If Spotify follow the standard tech company playbook for bugs, they'll do this "restart your phone/clean install/probably another app on your phone/manufacturer fault" gaslighting bullshit for a month or so then a new version will drop that fixes the bug and they'll act dumb about it. Their inability to just say"yes, there's a bug, we're working on it" is maddening.
― closed beta (NotEnough), Friday, 9 October 2020 06:09 (three years ago) link
That example was one of the worst though- user shares screenshot showing full bar wifi and 4G- "I see you are using 4G try using it with a strong wifi"- user explains what wifi symbol means- "try using it with 4G!"
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Friday, 9 October 2020 15:57 (three years ago) link
In the absence of comprehensive year of release data on Spotify, I've started the epic task of putting every one of my Liked Songs into a playlist for its respective year. Am I crazy? I'll just do a few a day. It's then relatively portable, given the tools available for exporting playlists.
― Alba, Friday, 9 October 2020 19:34 (three years ago) link
both the web player and the android app are a bit shit for me, constantly
― here comes the hotstamper (jim in vancouver), Friday, 9 October 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
specifically the android app just pauses playing for a few seconds every x minutes and on the web player I get "something went wrong, try reloading the page" if I try to look at an artist, album etc.
I most often listen to Spotify on my Roku, which has all sorts of limitations - can't make playlists or adjust queues, etc. You have to use the (very simple) Roku remote for everything.
Anyway, was thrilled to find Brooks' Red Tape is back on Spotify (one of my fav albums from the 2000s)...if only they would add the ep's and You, Me and Us as well. Brooks should not be forgotten.
― Alpha 666, The Number of the Beast (I M Losted), Sunday, 11 October 2020 11:22 (three years ago) link
What is this Time Capsule you speak of, my Spotify Hipster Friend?
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 October 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link
Today I was offered a daily drive/daily commute playlist - your favourite songs interspersed with news and sports updates. Turns out you get to hear adverts you've paid to avoid as they're embedded in the bulletins. Ads aside though, I kind of like the idea for early morning listening.
(my daily commute is from my bedroom to my bathroom to the kitchen to the dining table)
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Monday, 12 October 2020 23:36 (three years ago) link
I'm very confused by this song that showed up on my Release Radar today, mostly for the third artist listed on the track. https://open.spotify.com/track/2DztFyWY3hyCArDb9VINk2?si=5iQU6VydSoiSIyl8nR8Hjg
That's gotta be some sort of glitch, right? It seems highly unlikely that there is another group with that name...
― MarkoP, Friday, 16 October 2020 04:23 (three years ago) link
I don’t even need to click on that link to know that I was served the same track.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 16 October 2020 06:57 (three years ago) link
^^ thirded.
― Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 16 October 2020 09:03 (three years ago) link
Ah Moveek! I’m familiar with Moveek. He’s a Nigerian artist who sometimes tries to boost his streaming numbers by tagging a famous Afropop artist’s name (like Starboy/Wizkid, Tiwa Savage or Tekno) to his songs, without them actually being on the track (but he’s also done this with Major Lazer, for instance). In the years I’ve been following Nigerian pop there’s always been a few of these types around. Many of these tracks are taken down from Spotify eventually, but some of them remain.So why have he and this “Caravan” type now gone for Stars of the Lid, an act in a totally different genre, not particularly well-known or popular, and also not a name with other connotations that I’m aware of? I’m guessing for the same reason he’s also been tagging artist names like “Feist”, “The Cab” and “Regard” (and of course “Caravan” is an established artist name in its own right as well).Maybe picking artists outside of his own genre that have a popularity of some significance, but not so much that they might have people actively looking out for activity like this (like I imagine a Major Lazer might), is his way of laying low while still picking up the extra streams he wants from fans of those acts that make it 30 seconds into his track.Gotta respect the hustle!
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Friday, 16 October 2020 10:12 (three years ago) link
Gotta respect the hustle!
Do we? Don't think SotL fans - nor people who like Feist or whoever he tags - will particularly appreciate this hustle tbf.
― Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 16 October 2020 11:05 (three years ago) link
I was being sarcastic. It’s a pathetic business model, but nothing to get worked up about imo. It’s just annoying, that’s all, unless I’m missing something?
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Friday, 16 October 2020 11:49 (three years ago) link
Nah, that's pretty much where I'm at tbh
― Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 16 October 2020 11:58 (three years ago) link
I saw that Moveek thing go past in internal error-reports right before seeing it mentioned here, so it's already being fixed...
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 16 October 2020 14:01 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1215518235921133568/FA0hOBLt.jpgMoveek says “cool”
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Friday, 16 October 2020 14:33 (three years ago) link
Moveek holds a playlist in his quivering handsMoveek sends the playlist to the American man
― seven day permanence (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 16 October 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
along those lines, I was perplexed by TR/ST's new direction until I heard the track.
― beard papa, Friday, 16 October 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
Move... Ek, you say? </tinfoil>
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 17 October 2020 20:00 (three years ago) link
jesus fuck why does the Spotify UI suck SO FUCKING BAD.
