Spotify - anyone heard of it?

if only there were a third option

can't easily clear my queue when I accidentally click on an album

^^^^ this is maddening!

can't easily clear my queue when I accidentally click on an album

Just click on a different one...

but it always loops over and over again forever! i want it to reach the end of a playlist and fall silent. i have to create a new playlist, click 'choose as current playlist', and then delete that playlist to clear the queue out

I have a playlist called "clear queue" that consists of one 30-second kid606 track

Have never encountered this problem. Some things don't work so well (I have two machines and I usually have to restart Spotify to play on the one I didn't use last) but the simple task of playing music works fine. Much better than 6-12 months ago in any case.

I'm not familiar with this queue-looping-forever problem you're describing. Which platform is this on? And I assume you don't have looping turned on (the 🔁 icon; two arrows forming a circle if the emoji doesn't come through).

regarding the queue clearing issue, the fact this has been around for years and all you ever get is people suggesting a dumb workaround is exactly why Spotify is bad.

but it's good, though

Can too much choice be a bad thing?
I left my Spotify device at home this afternoon and went for a walk with my old iPod. I listened to a couple albums I discovered a couple years ago and had more enjoyable time than with Spotify recently.

― calstars, Sunday, November 29, 2015 6:47 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

TBH I have a very very hard time just settling in and being with a piece of music when I listen on Spotify or Apple Music. I'm just thinking about the next thing I want to jump to. I pretty much have to listen on a nonconnective media player to enjoy music. The streaming services are for seeing whether I want to get something for my 'permanent collection'.

i'm sort of like that with your mom

that was probably unnecessary

Spotify, you think I'm so corny I would feel like hearing "Put The Message In The Box" today, and the tragedy, Spotify, is that you're right.

Someone got into my account again today. I don't know why this keeps happening. They deleted all my playlists. I know how to recover etc and to sit out everywhere, but still. Wtf

But yeah local unconnected files 4 life

Scary, I'd run a virus scan for keyloggers.

https://yearinmusic.spotify.com/

provides a look at your listening habits/trends over 2015

ofc if you use last.fm it's probably nothing you haven't seen already but it does bring up the question - why doesn't spotify provide listening habits/trend info on a regular basis? i link my spotify account to last.fm because i like having that information available and spotify doesn't provide it, but if spotify is tracking it then why should users need to use separate services?

i presume it has something to do with their payment transparency?

I'm a sucker for this kind of stuff.

#1 artist - Dawn Richard - 224 streams
then Jazmine, Kendrick, D'Angelo, Miguel

#1 Album - Reality Show - Jazmine Sullivan - 181 streams
then Dawn's Blackheart, D'Angelo's Black Messiah, Kendrick's To Pimp a Butterfly, Janet's Unbreakable

#1 Track - Thunderstorm ambience (lol, this got put on repeat when i go to sleep for the past few months)
then Jazmine's Mascara, Fetty's Trap Queen, Jazmine's Brand New and another ambient sleeping track

First track of the new year was Africa Express' Terry Riley in C Mali

Winter: D'Angelo, Dawn, Jazmine
Spring: Kendrick, Jazmine, Eno/Hyde
Summer: Kacey Musgraves, Miguel, Melanie DeBiasio (yeah i guess i did like that album a lot)
Fall: Janet, Fetty, Todd Terje

61 thousand minutes logged, 2800 artists listened to, 5400 tracks played.

i guess that's 5400 individual different tracks not 5400 total as the math doesn't work the other way round.

provides a look at your listening habits/trends over 2015

I checked this out in 2013, and it showed that my most-listened artist was Rupert Holmes.

Chilling, and I haven't checked since.

the pedant in me wonders whether this only counts complete, start-to-finish listening or just anytime you start a song. Because if it's the former, I've got to have half again as many unfinished listens this year... i tend to hit rewind before i get to the end of a song i'm enjoying or restart if i get distracted by business.

Glenn? Confirm/deny?

Top genres: Indie R&B, Chillwave, Neo Soul, Indietronica, Future Garage

sorry guys :(

lol pplains

this is neat, but I'm pretty sure it is missing streams from the Roku app, which is one of the main ways I use Spotify.

