Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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!

i wasn't even aware that "filter" option was there; would've assumed those functions would be under the ellipses menu

Ha, I found the filter a little while back, figured everyone else already knew about it and I was late to the party otherwise I would have mentioned it here.

i daresay i count as a "heavy user" if anyone does and i couldn't find the dang thing!

UI design is not my role at Spotify...

new desktop update looks nice. not sure when it rolled out but mine updated last week or so. got rid of that problem where scrolling would jump to the top of the playlist after switching between playlists or switching to an artists page and coming back.

On a similar note I wish I could move playlists into folders, or sort them within folders, on my phone or tablet. I can organize things on my computer but not on my mobile devices.

i must say that i kinda dig the Track_ed. monthly mailer as I'm a sucker for meaningless stats.

567 Unique Tracks This Month
321 Different Artists This Month

The Artists You Played the Most This Month:
Daby Touré
Daniel Bachman
Bulgarian State Television Female Choir
Lizzo
Dasha Rush

How do you get that?

so here's an ignorant question: how are playlists SUPPOSED to work across devices?
(yeah, I googled, but it's weirdly hard to find precise info)

I have ipod (super old version of app), iphone (old version of app), and desktop (up to date).

if I delete a playlist on one device, should it vanish on them all?
if i update on one device, should it update on all?
or should I be using desktop only for all changes?

i add and remove on iphone and ipad (ancient devices, don't know about app version), hardly ever use the desktop, it all syncs fine for me.

adding or removing tracks/playlists will be reflected across all devices

ulysses, I just got that as well, hadn't seen it before.

My stats were:

1066 unique tracks
438 different artists

Most played:

Weyes Blood
Simone Dinnerstein
Mr. Oizo
Blood Orange
Autechre

It doesn't indicate what portion of these tracks I was actually awake for and how many I snoozed through

is there any way to see a count of how many songs i have saved in my library? ive been worried for a while that i'm approaching the 10k limit but would be nice to know for sure

I've made another fantastic playlist. Please do yourself a favor and listen to it. My musical taste is so good it will bring happiness and joy to your ears.

The link is here.

Okay, I was lukewarm on the previous one, but this one looks sweet!

thanks guys--I resorted to deleting and re-adding the app and it's fixed the problem on the ipod...

xp to Marko, spotify sends it out to "select clientele" which i guess means POWER USERS WUT WUT

Another useless stat-hound asks: what's the track_ed monthly mailer thing?

as noted above, it's just advertorial eblast experimentation by the look of it
http://i.imgur.com/nd1hRcf.png

Ah, Ok - gotcha, cheers. I'm a premium user! I want one.