i really hate the notifications but i'm an old-fashioned crank with software.
thing that's driving me nuts lately is that the player will just.... stop. like you just have to walk over and hit the next song to get it to go again. very annoying for, well, anything really, but especially when you have it on shuffle for some hands-free purpose like doing dishes or cleaning the house. i've noticed it most on the android app but i think it's happened to me on the desktop version too.
― the thirteenth floorior (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 17:13 (eight years ago) link
glenn: did you come up with the "abstractro" genre? because from what I see searching spotify for that genre tag, it seems to be largely based on a couple of my own playlists
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 9 February 2016 17:16 (eight years ago) link
I did, yes. It wasn't based on anybody's individual playlists, or on playlists per se at all, but it doesn't surprise me that there are playlists that align with it. I don't "make up" genres, I just give names to listening clusters I find in the world.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 19:10 (eight years ago) link
Too bad 'I don't "make up" genres, I just give names to listening clusters I find in the world.' is more than 80 characters, or I would have my first new screen name.
― schwantz, Tuesday, 9 February 2016 22:40 (eight years ago) link
okay, i may regret this but i'm updating to the current version. let's see how it works.
― ulysses, Thursday, 11 February 2016 20:58 (eight years ago) link
I gave up fighting it and just go with the new versions every time now. Still some issues with it on startup and I sometimes get repeat notifications but most things seem fairly reliable recently.
― Ad h (onimo), Thursday, 11 February 2016 23:55 (eight years ago) link
do local files work?
― Mordy, Thursday, 11 February 2016 23:57 (eight years ago) link
The local file browser isn't the best and you can't select albums to play but it's okay apart from that - the search is finding local files too.
― Ad h (onimo), Friday, 12 February 2016 00:13 (eight years ago) link
cool i keep wanting to upgrade but nonfunctional local files really is a dealbreaker
― Mordy, Friday, 12 February 2016 00:30 (eight years ago) link
this (great) song https://open.spotify.com/track/6uv4VeWDVal1agJHUYi5iK
should be indexed to this kittenhttps://open.spotify.com/artist/4zHX9zUUtxUw898g1GyihC
― maura, Friday, 12 February 2016 15:59 (eight years ago) link
Will fix.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 12 February 2016 22:42 (eight years ago) link
thanks!
― maura, Friday, 12 February 2016 23:10 (eight years ago) link
Also: wow.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 12 February 2016 23:39 (eight years ago) link
RIGHT?
― maura, Friday, 12 February 2016 23:47 (eight years ago) link
And in a kind of similar spirit, spotify:album:2LSBVvjQwteBIMik5P8OqK.
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 13 February 2016 02:27 (eight years ago) link
ugh, so i updated to new spotify bc my old version of spotify's search really stopped working. local files load up fine but there's no way to sort them except by name and artist and afaict there's no way to search only your local files. why can't they just put this obvious (preexisting) functionality in???
― Mordy, Sunday, 14 February 2016 16:03 (eight years ago) link
my guess is they'd rather you use their files instead of your own, but that's kind of dumb if true
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Sunday, 14 February 2016 16:06 (eight years ago) link
someone on their forum speculates the limited functionality is intentional "to make people listen to your songs rather than the local," but that is so short sighted - ppl aren't just going to give up on wanting that functionality. they'll just use different programs and possibly switch out entirely. xp or what you said
― Mordy, Sunday, 14 February 2016 16:06 (eight years ago) link
One of the reasons I dropped Spotify, for sure.
― Jeff, Sunday, 14 February 2016 16:17 (eight years ago) link
"can't sift through my local library? oh well guess i'm at that pt in my life where i'm done listening to songs that aren't on spotify's servers"
― Mordy, Sunday, 14 February 2016 16:27 (eight years ago) link
Full search has stopped working on my old (v0.8.5) version of Spotify, too. It still searches local files, and you still can select suggestions from the initial drop-down list, but that's it. I hadn't realised this was happening elsewhere. Now wondering if they've done something to deliberately disable search on permanently installed old versions, to force people into upgrading?
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 14 February 2016 17:56 (eight years ago) link
I don't think that's intentional. I'll pass along the report and see what I can find out...
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 14 February 2016 19:06 (eight years ago) link
from my friend's blog of okcupid first-date horror stories:
He ordered a whole pizza, did not offer to share, and was shocked when I ordered a small bread a cheese plate, because, of course, as one does when you just meet for drinks, I had already eaten. He then accused me of possibly having an eating disorder. He would know, because he used to be a talent scout and has met many women with eating disorders. (...)Our food arrives and we switch gears. Trying to choke down what was honest-to-God a TERRIBLE cheese plate (how?!) I ask him about his job. He is surprisingly reluctant to tell me anything, considering the detail to which he described his familial problems."Well you said in your profile you work in your sweatpants. So you work from home?""Sure. I work from home."Upon further probing I discover that after years spent as a talent scout in L.A. he moved to NYC to work in finance, but along the way uncovered how to make money by creating fake albums and posting them to spotify under different aliases. Knowing that a single listen to a song on spotify earns the artist only $.01, I cannot imagine how many made-up musical artists this guy has created in order to sustain a life in a studio apartment in Manhattan with no other source of income. Needless to say I was rather disquieted.
