Spotify - anyone heard of it?

silverfish, I can't speak to the specific bug, but it certainly seems like spotify is constantly trying to write to my SD card on my android phone. It keeps showing that it wants to load between 500 and 1000 files.

New version fixes this tho.

My tablet copy of Spotify was taking up 240 MB which I do think seems a bit high for something that as far as I know really shouldn't be storing music of any kind. I mean maybe a million tiny icon-sized album art images add up but....

Hey my newest Top 40 playlist is up. Please listen because it is fantastic. It's my utopian alternate universe Top 40. This one contains Mott the Hoople, Elmore James Her Royal Harness and more. Listen, like, follow, tell all your friends and bask in the glory of these wonderful songs.

Thanks kornrulez - better thread for those might be: My Spotify playlists, let me show you them

What's up with: A special thank you from _____

The one from The Band is crepey.

I got one from A Tribe Called Quest, appears to be about selling merch

That's the one I got first.

it's possible that my work computer is trash and is causing this problem but for the past few weeks as i'm listening to an album after about 4-5 tracks it'll just start over again

Glenn -

If I use Spotify through another app (for example, DJay Pro), do you know if those track plays get loaded into the DW algorithms?

They should, yes.

Thanks!

Interesting to see that Spotify (and Apple) will be supporting distribution/monetisation of uploaded mixes from non-pros (as on Mixcloud) as well as pros via Mixbank. Anyone know more about this?

"Premium for $0.99. It’s our way of saying thanks for making 2016 so awesome."

thanks spotify

(not my advertisement, I already have premium anyway, but of all the adjectives to describe 2016....)

I have conveyed this feedback to the appropriate people.

Thank you, Spotify, for making 2016 great again.

Actually, I would've gone completely off the deep end had it not been for Spotify drowning out my co-workers' continuing coverage of Election '16.

I just noticed that the album that Viet Cong put out last year before changing their name is now listed as being an album called "Viet Cong" by Preoccupations (the new band name). I kind of understand not wanting to make it look like a totally new band but this also seems like a confusing and obfuscatory thing to do.

spotify seems to be struggling with differentiating between local files on my PC and songs from the spotify library. This is causing it to drastically limit how many files I can load to my phone because it uses spotify library files instead of the files that I own. Not sure how to get around this.

that was fast http://creativity-online.com/work/spotify-thanks-2016/50063

(technically it wasn't "fast" at all given the datestamp, but)

I may have missed the announcement but apparently Neil Young's catalog has returned.

yes, quite impressive - singles from forthcoming album released there too

it's possible that my work computer is trash and is causing this problem but for the past few weeks as i'm listening to an album after about 4-5 tracks it'll just start over again

This is happening to me too. Also, it often doesn't seem to be able to correctly identify which track I'm listening to. Currently listening to the Tribe Called Quest album, on track 7, but it's indicating I am listening to track 2. Nope. Bugs all over the place in this latest version.

Sonos just added a feature to stream spotify from the spotify app instead of the sonos app with its terrible spotify interface (no nested playlists, the 100s of playlists I have are all in one long list and sorted strangely). It's what I thought sonos and spotify would do before I bought my speaker, glad I didn't buy it long before they debuted this feature!

I haven't been able to get the Sonos integration to work from Spotify Desktop. when I click on a device, it only occasionally connects. when it does connect, it plays for a few seconds and then stops and reverts back to my laptop. so the idea is nice, but the implementation is currently lacking.

from my phone it seems to be more reliable, but less so than controlling through the Sonos app.

me either

when's the spotify personal year in review rolling out this year

Soon. Like, maybe now?

link?

I feel like I've asked this before but...why doesn't spotify provide users with their stats all the time, a la last.fm?

You should see a "2016 Wrapped" section in Home/Browse now, or soon.

I see the "Your Top Song 2016" list. Is that it for personal things this year?

In general, there doesn't tend to be a very satisfying way to answer questions of the form "Why doesn't (company) (do this thing you want)...?". Usually it's just that there are lots of things to do, and the others are more urgent or seem to offer better return or require less work or entail less complexity. Personally, I love stats.

I figure w apple music and tidal and co. trying to capture market share, each service would try to differentiate itself as much as possible - providing listening stats would be an easy one that people would be into. spotify is the best so far in that it ties into last.fm, but the integration can be tricky and when I signed into last.fm via spotify on multiple devices,spotify lost its mind and I had to go back and forth w customer support for ages.

thanks glenn. have the 'your top songs of 2016' pl; was hoping for more of the data visualisation stuff spotify has done in past years. are the songs in the pl in order of plays?

The songs are in ranked order, yes. It's not literally by play-count, because we weight different kinds of plays slightly differently, but it's close.

As for other things, watch your email...

Glenn, does offline plays count? I swear I've played Vybz Kartel «Fever» more than anything this year but it's nowhere to be found in my top 100.

Offline plays count, yes. Unless they're local files that for some reason we couldn't match to our catalog.

That's... extremely weird.

What's you Spotify username? I may or may not be able to figure anything out about this, but I don't mind looking...

I just followed you on spotify. Let me know if you can't see me.

I do realize that I've probably played my favorite songs in Serato more than I've played them in Spotify, but for that song not to have made the top 100 while the Kendrick Lamar album I listened to while reviewing it in... January? February? but never since is up in the top ten seems exceedingly strange.

Seems like further down the list are some examples of "the track after the track I really like" that got played halfway by accident and maybe not all always the way through.

Er, it's reasonable to think that that would work, but no, I can't tell which one is you. You can email me. glennm at spotify.

For most purposes, though, we only consider it a "skip" if you play less than :30 of a song.

Ah, thanks.

If a track's less than 30 seconds long does it get recorded as a play?

Most recommendation-related stuff just ignores <30s tracks completely...