Spotify - anyone heard of it?

My Discover Weekly has gotten very boring since I went through a huge R.E.M. binge a couple of month ago. It's almost all indie rock-ish stuff now.

Yeah, you have to be very careful with listening to any US alt-rock. Give the algorithm a sniff of it and your DW swiftly becomes a cess pit.

^^ that happened to me when I listened to a bunch of Tom Petty after he died

Yeah, you have to be very careful with listening to any US alt-rock. Give the algorithm a sniff of it and your DW swiftly becomes a cess pit.

― Alba, Friday, June 1, 2018 11:20 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the same goes for anything vaguely alt-pop

Spotify really, really wants me to like Jonathan Richman. I don't particularly dislike him, just not interested. But he shows up like every other week.

Generally DW has not been great for me lately.

Do you feel like you are being profiled?

Jonathan Richman is great always happy when he shows on my algorithm playlists

this toilet song however...

I might

I might even say

my DW has gone

down the drain :O

niels do you have any clues at all how the aptly-named Klospülung might have gotten into your Discover Weekly? Could you have listened to one of the Related Artists or something?

https://open.spotify.com/artist/5tkfx36V7EUhwTOyXdrAMo/related

also have any Related Artists ever successfully sued for defamation? asking for a friend

don't recognize any of those related artists, nope

noel redding rings a bell, not as a solo artist tho

I've had some odd stuff appear in Discover Weekly, but nothing as improbable as that ... I wonder if someone has developed an exploit for the DW algorithm

my DW really wants me to listen to Laurie Anderson, but it's not going to happen.

The toilet guy seems to have an improbably high number of followers... (Btw - the one song title that’s not a variation of “WC” seems to translate to something like “Relaxed Constipation.”)

apart from the toilet flush it was a decent dw week, so weird that toilet track came on right after New York City Serenade, almost as if mocking pretentious Bruce https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZEVXcHkCbzvlCkSv?si=1DH1iWA7QW--P0FlFlbh_Q

hey glenn,

I'm sure this has been requested many times before, but is there any way to see which songs or albums you've played in the past? like if a certain artist had 10 albums and I couldn't remember which ones I'd heard -- it would be super useful to know which ones I'd listened to and how many times (for each song). this is something that itunes has had for over a decade that I used to love (when I used itunes)

Yes, I agree that that would be useful. I have an internal experimental tool that will show you what songs on a playlist you've already played, but it's extremely expensive to do in real-time for all users...

last.fm still has its uses (though not retroactively).

thanks — I assumed it had been looked at already and there was a reason for it. maybe someday the technology will be cheaper

that Klospülung song appeared on my discover weekly this week.

which is weird because listened to it last week when clicking on the link in this thread

^^ I listened as well, I will check my DW and report back

I sometimes wish that I could filter my own saved music and generate playlists with the results. If I was a smart programmer type of guy, I might try to use the API to create a web app that would do something like that. I find myself thinking, shouldn't I be able to filter my own collection of saved songs for years, genres, and record labels?

Some kind of smart playlist functionality in general would be such a huge improvement

You two might like http://organizeyourmusic.playlistmachinery.com...

Interesting, I like the idea of filtering a playlist down by more energetic or mellow qualities. I often line up my queue that way.

Would like something that tracked number of plays, frequency, skip frequency, last play date, so I could hear songs I haven't listened to recently or automatically skip ones with a high skip count.

Great link, I have been meaning to organize my Spotify for ages and this is going to save me from weeks of tinkering and trying to decide what genre 10,000+ songs are.

A Different Way? A different Low more like?

https://open.spotify.com/album/5JM3Q65UzOf3bMNrFVtap1?si=t0PLhAx9TCKIPT2RIZGBzA

yeah the "other" Low and Biosphere showing up on my Release Radar was hilarious

this is a minor problem that is probably more noticeable because of a job i have, but why does 'back' on the web player (through browser button or ctrl-right) now take the user to a page where they're asked if they want to log out? especially annoying when navigating from searches.

"web schmeb"
- every service ever

lol

So @Spotify, I don’t want to tell you how to do your job, but a Lonnie Johnson (blues musician, 1899-1970) compilation album shouldn’t have Lonnie Johnson (Super Soaker inventor, still alive) on the cover. pic.twitter.com/nKpuuV9i3G

— Thomas L. Strickland ☕️ (@ThomasLS) June 10, 2018

Yacht Rock guys really upset about the official Spotify “yacht rock” playlist

Not yacht-y enough?

What’s the problem? It’s full of Yacht classics like Call Me Al and Jack and Diane

Not enough Krokus imo

Can anyone explain why Spotify takes about two minutes to open and play from my iPhone?

Same on Android - two minutes is a good day.

I haven't had any problems like that on my phone, but the desktop client is virtually unusable anymore. I'm in the browser version almost all the time now.

Same (as mentioned many times here already). Desktop version is useless.

I have had problems with this in the past, but these days the android app and desktop app both load prettu quickly for me andvrun smoothly.

yeah, the desktop client takes forever. Not worth the effort.

on my mac mini it's been unusable for months, not checked it recently. ios app is pretty good on my SE tho.

actually on desktop the Spotify web player works really well, i.e. at all!

Biggest desktop issue for me over the last couple of months is when I try to edit a large playlist (hundreds of tracks) which at first it will allow fine but start slowing down after a few minutes and then fail to load other playlists entirely - even ones you were just on, like it's having to reload that information fresh every time.

My desktop app works really well at the moment, but I had to get a whole new computer for that to be the case, and it's only been a month. Full expect it to get slower and slower and then useless over the next wee while.