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.
― Jeff W, Sunday, 12 August 2018 07:41 (five years ago) link
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.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 12 August 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
I wonder how search results get ordered, how misspellings are handled, and if the results are influenced by money.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 12 August 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
NO 2 Band ID cards
― Alba, Sunday, 12 August 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
Wonder if a modern-day Negativland could release a new “U2” single
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Sunday, 12 August 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
It can't be that difficult. Discogs manages this issue perfectly competently.
― kraudive, Sunday, 12 August 2018 19:47 (five years ago) link
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
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Sunday, 12 August 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
and yet I can't remember ever seeing an obvious mistake
― kraudive, Sunday, 12 August 2018 20:42 (five years ago) link
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.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 12 August 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
I have fixed many dozens in the last two years and have about twenty tabs currently open to get back to sometime ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Monday, 13 August 2018 05:55 (five years ago) link
if I could remove remixes from my release radar I would
― niels, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 08:30 (five years ago) link
SAME
― maura, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
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.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link
(small voice) I actually like hearing about remixes
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
Remix Radar
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
remixes jammin your radar
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
thanks Glenn!
― niels, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link
I like hearing about a good remix of a track / artist I love
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
...so yes, what katherine said
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
I have mostly argued for putting a separate section of remixes at the bottom of the list, instead of mixing them in...
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link
yeah, and maybe a separate playlist for U2 remixes...
― niels, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 07:19 (five years ago) link
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
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 27 August 2018 12:03 (five years ago) link
Seconded
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 27 August 2018 12:03 (five years ago) link
Let’s get a mod in here to take care of this
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 27 August 2018 12:08 (five years ago) link
kinda feel like that's more of a cnn/wpost issue
― niels, Monday, 27 August 2018 12:59 (five years ago) link
nah it's a safari issue in general on apple--happens to me when im listening to itunes music as well.
― guardians of the gums: i am tooth (voodoo chili), Monday, 27 August 2018 13:09 (five years ago) link
Maybe try installing an extension that disables (html5)autoplay?
― willem, Monday, 27 August 2018 13:21 (five years ago) link
No dice if using Safari.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 27 August 2018 13:31 (five years ago) link
On ipad/iphone that is.
Are you listening to Spotify through the browser or the app?
― pplains, Monday, 27 August 2018 13:33 (five years ago) link
I see XTC have a new single out, called Internet
― MaresNest, Monday, 27 August 2018 13:36 (five years ago) link
I have the same problem with chrome on my android phone
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 27 August 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link
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.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 27 August 2018 15:07 (five years ago) link
website autoplay should be fucking banned, i hate that shit
― marcos, Monday, 27 August 2018 15:16 (five years ago) link
I wonder how this showed up on my release radar:https://open.spotify.com/track/2gC6syANXZIQFTgpVPVIcT
a glitch in the matrix?
― niels, Friday, 31 August 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link
I got the same track, wtf
― Brad C., Friday, 31 August 2018 14:48 (five years ago) link
As, sadly, did a <i>lot</i> of people. It's being fixed...
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 31 August 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
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?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 31 August 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
this isn't awful tbh
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 31 August 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
there have been far worse things on my release radar
I do not answer any questions about Shuffle.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 31 August 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link
Bummer
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 31 August 2018 18:41 (five years ago) link
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.
― beard papa, Friday, 7 September 2018 16:07 (five years ago) link
I fixed the Tars.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 7 September 2018 19:45 (five years ago) link
Oh, thanks! Right after I posted that, a rapper named “Rush” showed up.
― beard papa, Friday, 7 September 2018 20:22 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I got Jewel, Rush, Anakin and Travis already...
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 7 September 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link
haha yeah I got the Rush guy on my release radar today, wasn't too bad
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 7 September 2018 21:15 (five years ago) link
I got retro-metal Them and rap KING in lieu of 60s Them and R&B KING ... both aight but
― Brad C., Friday, 7 September 2018 21:19 (five years ago) link
I was going to let the Rush one go but then Spotify emailed me…
https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1896/29609821867_de678aa53a_b.jpgScreen Shot NotRush
― Jeff W, Saturday, 8 September 2018 10:02 (five years ago) link
This week's RR turns up an alt Chic (Latinx rap).
― nashwan, Saturday, 8 September 2018 14:33 (five years ago) link