I don't actually know what that Game of Thrones thing does, but it probably looks at only a tiny bit of your listening, because it works through an external API. Recent plays, or recent saves or something.
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 24 April 2016 14:12 (eight years ago) link
This feels extremely "late period" and I don't know if that's a good thing at this point.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Sunday, 24 April 2016 14:24 (eight years ago) link
Sorry, wrong thread. Lol.
xps to glenn -- makes sense, sort of like an auditory buzzfeed quiz i guess.
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Sunday, 24 April 2016 14:36 (eight years ago) link
does anyone know how to make the big blue bar across the top begging me to connect to facebook go away? it showed up a few weeeks ago and will not go away.
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 24 April 2016 16:40 (eight years ago) link
It's nice to be able to have local file playlists from more than one computer - i.e., not to have to tether the phone to just one device at a time.
― calstars, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 01:27 (eight years ago) link
Oh, and these location specifics are kind of awesome:
http://i.imgur.com/GgLhJrk.jpg
― calstars, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 01:28 (eight years ago) link
is there a fast way to create a playlist from a list of artists and tracks in text format?
http://www.playlist-converter.net
Only problem is when it finds the wrong version of a track (e.g. a live recording) as it's no longer as quick to add tracks to playlists by dragging them from browser to app - still gutted about this.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 11:23 (eight years ago) link
Notifications, please come back
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 11:41 (eight years ago) link
Co-sign
― calstars, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 11:51 (eight years ago) link
i never understand how they can continually get stuff right and then fuck it up ...Stars, notification and so forth
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 12:21 (eight years ago) link
It's mind boggling.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 12:22 (eight years ago) link
This is kinda cool: http://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/how-to-add-your-old-cds-to-spotify-1772337116
― schwantz, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 15:46 (eight years ago) link
Hey I just got some notifications, everyone. That's one gremlin down.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 17:43 (eight years ago) link
Me too! I'm on iOS.
― calstars, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 18:23 (eight years ago) link
Goodbye hamburger menu! Celebratory hamburgers all round.
― I've had Eno, ugh (ledge), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 13:08 (seven years ago) link
good, the burger menu was shithouse. the new one seems to be rolling out slowly, nothing here as yet.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 13:10 (seven years ago) link
Actually it was the six, seven, or eight presses on the back button before unlocking the hamburger menu that really rankled. I think, I'm already suppressing the horror. Either way three cheers for the new bottom menu bar.
― I've had Eno, ugh (ledge), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 13:13 (seven years ago) link
yeah, just toggling mobile downloads or changing equaliser takes aaaaages with this bloody burger thing, and dragging from the left only triggers some of the time (on ios at least). won't miss it.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 13:37 (seven years ago) link
This is the way the navigation was back in the iOS 4 days. Happy to see it return !
― calstars, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 14:39 (seven years ago) link
Hey Glenn - is there any way to pull up older auto-generated playlists? I think we were on one of the Fresh Finds playlists, but we're not any more.
― schwantz, Thursday, 5 May 2016 18:10 (seven years ago) link
No, but I can probably track it down. Which "we"?
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 5 May 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
Society of Rockets. I was looking at the stats, and it looked like being on one of the fresh finds playlists sent our listener count way up. Wonder if that will last at all. Pretty cool to get all of these real-time statistics.
How long until promoters get savvy and start getting you Nets tickets in exchange for algorithm tweaks?
― schwantz, Thursday, 5 May 2016 20:56 (seven years ago) link
Yes, looks like "Country Dealer" was on SIX STRINGS 3 weeks ago.
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 5 May 2016 21:19 (seven years ago) link
Thanks!
― schwantz, Thursday, 5 May 2016 21:21 (seven years ago) link
― I've had Eno, ugh (ledge), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 23:08 (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i still bloody don't have this
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 13 May 2016 08:34 (seven years ago) link
I get this thing a lot on the Spotify desktop client where it thinks I'm offline when I'm not. Always have to reboot the app. Does anyone else get that? Kind of annoying.
― Position Position, Friday, 13 May 2016 13:58 (seven years ago) link
always, need to close and relaunch
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 13 May 2016 14:02 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, same here, and same solution - close and relaunch. Pain in the hole.
