Spotify - anyone heard of it?

you will never escape the room

Here's my stats on Spotify.me:

Top Artist: Stereolab

Here’s When You Listen:
11:00pm Most active hour (America/Mexico_City) / 609min Streamed since Jul 2011.

Here’s How You Listen:
60% of your tracks are danceable : Are you the life of the party?
Overall, your tracks are positive : Good vibes only
38% of your tracks are energetic : Pump up the volume

Your top genre is Singer-songwriter which appears in 28% of your top tracks

You’re all over the place. In the good way.
One of the new streaming habits we’re measuring is listeners’ music Diversity. As one component of Diversity, we look at genre. 28% of your favorite artists are within your most-listened to genre. Did you know there are over 1,500 genres available on Spotify? We might call users like you Eclectics—bouncing around from genre to genre, open to hearing anything

You Are What You Stream Here’s what we’re starting to see based on your listening history:

Turnt : When you’re streaming, chances are you’re dancing. A 60% chance, to be precise, based off of your recent plays. Now, what you do with those beats is on you. But we aren’t judging.
You Stream Like a Partier : You. Like. To Party. (Or at least you like party playlists.)

I do tend to use Spotify a lot on house parties and sometimes on my bars if there's no dj around so I guess that kind of skews the stats.

How/where did you get that stats summary?

spotify.me

Ty Moka.

"Don't Go Where I Can't Find You" by Eraldo Bernocci is my most played track...huh?! Then, I realise... it's an album by Bernocci (who I've never heard of), Harold Budd and Robin Guthrie. And sometimes when I climb into bed I just say "Alexa*, play some Harold Budd off Spotify**", and this must be the thing it shuffles first every night. (* - Amazon Echo was a gift, I would never have bought one; ** - "off Spotify" cause Amazon's selection is poor).

"YOU ARE HIGH ENERGY! We can’t seem to find any chill music in your recent streaming history. What’s it like living life at a 10?"

Er, apart from all the soft-pedal piano ambience I fall asleep to every night that now dominates my stats?

Wait, holy shit, now that I've looked up "escape room" music, it seems like that's exactly what I was thinking about upthread!? Feel like
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Your Top Artist
Parliament

Your Top Track
Don't Leave Me This Way

Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
Don't Leave Me This Way

Here’s When You Listen
Based on your most recent 202 streams since June 11
1:00am

Most active hour
(Europe/London)
1,010min

64% of your tracks are energetic
Pump up the volume

Your average beats per minute is
122
Toe tapping tunes

Overall,your tracks are negative
Singing the Blues

*Energy is based on the dynamic range, perceived loudness, timbre, onset rate, and general entropy of a track
Your top genre is Alternative Rock which appears in 28% of your top tracks.
alternative rock
28%
funk rock
22%
space rock
20%
alternative metal
18%
post-doom metal
18%
industrial rock
18%

You’re all over the place. In the good way.

You Are What You Stream
Here’s what we’re starting to see based on your listening history.

All the Way Up

YOU ARE HIGH ENERGY! We can’t seem to find any chill music in your recent streaming history. What’s it like living life at a 10?

Insight Image
Keeping it 100.

Based on your most recently played tracks, we found that your average track tempo has a BPM of 23. Are you at a house party, doing HIIT, or both?!

i stream "like a parent"

busted

Digging some of the other genres I got in addition to Escape Room.

Escape Room 26%
Chamber Psych 24%
Fluxwork 22%

Now headed over to Every Noise at Once to see if I can figure out what they mean and where they overlap.

like, Chamber Psych includes Wooden Shjips, The Fall, Jakko Eino Kalevi, and Daphne & Celeste. okay, cool.

also, I'm not complaining or being critical of these invented genres. I wish there was something like the Neighbors thing on Last.fm so I could see what other people who are listening to M.E.S.H. and Uffie are checking out since this is what works best for me when it comes to music discovery.

RIYL is basically why i scan the genre threads so hard

What the hell kind of genre is PREVERB?

It said I listen to "18% Trap Music". AI still has a long way to go :-(

Premature reverb

Mine told me I was very diverse, and then gave me a playlist almost entirely of dub. It was very GOOD dub, though.

Glenn question: Do the algorithms go by artist or break things down to the individual track level? If you play a lot of wonderful single tracks from otherwise dud albums, will you keep getting recs based on those artists?

