Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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.

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

I think I need to do this, as desktop app takes upwards of 10mins to fire up properly these days, and even longer if you want to start by loading a playlist you haven't played before, but I don't understand what that sentence you wrote means.

http://freemacsoft.net/appcleaner/

Got the tip from this page: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Desktop-Mac/Slow-load-time-on-Mac-desktop-app/td-p/1655353

I didn't even delete and reinstall. Worked fine just after putting Spotify through the wringer.

No DW today -- is it on hold for debugging?

Mine is updated

Mine too

Interesting, it just updated a minute ago.

My DW hasn't updated for 15 days, and my Release Radar hasn't updated for 11 days.

How feasible and interested would you say users would be in having invite only collaborative playlists? As it stands right now if a playlist is collaborative everyone on spotify can add tracks -which ruins playlists more often than not- or an asshole can get in and remove every track just for giggles.

I used to send and receive recommendations from a couple of acquaintances who live in the other side of the world via inbox. With that feature gone, having collaborative "private" playlists seems to me like the easiest solution to my problem. We can share songs back and forth within a playlist and even curate and compliment a theme or set of sounds between each other.

Anyways... been wanting this feature for years now but I might be one of the few who want it.

count me in

obviously it's something I've wanted

i think that counts as a "social" feature therefore bewilderingly deprioritized by our spotify overlords

Who did this Salsa Nation playlist? It's meaningless to have a "contemporary salsa" playlist that includes "La Murga" (from 1971). I didn't just click on it to bitch about it either. I was curious to see what new material someone might think is worth highlighting. (Sadly there is almost nothing in the way of truly contemporary, of-the-moment salsa that is worth collecting in a playlist.)

Here's my data-analytical thing that finds new (or nominally new, at least) music by less-known artists that seems to be catching on among Salsa fans:

https://open.spotify.com/user/particledetector/playlist/6yrKLhh8PE0XVCq2LEnlky

There's no explicit editorial presence in this, it's just cohort statistics, so nothing forces the music to BE salsa, and if everybody who usually plays salsa spent the last week listening to nothing but death metal, this list would be death metal. But people never seem to actually do that.

I've never listened to this one before, myself, and I don't know enough about salsa to say anything about the songs in context, but I'm playing it now and it's pretty great whatever it is.

Thanks, that looks potentially interesting. If nothing else it might remind me of some Dominican merengue I've forgotten about, by the looks of it.