Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Yeah it's definitely a new thing innit? I thought it was just me!

Huh, I did not realize I had "Keep on listening to similar tracks when your music ends" until just now, when my La Monte Young playlist auto-segued itself to Cutting Crew.

wait, there are La Monte Young records on Spotify?

heh, even when they change their Spotify handle there's no escape from the imposters:

https://open.spotify.com/track/5gJB7T4UtlnJ4YSuu3E34c?si=by0JiJekTmGbPWLJDgLZSg

2 songs in this week's DW that I absolutely certainly have streamed on numerous occasions on this very account:
Mulatu Astatke - Tezeta
Ramsey Lewis - Rocky Raccoon

What might be the explanation?

Not able to access the web browser version at work this morning because Spotify is "making a few little improvements." No access, no explanations, and no estimated time to return. This a good reminder of why I don't rely solely on streaming services.

xp It's fairly common for me to see tracks in DW I have streamed before ... I have 4-5 today, I think

the web client is loading normally for me this morning

It's weird how certain songs keep coming back to my discover weekly. I think this is the fourth time I got Films by Gary Numan.

but... that's not supposed to happen?!

https://onegiantread.literatureworks.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2016/04/i-robot-feature-450x296.jpg

anyone finding the shuffle button is behaving strangely? if I've added new songs to a playlist I'm finding the shuffle concentrates almost wholly on those songs.

https://cdn.quotesgram.com/img/9/79/398467957-HALquotes_006-e1363869879703.jpg

xp

That's the opposite of what happens to me. Shuffle never wants to play the stuff that was added recently.

Seems like Discover Weekly has had some sort of reset or algorithmic shift - getting lots of tracks I've played a lot already and more familiar artists than usual.

Also seems like the mini artwork avatar display has gone but I liked using this to go the track in playlist situ (tho this was never an obvious way of doing that) - is there no way of doing that now?

Buggy playlists view now too - width keeps adjusting as I scroll within that frame.

The "character" of DW noticeably changed for me this week, I agree. For the better, though! I got some tracks that were a little more mainstream than usual, but which in being reminded of I realized I did like more than I had previously realized. Kind of an "oh yeah, I forgot about that good track!" week. Foremost among these rediscoveries was NRBQ's Magnet, which I've loved but just forgotten about for years.

(n.b. I had never, to my knowledge played or liked any of the tracks that appeared--I'd just listened to them in the past pre-spotify)

Two Wings songs, though. :(

minor gripe: the date given for albums is the date they were added to spotify and there's no way of seeing the original release date.

p sure Revolver wasn't added to spotify in 1966?

Imagine there's not much commercial impetus for accurate metadata around original release date. Some old albums do have it correctly on there, though – I've had fun with using dates in the search (still seems to work for the web player)

eg: https://open.spotify.com/search/results/year%3A1974%20genre%3Areggae

(xpost)

i concede this is correct for some, many, perhaps even most albums, i must have just hit a bad patch. please mentally insert a 'when' after the colon in my previous post.

Nah, I think most of the time it's the reissue date - you're not just in a bad patch.

The dates come from the licensors, and it's true that they are sometimes not correct in a real-world sense, particularly on reissues. We (Spotify) can override and fix individual ones, but there are far too many to do this at any kind of scale...

Fairly simple, just run a script periodically with an artist + album query against the discogs db (you can download the db offline for added speed), that’s how I cleaned up my iTunes library. I’m willing to bet that this takes an intern about two days.

release dates for everything would be so nice

I will settle for please please restoring the cover art display next to track title and artist...or just a more obvious 'go to this song in playlist' prompt

I still see the cover art and it still works to take me to the playlist. What platform are you on?

I wish all clients had the same sorting and search functionality.

I wish you could advanced filter your own collection of saved music. (genre, year, label, etc.)

I wish I could find an album on the macOS client that I’d saved on my iOS device.

I wish I was a little bit taller

Hey Glenn I am on Win 10 desktop but the Microsoft store version (reluctantly), thanks!

Also a lot of tracks 10 minutes or longer are now disabled. Saw something about this being UMG trying to encourage purchases of them on iTunes? Infuriating.

https://artists.spotify.com/blog/learn-how-to-get-playlisted-with-two-new-game-plan-episodes

oh great, now "playlisted" is a verb

it predates Spotify tbf

Oh, Windows. I don't know anything about that, but I'll ask somebody...

No, nashwan, it wasn't removed. Get @SpotifyCares to help you figure out what's going wrong for you...

metadata issue for the new boygenius EP - "boygenius" is an artist, but it only shows their three singles - not the EP. in order to find the EP, you have to type in one of the 3 member's names (julien baker, phoebe bridger, or lucy dacus), where it's then displayed as an album.

That case/lang/viers album from a couple years back was the same way.

Yeah, I saw some discussion of that boygenius credit go by already. People are on it.

all but one of my multi-room speaker groups (amazon echo) won’t show up in spotify. nothing anywhere on the internet. i have no fucking idea what is going on.

now my stereo pair won't work. it's just deciding to hide random speakers for no reason. i have wasted hours on this flaky dumb shit.

Now I’ve got Spotify reminding me to vote when I open the app. The more they move away from just playing the music the closer I come to canceling

Cut 'em some slack, Jack

“Workout Twerkout” playlist is the closest I’ve come to cancellation.

They're feeding me Cat Power's "Woman" into Jackson Browne's "The Load Out" on my daily playlist, and they've got me figured out.

Caviar the Vote!

Also a lot of tracks 10 minutes or longer are now disabled.]

Re-enabled now. That was a scary week.

Spotify stock closed today at an all-time low. The company's market value has declined by a whopping 0 billion since July 26. https://t.co/k20rCCfxLU Here's what I wrote back then, and it's all coming true. https://t.co/XbZuCj0lCk

— Ted Gioia (@tedgioia) November 1, 2018

probably not related, but i’ve just signed back up after years away, and the (ios at least) interface is so much clunkier than everything else i’ve been using (apple music, google play music, amazon music). along with the weird spotify connect issues i’ve been having, there’s no compelling reason for me to keep subscribing.

Yeah -- I qualified for a 3-month Amazon Music trial, so I've been using that instead, and I like the mobile interface a lot more. (I haven't done a deep dive into how the selection compares.)

This Spotify thing is what I expected - the labels will end up setting royalty rates low enough for the company to survive (as long as it stays on the ball tech-wise) as a competitor to the tech giants but not so low that they can ever make serious money. Good for the future of the platform, not much in it for 3rd party investors.