Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Transitioning from physical to digital has been the opposite of a loss, it's been a huge weight off my shoulders.

xp yeah maybe. half of my collection wasn't really worth remembering though, and part of the appeal of the celestial jukebox is liberating yourself from a self-imposed canon. maybe that's what you mean wmc...

Is there any way on the app to bookmark your place in a song? Say you're listening to some long classical piece and you stop listening to it halfway through, then you turn it off and listen to some other piece. Is it possible to save your place in the first piece so that when you return to it you can pick up where you left off?

part of the appeal of the celestial jukebox is liberating yourself from a self-imposed canon. maybe that's what you mean wmc...

Yeah, that's a big part of it. The same thing from another angle is that having immediate access to (most of) the canon as collectively agreed upon by a few million faceless others frees me up to explore at my own pace and listen to the recommendations of trusted individuals or intriguing strangers without Conventional Wisdom pestering me.

Definitely interesting thoughts. Much obliged.

Have we talked about how the Android app used to let you sort saved albums by date added, but now it's just alphabetical by artist? This decision is incomprehensible to me. This is an app that gives access to all recorded music, and you're hoping I'll use it for a lifetime ...

Almost given up on Daily Mixes. I appreciate that it's designed to give me the same or similar artists all the time as it's comfort zone stuff but for some artists it never varies the song choice.

If St Etiene pops up it's always "You're in a bad way" - for Spiritualized it's always "Ladies and Gentlemen..." - for The Damned it'd always "Eloise" - for The Fall it's "Repetition" (ikr).

I feel like it's reinforcing itself as it sees that those are my most played songs by those artists - but that's Spotify's fault!

that option is available to me. you have premium, right?

xp

I appreciate that it's designed to give me the same or similar artists all the time as it's comfort zone stuff but for some artists it never varies the song choice.

this is the exact problem I had with pandora ~2007, fwiw -- for me it was every time EBTG showed up it was "No Difference"

There’s a @drake for every mood. #ScorpionSZN is upon us. Listen now on Spotify. https://t.co/EnieG0XGh1 pic.twitter.com/bDBO7dlKwQ

— Spotify (@Spotify) June 29, 2018

this is horrible

lol

Must I pay 10 bucks a month and still have to see fucking drake every time I log in?
*vomits*

You can turn that bit off

https://i.imgur.com/VO1sMd5.jpg

LOL!

spotify isn't recommending drake to me at all so the past day or two of Discourse has been very confusing

You might need a firmware update

nah I'll pass

But it also turns all the songs you choose to play into Drake guest versions, what's not to like?

I’ve never played Drake and don’t buy into his mopey robot schtick so not sure why the inundation

have never been more impatient for a company to fail than Spotify

https://media.pitchfork.com/photos/5b3a854a8b7610470d0dd7a4/2:1/w_790/drake-spotify-2%20(1)%20(1).jpeg

Yes, once Spotify fails you'll definitely never encounter Drake on Apple or Amazon...

Almost given up on Daily Mixes. I appreciate that it's designed to give me the same or similar artists all the time as it's comfort zone stuff but for some artists it never varies the song choice.

yea it is weird, some of my daily mixes are made up of stuff i haven't listened to in a year, but the stuff i listen to all the time now isn't even there

I still play Daily Mixes because they are convenient but i'm pretty tired of seeing the exact same songs by the same 5-10 artists every day in there for months. For example, i've only ever been served Making Plans for Nigel by XTC.

The "daily" part doesn't really seem to be true. I wish these changed a lot more.

are labels the reason why youtube recommendations are 100x as good as spotify recommendations?

Song Radio >>> Daily Mix I feel but I overlooked the former as an option for too long and maybe there's no substantial difference

lol YouTube recommendations are the worst

Spotify contender for best technology for music listeners since radio

are labels the reason why youtube recommendations are 100x as good as spotify recommendations?

Ah yes, you listened to a song, next here's a man skateboarding nude with razorblades in his scrotum, followed by two girls eating chillis.

That doesn’t happen to me – I get on-point recommendations of other songs.

Lol the best technology for listeners since the radio is crazy talk

Dan Ingram is turning over in his newly dug grave.

youtube has the song mixes and recommends me a lot of foreign out of print records and other obscurities, as well ofc as street guitarists, kids dancing to rap, live recordings and other things outside of spotify's purview, and spotify recommends me blondie, liars, carl craig and paul mccartney

I mean, I like spotify a lot and would pay quite a bit more for it if the money went to artists but in terms of recommendations it can't compete and I'm wondering if this is a user/bottom-up approach beating a labels/top-down one

it isn't that much of a difference, everybody's* music listening and discovering is mediated by labels, directly or indirectly

* with the possible exception of people on a message board

I think there's a case to be made for the "bottom-up" approach being maybe superior, with Wikipedia (imperfect though it may be) as an obvious use case, given how much it's come to be relied upon / cited. Unlike Wikipedia, though, stuff gets pulled from YouTube all the time. Just look at any years-old ILM thread with a decent number of embeds.

pssst

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1w75GyqYmFc5lvr4hp2vdWK/the-new-bbc-sounds-app

when yr being recommended out of print stuff I think it's safe to assume labels are not involved

https://www.stereogum.com/2004364/spotify-offers-refunds-for-excessive-drake-promotion/news/

vindicated

Seems like much ado over little to me, but I guess Spotify has learned their lesson...

... or they got enough $$$ from the label that a few refunds is trivial

I assume "a few refunds" is trivial in general for most companies

imagine asking for a refund for that.

was more annoyed by spotify's promotion of its own voice control technology

I hope this isn’t coming out of your bonus Glenn

surely glenn has come up with a more interesting name for that pay genre

Every time somebody hits Next on a Drake song before the end, I get $.0001 for each second remaining. People laughed at me when I originally made this deal. "Who are 'Drake' and why would people need to skip them?"

good analysis imo at the FT here (t.co link to get past the paywall, but google "Spotify: Drake-oil salesmen" if the link doesn't work

https://t.co/5PvVMWlO8E

The rogue KING has another new track out.

I laughed when this showed up as "Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark" on my release radar tho:
https://open.spotify.com/track/3EJfmzhb9CNJT43ZGOP88U?si=LNlogGsdS0S-NdOte6Cd4Q