Spotify - anyone heard of it?

this (great) song
https://open.spotify.com/track/6uv4VeWDVal1agJHUYi5iK

should be indexed to this kitten
https://open.spotify.com/artist/4zHX9zUUtxUw898g1GyihC

Will fix.

thanks!

Also: wow.

RIGHT?

And in a kind of similar spirit, spotify:album:2LSBVvjQwteBIMik5P8OqK.

ugh, so i updated to new spotify bc my old version of spotify's search really stopped working. local files load up fine but there's no way to sort them except by name and artist and afaict there's no way to search only your local files. why can't they just put this obvious (preexisting) functionality in???

my guess is they'd rather you use their files instead of your own, but that's kind of dumb if true

someone on their forum speculates the limited functionality is intentional "to make people listen to your songs rather than the local," but that is so short sighted - ppl aren't just going to give up on wanting that functionality. they'll just use different programs and possibly switch out entirely. xp or what you said

One of the reasons I dropped Spotify, for sure.

"can't sift through my local library? oh well guess i'm at that pt in my life where i'm done listening to songs that aren't on spotify's servers"

Full search has stopped working on my old (v0.8.5) version of Spotify, too. It still searches local files, and you still can select suggestions from the initial drop-down list, but that's it. I hadn't realised this was happening elsewhere. Now wondering if they've done something to deliberately disable search on permanently installed old versions, to force people into upgrading?

I don't think that's intentional. I'll pass along the report and see what I can find out...

from my friend's blog of okcupid first-date horror stories:

He ordered a whole pizza, did not offer to share, and was shocked when I ordered a small bread a cheese plate, because, of course, as one does when you just meet for drinks, I had already eaten. He then accused me of possibly having an eating disorder. He would know, because he used to be a talent scout and has met many women with eating disorders. (...)

Our food arrives and we switch gears. Trying to choke down what was honest-to-God a TERRIBLE cheese plate (how?!) I ask him about his job. He is surprisingly reluctant to tell me anything, considering the detail to which he described his familial problems.

"Well you said in your profile you work in your sweatpants. So you work from home?"

"Sure. I work from home."

Upon further probing I discover that after years spent as a talent scout in L.A. he moved to NYC to work in finance, but along the way uncovered how to make money by creating fake albums and posting them to spotify under different aliases. Knowing that a single listen to a song on spotify earns the artist only $.01, I cannot imagine how many made-up musical artists this guy has created in order to sustain a life in a studio apartment in Manhattan with no other source of income. Needless to say I was rather disquieted.

lolllll

This story will amuse many people.

Thanks, Glenn!

have seriously wanted to read an account - fictional or not - of the people that create the fake comps you see in spotify, and cover versions based on pre-release radio exclusives.. i remember when "100%" by duke dumont came out, it took several months to hit spotify, in which time a sound-a-like "tribute" racked up hundreds of thousands of plays. i was obsessed with who had made it, what was their name, what they ate for lunch. it was probably pizza sweatpants guy.

Aren't those just the latest iteration of the "not recorded by the original artists" albums that were used to scam less-knowledgable record buyers since at least the 1970s?

...which were mostly done by non-popular studio musicians and other record industry proles.

Do less knowledgeable record buyers tend to recognize David Bowie?

Usually those albums didn't/don't have a picture of the original artist on the cover, because that was/is probably considered too misleading for the consumer.

By "too misleading" I mean that it could lead to court cases.

Those were a monumental pain in the neck when I worked at Sam Goody. So many returns.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Countdown_Singers

I am getting a message saying that in a few months Spotify won't be supported by "my platform" - but when I click to learn more I just get taken to a generic FAQ page. Not sure what platform I could possibly be using that is worthy of going out of date. I'm on desktop and mobile, using Spotify software in both cases.

Hey pgwp, that sounds weird. Where are you getting this message?

I get that message as well, I'm on an old Mac (10.6??) and Chrome is also telling me the same thing fwiw

have not clicked on the link yet cuz I'm gonna ride this old computer into the ground first

it's a blue banner at the top of the screen

Two cases is an epidemic, as far as I'm concerned. I don't know what the deal is, but I forwarded both of your reports to our internal support department.

MVP

I guess I'm not running the most up to date OS for my mac.

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Mac/Updates-no-longer-available-on-this-platform-notice/td-p/1279823

psh glenn conspicuously not weighing in on egregious local files functionality limitations demonstrates his loyalties to the man

your local files are special, and the struggle enhances this feeling

I can't care about everything.

mike t-diva: I was just about to post a mighty rant about the sudden search deficiency in the functional versions (ie pre 1.0), but then it... worked again? Does it for you too?

This is probably way outside of your area, Glenn, but if you know any of the Connect folks, it's totally broken on FireTV (crashes immediately) and it looks like I'm not the only one seeing this...

I have not had crashes, but I have to uninstall/reinstall the app every time I try to use it. Otherwise my phone will never see the FireTV as a connect option.

Tried that, but it still didn't work. :(

Got it to play one time for a couple seconds, and then it crashed.

xp Anatol: Oh! It has started working again! What a relief.

No, I don't know much about Connect, and nothing at all about FireTV, but I know who does, and have passed word along...

Thank you.

Has the Connect thing mis-stepped up its game again with a recent update? I *really* want to just keep each device separate when it comes to playing (not lists etc obv); when I press play on my phone, I want my phone to play music, not my laptop or TV or toaster or whatevs. When I press play on the laptop, I want my laptop to play music, not my TV or toaster or phone or whatevs. Permute at will, it still holds.

Also, I'd like to be able to listen to e.g. Come On Pilgrim on my laptop or TV or toaster or whatevs over breakfast, without a risk of my screen flashing ladytits in the crowded bus when I take out my phone to check the time. (Example picked for delicacy.)

Am I just clumsy and has missed an dis-connect button somewhere?

Is there any way to drop a full playlist into another playlist without doing it song by song? I'm making weekly playlists of new music atm and would like to transfer them to a monthly one, but as they're all above 60 tracks it seems like a lot of work to do it track by track. This is one of the things that was very simple in google play music, which I've now put on hold to give spotify a chance.

On a nactual computer or a phone? If the former, select source playlist in left-hand column to get all the songs in the main view, select all the songs (using shift-click, ctrl-click, ctrl-A or your local OS equivalent where necessary), drag'em to the target playlist in the left-hand column?

Yeah. Easy on computer, not sure if it can be done on phone.

Oh thanks for the tip - I've tried to do this before but could only mark one song at a time for some reason. It worked now, so thanks a lot!

Also, I'd like to be able to listen to e.g. Come On Pilgrim on my laptop or TV or toaster or whatevs over breakfast, without a risk of my screen flashing ladytits in the crowded bus when I take out my phone to check the time. (Example picked for delicacy.)

You mean Surfer Rosa, right? I managed to find a way to fix this a few weeks ago by googling it up in spotify's forums. I think the solution involved turning off notifications for Spotify, which means that in addition to album cover not displaying on your lockscreen, you also can't see the title of the song that's currently playing unless you open the spotify app. Small sacrifice, imo.

Wish I could remember which album cover compelled me to look this up.

mobile spotify on 4G works almost flawlessly for me now - on 3G it tends not to work at all

Haha yes Surfer Rosa obv duh! :-D