I accidentally added a whole album to a playlist, and the songs I did't want JUST WON'T FUCK OFF. I've had to click Remove from Playlist about 5 times for every fucking song. can they not hire developers who can make this actually function? wankers
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 17 October 2020 22:26 (three years ago) link
the ajax requests are failing when i click it. 400 errors. fuck's sake your website is fucking terrible
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 17 October 2020 22:28 (three years ago) link
our app was throwing 400 errors the other day and it was a google cloud server misconfiguring itself somehow. so y'know it might not be actual unforced human error. still it does hang an awful lot for me too - songs don't play, search results don't appear, 'add to playlist' doesn't work.
― neith moon (ledge), Sunday, 18 October 2020 08:15 (three years ago) link
I find connecting to speakers at home really unreliable. Usually involves restarting the app or reconnecting the wifi. Sometimes halfway through a song it will start playing through my phone or tablet again. This often ends up with me abandoning all of that and connecting via Bluetooth.
By which time my sandwich is made and I'm going to another room...
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Sunday, 18 October 2020 09:25 (three years ago) link
also my experience connecting from the app
― seven day permanence (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 18 October 2020 14:20 (three years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/oct/28/joe-rogan-hosts-alex-jones-on-spotify-podcast-despite-ban
― Oor Neechy, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 18:37 (three years ago) link
spotify is fucking up
― The Beige of Dadz (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 18:51 (three years ago) link
had some more weird issues lately where I add a track to my library, it doesn't show up in the app, shows up in web player, but can't be played until I un-add and re-add.
― The Beige of Dadz (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 18:52 (three years ago) link
Yeah I often find I have to log out and back in again on my Mac for the desktop client to register tracks that I've Liked on another device, even if it was hours ago.
― Alba, Wednesday, 28 October 2020 19:06 (three years ago) link
lol at the lede in that Guardian article
Joe Rogan, Spotify’s biggest podcast star, has left the platform..............in an awkward position after conducting a lengthy interview with Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist banned by Swedish streaming company for producing “hate content”.
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...in an awkward position after conducting a lengthy interview with Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist banned by Swedish streaming company for producing “hate content”.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 28 October 2020 21:41 (three years ago) link
I'm going to take a punt that their response to being put in this awkward position was to do nothing about it.
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Thursday, 29 October 2020 08:50 (three years ago) link
Exasperated laugh after having selected 'I don't like ROOSEVELT' at least twice in Release Radar the powers that be just won't take no for an answer here.
― nashwan, Friday, 30 October 2020 14:43 (three years ago) link
xp they removed it
― The Beige of Dadz (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 30 October 2020 14:51 (three years ago) link
source?
― neith moon (ledge), Friday, 30 October 2020 16:15 (three years ago) link
joe rogan fans on reddit
― The Beige of Dadz (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 30 October 2020 16:34 (three years ago) link
but that was yesterday and i see it back up now?
― The Beige of Dadz (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 30 October 2020 16:35 (three years ago) link
there i was thinking "joe rogan fans on reddit" an unimpeachable source.
― neith moon (ledge), Friday, 30 October 2020 17:18 (three years ago) link
it was a cache issue with the episode that did cause it to be missing/unplayable yesterday
― The Beige of Dadz (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 30 October 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
you can count on joe rogan fans on reddit to complain first if spotify does pull it
― The Beige of Dadz (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 30 October 2020 17:24 (three years ago) link
fixed that for ya
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 30 October 2020 19:57 (three years ago) link
In response to the "Justice at Spotify" campaign for increased royalty rates, and having paid Joe Rogan $100 million to promote Infowars, Spotify have announced the option for artists to be paid in exposure instead, except without actually providing the exposure:
https://www.thefader.com/2020/11/02/spotify-promotional-tool-discovery-weekly-royalty-rate-union-letter
― edited for dog profanity (sic), Monday, 2 November 2020 21:29 (three years ago) link
I can’t understand if this is a genuine opportunity for extra cash flow for labels/bands or, Spotify monetizing an existing distribution channel like radio and getting an even lower royalty rate to artists. I’ll assume the latter?
I’ve been through a bunch of these services, is there anything out there that pays artists fairly?
― Bjork’s lawyers just would not budge, Monday, 2 November 2020 23:12 (three years ago) link
Bandcamp
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Monday, 2 November 2020 23:32 (three years ago) link
I used to have their app, glad to hear they’re streaming!
― Bjork’s lawyers just would not budge, Monday, 2 November 2020 23:35 (three years ago) link
well it depends on what the artists want to be streamable, but yeah
― howls of non-specificity (sleeve), Monday, 2 November 2020 23:37 (three years ago) link
i actually use the bandcamp app. it’s nice. sort of a “here’s the music i care about enough to actually pay for” all in one place.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 08:51 (three years ago) link
Top comment on r/indieheads:
extremely telling that they waited for election eve so that they could try to slip this through the cracks. they know how shitty and terrible they are being here and are terrified about how much blowback this rightfully deserves.
I agree this is a despicable thing to do.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:16 (three years ago) link
https://gizmodo.com/spotify-finds-a-pay-for-play-workaround-1845554656
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:17 (three years ago) link
Guardian reporting on it too
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/03/spotify-artists-promote-music-exchange-cut-royalty-rates-payola-algorithm
― Oor Neechy, Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:44 (three years ago) link
"payolgarithm"
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 3 November 2020 18:57 (three years ago) link