Spotify - anyone heard of it?

I was going to let the Rush one go but then Spotify emailed me…

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This week's RR turns up an alt Chic (Latinx rap).

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, Monday, August 13, 2018 7:10 AM (three weeks ago)

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, August 13, 2018 3:55 PM (three weeks ago)

I've fixed 67 wrong-name-on-discogs-es since this post (including some ANVs, and the exact opposite problem of same artist multiple entries) but have only closed one of the earlier tabs

I didn't think XTC had a song about social media, but RR set me straight this week.

Using the web player (since I can't install the app at work.) Seems the order of my albums, which used to be alphabetical by artist, are now ordered by the date that I added them. Would really like to revert to the original view.

Folders with lots of playlists in them now no longer display in the main window, just a big old black expanse

Er, I still see the folder contents in the Mac version, at least. Which client are you using?

OMG please don't ever take the folders away. It's bad enough Spotify removed the ability to shuffle within folders.

The day is going to come when Spotify does something to their UX that is going to utterly ruin the years of effort I've put into organizing my library. It happened once before when iTunes became Apple Music - and that was the day I never used the platform again.

don't get sonos then, or any other system that hooks into the spotify api. folders don't come through in the api, and they ain't going to add them.

although i don't see why they can't - there's a bug for it marked as WONTFIX for the following reason:

The implementation of folders you see in the Desktop client is not one that lends itself to a resource-based API (for example, there are no folder IDs). Unfortunately this is something we are not technically able to implement. As a result, we are not able to support playlist folders in the Web API.

which makes sense, but why not just add folder path as a string to each playlist resource and let clients rebuild the structure?

yrs, a disgruntled owner of new sonos speakers.

10,000 songs per device on five devices, like three years after the horse bolted

sonos drove me crazy for awhile, but at least they find the speakers. spotify cannot seem to regularly find the speakers through the "devices available" button. don't know who's at fault. anyway, I'm addicted to the sonos app queueing system now

the hit box for the three vertical dots in the sonos app's tracks lists is also hilariously small. it is basically the exact same setup as spotify but not usable - you either select the track to play now or cause the hidden scroll bar to appear. I only recently learned that you can select and hold the track to bring up the same menu in both apps.

Using the web player (since I can't install the app at work.) Seems the order of my albums, which used to be alphabetical by artist, are now ordered by the date that I added them. Would really like to revert to the original view.

Excellent news for my use! Odd that the web player can't change the order.

Er, I still see the folder contents in the Mac version, at least. Which client are you using?

PC desktop version. Some folders still seem to work, but most of them just do this when I click on them:
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Release Radar is better this week, no weird same-name bands, a nice selection across genres

only yesterday did I realize how the local music function works - I can actually sync the bootlegs and rarities on my PC onto my phone!

trick is to activate local music (basically just point to your music folder(s)) on the desktop app, create a playlist with the local tracks you want to play on the go, then download that list from mobile device (needs to be on same wifi as desktop, I believe)

there's probably all sorts of limitations (no flac for one) but I'm streaming my Hissing of Summer Lawns demos on the go now, and it rules!

Yes, they don't make this obvious!

Having Spotify pick up all my local music made the app hopelessly unuseable so now I am copying local tracks in my playlists to a dedicated folder just for the app to refer to. Pretty dumb but at least it finds them instantly now.

And yeah we could probably use a 'I don't like remixes of this artist' as much as the 'I don't like this song/artist' option in RR.

I spoke too soon about the absence of same-name bands in this week's RR ... rap Santana is not elderly Santana

is that a Juelz Santana track that’s been tagged as just Santana or is there a new rap Santana

not sure, here's the track -- https://open.spotify.com/track/0DN9l3WjYWqTf6GEOQnCG6

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/sep/19/spotify-sued-gender-discrimination-equal-pay-violation

lol "Out on the Weekend" on my Discover Weekly!

Why are all the songs in Prince's Lovesexy lumped into one continuous 45:03 track?

lol

Only Prince can answer that one

lol @ post-CD era ilxors

(morris I like you, but yah this is legit funny)

OK, I looked it up:

The early edition of the compact disc features all content on a single track. Some later editions featured nine separate tracks. The single track version of the album is available for purchase at digital stores such as Google Play and the iTunes Store. For streaming services such as Apple Music and Spotify, the album is also listed as one track.

I was supposed to know this offhand? LOL

(I'm hardly "post-CD era," just never owned this CD!)

I had “Batman” on cassette, if that helps establish my cred.

Good lord, this thread just days away from being ten years old.

Ten years ago,
On a cold, dark night

some poor musicians were robbed
'neath the town hall light

I signed up for a (trial) subscription a few days ago, after resisting doing that (for any streaming service) for so long.

it's such a thrill, hope you enjoy it

she hopes these songs have a long, long taaaaaaail
she scrobbles herself, it's a royalty faaaaaaail
nobody knows
nobody sees
these premium tiers (tears) aren't freeeee

you can use google to search for playlists containing specific songs, for example:
site:spotify.com inurl:playlist "pour aisha"

I was thinking this might help me find songs similar to some of my favorite deep cuts

can't say it's paid off yet

Pretty awesome find anyway, thanks!

Lol, Tracer

Still no lossless option. OK, a premium option is going to be a niche market but if people are willing to pay extra for a higher quality option then I’m sure they could easily monetise it. If it wasn’t for 8 years of playlists, I’d be considering Tidal.

https://www.avclub.com/it-is-with-a-heavy-heart-that-we-report-that-tidal-is-g-1829329262

I'm all for higher bitrates (why not) but I've AB'd enough formats and tracks with different bitrates to be p skeptical when reading stuff like "Tidal’s music is punchier and scuzzier and sweeter exactly when it should be. Put on something you’ve heard a thousand times and try it from a few different sources, and you’ll be able to hear the difference"

Wow, i gotta say, that at least from a "variety of artists" angle, Spotify is fucking awesome!!! Linton Kwesi Johnson, The Residents, Gene Clark, Minutemen, Peter Grudzien, Shaggs, Lee Perry, A Certain Ratio, Pearls Before Swine, Screaming Trees, Gong, Motorhead, Parliament/Funkadelic, Leonard Cohen , Thelonious Monk, Kevin Drumm, and The Sonics! All one after the other. It's like a good set on WFMU. Which is very good, indeed. Much more "deep", IMHO, than the competitio. Infinitely deeper than YouTube's new attempt at curated radio, that's for damn sure. I should've got this as soon as i got this phone. I certainly will from now on.

CompetitioN, that is. Meaning, of course, Pandora, that new YouTube p.o.s. Etc. Anyway, yes i know i'm late to the party on this, but so far i'm definitely liking it.

And lots of Scott Walker!!

This thread is mostly tech support now, right? Because my app has suddenly got suuuuuper janky the last few days - randomly stops, starts, skips tracks, as if someone else’s is controlling it. It’s driving me nuts.

Oh well, i was just throwing that out there. I wasn't sure where to drop it. I know i'm very late to the Spotify "party". In any case, please continue and don't let my newbie enthusiasms derail things. Good luck with your situation. I hope it all pans out for u.

Oh no, I wasn’t talking specifically to you - you did drop that in the right place. I was being facetious about my own troubles.