Spotify - anyone heard of it?

(they are all infants)

Those old threads have got some real gems in them - thanks.

i didn't realize there was a way to listen to "old town road" besides Repeat ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

if i want to listen to a song again i hit the back button, or scroll back to the part i want to hear again

i tried experimenting with listening to songs on repeat as a side effect of some fairly severe mental illness and i found that listening to songs more than twice in a row is probably not a good idea

for a while there was a radio station that had an unexpectedly long transfer of ownership and during that period it played the same songs at the same time every day, that was actually very nice, for several months i would expect to hear "give up the funk" at precisely 5:02 pm, followed by whatever the song after that was, etc. as fixed as the nature of most radio stations is i am surprised that there aren't any stations that have deliberately adopted that approach.

one station where i live (which prominently touts ''''variety'''' in its branding) basically plays the same playlist every day and sometimes barely even varies the order or timing-of-day compared to the previous day

Yeah, I was going to say: does the repeat button work for playlists? I imagine that would be a big use case for shops etc.

it does work for playlists. i leave it on.

if i want to listen to a song again i hit the back button, or scroll back to the part i want to hear again

if i want to stop listening to an album rather than having it repeat i hit the stop button

What's a stop button?

it's what the kids are calling ambien these days

I'm noticing that shuffling large playlists for roku seems to work better when I launch them in the roku app rather than launching from a separate device. For some reason, hitting shuffle on a different device and then connecting to roku causes it to diminish the range of tracks it shuffles.

I really wish the roku app would give you a menu for songs that takes you to the related album/artist page/radio list. Also wish the search function was better at searching up artists. It strange that it can't do this.

Sonos is the same - can’t shuffle large playlists.

The classic “Greatest Hits” compilation of Fleetwood Mac (the Peter Green-era band) has a bizarre alternate tracklist missing most of that era of the band’s most important hits: Green Manalishi, Oh Well (Pts 1 & 2), Man of the World.

It even features doctored art so those titles don’t appear on the front. All the relevant tracks are on Spotify elsewhere though.

That’s weird.

this one?

https://www.discogs.com/Fleetwood-Mac-Fleetwood-Mac-Greatest-Hits/master/119892

probably a rights issue on those early tunes

I somehow never realized Green Manalishi was never on a studio LP!

the Game of Thrones show creators created a playlist dedicated to the show that's featured on the spotify splash page and would you be shocked that of the 51 songs, 48 are sung by men

How many are dead?

more than 3 i assume

I counted 5 women lead singers and only one dead song. I also didnt know half the songs thank god.

you have more patience than i do, after seeing the 20th interchangeable indie band of four white guys i decided to guess

i do respect that they threw prince's "sister" on the playlist tho

choosing songs because their titles somewhat tie into a theme is the lowest form of playlist creation

hbo must pay for this list, no?

s/o to my all time favorite playlist (though it's from Apple)

Which of the songs from On the Road Again: Songs about Driving is the least about driving?

yeah there's no way HBO didn't pay for it, there were lots of featured GoT playlists on the main page

Lena Platoons' Galop is listed twice, the one labeled as released in 2015 should be Lepidoptera

Platonos

defo

The one listed as "Gallop" looks like the 2015 reissue with titles translated to English. Lepidoptera is here: https://open.spotify.com/album/5VRkFwDGXmrv5AiRVHyiob?si=YJumVND2RbCQEjTOE-FtDg

My "your heavy rotation" is exclusively composed of albums I've played once this month. (Instead of, like, Paranoid or Voices Carry which I've played a zillion times.)

Anyone else have the incredibly irritating thing where the desktop app refuses to search for what you have typed in the searchbar, and instead keeps on returning results for your previous search?

my desktop app regularly starts spelling what I'm typing in backwards until I hit the x button. that shit drives me nuts, it's the only app that does that on my mac.

it's quite something!

Great Friday morning goes to listen to new VW and Spotify is down

They're just looking out for you, is all

What a disaster

Servers going down on new music Friday is a bad look for sure

Is it still not working for you? I was able to pull it up with no problem.

Might be regional but others in my office are down too

this is really disappointing from a paid service . been down all night in some parts

the most upsetting thing is that they have multiple outlets to communicate this stuff and they just say nothing.

Im able to play music from my saved playlists but not my saved albums, and not from anything else. And I don’t mean downloaded, just saved.

lmao this sucks

as usual, i feel bad for musicians

the web client gave me an error message earlier, but I had no problems with the iOS app, and now the web client is working too

they finally said something

Uh oh, we’re having some issues right now and are investigating. We’ll keep you updated here!

— Spotify Status (@SpotifyStatus) May 3, 2019

but pretty fucked up these artist get fucked out of some excitement for their new album debuts

With this pause plus the above article and other recent ones I've read about just how bad streaming income is, I'm starting to think about moving to buying more music again. Sort of wish I didn't sell like 90% of my CDs though!

https://blog.usejournal.com/music-streaming-services-are-gaslighting-us-d782fe44072f?fbclid=IwAR0moqkMsSmAd9TKGd9girnYtoW_YYCAJGYXIFwnzSY1nFNtGIZZuS31sHg

that is an irresponsible use of the word “gaslighting”