is there a good method for exporting all playlists en masse to just text files or something? everything I've seen does it one at a time, which is not v appealing for well over 200
― ogmor, Thursday, 1 September 2016 19:14 (seven years ago) link
xp don't know if you're being serious, but like most people i do both
― brimstead, Thursday, 1 September 2016 19:17 (seven years ago) link
xp you can do stuff like that with the api.. there's probably some third party app that'll do it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moSFlvxnbgk
― Mordy, Thursday, 1 September 2016 19:20 (seven years ago) link
this is probably a good idea re music hoarding in general. i wish i were enlightened enough to act on my common sense but it's obv that 99.9% of the music i have on hard drives i'm never going to listen to again so why do i have it exactly?
― Mordy, Thursday, 1 September 2016 19:21 (seven years ago) link
If you're gonna pay, 10 bucks isn't too expensive, imo. It's the allure of something being free that keeps people from signing up for a plan.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 1 September 2016 19:31 (seven years ago) link
IFTTT do a bunch of things that allow you to export playlists which will update as you create more or add to extant ones. I export everything to Google Drive.
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Thursday, 1 September 2016 19:36 (seven years ago) link
I do wish they'd stop recommending me Doug Hream Blunt. Every bloody Discover Weekky playlist.
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Thursday, 1 September 2016 19:39 (seven years ago) link
I think the authors of the article should have suggested a "everything but country music and rap" subscription. Either way, I'm sure it would be completely trivial to implement.
― juggulo for the complete klvtz (bendy), Thursday, 1 September 2016 20:08 (seven years ago) link
Lol
― Planking Full Stop (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 September 2016 20:09 (seven years ago) link
i don't want to be dramatic but re-recordings are the worst thing in the universe, ban them from spotify and stop them from infiltrating our oldies playlists
― musically, Thursday, 1 September 2016 21:43 (seven years ago) link
i have been copying my playlists to a notepad file once every six months, seems appropriately careful
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Friday, 2 September 2016 00:34 (seven years ago) link
http://joellehman.com/playlist/
― brimstead, Friday, 2 September 2016 00:57 (seven years ago) link
nice, but it only pulls my first 20 playlists?
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Friday, 2 September 2016 06:37 (seven years ago) link
Same here
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Friday, 2 September 2016 09:48 (seven years ago) link
I've had to give up on the Release Radar thing because it wouldn't show up properly in my Playlist folder on my Marantz box (in fact, it would either show up as "By" and be empty or be missing entirely and cause the box to pause for 30sec when accessing Playlists). I'm sure it's a Marantz shortcoming - it's an old bit of hardware now (there's a newer device which supports Spotify Connect for example) and maybe there's something about dynamic updates to Release Radar (as opposed to Discover Weekly, which is fine) which locks it up. I do 90% of my Spotify listening on the Marantz service as AirPlay from my phone can be glitchy and I don't have unlimited data on my mobile plan (so I stick to offline stuff outside of the house).
Doug Hream Blunt - yep, all the time. Good Jan Hammer Group track this week, mind.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 2 September 2016 10:26 (seven years ago) link
Got all excited about Roy Montgomery in my Release Radar but then it turned out to be: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MC_rBBAiC2Y/maxresdefault.jpg
― JoeStork, Friday, 2 September 2016 17:59 (seven years ago) link
Recent Release Radar Repeat Recommendations:The ChillsThe MonkeesThe MolesThe RationalsDinosaur Jr.
― Under the Zing of Stan (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 September 2016 15:22 (seven years ago) link
And just for good measure this Friday they recommended a song called "Chills" by The Moles.
― Under the Zing of Stan (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 September 2016 15:27 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, Release Radar had a new song by Keith Hudson with a picture of buds as the cover. Turned out to be another guy named Keith Hudson who is awful. There aughta be a law!
