^being a dick bc Sufjan Grafton is not my real name tbf
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 2 October 2015 17:49 (eight years ago) link
but it's not even a desktop. maybe a picture of a monitor should be in your discover weekly next monday.
next to a picture of a ps2, because i like ps3s and ps4s
― da croupier, Friday, 2 October 2015 17:50 (eight years ago) link
lol
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 2 October 2015 17:51 (eight years ago) link
I'm not sure that Discover Weekly would be better if it started assuming that you've heard things, even if you haven't played them on spotify. I suppose there could be a way to set your affinity for artists that you don't want to spend time listening to, though. It's probably in the works, if it's a good idea.
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 2 October 2015 17:57 (eight years ago) link
it's pretty elegant that all of the DW data is collected passively. I don't want to spend time sorting through artists and rating them 1-10 like this is some horrible Netflix algorithm. The DW algorithm seems to be onto something good.
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 2 October 2015 17:59 (eight years ago) link
i'm not sure, either. that's why i've noted it recommends i discover not just artists but songs i've played and playlisted on spotify.
― da croupier, Friday, 2 October 2015 17:59 (eight years ago) link
I don't think anybody needs their own thread. But consider whether this one wouldn't be better if you behaved like your real name were on your posts and sometimes pictures of your workplace appeared in public.
this thread is fine, get over yourself
― brimstead, Friday, 2 October 2015 18:01 (eight years ago) link
the irony is i conducted myself waaaaay worse when i was a penn state employee posting under my real name
― da croupier, Friday, 2 October 2015 18:07 (eight years ago) link
they might yet melt your statue
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 2 October 2015 18:16 (eight years ago) link
― da croupier, Friday, 2 October 2015 18:18 (eight years ago) link
glenn don't let croup get you down. i enjoy spotify and yr contributions here. i don't know why he hates you.
― balls, Friday, 2 October 2015 18:55 (eight years ago) link
pretty sure balls knows this, but just in case anyone's genuinely confused, i neither hate glenn nor want him to leave ilx. i simply think we should have separate threads for discussion OF a company and interacting with a company employee in that capacity, as there's some needless static being caused by the conflation.
― da croupier, Friday, 2 October 2015 19:10 (eight years ago) link
i'm glad someone at the company wants to hear all the random suggestions and criticism of the product by meganerds on a micro-level. i also want the freedom to snark about a corporate monolith and discuss its wheelings and dealings, as we do so many companies, without being told i'm hurting that employee's feelings.
― da croupier, Friday, 2 October 2015 19:14 (eight years ago) link
The algorithms behind Discover Weekly finds users who have built playlists featuring the songs and artists you love. It then goes through songs that a number of your kindred spirits have added to playlists but you haven’t heard, knowing there is a good chance you might like them, too.
― djmartian, Friday, October 2, 2015 12:17 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
1) oh cool, now I can blame actual humans 2) does it make me more of a shit or less of a shit to blame people than some amorphous idea of an algorithm that almost certainly doesn't resemble reality
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Friday, 2 October 2015 19:16 (eight years ago) link
croup otm
― Οὖτις, Friday, 2 October 2015 19:20 (eight years ago) link
should probably add
3) which is more of a winning strategy: to go through and spotify-listen to everything I've already heard to knock them permanently out of contention (and throw the artist some extra fraction of a cent), or to avoid doing so knowing that will only further cement whatever it is that it thinks I like
4) all this time and energy could probably go to something more useful, like extreme couponing or gaming referral contests
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Friday, 2 October 2015 19:22 (eight years ago) link
or more time on ilx
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, 2 October 2015 20:42 (eight years ago) link
Just listen to what you like. If it's practical, listen to things that you like more than things you don't like.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 2 October 2015 22:01 (eight years ago) link
but when you're in trouble you call DW
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 2 October 2015 22:12 (eight years ago) link
but that would be too simple
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Friday, 2 October 2015 23:44 (eight years ago) link
I'm already on a paid account, but I would totally pay cash money (even more of it) to blanket exclude individual artists so that Spotify Hipster Boyfriend never, ever tries to tell me about Joy Division ever again, OK?
― Dröhn Rock (Branwell with an N), Saturday, 3 October 2015 11:42 (eight years ago) link
50 Genres With The Strangest Names On Spotifyhttps://insights.spotify.com/uk/2015/09/30/50-strangest-genre-names/#more-1888by Eliot Van Buskirk
― djmartian, Saturday, 3 October 2015 12:03 (eight years ago) link
Are those "Deep" categories really genres though?
― MarkoP, Saturday, 3 October 2015 13:43 (eight years ago) link
Also didn't Echonest used to have a "Sexy" genre or something like that?
― MarkoP, Saturday, 3 October 2015 13:45 (eight years ago) link
I take a very broad view of "genre". Think of them as listening clusters.