― Poacher (Chinaski), Friday, 13 May 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
Decent interview with Ben Ratliff here on the impact of algorythms on the way we discover music -
http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/are-algorithms-ruining-how-we-discover-music/
The interviewer (FiveThirtyEight's Jody Avirgan) seems fairly happy with the situation on the whole, which is interesting to hear as there are most likely many people who enjoy never being taken out of their comfort zone, but theirs is a perspective you wouldn't normally hear i something like this (it's certainly not the way I see it.)
― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 19:00 (seven years ago) link
It seems like it'd be useful to understand how these algorithms work when evaluating their use in music. For example, I'm not sure that the algorithms that Spotify uses for Discovery are designed to make a playlist that reflects your current music listening state exactly or that keeps you in your comfort zone. What's worth more to Spotify: That you keep listening because you are comfortable? That you discover a new favorite kind of music and go on a listening binge? Or that you pay your $10 next month and maybe convince a friend to pay $10 because you liked a bit of their software?
― bonita pooleymoon (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 19:23 (seven years ago) link
Either way, it's definitely not the algorithms' fault because an algorithm can be tuned to take you out of your comfort zone even more than you would on your own.
― bonita pooleymoon (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 19:27 (seven years ago) link
Eventually, the service may grow from a custom algorithm-generated playlist delivered weekly to a simple interface to algorithms for discovering new music.
― bonita pooleymoon (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 18 May 2016 19:36 (seven years ago) link
"Algorithms" have no inherent agenda. We have things that are trying to keep you in your comfort zone, and things that are trying to push you out of it, and things (like Discover Weekly) that behave different ways for different people. And yes, Discover Weekly is the first of many things...
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 23:06 (seven years ago) link
"behave different ways for different people"
maybe you can't explain how this works but i'm def interested
― dc, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 23:14 (seven years ago) link
Oh, in the DW case I only meant that the same system produces very mainstream results for some people and very obscure results for other people.
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 18 May 2016 23:16 (seven years ago) link
'"Algorithms" have no inherent agenda'
not true. they're created, selected among, tuned and deployed by people who, whether they realize it or not, have cultural biases and an agenda.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 19 May 2016 00:48 (seven years ago) link
Any individual algorithm probably has an agenda, explicit or implicit. But "algorithms", as a class of thing, do not.
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 19 May 2016 01:33 (seven years ago) link
It's like saying that things made with "tools" are "impersonal".
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 19 May 2016 01:34 (seven years ago) link
Does Spotify deploy "algorithms" as a class of thing, or does it use individual ones? Do I have to pay extra for the plan that includes the former?
― dlp9001, Thursday, 19 May 2016 02:07 (seven years ago) link
i love Spotify and i'm not leaving.
Love, Bee OK
― Bee OK, Thursday, 19 May 2016 02:11 (seven years ago) link
I left it for Tidal, once I found out about the student discount. The algorithms tried to stop me, but I ducked around a corner and lost them.
― dlp9001, Thursday, 19 May 2016 02:17 (seven years ago) link
hmm, Spotify has a student discount?
― Bee OK, Thursday, 19 May 2016 02:18 (seven years ago) link
plus Spotify is ILM as this point. i can't give up our playlists.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 19 May 2016 02:19 (seven years ago) link
yeap, they do have a student discount. it is half off.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 19 May 2016 02:20 (seven years ago) link
OTM in the biggest way possible (Spotify is ILM).
― dlp9001, Thursday, 19 May 2016 02:20 (seven years ago) link
dlp9001, perhaps you can focus your anonymous discussion energies on the Tidal thread now, too.
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 19 May 2016 02:21 (seven years ago) link
Spotify has a student discount but I've never been able to get it to actually apply to the amount billed on my account, despite the system deeming me A-OK for such something like two years ago. YMMV.
― sisterhood of the baggering vance (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 19 May 2016 02:22 (seven years ago) link
Tidal seems to be talking about Chris Forsyth, and I don't know who that is.
I was somewhat shocked by how easily Tidal allowed my student discount, as I don't use a college email address. They must have great algorithms.
― dlp9001, Thursday, 19 May 2016 02:25 (seven years ago) link
lol
― Bee OK, Thursday, 19 May 2016 02:25 (seven years ago) link