Actually, just tested that last question by generating a 'Create Similar Playlist' from a playlist of great songs from otherwise mediocre albums, and got a playlist of almost entirely mediocre songs.

oh that rating songs thing is addictive as hell

RIYL is basically why i scan the genre threads so hard

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses),

I don't have spotify but I had hopes this might have been RHYL music, the woman in greggs gets a lot of her records there

We do a wide variety of track-based and artist-based recommendations. It's basically a tradeoff: the more you aggregate, the less precise your data becomes but the more accurate. Discover Weekly is very track-centric, but has artist-level filtering to get mostly artists you don't know. Daily Mix and Release Radar are very artist-centric, but then also have very particular track filtering and ordering rules. "Related Artists" and most of the other stuff on the Discover page are artist-centric. "Create Similar Playlist" is actually track-based, but track- and artist-based results are often very similar unless you intentionally try to make them different.

I've done some experiments where I pick two fairly different songs by a single artist and try to find the music that is most distinctively popular among just fans of each song, but mostly what I find is that listening patterns don't actually break that way. Most people who listen to electric Dylan also listen to acoustic Dylan. Most people who listen to Pat Benatar or Cyndi Lauper's post-pop work also listen to their popular records. Most people still listening to early Ulver records are also listening to the later Ulver records.

So you think you're listening to only the "good" songs from bad albums, but in fact most people who like those songs probably actually like the rest of those albums. "Good" is, statistically speaking, your own solipsism showing.

Your Top Artist: Markus Guentner - Express Yourself

Your Top Track
School Of Fish - Pete Namlook

Then it basically goes on to say I listen to nothing but death metal when BBQing, which is... not entirely untrue.

Cheers, Glenn, that makes sense.

yeah great stuff glenn!

Anyone else have Spotify launching automatically on start up even tho you've set it not to?

And I've seen the spinner so much more lately - can take minutes to access playlists (only after auto-launch I think).

Anyone else have Spotify launching automatically on start up even tho you've set it not to?

yep, this has been happening on my work laptop for the last week or so. strangely, I have another Windows laptop with Spotify installed at home that does not have this issue.

That spinner goes on and on and on

The Spots! The Spots!

My top genre is Fourth World. I don't know what that is?

lol there's a whole thread for it :p
fourth world music

Ok thanks for that. Not sure I'm much wiser though.

I thought it may have been my listening to a lot of Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and Klara Lewis and Alice Coltrane.

is there sponsored content on Release Radar?

No. Personally, I think Release Radar might be a pretty good place for promoted tracks if they were relevant and labeled. By it's nature it's already inherently a sampler rather than a playlist you just start and leave on expecting a focused listening experience (unless you only listen to one thing), and we have a pretty decent idea of bands you might like (or might already know outside of your Spotify listening) that we're not currently including in your Release Radar but could.

Yeah, I wouldn't mind as long as it was relevant and labeled. It's such a useful playlist!

Is the list "front loaded" so the most relevant new music is at the top or is it more of a random sampler?

Seems front loaded to me - clearly based on artists I've made a point to follow or I can say I've listened to at least once in the last few months. But I guess that criteria isn't enough to make a fully new playlist every single week. Often the bottom 1/3 of my Release Radar playlist is tracks by artists who were also on the playlist the week before, but now they've moved down.

Release Radar is pretty strictly ordered: first artists you Follow, then artists you don't Follow but have played a bunch (in descending order of how much), and then potentially some Discover-Weekly-style suggestions if there aren't enough artists from the first two categories with new releases. And this pattern then repeats for releases from the previous week or two.

Just noticed that. Happy to receive a weekly email, I feel like they haven't been sent in awhile.

rely pretty heavily on Release Radar ever since they stopped notifications so I'm happy with minimal messing

is there a way to browse labels in Spotify?

Label:name in search e.g label:Warp

c:\run autoexec.bat

nice, thanks!

If the label is two or more words put the search term in quotation marks otherwise you'll get lots of unconnected crap.

I suppose it's been discussed already but the thread is so huge...
So, I've noticed lately that the spotify app on my iphone takes much more space than it's supposed to (even when removing all the "downloaded" stuff).
After checking online, it appears the issue is well known but the only way to really fix it is to erase the app and dl it again (indeed it reduces the space to a fraction of what it was before, like 10%).
the problem is that it then "grows" again quickly, even without downloading anything...
is erasing the app regularly the only way to keep it under control ? seems very primitive !

xp roger that

just did a label:rhino search and man they have a nice catalogue

would be nice if it was more incorporated, also for browsing compilation series...

re:size if you've an android phone I think you can just manually erase the spotify cache through explorer (way I did it: connect your phone via usb then scan for large folders using Treesize)

I've got some album only playlists. Is there anyway to collapse them so they only display the album names rather than listing 400+ songs it lists the 35 albums?