it's possible the average spotify listener blasting early alt-rock on the reg doesn't wanna be pushed any further than "mind if we slip some guadacanal diary in with your cure and depeche?" though
― da croupier, Monday, 14 September 2015 14:33 (eight years ago) link
This week I got Brenton Wood's Oogum Boogum Song on my playlist, which I may have heard before but couldn't identify, and I found it delightful. Though now I've just learned that's apparently been used in a KIA ad, so that makes me a little disapppointed.
― MarkoP, Monday, 14 September 2015 14:39 (eight years ago) link
wish there was a "I am familiar with this artist already, please exclude from future discover playlists" ticker
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 14 September 2015 15:38 (eight years ago) link
as much as I love Charli XCX I think I am all discovered on that front
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 14 September 2015 15:39 (eight years ago) link
It's true that DW is not really attempting, at the moment, to aggressively push your boundaries. Think of it as just the beginning. If it's getting the kind of thing you like, it's proving that the basic personalization approach is working. Then we can start to apply that personalization to other sources of material, like Fresh Finds or new releases...
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 14 September 2015 16:43 (eight years ago) link
I'm pretty cool with it just coughing up more 70s AM gold nuggets not currently in my playlists. The only real problem, as with all things of this nature (Netflix being the worst at this in my experience) is that you can't ever really tell it ''no, I know about that, I just think it sucks'' or ''i only want to listen to that artist in the context of their albums'' or ''i only dig their rambling story-songs, not their stabs at political relevancy'' or w/e. Like if there's any opportunty to low-rate things, I avoid it because I know the machine will never know *why* I'm hitting that button, and the distortions will pile up from there. So it goes.
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Monday, 14 September 2015 17:05 (eight years ago) link
I'm pretty cool with it just coughing up more 70s AM gold nuggets not currently in my playlists
yeah i'd just like to not see stuff from my playlists
― da croupier, Monday, 14 September 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link
xpost Yes, me too. Which is why we're trying to mostly rely on listening, not "tuning", so you don't waste your time trying to pre-second-guess the robots.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 14 September 2015 17:21 (eight years ago) link
I'd like to convince it I'm not the incarnation of the part of idolator that reads like popjustice
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 14 September 2015 17:23 (eight years ago) link
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garbage_in,_garbage_out
― balls, Monday, 14 September 2015 18:22 (eight years ago) link
i spent last week making a huge '80s playlist so my discover weekly this week is amazing lol
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 14 September 2015 18:31 (eight years ago) link
― balls, Monday, September 14, 2015 2:22 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that's the thing though, no matter how hard I try to influence it, it does not budge.
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 14 September 2015 19:06 (eight years ago) link
Maybe try a couple solid weeks of Turkish hip hop and reggaeton.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 00:02 (eight years ago) link
Beck, Bjork, The Smiths, JAMC, MBV, Cocteau Twins, Belle and Sebastian, Super Furries, Broadcast, plus a side order of The Fall, Talking Heads, Gang of Four, Durutti Column. I haven't escaped the male-centric indie spiral but it's finally figured out when my tastes formed.
― ledge, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 12:42 (eight years ago) link
Also, does the algorithm for the Discovery Playlist put any thought into order and flow of the playlist, or does it just find a bunch of random songs you might like and puts them in no particular order?
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 14:25 (eight years ago) link
At the moment there's no particular internal order to the tracks, but this is an obvious area for future work...
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 15:06 (eight years ago) link
My Recent Artists over the last two weeks have been mostly metallic (Electric Wizard, Uncle Acid, Earth, Black Sabbath, Candlemass, Cirith Ungol, Enslaved, Myrkyr, Ulver, Opeth, Tribulation) but this week's Discovery Playlist remains much in the vein of the earlier ones I've received, strong on jazz and neo-soul ... the main change this time appears to be less soul and more old post-punk (always welcome) and current indie (somewhat less so). There's one Sabbath track (the atypical"Planet Caravan"), otherwise zero metal.
All my Discovery Playlists have been great so far, with very few tracks I wanted to skip, so I am not complaining at all ... it's just interesting to try to figure out how and when listening history affects results.
― Brad C., Tuesday, 15 September 2015 16:02 (eight years ago) link
Oooh, Running!
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 16:37 (eight years ago) link
Charli XCX was a hidden gem until you took notice.
Now see how much your support means by logging into Found Them First and watching Charli XCX’s exclusive thank you video.
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 21:15 (eight years ago) link
(I am assuming everyone else got this, or close to this)
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 21:16 (eight years ago) link
lol i just got one of those for k. michelle
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 21:17 (eight years ago) link
would watch k michelle's exclusive thank you video
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 15 September 2015 22:34 (eight years ago) link
Ron Jeremy was a hidden gem until you took notice.Now see how much your support means by logging intoFound Them First and watching Ron Jeremy’s exclusive thank you video.
Now see how much your support means by logging intoFound Them First and watching Ron Jeremy’s exclusive thank you video.
― Cosmic Slop, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 22:41 (eight years ago) link
https://www.spotify.com/us/jobs/view/oTes1fwk/
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 20 September 2015 16:02 (eight years ago) link
from the "what you'll do" section of above job description:
Identify and substantiate playlist hypotheses.
should be new description of ILM. though maybe it's a little too on-the-nose.
― fact checking cuz, Sunday, 20 September 2015 16:15 (eight years ago) link
That's good solid Spotify-speak. You will really do that. You will really talk and think about it that way.
