Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Well, I tried to put Spotify on my Roku to see what you were talking about, but I can't even find it in the Channel Store...

update to spotify portion of sonos app seems to have made switching between family plan accounts easier :-)

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Which roku do you have?

https://channelstore.roku.com/details/19977/spotify

the roku playlists thread on the spotify community page has been very active, dozens of posts every day, lots of very pissed off people

Forget where the general streaming music thread is, but this story is of interest:

https://gizmodo.com/streaming-music-services-from-most-screwed-to-least-sc-1793612699

Oh no, Pono!

I'd love to see one ranking music services from most fucked up apps to most functional

Deezer is doomed for sure. I've actually got Deezer Premium which comes free with my landline, and as a streaming platform it's no worse than Spotify. The desktop client is better than Spotify's (although local music is still pretty shit), the mobile clients are well-designed and stable, the web player is good, the Flow suggestion-engine is pretty good too. It does the basics right.

Problem is, beside a shitload of Frenchies who get it rammed down their throat with their mobile/landline service, nobody else is on it so the whole social aspect and subscribing to cool curated/collaborative playlists is pretty much a no-go. At the first opportunity I'll drop it for Spotify Premium, and I'm pretty sure everyone else feels the same. Six million subscribers looks impressive, but if your business relies on bundling/force-feeding and nobody would otherwise consider the product, you're doomed, just as much as RealPlayer, Google+ and Hangouts.

I've worked on at least three of those services, two which are already kaput and pono, #1 most likely to die. (And a couple of others they don't mention. Rara for one)

Such things are hard. A lot of companies think they'd like to have their own offering, but getting a big enough foothold to make it pay is difficult, especially given the existence of Spotify.

I was there when they turned off the servers serving pono content. They were switching to 7 digital, I think. Shocked that the website is non functional 8 months later. Would kind of like a pono T-shirt though.

poor pono

is the function letting you share songs via a message in spotify gone? had a lot of long-running threads exchanging tunes with pals on there and can't seem to do it anymore. always seemed like the social elements of spotify were kind of buggy/always changing etc

it is curious how bad the social elements are. they are the market leaders and they cannot figure out how to make it easy for people to find their friends and share music with them, and don't appear to even want to. even though it would increase lock-in. increase playbacks. etc. just weird.

I usually share with sms, and it is easy

i envision a news-feed like thing with listening/charts, comments, collaborative playlists, etc. and last.fm has kinda fallen off a bit since the redesign, one would think they'd hop on that and co-opt most of those features especially as a lot of people migrate to streaming platforms

admittedly spotify sort of has elements of all of these things but they're mostly pretty undercooked or constantly changing/disappearing/etc

I shared via SMS just the other day. Pretty sure it's still there.

A chat function within Spotify where you could share links to songs, playlists, etc with friends would be fucking awesome. Did it used to have that?

I think they want that to be called "Facebook"

how, though? i recall it used to post to FB now and then with what you were listening to but the integration has diminished a lot

and i think sharing songs used to be in the FB messaging feature

I liked that feature, but I'm guessing FB users didn't like their news feeds getting spammed with friends' listening details.

A chat function within Spotify where you could share links to songs, playlists, etc with friends would be fucking awesome. Did it used to have that?

― Position Position, Tuesday, March 28, 2017 4:38 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes. i didn't use it too often but it ruled in the moments i did

c'mon who would want to share music with their friends

why would you listen to music other than to broadcast your taste to everyone xxp

in reality i know 0 people who broadcast their taste, I only know a few ppl who even discuss/mention things theyve been listening to, so self-consciousness about this is p alien to my real life

It would be good if there was a tab that would let you go directly to singles, albums or Appears On right at the top. Some artists I follow, like Vybz Kartel, release an insane amount of music and just scrolling down to see if there's a new riddim he's on (which would go under «appears on») takes me minutes, lol.

You can get a little closer to that effect if you switch the Albums and Singles displays to the grid style.

I've already done that, lol. Just go to the Vybz Kartel Spotify page to see for yourself. There are others, but his is the worst.

Oh. Yeah, pretend I didn't say anything.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/04/spotify-universal-albums-premium-subscribers-only

That short Guardian piece leaves out the detail that this only covers the non-single tracks. No windowing for singles, and (I think) no windowing of albums unless they have singles.

[I have no involvement in deal-making at Spotify.]

it would be nice if this means we get an agreed standard of what a "single" is again, and tell Billboard/OCC what it is.

Was Time Fades Away included when Neil Young's catalog showed back up a few months ago, or is this a recent development?

glenn - legendary ukg don DJ Q has a bunch of unrelated stuff from techno guy Paul Flynn in his profile.

For instance these:

https://open.spotify.com/album/5RlyYKGWnlnnb5aZsCOPEO
https://open.spotify.com/album/1YirBj0TgKtcl7GBmklwnM
https://open.spotify.com/album/201xel0UP61Bn7gCmMMAAl
https://open.spotify.com/album/7xBaTmApqevxKxgEQi7RN0
https://open.spotify.com/album/6VemqswE6DThVVkqhZGO7Y
https://open.spotify.com/album/4c3iXxxYUbcApDneBnKzQT

There's also these, don't really know who these ppl are:
https://open.spotify.com/album/0BNzyPPi98WQ44viXP51vx
https://open.spotify.com/album/4Yfi7gOjObRpIhhlCwqkML

Passed this along to get it fixed, thanks.

:D

I imagine that sort of incorrect cross-pollination can play a bit of havoc with recommendations

A constant source of irritation, yes.

You'd think artists/labels would be pretty eager to fix this, otherwise their namesake gets all the money.

xpost like, not even insofar as the wrong DJ Q getting recommended (but that too), but the wrong genre being associated with a user's habits

glenn, i'm finding a replicable issue on spotify's version of Talking Heads "Seen and Not Seen" at 1:40

as long as we're using you as a helpdesk

Thought this thread was bumped because of the guy killed in Sweden. Did you know him, Glenn? Sorry if this is a horrible question.

ulysses, what issue do you mean? I don't hear anything at 1:40 in either the regular or 2005 remastered versions of that song, but there are more versions in other regions, so maybe you're getting a different one. Which country are you in, and what's the URL of the track you're playing?

I didn't know Chris personally, no.

Glen: USA and https://open.spotify.com/track/7dq6icAlynpBD6MSrXKh3A

I don't hear anything weird at 1:40 in that. What do you hear?

popping and skipping on the track. dunno why it's only me. disregard if it's a glitch just on my end.

Glenn, still hearing those voices in my left speaker while listening to Stained Class -- the dog next door told me it's bothering him too. Fix in the works?

is it the musician's commentary?

pplains: weird, it's supposed to be the right channel. Which hemisphere is your ISP's DNS entry served from?