Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Mainly we try to give more weight to songs you actively choose over ones that get programmed for you in radio and things like that.

There are a ton of songs on this "Wrapped" list I only played once, and lots of songs I listened to more than once which aren't here. But yeah, I listen to a lot of albums and other people's playlists on Spotify, and the one-plays on the Wrapped list are things I remember hearing on purpose: i.e. searching for artist name, scrolling to the song, playing that particular song.

are songs that are a part of someone else's playlist weighted less? the only way i listen to spotify outside of podcasts is by adding songs to my own library or downloading other peoples' playlists, and i generally listen offline. the one song that i've played as much as any (lucy by destra) is all the way down at #26, but i did listen to it a lot off of the ilx 2015 tracks playlist. also i tend to listen to it like 12 times in a row (lol), probably pressing the back button before the song is finished, maybe those don't count?

it does look like it really values songs that you add to your library. there's a bunch of songs from albums i listened to once over songs i listened to a million times off of playlists

i have no idea how baby hold on by eddie money is #10 when i listened to it once, realized i hated it and then only listened to the first few seconds accidentally forevermore. are you shaming me for adding baby hold on by eddie money to my personal library, glenn? i was already ashamed, i only kept it there to keep myself humble

I have yet to get this but an ad really wants me to play the chainsmokers

oh hey a new version of my 2016 list popped up this morning with stuff I've listened to on it. cool

Oh, if you got your 2016 list way early, you may have been part of an early test-group, and may actually have gotten a test version that really did have songs you had barely played. So yeah, worth checking yours again if it seemed crazy at first.

On the subject of the Chainsmokers, I happened to collect up this playlist of "Closer" covers yesterday: https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/5vW8k7Y9rqEzM473kpmcGg

I wasn't much into the original, but I'm finding the marathon series of covers kind of mesmerizing.

Spotify still doing that thing where it will randomly jump back to the first track of an album. So annoying. Surely someone must be fixing this.

Under investigation according to the latest updates. https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Spotify-restarts-albums-somewhat-randomly/idi-p/1505230#comments

maybe an algorithm figured out that people pretty just like the first three tracks of most albums

the way the "your daily mix" feature separates by style is weird - "here's your daily mix for Monday, it's strictly guitar bros, here's Tuesday, it's rap" - you'd think if the algorithm noticed your tastes are all over the place, it'd mix it up

Separating them by listening mode is the point of Daily Mix. But there's a mix per mode, not per day. Each one is daily. You can listen to them all every day.

I usd to get 6 great mxes, now dropped to 4 and the one i listened to most has vanished :(

so many "and such small portions" moments itt

Separating them by listening mode is the point of Daily Mix. But there's a mix per mode, not per day. Each one is daily. You can listen to them all every day.

word, it's just odd to me that they all operate on the assumption that genre variety is bad/undesirable within a continuous mix. not actually a complaint, I like these, but it's ~~~interesting~~~

I could imagine that it's not easy to auto-generate a coherent mix spanning various genres.

Don't mind the stratification, although I guess now that I am down to three- my Brazilian mix, my jazz mix, my indie/classic rock mix- I miss my hip hop mix. Don't miss my wtf mix though

Is there a way to regenerate that hip hop playlist, starfish style?

I promise in advance not to post on any hip hop threads if and when that happens

Kate Bush's HOUNDS OF LOVE is on Spotify now

Weird, has been on there for ages in australa

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Thought you were responding to the latest posts on the sf thread

Ah, my fourth mix came back- there was a Fourth Mix!- repurposed as a Latin Mix.

I had already noticed hounds of love! That's the only song in the world that I'd really, really missed before.

DW just told me about the song described here, well earning its keep: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/david-holmes-and-bp-fallon-reveal-henry-mccullough-for-late-night-tales-premiere-a7238381.html

Gotta say the year end playlist is a pretty good representation of certain songs that I can listen to over and over end.

Segue from "Night Rally" to "The Man Who Sold The World" is spooky.

I don't think I got an email with eoy stats - could I have opted out?

http://i.imgur.com/EIZlKSd.png

POLL

there are some kick-ass songs in there!

i saw the sign

Where is Moby Grape's "Omaha"?

I mean in general, not on that list

i've wondered the same thing... their whole S/T is greyed out there

"Man I feel like a woman" is a very confusing title

^^^ totally crazy

literally a great song

The Sign is a stone cold classic and fuiud

have really been enjoying the Spotify VAPRWAVE list, which I found via the KING artist page:

https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/7GtwfClHgE4euOhQUe6kwC

Nice!

Just noticed that Your Daily Mix is now available on the desktop app

whyyyyyyy is it such a pain in the ass to access local files in spotify

and when spotify lowkey swaps a song on your playlist with an inferior re-recording

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/95/18/f4/9518f48221bdee6a99f875c58b22c005.jpg

yo glenn, the new P.O.S. album Chill, dummy is classified under the incorrect P.O.S.

Notifications still broke? I got an email at least this time

Hah, I went to fix that P.O.S album, and somebody already had. You should see it in the right place tomorrow or the next day.

Well, now Spotify is broken and won't load at all and the help pages are no use

Won't start, won't uninstall, can't be reinstalled.

Will the "Music Library" feature in Spotify ever be useful? The number of albums you're able to add seems to be incredibly finite.