That's why you need an alt fb account
― Spottie, Saturday, 24 January 2015 21:38 (nine years ago) link
I can still use Spotify Web Player though
― everyday sheeple (Michael B), Saturday, 24 January 2015 22:00 (nine years ago) link
What I don't se mentioned here that miffs me (and I'd love to hear why they did this/any hack to change it back) is the UI change they did last month that got rid of the Top Lists in the sidebar. When you clicked on this it would give you a massive list (I wanna say top 200) of the most popular songs on the left, albums on the right, and you could filter it by region etc.
The new Top Lists they have are more varied and genre specific, but they only include 50 songs and none of them really replicate the original features or content of the old format.
― MrExplorer, Sunday, 25 January 2015 10:43 (nine years ago) link
The charts section is undergoing a revamp, and there will be more coming, but in the meantime you might enjoy my set of per-country playlists showing the most distinctively popular songs in each country:
http://everynoise.com/countrysounds.html
Unlike the old per-region charts, which were based on raw stream-counts and thus tended to be dominated most or entirely by global hits in slightly different orders, these tend to have a lot more music that's actually unique and representative of the country in question...
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 25 January 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link
very cool
― Mordy, Sunday, 25 January 2015 17:39 (nine years ago) link
At the bottom of the front page on everynoise.com are links to a bunch of other things, including similar playlists for a few hundred cities, too...
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 25 January 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link
i <3 you glenn
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 25 January 2015 21:41 (nine years ago) link
i love that you do this stuff for a living
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 January 2015 05:35 (nine years ago) link
awesome - that's exactly what I was always hoping to find in the country charts - thanks too for staying on board of this thread
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 26 January 2015 16:31 (nine years ago) link
son of a bitch, almost every time I add an album/playlist to my queue, it puts track #1 last and starts with track #2
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Wednesday, 4 February 2015 22:23 (nine years ago) link
some piece-of-the-pie breakdowns:
http://pando.com/2015/02/06/labels-not-spotify-are-screwing-over-artists-and-breaking-the-music-industry-heres-how-to-fix-it/
When you disregard taxes and the platforms’ share, labels keep a full 73.1 percent of the net revenue streaming services transfer to the music industry.
― sleeve, Monday, 9 February 2015 16:31 (nine years ago) link
Does that even account for the fact that the labels are also investors in the service?
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Monday, 9 February 2015 16:35 (nine years ago) link
Some interesting numbers, but a pretty terrible article. The line sleeve quoted is especially silly. Labels don't keep the taxes or the Spotify money (other than maybe as some eventual return on investment).
― schwantz, Monday, 9 February 2015 18:15 (nine years ago) link
Whoops, I'm the dummy. I realize what that meant now. OF THE MONEY THAT'S LEFT OVER (after the platforms and taxes take their cuts), the labels keep 73.1%.
― schwantz, Monday, 9 February 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link
Do we know the structure of the labels' investment in Spotify? It's not impossible that it gives them some additional payout even if Spotify isn't turning a profit, although that'd be pretty fucked.
― walid foster dulles (man alive), Monday, 9 February 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link
numbers aside (which is really why I posted it) I can't figure out what place the author is coming from - critical, sympathetic, or what- but it kind of reads like another "if these new musicians just knew how to market themselves they could be making bank" article, which I don't think it true in most cases.
― sleeve, Monday, 9 February 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link
Hey, if you want to spend your life doing self-promotion, you can probably make money in the music business. It's just that that sounds like a job.
― schwantz, Monday, 9 February 2015 18:20 (nine years ago) link
Can anyone think of a reason why a track would be playable on the spotify client on my home pc but the client on my work pc tells me this track is not available in the US? It's dumb, because home and work are only 8 miles apart and in the same US city.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 19 February 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link
Most likely two reasons: 1) it's actually not available, but you have it in your local iTunes library at home; 2) your office's network goes through some odd internet routing. If I'm on my work VPN lots of programs think I'm in Sweden.
Also, if you paste in the URI for the track, I can check where it's available.
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 19 February 2015 21:13 (nine years ago) link
spotify:track:49UBmvRSxLa2Oq6HkYKovK
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 19 February 2015 21:18 (nine years ago) link
available to me (in the US)
― Mordy, Thursday, 19 February 2015 21:19 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, our office internet goes through a vpn, but I've never encountered this problem before. So odd.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 19 February 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link
That one appears to be available everywhere except Asia. So, um, is your VPN secretly Malaysian?
