Spotify - anyone heard of it?

half of my “missed hits” were tracks I had actually played before

cd glitches on spotify tracks: classic or dud?

Examples?

https://open.spotify.com/track/3ZMCUPFDLNjp2Qe692P4V6?si=b4XZ9ZX_Qq-k-GtpQpOqvA&utm_source=copy-link

https://open.spotify.com/track/1C6gelQEXVVnfVJceRTm5T?si=Ue3cKXUWS56Df-8VmhVcaQ&utm_source=copy-link

(hoping this image works...)

https://i.imgur.com/AeqYA3k_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

why are the majority of artist bios like this? they just cut off.

Unless an artist contributes their own bio to Spotify, it's pulled from AllMusic. But presumably there is a character limit.

If you touch the ellipsis at the end, the rest of the bio should come up.

thank you, i thought that too but either i have impossible fat guy fingers or something's off because it doesn't expand.

it's not a super huge discrepancy. just... kind of disappointing the lack of accessible info/credits ob the platform.

ob

okay nvm, it's definitely my stubby fingers.

Another unintentionally glitchy album: Doris Monteiro (1974).

Been having a new problem during the past week. I'll be listening to a full album and then the app jumps to a song that's not in the album, but maybe Spotify thinks is similar.

For instance, last night I was listening to Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia. After the song Pretty Please, it segued into Miley Cyrus (feat. Dua Lipa) song Prisoner. This song is featured on an expanded edition of Future Nostalgia (not the version I was listening to), but the one I got had the art for the Miley Cyrus album.

Then this morning, I put on Pink Floyd's Animals. After Pigs on the Wing (Part One), Spotify shifted to Strange Brew by Cream, a song that I can guarantee I've never listened to on the app.

This has happened one or two other times in the past week. Has anyone else experienced it? I'm wondering if there's a setting or something that I need to toggle.

there's the autoplay thing? first thing I turn off

So it looks like Autoplay was turned on somehow (I didn't do it). Hopefully, that will solve it. In the past when I've had autoplay turned on, it would wait until the end of an album to start spewing recommendations at me. That was bad, but in these cases, it has changed to recommendations in the middle of albums, and I'm wondering if they can be brought before The Hague over this.

spotify is CONSTANTLY turning autoplay back on. very naughty stat juicing

Aren't they better off the less you play? Like a gym.

Haven't had this issue... across Android, Windows, and Linux

lol I was listening to... To Pimp A Butterfly i think? and out of nowhere, like halfway through the album, it plays me the Staple Singers' "Respect Yourself". and then just slips back into the album. okay. I mean.. it's a great song. But for a few seconds I was like man, I don't remember Kendrick sampling this!

Queued up by you previously? Or someone else is also on the account. Really weird

Tracer - glad to hear I'm not the only one. It's very jarring.

In my case, I'm the only user of this login.

would be logging into the website and checking "devices" and whatnot

I’m on a family plan, everybody has their own accounts. It’s only happened once to me, and it was last week.

Sorry if this has been asked before (I searched but there are lots of iterations of what I'm asking) but is there any way to see who has Liked your playlist, and if not, why not/is this something that's in development?

Dream feature list: a "donate" button on every track/album/artist that would allow me to charge my card and directly contribute $x to an artist

Little Pitcher, Big Wallet: Eight Year Old Maxs Out Parent's Credit Card with Donations to Lil Yachty
"It was for the lolz," naughty kiddo says

I believe the donate button already exists, artists have to set it up themselves https://artists.spotify.com/en/help/article/fan-support

vice did an article a while ago https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7qqw3/spotify-tip-jar-donations-fair-pay-royalties-musicians

No way! That's awesome...but I can't actually find how to donate to any of the artists named in that article? Anyone know where this is hidden?

Also hope this does not affect anyone here:
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/23/spotify-to-cut-6percent-of-its-workforce-as-tech-layoffs-continue.html

oh maybe it was a covid-19 thing only? weird
seemed like a decent idea

When I listen to The Clientele a "donate directly to the artist" button pops up. I bung a fiver to them every now and then - although it's actually a PayPal account in the name of Alasdair MacLean so I guess he's the only one who gets the money!