I retired "sexy" a while ago. When the Echo Nest was an independent company, "sexy" demonstrated an important point about how we could have "genres" based on any idea. We imagined that our partners would want to create their own individual genre systems, so flexibility seemed critical. In practice, though, nobody ever actually wanted that.
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 3 October 2015 15:39 (eight years ago) link
Could they at least bring it back next year for the ten year anniversary of Futuresex/Lovesounds?
― MarkoP, Saturday, 3 October 2015 15:59 (eight years ago) link
while spotify is refining DW i hope they come up with a way to clump together re-recordings so they don't put the same song twice on the same playlist. i get it spotify, you think i'll like sleepwalk by santo and johnny and sleepwalk by santo and johnny-il meglio (which means best in italian so i assume it's a remnant of a poorly cataloged greatest hits album or something). instrumentals from the 40s-60s in particular have recordings all over the place on spotify so i hope they are able to consolidate how they treat them with their recommendations.
also i need to reprimand spotify again for its lack of chill in recommending older tracks...roger miller, floyd cramer and slim whitman are three of my most played artists of 2015 but you are gonna recommend "i'm sorry" by brenda lee to me? come onnnnn.
― musically, Friday, 9 October 2015 18:14 (eight years ago) link
my account was hacked the other night...I logged in and someone else was playing some shite music. I could control it from my phone however, so I maxed out the volume on their end. They turned it back down, and I turned it back up. This went on and on until they dropped off.
― calstars, Friday, 9 October 2015 18:22 (eight years ago) link
anyway despite changing passwords, and wifi credentials, this happened again the following night. not sure what is going on.
― calstars, Friday, 9 October 2015 18:23 (eight years ago) link
Go to spotify's website and log out of all devices in your account settings. then change your pw again.
― musically, Friday, 9 October 2015 18:45 (eight years ago) link
https://ifttt.com/recipes/313128-archive-spotify-discover-weekly-tracks
I use this for auto archive of discovery list
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 9 October 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link
Pretty sweet. I'm gonna try it.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 10 October 2015 04:56 (eight years ago) link
Spotify are now archiving all Spotify Fresh Finds on this mega playlist
https://open.spotify.com/user/predict0/playlist/6Rz1nHuFleZtPxcdy9rFlB
527 tracks so far
― djmartian, Saturday, 10 October 2015 09:09 (eight years ago) link
I didn't get an updated DW today
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 12 October 2015 13:00 (eight years ago) link
what time zone are you? in the UK it arrived later than normal
― djmartian, Monday, 12 October 2015 13:37 (eight years ago) link
East coast US
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 12 October 2015 13:46 (eight years ago) link
ok got it now
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 12 October 2015 14:09 (eight years ago) link
Really really poor stuff when it comes to the updates undoing/reverting your settings every time. Does this happen for everyone? If so they could at least include an alert message suggesting we check settings on launch.
― nashwan, Monday, 12 October 2015 18:31 (eight years ago) link
as with iTunes, I will update this program only when forced to
― sleeve, Monday, 12 October 2015 18:50 (eight years ago) link
really getting tired of locating and re-setting the "please don't start this program when I start my computer" setting. I mean resetting that is just rude.
― Gorefest Frump (Doctor Casino), Monday, 12 October 2015 19:14 (eight years ago) link
forilz
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 October 2015 20:51 (eight years ago) link
"Enjoy a relaxing evening."
Thanks Spotify, I will. Just after my 2 minutes hate, when I am ready for peaceable recreation.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 12 October 2015 20:53 (eight years ago) link
my desktop app won't boot up anymore :/
― Comme Si, Kamasi (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 12 October 2015 21:18 (eight years ago) link
the ultimate flag post from glenn
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 17:07 (eight years ago) link
Spotify Support is another really good thing for which I can take absolutely no credit. They can fix you.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 13 October 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link
The Android version is better than the it's in that the hamburger gives you the full menu. Including search. So you don't have to go all the way back.
― calstars, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 00:59 (eight years ago) link
*ios
― calstars, Wednesday, 14 October 2015 01:02 (eight years ago) link
I'm not sure how to report this, but Suicide's second album has a track mix-up. Track 5, "Touch Me," has the audio for track 6, "Harlem," and vice-versa: http://open.spotify.com/album/4X26FOEhz57Q7y6xKF9MrO
― welltris (crüt), Friday, 16 October 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
"Spotify is like a villainous cabal of major labels. The business is built from the ground up as a way to circumvent the idea of paying their artists."
http://pitchfork.com/news/61661-joanna-newsom-spotify-is-the-banana-of-the-music-industry-it-just-gives-off-a-fume/
― scott seward, Friday, 16 October 2015 17:21 (eight years ago) link
new username up for grabs with that link headline...someone should snap that up.
― scott seward, Friday, 16 October 2015 17:22 (eight years ago) link