Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Best of luck, Glenn.

Hope Glenn finds another job as satisfyingly suited to his skills and interests, or at least better enjoys posting on ILX for a while

This idea of fair price was set long before Spotify showed up. How many of the hundreds of albums most of us heard between say, 2005 and 2010 were actually purchased?

Hundreds tbh.

Well there you go. Piracy nbd.

right question, wrong audience

sorry to hear that glenn, I'm sure you'll work wonders somewhere else

otm corrs. discrepancies about the format aside, you're an asset wherever you end up glenn.

(pls keep posting on ilm)

Sorry to hear it Glenn. All the best.

yep, best of luck glenn.

Very sorry to hear this Glenn, I hope we've all appreciated your insight and assistance itt. Really above and beyond.

^ echoing this!

Really sorry to hear this Glenn.

Wishing you all the very best, Glenn. I've always valued your contributions to this thread. Your employers are silly sausages to be letting you go.

Echoing all the well wishes Glenn. Hopefully once the dust has settled you'll be in a better place and can spill the tea if you feel so inclined (and/or are legally able to).

I read how it went down, getting an email from HR "within two hours" of Ek sending an email. Really impeccable bedside manner there, right before Xmas as well

Unless you've been like reheating fish lunches in the office microwave it seems insane they would let someone with your obvious passion and skills go Glenn

Best wishes Glenn

Good luck Glenn, you have been valuable here.

so so sorry to hear this glenn. hope you're able to find a new gig soon and that you are able to keep everynoise archived at least.

That’s some bullshit Glenn, I’m sorry.

I'm so sorry, Glenn. Thank you for all the help you've offered us over the years and best of luck with your next gig.

Looks like Glenn's book can be pre-ordered on Amazon ahead of its June release - You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: How Streaming Changes Music Kindle Edition. Count me in...

I didn't know Glenn was writing a book, I look forward to reading that. Although, I wonder if the description on the cover of him as "Spotify's data alchemist" will be changed now. Commiserations Glenn, I love everynoise and use it a lot. I saw the note on your blog and I really hope it doesn't disappear, you've put too much work into it.

Joining the chorus of appreciation for Glenn's efforts here over the years, and hoping something better's ahead.

A lot more than just the cover will have to be changed. But at least this happened in time for that.

wtf are they doing, is my next year's favourite genre going to be just "pop"? No fun. Might switch to some other thing. Interested to hear where you get from here Glenn. Sorry.

Good luck glenn

Glenn, so sorry. I do hope we can look forward to further feats of music data alchemy!

Sorry to hear it glenn; sent you a PM

stet’s gonna hook you up with a lifetime supply of Zing Touch.

just came here from the furia blog - sorry to hear that glenn, ENAO was fantastic. sucks, especially with that book coming out. ingrates. good luck with whatever you do next.

You elevated them Glenn. Excited to see wherever you go next.

I hope Glenn won't mind if I link directly to that post here; it's relevant to the subject of this thread and includes some wisdom about corporate employment I wish I had encountered a decade or so ago.

https://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=473

without exception the best things i've done at work, the things i'm most proud of, were in little windows when no one was minding the store

> The advice industry, like most modern industries, encodes a sneaky bias to sustain corporatism by implicitly casting individual adaptation as the only medium for change.

Oh this is my hobbyhorse and once it was pointed out, I saw it everywhere -- tort lawsuits instead of safe products, patient "choice" instead of medical access, recycling and electric vehicles, and on and on and on

YouTube continues to be vexed by the ease of pricey piracy with tools like 4k downloader that convert youtube to mp3 - how will they stop this menace

Does anyone know what to do with an mp3 anymore?

plain disgusting

https://i.imgur.com/eDnEj7w.png

...but in truth

https://images.app.goo.gl/6fsgLjEaj35HKSXv7

attempt two:

https://x.com/JazzMemes_/status/1236284512025313281?s=20

who writes the furia blog? David Brooks?

xp haha that's v good

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Glenn McDonald. xp

Pp

Anyone else get nearly half live tracks on the their Release Radar today? Not sure if it's a quirk of the algorithm or just that record companies aren't releasing studio recorded material this week much

Spotty keeps defaulting to smart shuffle which is a bit annoying

My Release Radar is the usual 200 tracks and over 14 Hours. However over 120 are repeated from last week.
link:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZEVXbna71kiV69B1?si=68wT47W_SCCoKevNHVvinw&pi=e-IUdSrtk8Q7mT

However this time of the year if the artists you follow aren't releasing music it will be reduced.

how on earth do you get a 200 track release radar?

Systems thinking

Search doesn't work for me at all lately on Mac desktop app. Lots of issues lately (couldn't play anything for quite a while the other day after multiple restarts).

Nor does clicking through to an album from a playlist entry work now.

I guess you just need to follow lots and lots and lots of artists xps