Spotify - anyone heard of it?

What’s up with this? https://open.spotify.com/track/5opiTFqPFWm7UbxSxHENPb?si=lpnoDCj8QlmORcWfAY-VBg

weird crediting thing:

"murphy's law" by cheri, a duo consisting of rosalind hunt and either amy roslyn or lise (sometimes "lyn") cullerier depending on the song, and produced/written by geraldine hunt (rosalind's mother) and freddie james, is credited to:

Geraldine Hunt ft. Freddie James and Rosalind aka Cheri

this is because the song is only uploaded as part of a little-known compilation from 1999/2000 called Soultry, Jazzy & Sexy which is bizarrely credited that way.

cheri does actually have a spotify profile with an album "murphy's law" (released 12 years after the single on a different label), and it includes an instrumental version of the song as well as a longer remix, but not the single itself. the version with the weird credit is the one people actually listen to (over half a million listens compared to 2,500 for the remix) and it's the one that seems to show up on playlists (it showed up on my DW a long time ago).

stood out to me because it's the only song cheri is known for. geraldine hunt and freddie james both have their own solo profiles fwiw

what the fuck james xp

oh nvm lol

i clicked your link and it showed up as "cheri" because i guess spotify browser takes a while to update

i'd had this cheri thing on my brain for like a year and just remembered to post about it today driving home

lol i got that howlin wolf thing at some point as well. must be an ilxor.

Lol xpost

The album I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight doesn't appear under Richard & Linda Thompson, as it is credited to each of them as solo artists.

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Monday, March 9, 2020 9:44 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'll see if we can fix that from the Spotify side...

― glenn mcdonald, Monday, March 9, 2020 10:09 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

fixed. thanks glenn!

These compilations are THE BOMB, sadly I can't see who any of the artists are.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61JKOwjfRJL._SY355_.jpg

did the spotify on the browser just get rid of the about and related artists tabs? That's a real loss

I have an interesting question for Glenn McDonald and i don't mean to pester him
I am a 6 year subscriber
so i never feel like I want to pester him
something is bugging me that is very interesting
why is the track "H.I.V. Baby" by Soundgarden the ONE track that is unavailable and greyed out
so weird. what could be up with that

If you look at their career retrospective "Echo of Miles"
http://open.spotify.com/album/0Cpmgfv2YLtBN368ZbBxGY

it is the one track that is greyed out. I would be fascinated if Glenn McDonald has some intel or insight into that
i don't mean to pester

and i guess my point of posting here is you know I could offer the question to Singapore support staff but that is of course useless

I have 'blind dogs' also greyed out on the same compilation

Harry Nilsson lives and he's making kind of boring electronica according to Release Radar this week:

https://open.spotify.com/album/1NbsTlUFKmKHmIE2tXSisD?si=fkSrScKEQPOWMhf8jMtxmg

The labels control track availability, and sadly don't have to provide an explanation for why individual tracks aren't, so I have no way to know. Most likely it has to do with licensing peculiarities. "H.I.V. Baby" was originally a b-side on a Subpop single-of-the-month, right? So maybe there were different terms for that, and they've expired. Dunno.

I already noticed and reported that Nilsson thing, it should be fixed soon.

Thanks as ever, Glenn.

"HIV Baby" was also on the Born To Choose benefit album Ryko put out back in '93.

Posts starting with I have an interesting question for Glenn McDonald and i don't mean to pester him should already be frowned upon. But when the third line is so i never feel like I want to pester him, you know you're just being pestered.

Khala My Friend by Amanaz is a great, great song that I'm grateful to DW pushing my way once, but I think it's the fourth time now! Looks like the last compilation I had it liked from has dropped off Spotify so time to readd it again.

I get that one regularly too.

Just got that pushed to me last week! Really good.

the Amanaz album, Africa, is great

Have recently reactivated my account after many, many years to listen to the fantastic playlists Test Pressing have been posting.

I'm on the free version and haven't heard a single advert yet. Haven't put any credit card info in but do you automatically get some sort of one month trial of the premium version or something?

Advertisers! I remember them.

The premium version isn't just ad-free. It also allows you to download tracks for listening offline and, I can't remember what else, maybe even stream whole albums. There's definitely stuff relating to playback that you can't do on the free version.

Afaict Spotify basic (no subscription) is still add-free if you use the web browser

Ah, that could be it. I'm listening via the desktop app

been kind of at a loss for what to play around the house. Test Press playlists hitting the spot. Thank you, gp

the first track on the Test Pressing "On The Beach" playlist briefly made me remember what happiness feels like, this shit is dangerous

Don't really understand the decision to prioritise 'did you mean...?' results over exact matches in the search. E.g. searching for SND returns Snoop Dogg, Snap, Sade and Snoh Aalegra - you have to click through to see the actual artist (more than one actually) called SND.

weird, I do that on my phone and it comes right up as the 1st result (the minimal techno group, that is)

hmm, not for me (in the first results screen that shows albums, artists, playlists, and songs).

also i suspect these are not all by the minimal techno group:

https://i.imgur.com/CbIvR3K.png

lol

Short names are a constant source of pain. I'll ask to have that page cleaned up...

It would also help to have an exact-match option, e.g. by surrounding quotes as in Google.

so do the royalties for all the SNDs go to the same SND?

is there, like, something that differentiates them for royalty purposes that isn't carried over into the UI/search? or something?

Having barely listened to Spotify curated playlists before, I've played some over the last couple of days. It seems - at least on some throwaway 'alternative 80s or 90s' playlists - the volume isn't set to one and the same level. Is that correct, or is it my setup? Annoying to have to fiddle with it when every new song is louder/softer than the previous one tbf.

There's a "normalise volume" option in the settings.

Ah, thanks!

how well it works is another matter.

actually maybe it works fine except through sonos :/

... which is my setup :-/

Royalties are paid to licensors, track by track, so the artist pages you see in the app are basically irrelevant for monetary purposes...

yeah I figured. just wondering.

I recall that discover weekly playlists used to have a feature that seemed specific to DW; as you were listening to the tracks, there was an icon opposite from the heart that let you choose "I don't like this song" or "I don't like this artist". if you selected it, it would then grey the track out in your DW playlist (and presumably help refine the recommendation algorithm). has that moved elsewhere or did spotify totally remove it?

I still have that feature, on both (Mac) desktop and iOS versions.

Here's how it looks on iOS

https://i.imgur.com/nRo7GOk.jpg

that's what mine used to look like...

https://i.imgur.com/oZ4LmFK.jpg

same