Removing the like/heart button is a weird UI change

They just changed it to +

i feel like that's what it used to be!

all apps should replace the heart icon with a + or thumbs up. I do not love this random song by an Australian band that sounds like Imperial Teen, I like it okay but would mostly just like to flag it so I can look up their other stuff.

Anyone noticed spotify on iphone is taking time to load?

just noticed that on Wild Orchid’s same titled debut album from 1996 half of the tracks have some combination of songwriter(s) and producer(s) as the performing artist, instead of Wild Orchid itself.

(Wild Orchid, for reference, are the pop r&b girl group Fergie was in before she became a Black Eyed Pea - yes, I’m reading Tom Breihan’s Number Ones column on “London Bridge”)

Also, fucking YIKES pic.twitter.com/o4H3JtrJ6m

— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) February 13, 2023

I hate that the latest update for mobile doesn’t seem to allow you to search for other people’s profiles. Is there a workaround this?

damn, gross company xp

Oh wait it’s there, forget about it. You have to press enter in the search form for the “bubble autocomplete” to disappear.

I don’t like the autocomplete function… it makes it harder not easier for me.

In my Discover Weekly today: a track called "Coyote" by Urbxnxd, with generic artwork. It's the Joni Mitchell track from Heijra (which of course is not on this streaming service, along with most of her catalog). Nearly 10 million plays. Posted Feb 11, by "Retain Music Entertainment". Might want to look into that :)

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"circle game" too. same artist.

Not as popular as "their version" (i.e. rip and upload) of My Chemical Romance's "Dead", which has 139m plays. "Verified artist" too!

The algorithm is recognising that it's the same track - if you look on the My Chemical Romance page the play count is also 139m for Dead. So who knows how much Urbxnd has actually made off the scam, but not as much as that!

Leopantforte is another one of these. A rip of Case of You.

If you go to the Spotify Artists page for Joni Mitchell, it shows "covers" by these artists. Leopantforte does a mean Nancy & Lee too.

Not entirely sure what's happened here - like a sort of cybersquatting. I assume this is nothing new, and Spotify are on the case.
I've had tracks with <100 plays pushed to my Release Radar before by artists called "Beck" or "Gas", but nothing quite like this.

Just the other day, on a different service, I came across several random tracks titled "Mariah the Scientist," which come up when you search that artist's stuff (she seems to be a particular target for "spoofing," not sure why)

Leopanforte, sorry.

And... also I notice that Circle Game, Coyote, Big Yellow Taxi, Both Sides Now and Case of You are about the only JM tracks that are actually available from their parent albums (everything else greyed out), and those are the songs that are being re-appropriated under these dummy artist accounts. So they are there for real, just also under a fake name.

No, it's worse than that: the bootleg uploads are why they show up as available on their parent albums. I've reported these internally. People suck.

Oh wow. So is the scam that the bootlegger gets the stream count if people search for BYT by Joni and then play it?

If someone were to upload a bootleg of an album that has never been on Spotify, are there any automatic checks on the file to stop it? Like, I know Shazam's database covers more than Spotify's catalogue but is there some industry-standard rights management system that identifies copyrighted work?

Glenn I was wondering... could one say something about what the most albumey album on Spotify is by looking at what albums have songs with the most even distribution of plays (which would indicate they are listened to back-to-back)? Or maybe albums with the closest relation between plays of first and final track?

Looking at Dark Side of the Moon (an albumey album if ever there was one) it seems like the album was started 78 million times (although some of those Speak To Me plays could obv come from playlists/shuffle) but only 22 million made it to the grand finale of "Eclipse" ;_;

Yeah, it's a sensible idea about albums that get played all the way through. It gets messy to calculate, in some cases, due to Deluxe Editions adding bonus tracks that aren't always easy to identify as non-original from the metadata (but the fans know). I do a variant on that kind of idea for my yearly Album Populism chart, which is underway for 2023 here:

https://everynoise.com/tview.cgi?source=album_populism_2023

I basically try to weight an album's popularity by how far through it listeners tend to get...