Spotify - anyone heard of it?

christ the tone of that is like those Tumblr posts that end with "and when the executive started to cry the musicians were so amazed that they all shook me by the hand and one of them gave me $100 and a new Xbox and said I could come on tour with them any time"

imo Spotify should follow the Netflix model and get a bunch of broken-up bands back together to record exclusive albums. The Beatles, maybe?

Or lock up some a-list podcasters / radio dudes who want to make a few bucks on a platform to augment their patreon and Merch revenue

Is there any way for Spotify to notify me whenever certain artists release a new track or album? I figured that following certain artists might do this somehow, but if it does, I am not seeing it.

They used to ping you with notifications, but now it seems like the Release Radar is the best way. I follow a ton of artists and as far as I can tell, they show up in my Release Radar each Friday. I have to do the extra step of clicking on the release to find out it's a track or a full album.

for Windows users the Toastify app may be of interest

I use it for three shortcuts:
alt+shift+enter = play/pause
alt+shift+left = previous
alt+shift+right = next

but it can do a lot more if you like

https://toastify.codeplex.com/

Why are these Spotify buttons so unresponsive? If I don't click on them from just the right position, they don't respond. If I click on the controls from a spot that would work with just about any other application or website, no luck.

Some day people will be laughing their heads off at the corny Spotify playlist names and graphics (more universally than they are apparently doing now).

more universally eh

My account has been hacked! Received an email 1 hour ago informing me of an email address change and now I cannot access the account.

I am very afraid that whoever has hacked it will be deleting the playlists. If they are still available could a kind ilxor do a backup while I await Spotify support? My username is betamaxdk

Dammit!!!!

Spotify support have responded quickly, thankfully the account is now secured

Googling the email used to hack my account led me to a very unsympathetic site that basically posts account info for hacked accounts

All I can say is fuck you willsmit372 you fucking idiot

and thank you Spotify support!

and to think the idiot used my account to stream fucking ed sheeran

now your spotify smells like him

>:(

I hear Sheeran junkies will do anything to get their fix

Spotify is good for listening to ILX top 77 lists!

Will someone please buy some Doug Hream Blunt records so my Discover Weekly will stop trying to force them on me?

It's all that and limp-wristed neo-psychedelia. Which is neither new, nor remotely psychedelic.

https://app.jqbx.fm

this can be kinda fun

https://app.jqbx.fm/room/ilxor
let's test drive

i just kicked a spotify exec out of my meeting for calling his product an app

― Scatperson (ski-ba-bop-ba-dop-whore.) (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, January 8, 2018 9:45 PM (three weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

:-) glad that one reached its target

https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/2/5/16974194/spotify-recommendation-algorithm-playlist-hack-nelson

I am not going to give Nelson all of the access to my account that it wants, but the link to the API documentation has me wanting to play with that a little bit more. I've been wishing for more granular searching for a long time. I don't even think you can do boolean searching combining things like label, genre, and year from within the app any more.

I tried label:"paper recordings" year:2017 and it seemed to work in the app.

Yeah, I don't know recall what I had trouble with. Glad to see it still works. This developer site is still very interesting. I don't know what I would use it for, but I definitely want to play with this.

discover weekly has been really useless lately :( too much old stuff! why would i want to listen to the police

I've been ruthlessly clicking on "I Don't Like This Artist" and my Discover has split into two versions, one that's pretty dialed in to my ambient/electronic preferences, and one that's still desperately trying to make sense of the time I played a bunch of Tom Petty songs.

seems like every week for the last 3 or 4 months that release radar has been giving me a new Fleetwood Mac demo. I guess that these are technically new releases, but this is not what I want from that playlist.

After months of training I've found Discovery to be reasonable at giving me disco-y electronica and krautrocky techno. Release Radar giving me Rolling Stones demos is egregious though.

Thanks to Discover I now know that there is more of The "classical" music you buy from Boomkat (2010): a thread to discuss Sylvain Chauveau, Johann Johannsson, Peter Broderick, Olafur Arnalds and others than one could ever possibly hope to listen to in a lifetime.

I've been ruthlessly clicking on "I Don't Like This Artist"

pretty sure it's a right click or a button on the individual song that gives you choices? I'll report back when I get a chance to look at home.

yeah, please do; it doesn't work that way for me.

I'm also using some older version fwiw

OK I'm using Version 1.0.73.345.g6c9971ef

When I open Discover Weekly on a MacBook, and hover my cursor over a track, it shows a "heart" and a "null sign" icon on the right side of the row with the song details. If you click on the null icon (really a circle w/a slash through it) you can choose either "I don't like this song" or "I don't like this artist"

huh, i'm actually on an older version. Will check it out.

Same version and I don't get that option.

beta testing it - https://mashable.com/2017/12/04/spotify-discover-weekly-like-dislike-test/#8ykY4l00gsq8

Ugh. Spotify on my mac has become completely useless. It takes about 5 minutes for it to start up. I've already disabled the "social" right sidebar, which I thought was the problem. No dice. Latest version and everything else runs smoothly. Spotify can't seem to wake up. Resorting to the webplayer but that's a very limited experience.

did you try reinstalling? find it unlikely that one of the world's most popular apps would be universally slow on a major OS

xps milo that's very interesting, thanks! now I feel special, like a Nielsen family or something.

I have the same takes-forever start up experience running on Ubuntu.

Just checked on my MB Air. 10 seconds from clicking the icon to music playing.

Updated phone and Spotify won't read my SD card who do I kill

yeah the desktop version on my mac is so awful.

did you try reinstalling? find it unlikely that one of the world's most popular apps would be universally slow on a major OS

It's universally slow on ALL major OSes: the PC desktop version takes forever to get going properly, too

Nothing unlikely about world's most popular things being slow/stupid/inept tbh, it's the norm rather than the exception iirc. We put up with it, that's the real problem here.

Yes, I tried reinstalling -_- Tried everything. It's just so fucking slow (and indeed, on Windows as well).

My Windows 10 laptop often can't cope with Spotify auto-starting when powering up; it's already got quite enough to do. Disabling the auto-start and opening Spotify when things have settled down a bit helps. But yes, it's still slow to start.

I will never complain about spotify again
I will never complain about spotify again
I will never complain about spotify again

Pox on me: Last night, *while listening*, everything suddenly stopped: I'd been thrown out of my account. Someone broke in and changed the e-mail address, just like Niels experienced (up in this thread somewhere). Nothing but love for Spotify support for being on the case and swiftly giving me my account back. And most importantly, no playlists were deleted, and no Ed Sheeran was played in my brief absence.

the desktop experience in Spotify is lacking, but when I consider that the most viable alternative would require me to use iTunes, it's hard to complain too much.