I think any play of :30 or more counts, and Roku should also count as long as you're logged in with the same Spotify account.

It's the same account, but there's definitely a big chunk of activity that doesn't seem to be reflected. I know that Facebook tracks my spotify activity but never shows anything I played on the roku, which is why I thought it wasn't tracked here either

Limit of 50 tracks in the play queue is my new thing to be annoyed by.

It seems like a significant part of Spotify's feature prioritization is handled through the community forums and upvoting. If this is the case, it's unlikely that anything that bugs me will get implemented. Since I can't find a better alternative, I guess I just need to learn how to live with it.

the cut off date for this year in spotify thing is clearly before the grimes album came out bc it wld easily top my list otherwise

I listened to a lot of blake mills and hop along this year, which were both ilm recommendations. I tend to obsessively listen to the same album for extended periods of time at work before forgetting it exists. So the end of year roundups is good for remembering what I liked.

Limit of 50 tracks in the play queue is my new thing to be annoyed by.

It seems like a significant part of Spotify's feature prioritization is handled through the community forums and upvoting. If this is the case, it's unlikely that anything that bugs me will get implemented. Since I can't find a better alternative, I guess I just need to learn how to live with it.

I've never used the play queue. I just make a playlist called "new" and dump everything I want to hear in there. If I don't need to hear it again, delete. If I really like it, I move it into other playlists. If I'm unsure/ambivalent I just leave it there until I've figured it out.

It's the same account, but there's definitely a big chunk of activity that doesn't seem to be reflected. I know that Facebook tracks my spotify activity but never shows anything I played on the roku, which is why I thought it wasn't tracked here either

― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Tuesday, December 8, 2015 2:27 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah I just set up spotify on my amazon fire tv and was able to start music on my iphone and change playback device to my tv, but it didn't scrobble. When I went to my app settings on my phone to see if I had logged out accidentally or something, the playback, social and streaming quality options are greyed out and it says "these options are not available when listening on another device". I'm pretty bummed, I am pretty obsessed w scrobbling everything I listen to, I don't want to give that up when listening on the tv :(

maybe of interest to ex Rdio users

This tool transfers your Rdio playlists and collections to Spotify
http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/11/this-tool-transfers-your-rdio-playlists-and-collections-to-spotify/

Rdio2Spotify
http://www.r2s.co/

What if Spotify allowed subscribers a specific number of streams of a song before they required you to either (a) pay for it ($0.99 for song, $9.99 for album), or (b) lose the ability to stream it again. Would this benefit the artist more?

Yah but then people would stop using it.

I would not see the point of subscribing if they did that

Subscribers don't buy albums or download songs?

Are there any Adele or Joanna Newsom fans who are also subscribers to Spotify or Apple Music?

i assume lots of both

no, there is no overlap whatsoever

BBC Radio 1 head of music to join Spotify UK
George Ergatoudis, "to lead curation strategy and content programming at streaming service" (Spotify UK)
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/dec/15/bbc-radio-1-spotify-uk-george-ergatoudis

yyyyyyep

Discover Weekly is the best recommendation engine of any kind that I've ever seen. I hear as many or more new-to-me tracks that I love every week as I ever did when I spent hours every day being an Internet Seeker. I suspect part of why it's so good is that I generated playlists comprising every track in my hard drive's music collection, so I'm feeding it a rich training set for my musical taste.

I highly recommend importing a playlist of your music collection in any case. I made a playlist in csv format of all 20000+ tracks on my hard drive in MediaMonkey, then converted it to spotify format in chunks at http://www.ivyishere.org/ , then pasted the results directly into Spotify. About 75% of the tracks were available on Spotify.

You made a Spotify playlist of 20000 songs?

I think they have a 10000 song max so I had to split it into two parts, but yes.

I know I could just use Plex or something to stream directly from my own home computer, but I did this instead for some reason.

for the person whose playlists were deleted, there is a playlist recover function if you log in on the spotify website.

Same reason we climb Everest. xp

I'm in awe of that, Dan. No way I'd do that, but nice to know it could happen.

idk who came up with this http://spotify-starwars.com/