eight years ago) link
in simile, for example
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 16 October 2015 22:03 (eight years ago) link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/27/ripe-banana-old-mushy-ugly-but-so-sweet-and-great-for-dessert-yes_n_5715925.html
These all look pretty good.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 16 October 2015 22:04 (eight years ago) link
that link is stinkin up the thread
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 16 October 2015 22:05 (eight years ago) link
Noticed this change on Spotify UK, Biography on Artist profiles has been replaced with About
new meta information on Spotify artist profiles on the spotify Windows desktop app: About
the number of monthly listeners (for popular artists you can see their current global ranking, e.g Chvrches are ranked 214th)
Where people listen - top 5 cities
Discovered on: lists the top 5 current playlists where the artist was discovered on. Useful feature for discovering playlists.
― djmartian, Saturday, 17 October 2015 12:43 (eight years ago) link
About tab is great, I didn't realise, for example, how popular Dave Edmunds is in Sweden
― strictly dream-bait fit for moon-gazing (soref), Saturday, 17 October 2015 17:36 (eight years ago) link
lol, just went to check that and it's twue, it's twue. Just listened to "I Hear You Knocking" and now "Girls Talk."
― Raz Turned Blue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 October 2015 05:24 (eight years ago) link
Pretty much every artist I click on is most popular in London - are there just more people using Spotify there than anywhere else?
― pep ponk aliyev (seandalai), Sunday, 18 October 2015 16:40 (eight years ago) link
geographical population stats, bigger population, larger user base, therefore more likely to dominate top lists.
― djmartian, Sunday, 18 October 2015 18:59 (eight years ago) link
Yes, these are based on straight counts, not anything fancy.
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 18 October 2015 19:06 (eight years ago) link
Glenn,
Couple questions maybe you can shine some light on...
Any chance of adding AllMusic album reviews, in addition to artist profiles?Any chance of adding user reviews and comments to tracks/artists/albums (either generated from within Spotify or from an external source like AllMusic?) This will probably be controversial but I often find it difficult to find discussion of a certain track, for example.
― westofrome, Monday, 19 October 2015 17:15 (eight years ago) link
No, sorry, I don't have any insight on those.
(I'm not personally a big fan of attaching discussions to individual pieces of music like that. I think discussions work better at a higher level...)
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 19 October 2015 17:30 (eight years ago) link
http://thetrichordist.com/2015/10/20/spotify-has-apparently-failed-to-license-account-and-pay-on-more-than-150-cracker-and-camper-van-beethoven-songs/
― sleeve, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 14:22 (eight years ago) link
Well it seems like they'll have to pay those twenty five bucks in royalties to them then.
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 15:39 (eight years ago) link
lol
― sleeve, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 15:53 (eight years ago) link
http://www.altpress.com/news/entry/spotify_pulls_thousands_of_victory_records_songs_in_light_of_legal_dispute
in light of an ongoing legal dispute with Victory Records, Spotify has pulled thousands of the label’s songs from their service.
According to a press release from Victory, 53,000,000 streams were identified with no publishing royalties being paid by Spotify. These were originally noted by Audiam, a digital distribution company that monitors services to make certain that publishers are receiving their due payments. In Victory’s case, their publishing company, Another Victory, has allegedly not been receiving proper monetary compensation.
... Bands who have had material removed from Spotify include A Day To Remember, Taking Back Sunday, Hawthorne Heights and many others.
According to Billboard, the unaccounted 53,000,000 streams total nearly $23,000 in unpaid revenue.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 17:15 (eight years ago) link
a music writer's entire yearly salary
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 17:18 (eight years ago) link
ouch
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 21 October 2015 19:03 (eight years ago) link
I haven't heard anything about this case internally, but everything on Spotify comes TO us from a licensor. We're not ripping CDs or uploading our own files or anything like that. We don't have to "find" the owners of a recording. So almost certainly this is a dispute between licensors, or purported licensors.
The thing about knowing who to pay is specifically about songwriting royalties, which are 1/6 (by law) of what we pay. The other 5/6 goes to the licensor of the recordings. So the issue here is probably not that Spotify isn't paying for these songs, but that we're paying somebody who claimed to own the rights but actually doesn't...
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 21:28 (eight years ago) link
$23,000 probably wouldn't even cover the legal fees
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 21:33 (eight years ago) link