Our food arrives and we switch gears. Trying to choke down what was honest-to-God a TERRIBLE cheese plate (how?!) I ask him about his job. He is surprisingly reluctant to tell me anything, considering the detail to which he described his familial problems.
"Well you said in your profile you work in your sweatpants. So you work from home?"
"Sure. I work from home."
Upon further probing I discover that after years spent as a talent scout in L.A. he moved to NYC to work in finance, but along the way uncovered how to make money by creating fake albums and posting them to spotify under different aliases. Knowing that a single listen to a song on spotify earns the artist only $.01, I cannot imagine how many made-up musical artists this guy has created in order to sustain a life in a studio apartment in Manhattan with no other source of income. Needless to say I was rather disquieted.
― the thirteenth floorior (Doctor Casino), Sunday, 14 February 2016 20:23 (eight years ago) link
lolllll
― HYPERLINK TO RAP GENIUS (BradNelson), Sunday, 14 February 2016 20:25 (eight years ago) link
This story will amuse many people.
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 14 February 2016 20:45 (eight years ago) link
Thanks, Glenn!
― mike t-diva, Monday, 15 February 2016 09:49 (eight years ago) link
have seriously wanted to read an account - fictional or not - of the people that create the fake comps you see in spotify, and cover versions based on pre-release radio exclusives.. i remember when "100%" by duke dumont came out, it took several months to hit spotify, in which time a sound-a-like "tribute" racked up hundreds of thousands of plays. i was obsessed with who had made it, what was their name, what they ate for lunch. it was probably pizza sweatpants guy.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 15 February 2016 11:06 (eight years ago) link
Aren't those just the latest iteration of the "not recorded by the original artists" albums that were used to scam less-knowledgable record buyers since at least the 1970s?
― Tuomas, Monday, 15 February 2016 11:36 (eight years ago) link
...which were mostly done by non-popular studio musicians and other record industry proles.
― Tuomas, Monday, 15 February 2016 11:38 (eight years ago) link
Do less knowledgeable record buyers tend to recognize David Bowie?
― Ad h (onimo), Monday, 15 February 2016 11:50 (eight years ago) link
Usually those albums didn't/don't have a picture of the original artist on the cover, because that was/is probably considered too misleading for the consumer.
― Tuomas, Monday, 15 February 2016 11:52 (eight years ago) link
By "too misleading" I mean that it could lead to court cases.
Those were a monumental pain in the neck when I worked at Sam Goody. So many returns.
― how's life, Monday, 15 February 2016 11:56 (eight years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Countdown_Singers
― how's life, Monday, 15 February 2016 12:03 (eight years ago) link
I am getting a message saying that in a few months Spotify won't be supported by "my platform" - but when I click to learn more I just get taken to a generic FAQ page. Not sure what platform I could possibly be using that is worthy of going out of date. I'm on desktop and mobile, using Spotify software in both cases.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 15 February 2016 12:50 (eight years ago) link
Hey pgwp, that sounds weird. Where are you getting this message?
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 15 February 2016 15:02 (eight years ago) link
I get that message as well, I'm on an old Mac (10.6??) and Chrome is also telling me the same thing fwiw
have not clicked on the link yet cuz I'm gonna ride this old computer into the ground first
― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Monday, 15 February 2016 15:42 (eight years ago) link
it's a blue banner at the top of the screen
Two cases is an epidemic, as far as I'm concerned. I don't know what the deal is, but I forwarded both of your reports to our internal support department.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 15 February 2016 16:34 (eight years ago) link
MVP
― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Monday, 15 February 2016 16:40 (eight years ago) link
I guess I'm not running the most up to date OS for my mac.
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Mac/Updates-no-longer-available-on-this-platform-notice/td-p/1279823
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Monday, 15 February 2016 16:50 (eight years ago) link
psh glenn conspicuously not weighing in on egregious local files functionality limitations demonstrates his loyalties to the man
― Mordy, Monday, 15 February 2016 16:51 (eight years ago) link
your local files are special, and the struggle enhances this feeling
― Toof Seteltha (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 15 February 2016 16:59 (eight years ago) link
I can't care about everything.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 15 February 2016 17:21 (eight years ago) link
mike t-diva: I was just about to post a mighty rant about the sudden search deficiency in the functional versions (ie pre 1.0), but then it... worked again? Does it for you too?
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 19 February 2016 22:04 (eight years ago) link
This is probably way outside of your area, Glenn, but if you know any of the Connect folks, it's totally broken on FireTV (crashes immediately) and it looks like I'm not the only one seeing this...
― schwantz, Friday, 19 February 2016 22:24 (eight years ago) link
I have not had crashes, but I have to uninstall/reinstall the app every time I try to use it. Otherwise my phone will never see the FireTV as a connect option.
― Toof Seteltha (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 19 February 2016 22:37 (eight years ago) link
Tried that, but it still didn't work. :(
Got it to play one time for a couple seconds, and then it crashed.
― schwantz, Friday, 19 February 2016 22:44 (eight years ago) link
xp Anatol: Oh! It has started working again! What a relief.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 20 February 2016 00:41 (eight years ago) link
No, I don't know much about Connect, and nothing at all about FireTV, but I know who does, and have passed word along...
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 20 February 2016 02:12 (eight years ago) link