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 20 September 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link
Finally clicked on Discover Weekly about an hour ago. Few tunes and even fewer artists I was unfamiliar with, but still a pleasant listening experience. Seems like more than one of us got recommended "Mystic Eyes," by Them.
― The Starry-Eyed Messenger Service (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 September 2015 04:25 (eight years ago) link
i liked mine
however it did recommend will young 😱😱😱
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 21 September 2015 08:01 (eight years ago) link
would like to congratulate whoever wrote that job ad for their restraint in not asking for a rock star candidate
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 21 September 2015 11:59 (eight years ago) link
Mine didn't update this week for some reason.
― MarkoP, Monday, 21 September 2015 13:47 (eight years ago) link
ditto
― steppenwolf in white van speaker scam (ledge), Monday, 21 September 2015 13:58 (eight years ago) link
Thirded. Guess I didn't need to listen to the whole thing last night.
― The Starry-Eyed Messenger Service (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 September 2015 15:41 (eight years ago) link
fourthed
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 21 September 2015 15:43 (eight years ago) link
glenn mcdonald to thread!
― The Starry-Eyed Messenger Service (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 September 2015 15:48 (eight years ago) link
Had been looking forward to it showing up. Now it is the slight pang of seeing the unopened box of Scholastic Books on the teacher's desk.
― The Starry-Eyed Messenger Service (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 September 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
I updated my desktop app this weekend and now my Local Files list is completely hosed, it doesn't seem to be able to load properly.
― too young for seapunk (Moodles), Monday, 21 September 2015 16:32 (eight years ago) link
no playlist for me either
― tayto fan (Michael B), Monday, 21 September 2015 17:34 (eight years ago) link
DW updating hit a glitch, but feverish repairs are underway. Do not despair, the music is not lost.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 21 September 2015 19:13 (eight years ago) link
I am having to discover stuff all by myself :o
― nashwan, Monday, 21 September 2015 19:22 (eight years ago) link
On September 21, 2015, Spotify became self-aware.
― da croupier, Monday, 21 September 2015 19:27 (eight years ago) link
http://i.investopedia.com/dimages/graphics/spotify_logo.jpgglenn, I'm afraid I can't do that
― The Starry-Eyed Messenger Service (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 September 2015 20:04 (eight years ago) link
try againhttp://evolver.fm/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/spotify-logo.pngI'm sorry, glenn, I'm afraid I can't do that
― The Starry-Eyed Messenger Service (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 September 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
Gizmodo: Going back to the waves for a second. What are they?CW: *laughing* I was the first guy to do the logo back in 2006 and we came up with the waves then. It's basically illustrating streaming. Or at least that's what the thought was back then and now. It's supposed to be streaming.AH: I've read some discussions on Twitter that it's audio waves. But we think of it as streaming. It's good that it could be both.
but the waves in a stream do not diverge, CW! maybe it illustrates estuary-ing!
― Sufjan Grafton, Monday, 21 September 2015 20:25 (eight years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Heraclitus_b_4_compressed.jpg/383px-Heraclitus_b_4_compressed.jpg
― The Starry-Eyed Messenger Service (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 September 2015 20:37 (eight years ago) link
love his pepsi logo
― Sufjan Grafton, Monday, 21 September 2015 20:54 (eight years ago) link
i got discover weekly for the first time last week and if a human being had put that playlist together and said "here are some songs i think you'd like that you haven't heard before!" i would have been profoundly offended tbh
i'm not gonna type all of them up but this is a good representation:
james brown - i feel goodblondie - heart of glassrick springfield - jessie's girlrighteous bros - you've lost that lovin feelinearth wind and fire - septembersupremes - reflectionstom jones - delilahomi - cheerleader (not the rmx version that i've listened to which makes this a lazy ass recommendation)bananarama - cruel summerchubby checker - the twist
FIRST of all i think all those were literally #1 songs? you think i need to "discover" these? don't insult me spotify, not after all the time we spend together.
second why are they almost all oldies (only two of my recs were from the last 30 years)? i realize i may be messing up my recommendations by listening to glenn miller and duke ellington for hours on end as my bg study music but i can't draw the line from that to bananarama.
i mean don't get me wrong these are all jamz of the highest order but i didn't need spotify to tell me that.
my playlist this week is an improvement in terms of newer stuff and stuff i haven't heard, but it still has macho man, love will keep us together and never gonna give you up on it so my final grade is
o_O o_O o_O three side-eyes out of four
― musically, Monday, 21 September 2015 22:21 (eight years ago) link
yeah I think it wd be very nice if, say, it would use number of spotify plays total on a track as an argument against foisting ir on you. maybe even, the more youve listened to whatever is making it think you'll like an extremely popular song, the more likely it is to go, man, this guy is a serious grunge fan, so if he's not listening to 'smells like teen spirit' it's probably by choice.
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Monday, 21 September 2015 23:12 (eight years ago) link
It's been most interesting seeing how many monthly listeners some of my favorite artists have:
A Sunny Day in Glasgow: 38,000Pinback: 133,000Ariel Pink: 90,000John Maus: 60,000Nite Jewel: 31,000Roman a Clef: 646
― calstars, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 00:05 (eight years ago) link
By contrast:
Drake: 14,000,000
― calstars, Tuesday, 22 September 2015 00:07 (eight years ago) link
I still wish there was a way to access the list that these numbers are stored in : )