Spotify - anyone heard of it?

hey glenn: if you click on Birmingham, Alabama on the musical map page it shows you the playlist "The Sound of Birmingham Michigan US"

https://insights.spotify.com/us/2015/07/13/musical-map-of-the-world/

Oh, thanks! (I don't do that page myself, but I'll get it fixed...)

"mccartney ii is sick" –my Discover Weekly playlist, once a month

mine is like "we know you love farewell transmission by songs: ohia so here it is yet again"

not a complaint really

Spotify is offline for me, can't even log into the website...accordimg to twitter lots of people are having the exact same problem :(

I was having the offline problem too. Logged out and restarted a few times, logged out on my phone as well as on my laptop... but it seems to be working now.

Hey, I have joined spotify and I am making playlists for you all to enjoy. I have fantastic musical taste so I urge you all to listen and follow me.

You can listen to my first playlist here

Your username does not insoire confidence

Oh, but his spotify username does.

Cool list, kornrulez.

Spotify shuffle doesn't "really" shuffle, does it? Just uses a pre-set sequencing of songs in a playlist. Would be useful if it did "real" random shuffling, that way I could use it to explore big playlists.

Here's an old post about it: https://labs.spotify.com/2014/02/28/how-to-shuffle-songs/

well I'll be darned - must've been a misperception on my part!

Glenn, long shot but are the ppl who wrote the interfacing and voice command "skill" for Spotify and Amazon Echo & Echo Dot amenable to any suggestions?

I can definitely pass along any ideas you have to the right people. Email 'em to me: glennm at spotify...

Cool to see the new playlist option to add an image and description. And I only just noticed you can now change your profile pic directly in app. Curiously didn't see these new features announced anywhere.

Here's an old post about it: https://labs.spotify.com/2014/02/28/how-to-shuffle-songs/

― glenn mcdonald, Friday, October 21, 2016 6:52 PM (two days ago)

Thanks Glenn!

Is there some kind of fashion tracking algorithm in the discovery playlist or am i just getting freaked out by the recency illusion? At least half a dozen times now I've had some obscure track I've never heard of before come up in my playlist, and then seen it referenced elsewhere. A little while ago it was Baby by Donnie and Joe Emerson, which someone posted on ilx the same day as it appeared in my playlist; a couple of times I've had Do Your Thing by Moondog but this week it gave me High on a Rocky Ledge instead, and lo there is mark s tweeting about it showing up in his playlist.

I always assume that this is due to
1) ilxors listening to each others playlists cause their algorithms to sync up, i.e. if ilxor A and B both follow ilxor C they are more likely to get a track from a playlist by C'.
2) The algorithm for some reason uses/promotes certain artists to fill a particular niche and at a given time one particular track from said artist will be at the um, top of the algorithm chart.

But perhaps this is too simplistic a formulation.

Why is it Nick Lowe comes up every time there's a high tide?

Would it kill them to have a little authority control?

Btw, I got a Donnie and Joe Emerson track a while back, albeit a different one. But then the algo latched onto their Light In The Attic labelmate Jim Sullivan, and is slowly recommending every track on U.F.O

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Is "Create Similar Playlist" a new feature? Cause I just noticed it today.

That's a recent addition, yes.

Glenn: I dunno if this has been mentioned already but some weeks it feels like the Spotify Weekly playlist is shoring up tracks that I've received about 2 or 3 times already (generally ones I was never keen on or I've never put into my own "starred" favourites playlist). Is the algorithm resetting itself every so often?

i wish spotify had voice control - has anyone tried using SoundHound to add it 3rd party?

I've seen a couple other reports of Discover Weekly repeating itself. I know the DW team is investigating...

God, mine repeats itself constantly, and not just "Temporary Secretary." James Chance and Allen Toussaint this week...

Unlike Daily Mix, which has the interesting property that if you visit Daily Mix N but don't play anything, the next time you click on it the queue will start in a different place.

plz some1 help me figure out how i can give spotify voice commands

PLAY FREEBIRD!

plz some1 help me figure out how i can give spotify voice commands

― Mordy, Monday, October 31, 2016 1:31 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this really needs to happen and I'm wondering if you want it for the same reason I do, i.e. changing the kids music while driving

exactly that reason

I've seen many of the same tracks recur in Discover Weekly. Today Odetta's cover of "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" showed up for the second or third time. Another that has come up several times is Ted Hawkins' "Sorry You're Sick." I don't mind these repetitions, but I do find them interesting because I haven't listened to either song or artist outside via Discover Weekly.

via

Spotify works with voice when you have an Amazon Echo ;)

I've been thinking of renaming my discover playlist "stop trying to make [x] happen". Plenty of repeats, in other words.

I've been thinking of renaming my discover playlist "stop trying to make (x) happen". Plenty of repeats, in other words.

http://i.imgur.com/sFTaa45.gif

Halloween was two days ago, why tf isn't there a "Holiday" music section when you browse genres??? I have a pretty formidable xmas playlist but i want MORE dammit

I just reactivated http://everynoise.com/xmas.html.

excellent!

okay here's the question: every time i update a playlist on spotify either by rearranging the tracks or adding new music, it does NOT update the tracks in my mobile (ipad/iphone) playlists... it adds the song to the bottom of the playlist. The only workaround for me is to create a temp playlist, dump the reorganized music there, erase the prior playlist's contents and update with the contents of the temp playlist. That works but it's a consistent hassle. Any easy way to fix this that I'm missing? Or is this something that needs to be programmed?
Am i the only one in the world who cares?

Hmm. My playlists update fine on all clients, and I'm not aware of any bug like that. Are you sure you don't have the playlist set to be sorted some alternate way on either the desktop or mobile?

hm. well, i'm organizing it alphabetically by artist... is that something you can do within the mobile playlist? That's where i'm having the problem... although I just discovered the manual edit option which is helpful! but doesn't quite fix the problem naturally.

Ah, yeah, that's why. In the mobile version, drag the playlist downwards to reveal the filter box, tap the little three-line icon to the right of it, and pick Sort By: Artist.

When you add tracks to a playlist sorted this way, they are inserted last in the "natural" order, which explains what you were seeing.

OMG, had _no_ idea that option existed. Thanks much, huge help.
and not to bite the hand that feeds or anything but that is really really not intuitive!