Spotify - anyone heard of it?

yeah, and it's a bit hard for apple to claim it's pro-consumer when it uses exclusives to bolster its music service. in no way does that benefit the consumer.

honestly I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner

yeah, balkanization seemed inevitable.

except UMG's finished with exclusives, supposedly?

spotify denies

hmm

Anybody else having problems scrolling? Scrollbar disappears, reappears at top of page. PITA for browsing large discographies/search results

yeah, me too.

yeah having a thing where if i click on something else then go back i can scroll down and it just jumps to the top. really annoying, apparently they are aware...

Digital exclusives are ridiculous. For an industry who claims to hate piracy, they do plenty to encourage it.

you are garbage

er uok hun?

https://www.bloomberg.com/gadfly/articles/2016-08-30/spotify-can-t-live-on-that-10-a-month-subscription-fee
preparing for a price hike.

They may find that an all-you-can eat celestial jukebox is more of a niche service than they'd thought.

Like guess what, I can hear all the hits for free by pushing one button on my radio, already "playlisted" for me. And I can hear anything on demand by typing it into Google.

Personally, I was happy enough to pay $25 a month for me, my wife, and two kids. They cut the price to $15 and that was cool, but I'd rather pay more if artists were getting more (and Spotify would stop losing money). That article seemed to suggest that Spotify should create some lower-tier options, which seems insane to me. I understand that they are competing against companies with ridiculously deep pockets, but Spotify doesn't have another business to absorb losses in streaming music.

I mean I guess it makes sense if the number of people who switch from free to the lower-tier options outweighs any switching down from $10/month. The actual nature of the tiers needs more work though - the "only this particular genre" thing seems totally fraught to me. I guess if the ads on the free version got much worse you could get people to go for it. I don't really know how the majority of people use Spotify though, because I'm a music nerd.

i want to quit but i'm locked in. i have all these great stupid playlists i made and stuff.

own your music. own your playlists. don't trust spotify or any other company.

is there a good method for exporting all playlists en masse to just text files or something? everything I've seen does it one at a time, which is not v appealing for well over 200

xp don't know if you're being serious, but like most people i do both

xp you can do stuff like that with the api.. there's probably some third party app that'll do it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moSFlvxnbgk

this is probably a good idea re music hoarding in general. i wish i were enlightened enough to act on my common sense but it's obv that 99.9% of the music i have on hard drives i'm never going to listen to again so why do i have it exactly?

If you're gonna pay, 10 bucks isn't too expensive, imo. It's the allure of something being free that keeps people from signing up for a plan.

IFTTT do a bunch of things that allow you to export playlists which will update as you create more or add to extant ones. I export everything to Google Drive.

I do wish they'd stop recommending me Doug Hream Blunt. Every bloody Discover Weekky playlist.

I think the authors of the article should have suggested a "everything but country music and rap" subscription. Either way, I'm sure it would be completely trivial to implement.

Lol

i don't want to be dramatic but re-recordings are the worst thing in the universe, ban them from spotify and stop them from infiltrating our oldies playlists

i have been copying my playlists to a notepad file once every six months, seems appropriately careful

http://joellehman.com/playlist/

nice, but it only pulls my first 20 playlists?

Same here

I've had to give up on the Release Radar thing because it wouldn't show up properly in my Playlist folder on my Marantz box (in fact, it would either show up as "By" and be empty or be missing entirely and cause the box to pause for 30sec when accessing Playlists). I'm sure it's a Marantz shortcoming - it's an old bit of hardware now (there's a newer device which supports Spotify Connect for example) and maybe there's something about dynamic updates to Release Radar (as opposed to Discover Weekly, which is fine) which locks it up. I do 90% of my Spotify listening on the Marantz service as AirPlay from my phone can be glitchy and I don't have unlimited data on my mobile plan (so I stick to offline stuff outside of the house).

Doug Hream Blunt - yep, all the time. Good Jan Hammer Group track this week, mind.

Got all excited about Roy Montgomery in my Release Radar but then it turned out to be: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MC_rBBAiC2Y/maxresdefault.jpg

Recent Release Radar Repeat Recommendations:
The Chills
The Monkees
The Moles
The Rationals
Dinosaur Jr.

And just for good measure this Friday they recommended a song called "Chills" by The Moles.

Yeah, Release Radar had a new song by Keith Hudson with a picture of buds as the cover. Turned out to be another guy named Keith Hudson who is awful. There aughta be a law!

Actually the first song in mine this week was by a ringer too, a group called Patto that was not the bluesy prog rock band featuring Ollie Halsall and John Halsey.

"Release Radar" is the first recommender that is working for me. Unsurprisingly, I have literally thousands of 'starred' songs, so spotify has a good sense of which artists I've listened to quite a bit and it also knows what music by those artists I haven't listened to on Spotify. The result is a playlist with music from TI, Young Thug, Carly Rae, Wara from the NBHD, St Paul and the Broken Bones, Alkaline, Bibio, Zomby, De La, Sevyn Streeter, Z-Ro, Against Me, Dolly Parton and Dawn. Can't argue with this. Only thing I take issue with is that I can't remove tracks so I gotta make a separate list to edit.

Got all excited about Roy Montgomery in my Release Radar but then it turned out to be: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MC_rBBAiC2Y/maxresdefault.jpg🔗

What is happening here? Spotify is advertising Spotify Film, which doesn't exist? https://www.reddit.com/r/spotify/comments/50yv45/i_found_an_advertisement_on_the_app_promoting/

Note: To send something direct to someone’s Spotify inbox on mobile, you must each have your accounts connected to, and be friends on, Facebook. Here’s how.

wtf, facebook is eating everything in its path. i'm sure i remember sending playlists to friends before, maybe it was on desktop. either way it's garbage. I presume spotify want everyone connected to facebook so everyone else on facebook can see how cool and popular spotify is.

sharing with non-Facebook friends in Spotify has always been at least partially broken

Can't you just copy the link and send it by whatever non Facebook means you choose?

you can (and i do) but it would be nice to have it all in-app

speaking of this sort of thing, apple music doesn't allow any means i'm aware of to share a song AT ALL via email, twitter or within apple music, which in 2016 is a little o_O

Fucking facebook. I had to create an account to even get spotify in the first place. Would love to decouple them now that's no longer required, but suspect it's impossible.

brother and I text playlists to each other and that works well. (He is not on facebook).

I never read spotify mail, so this actually works better.

I've been really liking the Release Radar list lately, it does a good job of letting me know when artists I like have new stuff available

Anyone else spotted the Daily Mix? Mine's just chucked Stroke it Noel and Crosby & Nash's Southbound Train at me. Auspicious beginnings...