Spotify - anyone heard of it?

^^^ just came here to post this! I like the bluey green!

But are stars back???

thats really all i want. it was my fav thing about spotify

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2015/06/15/its-just-a-color/

"Spotify changed the color of its icon and it’s driving people crazy"

fwiw, I'm a fan of the yellower green. This branding update is DOGSHIT ;)

old color >>>

was beginning to think I'd somehow developed sudden-onset colorblindness until I actually clicked and realized I just hadn't gotten the update

Coca-Cola has a signature shade of red. T-Mobile has a signature shade of pink. Spotify has (had?) a signature shade of green. Time has shown that you can fuck around with the typeface, shape or flatness of your logo and people will adjust, but if you change the color of it, then people get totally discombobulated. This is Branding 101.

i know this isn't how it works but i like to imagine that the team responsible to returning ctrl+f functions to local files search have instead been hard at work changing the color

lol

There was a time when the logo was kind of intentionally battered looking - had some blemishes on it or something

Android still has the old logo, I feel like a second-class citizen

"overripe avocado"

Anybody try this? When I hit "more" button to choose more artists I "love" it presents me with the likes of Derulo and Skrillex; nice idea though

https://spotify-tasterewind.com/

tried that, and it's terrible in countless ways, but mostly i was wondering why ralph tresvant repeatedly showed up among the relatively small list of artists i'm able to "love" to get this thing started. kanye, drake, hozier, avicii, skrillex and ... ralph tresvant???

Yeah, I think that Taste Rewind thing wasn't actually supposed to be announced yet. There's some intermittent problem that results in some people getting an un-personalized list of artists to pick from (just the most popular), instead of ones you've actually played. They're working on it.

That would explain it!

Example of why the new brand color sucks:

http://i.imgur.com/IVO9mgvl.jpg

Sayin' it needs a white background?

Apparently, Spotify's design group referred to the old color as "broccoli," but whatever they called it, it stood apart from most other app icons (especially on iOS).

If that was broccoli, this is mint chocolate chip.

I'm have OCD about storage space and my usage on my stupid phone. That's why it kills me that there's no way to clear the cache. No way to remove what you downloaded last week but decided you don't need this week. You're stuck with it until you delete and reinstall!

yep. so i delete and reinstall about once a month.

Right. And then you have to re-download the stuff you still want. Ehhhh

To be fair, not just a Spotify problem--all apps are like that, aren't they?

I don't have that problem with my Spotify app - but then, like the desktop app, it's at least two years old (it even has starring, woo).

I know you can clear an app's cache on Android, but I don't remember if you can do it on an iPhone.

wait how many tracks do i need to listen to to ensure spotify are making a loss

Aren't they already losing money?

Prompted to install a new version this morning. Still won't load my local files. C'mon Apple Music!!!

Does spotify publish a change log for these new versions? Would love to see the features they remove each time instead of just stumbling upon them and upping my rage randomly throughout the day.

Google music lets you manage (remove) downloads. Not sure if apple will allow this.

Apple will apparently not carry matador, rough trade, xl, 4AD on streaming for the moment
http://beggars.com/group/pressrelease/90/with-regards-to-apple-music

No Scott then :(

nah, Creed is on Wind-up

lool so no adele or jack white then, sweet deal for your customers apple

it is sort of nuts that they didn't get that shit worked out prior to launch... they've had years to discuss it!
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3043547/spotifys-new-look-signals-its-identity-shift

Apple Music advertising has prominently featured some artists signed to those labels, including FKA Twigs and Alabama Shakes

xpost wow. so bold.

i like the new green

it's spending 5,000,000 years dragging & dropping a song to a different place in a playlist that bothers me

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Is there a thread for this style of breathless brand-identity snake oil?

i think there was one that included the famous pepsi logo documents

If only they had curated 12 perfect colors for their marketing materials, I would have signed up for Spotify years ago!

http://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell-021109.pdf

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Is there a thread for this style of breathless brand-identity snake oil?

― schwantz, Thursday, June 18, 2015 3:05 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not really snake-oil oriented, but maybe worth a peek: Design Crimes: corporations ditching classic logos for newer logos that are duds

whoa that doc is insaneo

ha the old timey pepsi logo looks kinda black metalish

If there was an audio version, it would be read by Tom Cruise.

http://image.slidesharecdn.com/pepsigravitationalfield-090413113629-phpapp01/95/breathtaking-pepsi-27-728.jpg%3Fcb%3D1421229359

To count as a play, does it matter whether or not the song is saved for offline use?

In a vacation scenario in which you're offline for a week but listening to tracks -- and then you come home and go back online -- does the app upload all the usage information at that point?