I usually share with sms, and it is easy
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 28 March 2017 18:41 (seven years ago) link
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
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 28 March 2017 18:56 (seven years ago) link
admittedly spotify sort of has elements of all of these things but they're mostly pretty undercooked or constantly changing/disappearing/etc
― global tetrahedron, Tuesday, 28 March 2017 19:00 (seven years ago) link
I shared via SMS just the other day. Pretty sure it's still there.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 28 March 2017 23:12 (seven years ago) link
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, 28 March 2017 23:38 (seven years ago) link
I think they want that to be called "Facebook"
― sleeve, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 00:16 (seven years ago) link
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
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 03:30 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Moodles, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 03:49 (seven years ago) link
― 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
― the raindrops and drop tops of lived, earned experience (BradNelson), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 13:15 (seven years ago) link
c'mon who would want to share music with their friends
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 March 2017 13:32 (seven years ago) link
why would you listen to music other than to broadcast your taste to everyone xxp
― global tetrahedron, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 13:41 (seven years ago) link
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
― ogmor, Wednesday, 29 March 2017 14:06 (seven years ago) link
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.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 11:55 (seven years ago) link
You can get a little closer to that effect if you switch the Albums and Singles displays to the grid style.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 13:44 (seven years ago) link
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.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 14:11 (seven years ago) link
Oh. Yeah, pretend I didn't say anything.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 14:36 (seven years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/04/spotify-universal-albums-premium-subscribers-only
― Odysseus, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 16:14 (seven years ago) link
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.]
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 16:37 (seven years ago) link
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.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 4 April 2017 18:22 (seven years ago) link
Was Time Fades Away included when Neil Young's catalog showed back up a few months ago, or is this a recent development?
― scattered, smothered, covered, diced and chunked (WilliamC), Monday, 10 April 2017 14:31 (seven years ago) link
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/5RlyYKGWnlnnb5aZsCOPEOhttps://open.spotify.com/album/1YirBj0TgKtcl7GBmklwnMhttps://open.spotify.com/album/201xel0UP61Bn7gCmMMAAlhttps://open.spotify.com/album/7xBaTmApqevxKxgEQi7RN0https://open.spotify.com/album/6VemqswE6DThVVkqhZGO7Yhttps://open.spotify.com/album/4c3iXxxYUbcApDneBnKzQT
There's also these, don't really know who these ppl are:https://open.spotify.com/album/0BNzyPPi98WQ44viXP51vxhttps://open.spotify.com/album/4Yfi7gOjObRpIhhlCwqkML
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 10 April 2017 14:42 (seven years ago) link
Passed this along to get it fixed, thanks.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 10 April 2017 15:27 (seven years ago) link
:D
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 10 April 2017 15:36 (seven years ago) link
I imagine that sort of incorrect cross-pollination can play a bit of havoc with recommendations
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 10 April 2017 15:37 (seven years ago) link
A constant source of irritation, yes.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 10 April 2017 15:50 (seven years ago) link
You'd think artists/labels would be pretty eager to fix this, otherwise their namesake gets all the money.
― Siegbran, Monday, 10 April 2017 16:04 (seven years ago) link
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
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 10 April 2017 17:53 (seven years ago) link
glenn, i'm finding a replicable issue on spotify's version of Talking Heads "Seen and Not Seen" at 1:40
― Bobson Dugnutt (ulysses), Monday, 10 April 2017 18:29 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Monday, 10 April 2017 18:34 (seven years ago) link
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.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 03:31 (seven years ago) link
Glen: USA and https://open.spotify.com/track/7dq6icAlynpBD6MSrXKh3A
― Bobson Dugnutt (ulysses), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 03:49 (seven years ago) link
I don't hear anything weird at 1:40 in that. What do you hear?
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 03:55 (seven years ago) link
popping and skipping on the track. dunno why it's only me. disregard if it's a glitch just on my end.
― Bobson Dugnutt (ulysses), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 04:07 (seven years ago) link
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?
― pplains, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 04:47 (seven years ago) link
is it the musician's commentary?
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 04:52 (seven years ago) link
pplains: weird, it's supposed to be the right channel. Which hemisphere is your ISP's DNS entry served from?
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 13:20 (seven years ago) link
You mean before or after Obama changed the global polarities?
― pplains, Tuesday, 11 April 2017 13:24 (seven years ago) link
if the aluminum hat fits, wear it i suppose
― Bobson Dugnutt (ulysses), Tuesday, 11 April 2017 13:35 (seven years ago) link
Any chance Spotify could add a "play backwards" function? I really want to find out what Led Zeppelin has to say about Satan.
― Vernon Locke, Wednesday, 12 April 2017 00:30 (seven years ago) link
they think he cool
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Wednesday, 12 April 2017 13:03 (seven years ago) link
I'm a big Spotify fan, but the new ipad layout is so, so bad (it seems to just be a clone of the iphone UI), and so much worse than the previous version. I'm sure there's some logical explanation, but it's hard to imagine anyone thinking it's an improvement.
― Dan I., Thursday, 13 April 2017 18:06 (seven years ago) link
Ugh ugh ugh - downloaded the latest version of the app and Spotify no longer allows you to shuffle all contents of a folder, which RUINS the way I've painstakingly organized my library. I've spent over a year organizing playlists by artist, methodically removing all bad songs, then nesting those folders inside genre folders which are placed inside folders organized by decade. Up until yesterday that yielded a lot of flexibility in what kind of shuffle mixes I could make. It all depended on the ability to shuffle within folders... so the usability of Spotify just took a severe nosedive.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 11:56 (seven years ago) link
I dunno about iOS apps but for desktop and android it shouldn't be too difficult downgrading to older versions
― niels, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 12:06 (seven years ago) link
You can downgrade on desktop to the really great native client, but it's a pain in the ass (you have to try and stop it updating itself) and more and more non-core functionality is breaking.
― stet, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 12:09 (seven years ago) link
I don't understand why the nest folder/playlist "play all" function went away either. I can understand not adding new features but taking away something that was established and that people liked and used *coughstarredplaylistcough* is such a strange thing to do.
― musically, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 16:39 (seven years ago) link
My conspiracy theory is that spotify is degrading their service to drive down the overall number of tracks played so that they can pay less royalties.
― Moodles, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 16:45 (seven years ago) link
xp, just "play' when on a folder works for me? maybe i have an outdated version.
― Bobson Dugnutt (ulysses), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 18:36 (seven years ago) link
It should still work on the desktop app, but is no longer available on mobile devices.
― Moodles, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 18:57 (seven years ago) link