just noticed the (free, PC) spotify app doesn't have the alert icon showing you all the recent additions from followed artists. that sucks.
― goole, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 21:25 (seven years ago) link
Discover Weekly has songs I've been thinking about (but not talking or posting about) this week. Spookify!
Q for glenn if he can be bothered "shilling" some more
Do the magic algorithms take note of track skipping? If I skip Morrissey every week will he eventually disappear?
― a goon shaped fule (onimo), Friday, 3 June 2016 16:58 (seven years ago) link
no
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Friday, 3 June 2016 17:09 (seven years ago) link
You can't make Morrissey disappear that easily
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Friday, 3 June 2016 17:11 (seven years ago) link
does discover weekly ignore plays in the discover weekly playlist?
i'm thinking not, since i really only listen to discover weekly at the moment, and it seems to have got stuck in a positive feedback loop of thinking i like the 25 garbage indie tracks i have to skip every week as much as the 5 songs i let play all the way through.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Friday, 3 June 2016 17:13 (seven years ago) link
Can't remember where I read it, I think on one of the links I posted way upthread, but I distinctly recall that it does ignore plays in the discover weekly playlist, unless you save the tracks or add them to another playlist or whatever.
I've been using an IFTTT recipe to save all my DW tracks to a playlist so that I can see the history, so unfortunately I think that action does influence future DW lists :(
― Dan I., Friday, 3 June 2016 18:15 (seven years ago) link
The bell icon is still present in the web player fwiw
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 3 June 2016 19:19 (seven years ago) link
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this is the genesis of VVVVV
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Friday, 3 June 2016 19:31 (seven years ago) link
just canned premium because i can't justify three music services. it was still giving me the burger menu when i killed it, idk maybe i'm a non-essential customer or something.
― Autumn Almanac, Saturday, 4 June 2016 00:25 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, that seems to have been yanked in the most recent update.
What are we, savages?
― βΉβ‘. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 4 June 2016 00:27 (seven years ago) link
Anybody else have the Slits on DW this week? They're definitely a band that would show up in my playlist, but I'm having a moment of paranoia that Spotify would give them an extra nudge because they're a name in the news in the last few days.
― pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Monday, 6 June 2016 16:55 (seven years ago) link
There's no nudging in DW. I guess it's produced in a facility that also produces editorial products, but it uses different equipment, so it should be pretty safe for the nudge-allergic.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 6 June 2016 18:03 (seven years ago) link
But people read news, and then go listen to things on Spotify, so it's totally expected that events in the world can end up affecting recommendations that are based on collective listening patterns.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 6 June 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
Spotify has been telling me it has lost the internet connection a lot lately. It's fine when I restart it but there has been a lot of restarting. I don't wanna live this way.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 6 June 2016 18:11 (seven years ago) link
felt a brief nostalgic impulse to traverse some of my family's inexplicable understanding of 80s tastefulness and found that there are no Flim & the BB's recordings on spotify
― goole, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 16:41 (seven years ago) link
Lol
― The Servant of Two Jam Masters (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 17:09 (seven years ago) link
I had a roommate who was an early adapter to CDs and that was one of the first few he got. He always played it whenever we had a visitor to impress them with the sonics.
― The Servant of Two Jam Masters (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 17:11 (seven years ago) link
Early adopter
― The Servant of Two Jam Masters (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 17:43 (seven years ago) link
Haven't gotten into my DW Playlists the previous few weeks but this one is top shelf.
― Poe, I know all about Ulalume (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 15:39 (seven years ago) link
it's pornographic?
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 21:02 (seven years ago) link
There are so many missed opportunities that I just can't imagine would be that difficult to provide. For example, the ability to search for playlists that contain a certain song would be huge. You can approximate this by Googling: site:spotify.com inurl:"playlist" "[artist name]" "[song name]"...but why isn't that available in app?
― Dan I., Thursday, 23 June 2016 15:31 (seven years ago) link
It's one of those things that you just sort of assume would be available by default whenever you do a search, until you find that it's not.
All playlist-searching things are complicated by the fact that there are billions of playlists on Spotify. Improvements will come, but when you can't imagine why the one you're wanting would be difficult, sometimes that's the thing you aren't imagining...
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 23 June 2016 17:13 (seven years ago) link
Ah, I see, thanks. That makes sense.
― Dan I., Thursday, 23 June 2016 17:30 (seven years ago) link
I definitely didn't antagonize any Spotify co-workers by impatiently demanding obvious-seeming features before fully comprehending this myself. No way.
