Spotify - anyone heard of it?

I wish there were more places to find political commentary online than on the front pages of our streaming services, but someone has to lead the charge I guess

it's really important that my music streaming service reflect my exact politics clearly, loudly and often, otherwise what's the point

i also like when it suggests political stances I haven't heard yet

it's called Discover

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/spotify-capitalizing-trump-travel-ban-230439592.html

I think they've added "The Immigrant Song" in case that helps.

people might have had similar reactions toward tidal if they'd known it exists

I think we just need a contest for great songs to add to the Spotify playlist. Let's be supportive. Did Roman Polanski record anything worth adding?

Did polanski do Zombie Zoo?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKJkfE1M9wA

dlp, did you suffer head trauma recently?

If you'd rather, here's one from Lin-Manuel Miranda: https://open.spotify.com/user/tobillo24601/playlist/284iTzCId32KEGwQLGKh1B

Can you post the Tidal link to that?

Yes. I'll post it on the Tidal thread. Go wait for it there.

Oh, just post it here. It's making a major impact on Trump, and deserves to be as widely heard as possible. I hear that the Spotify Refugee thread is making a lot of people rethink their attitudes towards Queen.

What the fuck is your problem?

I mean, do you realize that Queen was banned from all US sporting events for years, that their albums were restricted from sale at major outlets, and that they're barely known in the US, even by those who grew up during their heyday. It is seriously no fun being a ....refugee.

Luckily, as I understand it, Spotify is planning to move to the US to avoid the horrible restrictions on business in Sweden.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/13/news/companies/spotify-sweden-stockholm-new-york/index.html

As we all know, housing and education are just ducky in NY (glenn, you're from NY so probably have a lot of info on this). So it must be those, and not the stock options.

Is it possible to post an entire persona to the trenchant thread?

After you look up the definition of trenchant, perhaps. Look, we all love glenn. Without him, we wouldn't know which Popp and Jopp voter was the most like the 10th percentile of the top Jopp and Pazz voters. I get that. And he likes metal (now that Julianna Hatfield has taken out an order of protection). Rock on. Seriously. I loves me that Smoke on the Agua song. Anyway, Spotify. Refugees. Discuss.

yikes

http://i.imgur.com/3RQYJKn.gif

lotta people itt really don't remember what it's like to be 13 or a sock

I think spotify must have fucked the girl he was lusting after

Hahaha I kind of like how irrationaly angry this thread is.

well, just one poster

it's a weird beef for sure

socks come unravelled

is it a new feature for spotify to immediately start playing a related radio station once an album/playlist is over? wish it would ask instead of doing it automatically...

The same thing happened to me, it's really annoying. You can go to settings in the app (top right), choose playback then deselect Autoplay

what's wrong u don't like music

Yeah, it's very annoying, it even overrules tracks you had already queued up. Have adjusted the settings. Thanks, badg!

Glenn please hardcode autoplay into bespoke client for Tracer Hand txs

The autoplay radio "feature" happened to me when I was listening to downloaded music offline and it gobbled up the last of my data for the month by the time I'd realised what the fuck was playing. I had it set to only stream when connected to wifi as well!

Dude

thanks for the tip badg!

I have unlimited data so I didn't even think about it from that perspective but I'm sure spotify is gonna get a bunch of angry emails about this feature for sure... at the very least disable autoplay when not on wifi as default or something

I will pass along all this feedback about Autoplay...

this is weird but somehow I had saved two albums by the same band to play, I started playing one and it definitely played a few of those songs, and then for some reason, despite shuffle not being on, it jumped to the other album for no good reason (I didn't notice right away cos lol it was death metal and I hadn't listened to iether album enough to know the songs by heart).

turning shuffle on and back off fixed it.

lol who the fuck is dlp....wait was he the one that also offended lots of fuckin' people in the Swans thread last year?

I believe he's a long time poster, well liked, but smth abt Spotify spins him out of control

http://pitchfork.com/news/71469-new-york-times-subscriptions-now-come-with-free-spotify-premium/

playlisting ILX is one thing but this coupled with the recent cuts in music writers is kinda hurmmmrhm... dear nyt, maybe hire some writers and curators to work with spotify and then post work through a subsite, huh? it's not either/or; it's both.

Glenn, I have an issue with syncing files to my phone, and I can't seem to find any workaround from the Spotify site. I keep my playlists carefully organized so that they either have tracks copied entirely from my local files list or they have tracks from the Spotify library. For the lists that I create from the local files, it seems like Spotify tries to match those to the Spotify library and then use files from the library instead of from my pc. This then counts against the number of tracks I am allowed to download from the Spotify library. Is there some way for me to force it to use my own files instead of files from the Spotify library?

There's no official way, no. I think it's possible that you could prevent the matching by renaming your local versions, but I haven't tried that and I'm not saying it's a good idea...

I just now noticed Paul Williams's 70s discography is up. I also noticed it's spread among three separate "artists."

https://open.spotify.com/artist/6W3w8o7f0eU4JoqRzDOG4h
https://open.spotify.com/artist/1LKElVPBhe0BasoUXWalJH
https://open.spotify.com/artist/3f626JSVauIhTQgatsFcs4

I will have the Paul Williamses merged...

This article says that Prince is back on streaming services, but I don't see his stuff on Spotify...

https://open.spotify.com/artist/5a2EaR3hamoenG9rDuVn8j

FUCK YES

I could have sworn that prince's black album eventually got a "legit" release at some point but it's not available for streaming anywhere so maybe not? i was hoping that when they dumped all his stuff back on streaming sites they were gonna include the black album too...at least slsk is still around (i assume, i have barely used it since i joined spotify)