Spotify - anyone heard of it?

I've managed to largely train it away from the self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie and now really look forward to it every Monday, am firmly in the habit of saving the good stuff. Often the good stuff turns out not to merit much further investigation but It hit the jackpot recently with Ben Frost, good Spotify, have a doggie treat.

my discover weekly hit the jackpot today! i learned about a group named conduits, who only have one album from 2012 but it's a fucking incredibly deep psych album http://open.spotify.com/album/0zgDKEdtzihAZmR1Bnk2yY

anyone who wants Spotify URLs to open in the desktop app ...

glenn advised to just click "Play in Spotify" but I never saw that option, it just opened the player. Figured it out: open a Spotify URL. Click the settings gear in the Spotify webapp, look for a setting like "Open Spotify URLs in desktop app". Confusingly, it will have a checkmark, but if the checkmark is gray it's not enabled. Click it so it's green. Next time I opened a Spotify URL it gave me the option to Play in Spotify before it opened the web player.

this doesn't appear to be an option anymore? :(

i wish i could use the "musical map" but it keeps opening in my browser & not the app

do you mean Glenn's "Every Noise" map? I browse with Firefox and if I click the "Listen to the Sound of....." link at the bottom of the genre page it immediately asks me which program I want to use to open the link.

I'm sorry if that's totally useless informtation, but I've certainly never changed any settings to enable this so it must be automatic. Could be a browser thing perhaps? This isn't really my forte.

So I just tried to add a song to "Your Music" and was told I had too many songs in my collection.

The fuck?

had that yesterday too on my phone
seems to work okay on my laptop

Second week in a row with a version of "That's How I Got To Memphis." Keep them coming!

Well, if you love some old songs enough...

:)

Glenn - Do you know if anyone is working on parental controls for Spotify? I bought accounts for my kids, and I'd love to be able to disable explicit tracks on their accounts. This would also be helpful when playing music at work.

Also, my kids are getting curse-filled tracks in their Discovery lists, which sucks.

Also also, does private session prevent things influencing the discover playlist? idle enquiring minds want to know.

Yeah, kid-safe filtering is something we're definitely thinking about, but no idea exactly what form it will take, or when.

Private sessions are just about social sharing-or-not. You aren't hiding from yourself.

Thanks, damnit. No place to hide from the all penetrating gaze of self awareness - story of my life.

So this happened...

http://i.imgur.com/PQ07spO.jpg

Glenn, I hope you know who made this and that you can put a turd in his/her lunchbox.

no way

flag is also on Afternoon Acoustic, Pop Chillout, Acoustic Hits, Acoustic Morning....

yeah i think the, um, all the feels playlist must have existed prior and then the flag was put on to various playlists. it wasn't put on all of them though so some further discrimination might have been advised.

Not my department...

thanks for letting us know?

So this happened...

🗻

Glenn, I hope you know who made this and that you can put a turd in his/her lunchbox.

ha ha it's pretty dope actually

it's bc "the feels" are a cutespeak internet thing so matching it to the french flag is pretty tacky xp

http://www.spotifyartists.com/introducing-spotify-fan-insights/

Wish any playlist creator could see those sorts of analytics on a playlist-by-playlist basis

uh

http://boingboing.net/2015/08/21/spotifys-new-privacy-policy.html

so glad I generally don't do apps on my phone

landlines and CDs! Landlines and CDs! Who's with me?

wtf

better article, that previous link was more of a stub:

http://www.wired.com/2015/08/cant-squat-spotifys-eerie-new-privacy-policy/

it does seem quite evil

http://www.wired.com/2015/08/spotify-clears-up-its-privacy-policy/

“Let me be crystal clear here: If you don’t want to share this kind of information, you don’t have to. We will ask for your express permission before accessing any of this data – and we will only use it for specific purposes that will allow you to customize your Spotify experience.”

In other words, these will enable opt-in experiences, something that Spotify regrettably neglected to mention when it first announced the changes. The app won’t go scanning for your photos, but it’s reserving the right to access them if and when you want it to.

outrageous!!!

the question is can i upload my dick pics to spotify

Sure, but you can't star them.

you can put a star in the pictures

the best ones, anyway

the ones with good light

Sure, but you can't star them.

― Jeff, Friday, November 20, 2015 9:02 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I love how Jeff pops up every three months with a dig about starring.

he doesn't even know that they brought stars back!

Stars work fine in the Scottish version

he doesn't even know that they brought stars back!

― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, November 20, 2015 2:29 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wait what now?

sorry, it was a ~*goof*~

u r mean v v mean

curry about to be v v mean to my bulls

he's gonna do it for me. payback.

ex rdio user. spotify is very bad, isn't it?

on ios is there any way to make the big green "shuffle play" button on an album page be just "play"? or do i have to click on track 1 to play the album in order?

also spotify connect doesn't seem to work reliably. i can transfer from iphone to ipad ok, but my computer often doesn't show up. if it does the "connection" between the spotify sessions seems to drop when i try to transfer.

never had any real problem using spotify

experience so far is that it's as bad as itunes without the excuse that it's 15 years old and trying to do 30 different things

except spotify is a streaming service and itunes is not

ok it's as bad as microsoft word without the excuse that it's 30 years old and trying to do 45 different things

it's a mess