Spotify - anyone heard of it?

just canned premium because i can't justify three music services. it was still giving me the burger menu when i killed it, idk maybe i'm a non-essential customer or something.

just noticed the (free, PC) spotify app doesn't have the alert icon showing you all the recent additions from followed artists. that sucks.

Yeah, that seems to have been yanked in the most recent update.

The bell icon is still present in the web player fwiw

What are we, savages?

Anybody else have the Slits on DW this week? They're definitely a band that would show up in my playlist, but I'm having a moment of paranoia that Spotify would give them an extra nudge because they're a name in the news in the last few days.

There's no nudging in DW. I guess it's produced in a facility that also produces editorial products, but it uses different equipment, so it should be pretty safe for the nudge-allergic.

But people read news, and then go listen to things on Spotify, so it's totally expected that events in the world can end up affecting recommendations that are based on collective listening patterns.

Spotify has been telling me it has lost the internet connection a lot lately. It's fine when I restart it but there has been a lot of restarting. I don't wanna live this way.

felt a brief nostalgic impulse to traverse some of my family's inexplicable understanding of 80s tastefulness and found that there are no Flim & the BB's recordings on spotify

Lol

I had a roommate who was an early adapter to CDs and that was one of the first few he got. He always played it whenever we had a visitor to impress them with the sonics.

Early adopter

Haven't gotten into my DW Playlists the previous few weeks but this one is top shelf.

it's pornographic?

There are so many missed opportunities that I just can't imagine would be that difficult to provide. For example, the ability to search for playlists that contain a certain song would be huge. You can approximate this by Googling: site:spotify.com inurl:"playlist" "[artist name]" "[song name]"
...but why isn't that available in app?

It's one of those things that you just sort of assume would be available by default whenever you do a search, until you find that it's not.

All playlist-searching things are complicated by the fact that there are billions of playlists on Spotify. Improvements will come, but when you can't imagine why the one you're wanting would be difficult, sometimes that's the thing you aren't imagining...

Ah, I see, thanks. That makes sense.

I definitely didn't antagonize any Spotify co-workers by impatiently demanding obvious-seeming features before fully comprehending this myself. No way.

My laptop is glitching which means I can't put anything new on my iPod which in turn means that I finally got over myself and tried Spotify for the first time ever yesterday and was jamming out to a pretty cool space jazz playlist and discovering some cool new things and then the app kept telling me that I wasn't connected to the internet except for the thing where I was totally connected to the internet and it hasn't worked since. Oh well. It was fun for about nine minutes.

I definitely didn't antagonize any Spotify co-workers by impatiently demanding obvious-seeming features before fully comprehending this myself. No way.

plz keep antagonizing them until they get local files figured out

If I worked a Spotify I would add stars emoji to every email I sent.

lol

just a few months ago the correct (1983) version of "Temple of Love" was on the Sisters of Mercy's Some Girls Wander By Mistake: http://open.spotify.com/album/42HVWb7R8TxLHgVjc2OOIV

now it's been replaced by the 1992 version, which has never been part of this album's official tracklist. what happened? I'm bummed.

Weird, looks like that was a label decision. Or a label action, anyway. Whether it was intentional or not is a different question.

found a DIY way to use the Star playlist
https://ifttt.com/recipes/311224-save-a-track-in-spotify-and-add-to-playlist

you can use the + just like the old star . works great for me, i don't even use Your Library anyways

That helps a lot, thank you.

Still can't unstar easily though, which was half of the star power!

just click the check mark, it does the same thing

we've covered this, it does not do the same thing

Good point Jeff! But I do like to be able to hit one button and know exactly where the song goes

Just today realized there's no YMO on Spotify! :(

The Serato Pyro app (mentioned upthread) does a more than serviceable job at beat-mixing Spotify tracks (and local files held within iTunes). It's not perfect, but it rarely does a duff mix. And it's free.

Pyro seems neat from the video demo, but fuck any app that's iOS only.

How does the algorithm know how much I like "I Walk On Guilded Splinters"? It has furnished me with several versions thus far, even including the slightly less enjoyably spelled "I Walk On Gilded Splinters" by Paul Weller.

Should have prefaced that with a "B-b-but" for full rhetorical effect.

It seems that desktop notifications are officially dead: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Windows-Web/Removal-of-desktop-notifications/td-p/1343904

Instead you can sign up to receive notifications...by email.

wtf Spotify

dafuq? EMAIL?!

https://www.buzzfeed.com/reggieugwu/the-unsung-heroes-of-the-music-streaming-boom

also https://twitter.com/KendraJames_/status/753212999758934019

whoops, wrong thread

Glenn, there's a thing I noticed quite a while back but forgot to mention until now -- there are two George Lewises, a New Orleans clarinetist (1900-1968) and a Chicago composer/trombonist (1952-). Their streaming titles are mashed together in Spotify -- is there any way to separate them?

There is a way. I'm not going to fix them myself, because there are a lot of them and because jazz. But I'll pass the message along.

Cool, thanks!

OK, everyone probably already knew about this, but I've just come across Boil the Frog, and am having fun. http://static.echonest.com/BoilTheFrog/?src=Godspeed%20You%20Black%20Emperor&dest=Shonen%20Knife is an example--it tries to create a 'seamless' playlist to get you from one artist to another

Though its attempt to get from Grimes to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan via a comedy bit from Stephen Fry and Catherine Tate doing a Shakespeare soliloquy suggests there are still a few bugs in the mix.

A few months ago ledge asked why "Never Let Me Down Again" was missing from Depeche Mode's Music for the Masses (in the UK). It took a few tries to get the label to fix this, but it finally worked!

Triumphantly: https://open.spotify.com/album/5Yyx661Ksxl2pmRUuGLzw3

Awesome. I knew you wouldn't let me down.

I think this might be a Rick roll

Obviously the alternative was to just tell you to enjoy the silence.