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 19 February 2015 22:02 (nine years ago) link
It's not a huge deal. I'll just chalk it up to a freak computer thing no one will ever figure out. I logged out and logged back in, didn't make a difference.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 19 February 2015 22:07 (nine years ago) link
perhaps unbeknowst to you your neighborhood/building has declared itself a soverign nation thus exempting it from US Spotify restrictions
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Thursday, 19 February 2015 22:27 (nine years ago) link
björk keeping her new album off spotify doesn't seem to have got half the attention that t-swift did, it seems to be for much the same reasons though
― lex pretend, Sunday, 1 March 2015 12:44 (nine years ago) link
I assumed it was because the album hasn't technically been released yet? (e.g. it's still pre-order on Amazon)
― kriss akabusi cleaner (seandalai), Sunday, 1 March 2015 13:57 (nine years ago) link
This is kind of weird: Eric Trip's Forever Again (1994) is on Spotify (U.S.), but only the first 11 (of 18) tracks, and the track titles have been replaced with those from the album A Different Arrangement (2012) by Black Marble.
― jaymc, Monday, 9 March 2015 03:02 (nine years ago) link
I can get that fixed!
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 01:37 (nine years ago) link
Cool, thanks!
― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 13:17 (nine years ago) link
Anyone else have all their playlists reset to secret after the latest update with the big UI changes? Bah
― nashwan, Tuesday, 10 March 2015 21:59 (nine years ago) link
Hey, what happened to the option to view unplayable tracks? I put those in playlists because sometimes they become playable later on! Bring it back!
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 05:48 (nine years ago) link
Oh, nm. I glanced right over it. Carry on.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 05:49 (nine years ago) link
Shit! Clicking the "Close" X now shuts down the application instead of minimizing it. Will have to retrain my mouse hand.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 05:53 (nine years ago) link
Also, the flatness of the new UI is lame. Save that for the browser version. I like just a little more definition in the desktop version.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 05:55 (nine years ago) link
Problems I've had with the new update, within the first few minutes. I'll start with the ones that are only mildly annoying.
1. All my previously public playlists have defaulted to secret. Presumably, I'm going to have to manually reset each one back to public?
2. The "show unavailable tracks in playlists" option, which I'd set to On, has been switched back to Off. I've now set it back to On again in Edit-Playlists.
3. I can no longer add new playlists in the middle of my list of playlists, depending on where I'm positioned - they only appear right at the start of the list, then I have to drag them down to where I want them.
4. The notifications don't display. You touch the little bell and wait forever.
The next ones are maddening.
5. If I sort a playlist by Song/Artist/Album, I can no longer reposition myself within that list by typing the letter(s) that I want to jump to. This means for long playlists, I've got to do a lot of manual scrolling.
6. I can no longer drag tracks from iTunes into playlists, WTF?!
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:01 (nine years ago) link
4 will go away if you close and reopen
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link
or it did for me anyway
thrilled that close button now closes the application
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:07 (nine years ago) link
Not me. I've already accidentally closed it 4 times.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:09 (nine years ago) link
7. You can no longer display all the tracks from playlists within a folder, by clicking on the folder name.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:09 (nine years ago) link
Just tried that, and yes, notifications now OK.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:12 (nine years ago) link
this is running much faster for me after I closed and reopened as well
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:13 (nine years ago) link
8. You can no longer adjust the width of columns. So, for example, if you want to view a long song title, you have to click through onto the album name to read it in full.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:18 (nine years ago) link
9. Song now playing no longer appears when you hover over the icon in the taskbar.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:25 (nine years ago) link
10. I can't star songs anymore.
Oh wait.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link
x doesn't close my app but i think i have the latest update
― Mordy, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:36 (nine years ago) link
re playlist privacy it turns out they were still public (and viewable on your profile page to others) but the setting when right-clicking on them in the playlist menu doesn't seem to reflect this
― nashwan, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:50 (nine years ago) link
The whole not seeing the contents of playlists when click on a folder sucks. Was a good way to get around the playlist limitations.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
I'm sad that Spotify apps are gone. Feel like someone should fill the void (maybe they already have)?
― schwantz, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 18:13 (nine years ago) link