Spotify - anyone heard of it?

I guess this is what I was looking for:

Spotify Metadata Feedback - Wrong Album Artist?

that "T-Rex" single is being fixed...

Thanks!

This week's Release Radar offered me songs by Maserati, Harmonia, Poco, and Love, but none of these are the bands I've listened to in the past. Occasional garbled metadata doesn't bother me but something seems to have changed in the last few weeks ... this is happening so frequently that Release Radar is no longer much fun.

I had music from Crescent last week and Travis this week - neither are the bands I actually listen to.

(Yes, I still listen to Travis.)

A rapper called Cornelius this week for me. To be fair, Spotify knew enough to know it wasn't the other Cornelius so yeah it seems to be within Release Radar's algorithms that the problem mainly lies now.

It seems a bit odd that they don't require a unique artist identifier for submitted content, so they can quickly determine if artists are actually the same. You'd think that they'd require an artist submitting content under an existing name to prove that they are the same artist somehow? I suppose that there's just too much data (particularly, old data) to require this? So they use glenn's finer-resolution genre-ing (or something else) and have some cutoff where they'd guess that same-named artists must be different from each other. It seems like a solution that will always need to be tuned, allowing for some errors to occur, though.

I wonder how search results get ordered, how misspellings are handled, and if the results are influenced by money.

NO 2 Band ID cards

Wonder if a modern-day Negativland could release a new “U2” single

It can't be that difficult. Discogs manages this issue perfectly competently.

not really - anyone on Discogs can create a wrong version of an artist, or misattribute anything, and it'll only get fixed if another user a) notices it and b) knows or is able to research a definitive correction

and yet I can't remember ever seeing an obvious mistake

Most of the historic cases of multipe artist same name mistakes have been fixed in the first few years of discogs, i ran into loads of these cases when I used to enter 90s rave/techno comps and 12”s, I swear half of these projects had a namesake from the 60s/70s.

I have fixed many dozens in the last two years and have about twenty tabs currently open to get back to sometime ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

if I could remove remixes from my release radar I would

if I could remove remixes from my release radar I would

SAME

I shared your feedback about remixes with the Release Radar team, because it has been at least a week since I've complained about this myself.

(small voice) I actually like hearing about remixes

Remix Radar

remixes jammin your radar

thanks Glenn!

I like hearing about a good remix of a track / artist I love

...so yes, what katherine said

I have mostly argued for putting a separate section of remixes at the bottom of the list, instead of mixing them in...

yeah, and maybe a separate playlist for U2 remixes...

Sometimes i am browsing the internet on my phone while listening to spotify and the music cuts out because the website—often cnn or the washington post—automatically starts playing some little video ad—often far downscreen and on mute.

Coukd someone who works at spotify fix this? Like have the music override other content? It’s very annoying

Seconded

Let’s get a mod in here to take care of this

kinda feel like that's more of a cnn/wpost issue

nah it's a safari issue in general on apple--happens to me when im listening to itunes music as well.

Maybe try installing an extension that disables (html5)autoplay?

No dice if using Safari.

On ipad/iphone that is.

Are you listening to Spotify through the browser or the app?

I see XTC have a new single out, called Internet

I have the same problem with chrome on my android phone

In other words, when I'm playing music on the spotify phone app, there are many websites I can't browse because their autoplay videos/ads override spotify.

website autoplay should be fucking banned, i hate that shit

I wonder how this showed up on my release radar:
https://open.spotify.com/track/2gC6syANXZIQFTgpVPVIcT

a glitch in the matrix?

I got the same track, wtf

As, sadly, did a <i>lot</i> of people. It's being fixed...

Glenn, any idea why when I add new albums to my New Music playlist, it takes a couple weeks before they start popping up in my shuffle queue?

this isn't awful tbh

there have been far worse things on my release radar

I do not answer any questions about Shuffle.

Bummer

Irrationally angry that some generic dubstep guy called "Tar" showed up in my New Release Radar. Looked at all of the reporting options, but there doesn't seem to be one meant for a basic music fan to report name confusion. If I say I don't like Tar, I guess it will think I don't like the classic 90s band, so I just said I didn't like the song itself.

I fixed the Tars.

Oh, thanks! Right after I posted that, a rapper named “Rush” showed up.