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 23 June 2016 17:39 (seven years ago) link
My laptop is glitching which means I can't put anything new on my iPod which in turn means that I finally got over myself and tried Spotify for the first time ever yesterday and was jamming out to a pretty cool space jazz playlist and discovering some cool new things and then the app kept telling me that I wasn't connected to the internet except for the thing where I was totally connected to the internet and it hasn't worked since. Oh well. It was fun for about nine minutes.
― There must be some magic clue inside these gentle walls (Old Lunch), Thursday, 23 June 2016 17:56 (seven years ago) link
― Poe, I know all about Ulalume (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 June 2016 18:01 (seven years ago) link
plz keep antagonizing them until they get local files figured out
― Mordy, Thursday, 23 June 2016 18:09 (seven years ago) link
If I worked a Spotify I would add stars emoji to every email I sent.
― Jeff, Thursday, 23 June 2016 18:10 (seven years ago) link
lol
― (β’Μͺβ) (carne asada), Thursday, 23 June 2016 18:36 (seven years ago) link
just a few months ago the correct (1983) version of "Temple of Love" was on the Sisters of Mercy's Some Girls Wander By Mistake: http://open.spotify.com/album/42HVWb7R8TxLHgVjc2OOIV
now it's been replaced by the 1992 version, which has never been part of this album's official tracklist. what happened? I'm bummed.
― ejemplo (crΓΌt), Monday, 27 June 2016 12:01 (seven years ago) link
Weird, looks like that was a label decision. Or a label action, anyway. Whether it was intentional or not is a different question.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 27 June 2016 17:56 (seven years ago) link
found a DIY way to use the Star playlist https://ifttt.com/recipes/311224-save-a-track-in-spotify-and-add-to-playlist
― (β’Μͺβ) (carne asada), Friday, 1 July 2016 19:41 (seven years ago) link
you can use the + just like the old star . works great for me, i don't even use Your Library anyways
― (β’Μͺβ) (carne asada), Friday, 1 July 2016 19:49 (seven years ago) link
That helps a lot, thank you.
― Dan I., Friday, 1 July 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
Still can't unstar easily though, which was half of the star power!
― Jeff, Friday, 1 July 2016 20:37 (seven years ago) link
just click the check mark, it does the same thing
― brimstead, Friday, 1 July 2016 20:40 (seven years ago) link
we've covered this, it does not do the same thing
― moistest hoist (Spottie), Friday, 1 July 2016 20:41 (seven years ago) link
Good point Jeff! But I do like to be able to hit one button and know exactly where the song goes
― (β’Μͺβ) (carne asada), Friday, 1 July 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
Just today realized there's no YMO on Spotify! :(
― Dan I., Friday, 1 July 2016 23:19 (seven years ago) link
The Serato Pyro app (mentioned upthread) does a more than serviceable job at beat-mixing Spotify tracks (and local files held within iTunes). It's not perfect, but it rarely does a duff mix. And it's free.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 2 July 2016 13:39 (seven years ago) link
Pyro seems neat from the video demo, but fuck any app that's iOS only.
― βΉβ‘. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 2 July 2016 14:44 (seven years ago) link
How does the algorithm know how much I like "I Walk On Guilded Splinters"? It has furnished me with several versions thus far, even including the slightly less enjoyably spelled "I Walk On Gilded Splinters" by Paul Weller.
― My City Slang Was Gone (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 17:34 (seven years ago) link
Should have prefaced that with a "B-b-but" for full rhetorical effect.
― My City Slang Was Gone (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 17:35 (seven years ago) link
It seems that desktop notifications are officially dead: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Windows-Web/Removal-of-desktop-notifications/td-p/1343904
Instead you can sign up to receive notifications...by email.
wtf Spotify
― Ηbait (seandalai), Saturday, 9 July 2016 00:52 (seven years ago) link
dafuq? EMAIL?!
― βΉβ‘. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 9 July 2016 00:59 (seven years ago) link
https://www.buzzfeed.com/reggieugwu/the-unsung-heroes-of-the-music-streaming-boom
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 16:45 (seven years ago) link
also https://twitter.com/KendraJames_/status/753212999758934019
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 16:47 (seven years ago) link
whoops, wrong thread
Glenn, there's a thing I noticed quite a while back but forgot to mention until now -- there are two George Lewises, a New Orleans clarinetist (1900-1968) and a Chicago composer/trombonist (1952-). Their streaming titles are mashed together in Spotify -- is there any way to separate them?
― pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Sunday, 17 July 2016 02:38 (seven years ago) link