Spotify - anyone heard of it?

true, but imposing a limit the user isn't even told about isn't the best way of going about that. currently people are downloading albums/playlists, going out and discovering their songs were never downloaded. the app doesn't tell you the limit was breached or even how close you are to the limit.

Also I'd be willing to pay more and I bet plenty of the hardcores would be willing as well.

even then it seems dumb to ask people to pay more just to do what every other service does. it's not even a cost issue, it's just a local cache. i'm guessing it's a licensing issue they never got sorted.

^^^ ding ding ding

(my guess as well)

Possibly so.

It's not a licensing issue.

glenn! do you know more?

I know just enough more to be frustrated that I'm not allowed to explain the technical details, but not enough that my explanation would be coherent or complete. It's not due to legality or laziness, though, it's really a technical issue.

Fair. But can you say if it's something they are trying to change and/or discussing or should I move on?

It's not going to change any time soon.

That's a bummer.

thx glenn

Is there something glitchy going on for anyone else with the mobile device connections? Spotify will just randomly switch from playing on my desktop to my phone even when I don't have the app up on the phone. It's starting to get really annoying, especially in the office.

that has always been a bit hard to control. Sonos fixed the family plan issue if you want to listen to two different accounts on different speakers, but still does not work if you want to mix sonos, headphones, or car, etc. Still need offline mode for that.

I guess you used to be able to view playlists by album, but no longer?

my favorite thing about spottily currently is the commercial where the lady groans "THE EMAILS"

Getting IA with this more and more. Downloaded a 200 song playlist at home through wifi, so it'd be available for me on the road. Accidentally tapped the 'download' button when on said road, ticking it from green (on) to grey (off). When I ticked it on again it started to try to download the whole bloody playlist again, it had been erased. Sigh

This week's Discover Weekly has five tracks from last week's Discover Weekly. Perhaps I'm listening to too much DW and it's eating its own tail?

Yeah I have the same problem, a lot of the same tracks three weeks in a row now

Same here.

This video suggest that including older songs on the Discover Weekly playlist started out as a bug, but has become a feature

https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/528831/what-makes-things-cool/

Haven't checked this week's (left earbuds at home and I like it to be a surprise as I listen!), but week of May 29 overlapped with week of May 22 to the tune of 6-7 common tracks. Both weeks started with Joy Div's "Decades"!

DW was so good for 8-9 weeks at the start of the year, but it's stuck inside itself now.

That Atlantic thing was interesting, re: drop in DW engagement (measured as skip vs play?) when it got too heavy on the new stuff. My reaction was the opposite (sorry, Gang Of Four/Jonathan Richman/Gorky's/etc, you're getting skipped; hello thing I've never heard before, I will hear you out). I guess late-2016 DW was frightening the horses.

Why isn't Trout Mask Replica on Spotify when p much every other Beefheart alb is there?

This week's spotify weekly is at least 50% same artists as last week. In some cases it's just a different song off the same album as the last week, mostly it's just exactly the same songs. Discover weekly was one of the main things differentiating spotify from it's competitors for me.

Anyway, I signed up for a 4 month free trial of google play. I'm gonna try it out this summer and drop spotify for a while at least. Google's android client much better than spotify's, maybe not so much from a UI standpoint, but much more responsive and bug-free.

I'm just coming to the end of my 4-month Google Play Music trial. Everything is broadly fine, but there's nothing that would make me contemplate the upheaval of a shift from Spotify. The best aspect is the upload - which is part of the free package anyway.

Spotify loves to recommend me Chris Spedding for some reason. I really don't know why. (But I don't mind.)

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My Discover Weekly had five or six songs from last week in as well.

And I think "Video Life" by Chris Spedding has appeared six or seven times overall now. He must have made nearly a penny from me.

My Release Radar playlist has grown to 56 songs as of last week!? Does the length depend on how many artists I follow have new releases?

I've seen a few other people reporting repeated tracks in DW. If you got dupes, is yours still 30 tracks, or is it longer this week?

Release Radar is allowed to grow longer if more artists you follow or like have releases this week, so that one is normal and good!

I had 7 or 8 repeats this week also, out of a normal 30.

Release Radar playlist has been better for me for a while than DW, except there was a song I really liked a couple of weeks ago, forgot to save and it disappeared and now I'll never find it again

Just 30 tracks for me, Glenn

I've also been getting lots of repeats (30 song list) and it def makes it a less useful playlist (I'd do daily mix if I wanted to hear stuff I know) and it's somewhat annoying to hear some semi obscure cut for the third week in a row...

Same here, maybe it's what people want but then it's hardly 'discover' weekly anymore. At least mine has finally stopped trying to make Ariel Pink happen.

mine has not

congrats, glenn

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2016/01/14/meet-the-man-classifying-every-genre-of-music-on-spotify-all-1387-of-them.html?curator=MusicREDEF

On the internet everyone can be famous from the same old piece every 15 months.

new to me...a friend sent it to me and i was like, hmm.

what can you do? (besides check the date of the article)

glenn love is good love

My wife sent me a link to everynoise recently, which is a good indication that word is getting around well outside our little ILM bubble.

25/30 songs in my DW this week came from the previous 2. Between that, the desktop app frequently not working, and an evident distain for roku/smart tv users, I think I'm done.

I think we found a cause of repeats the last few weeks, so maybe give next week's DW a chance before you give up.

I've noticed the desktop app being very buggy recently - frequently taking 5 to 10 minutes to wake up on starting. I can't work out if it's the laptop (it's got 4gb of RAM, but can lag), if the app is looking for remote files or if there's something else going on. App-entropy is a pain in the arse.

I get that a lot as well. Just a looong time for all the panels to load.

glad to hear dw will be back in form

What's going on with this Sire compilation, Just Say Anything? Most of the artist names are Just Say Yes. I know the series of these comps is called Just Say Yes, but this is some pretty horrible metadata.

https://open.spotify.com/album/5PGmgmVV9n8bA5m5fRVoru

I was able to speed up the desktop Spotify by downloading a third-party "scrubber" app.

DW still thinks I'm a huge Ry Cooder fan, for some reason.

brotherlovesdub, I reported that comp so we can ask the label to fix it and resubmit...

I honestly do not understand people getting this riled up about a big in their DW. Up to the point of wanting to cancel the whole service? Gtfo.

While the discover weekly thing is a bit annoying, my main issue is with the Spotify Android app, which is ridiculously slow (on my phone at least)

The DW thing is just what made me realise that I should probably at least try out the competition.