― brotherlovesdub, Saturday, 3 September 2016 15:31 (seven years ago) link
Actually the first song in mine this week was by a ringer too, a group called Patto that was not the bluesy prog rock band featuring Ollie Halsall and John Halsey.
― Under the Zing of Stan (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 3 September 2016 15:36 (seven years ago) link
"Release Radar" is the first recommender that is working for me. Unsurprisingly, I have literally thousands of 'starred' songs, so spotify has a good sense of which artists I've listened to quite a bit and it also knows what music by those artists I haven't listened to on Spotify. The result is a playlist with music from TI, Young Thug, Carly Rae, Wara from the NBHD, St Paul and the Broken Bones, Alkaline, Bibio, Zomby, De La, Sevyn Streeter, Z-Ro, Against Me, Dolly Parton and Dawn. Can't argue with this. Only thing I take issue with is that I can't remove tracks so I gotta make a separate list to edit.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Saturday, 3 September 2016 15:40 (seven years ago) link
Got all excited about Roy Montgomery in my Release Radar but then it turned out to be: https://i.ytimg.com/vi/MC_rBBAiC2Y/maxresdefault.jpg🔗
― Under the Zing of Stan (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 4 September 2016 18:31 (seven years ago) link
What is happening here? Spotify is advertising Spotify Film, which doesn't exist? https://www.reddit.com/r/spotify/comments/50yv45/i_found_an_advertisement_on_the_app_promoting/
― mick signals, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 00:12 (seven years ago) link
Note: To send something direct to someone’s Spotify inbox on mobile, you must each have your accounts connected to, and be friends on, Facebook. Here’s how.
wtf, facebook is eating everything in its path. i'm sure i remember sending playlists to friends before, maybe it was on desktop. either way it's garbage. I presume spotify want everyone connected to facebook so everyone else on facebook can see how cool and popular spotify is.
― dancing jarman by derek (ledge), Thursday, 22 September 2016 15:31 (seven years ago) link
sharing with non-Facebook friends in Spotify has always been at least partially broken
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 22 September 2016 17:25 (seven years ago) link
Can't you just copy the link and send it by whatever non Facebook means you choose?
― get outta the way! here comes (onimo), Thursday, 22 September 2016 21:44 (seven years ago) link
you can (and i do) but it would be nice to have it all in-app
speaking of this sort of thing, apple music doesn't allow any means i'm aware of to share a song AT ALL via email, twitter or within apple music, which in 2016 is a little o_O
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 22 September 2016 21:58 (seven years ago) link
Fucking facebook. I had to create an account to even get spotify in the first place. Would love to decouple them now that's no longer required, but suspect it's impossible.
― I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Friday, 23 September 2016 01:43 (seven years ago) link
brother and I text playlists to each other and that works well. (He is not on facebook).
― veggie sticks potato snacks (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 23 September 2016 02:49 (seven years ago) link
I never read spotify mail, so this actually works better.
― veggie sticks potato snacks (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 23 September 2016 02:50 (seven years ago) link
I've been really liking the Release Radar list lately, it does a good job of letting me know when artists I like have new stuff available
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Sunday, 25 September 2016 03:11 (seven years ago) link
Anyone else spotted the Daily Mix? Mine's just chucked Stroke it Noel and Crosby & Nash's Southbound Train at me. Auspicious beginnings...
― Sunn O))) Brother Where Art Thou? (Chinaski), Thursday, 29 September 2016 18:26 (seven years ago) link
yeah, I've liked this feature so far. It basically gives a bunch of playlists, each one focused on one of my favorite genres and associated artists plus some new stuff. There are a couple lists that I'd love to swap out for something a little different, but in general it's a nice, easy way to jump into a particular vibe that I enjoy without going to far into a bunch of stuff that I'm unfamiliar with.
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Thursday, 29 September 2016 18:35 (seven years ago) link
Just played around with this: https://www.engadget.com/2016/09/29/pacemaker-editable-mixtapes-dj/
Very cool, but the UI is confusing to me so far (as with many Apple Design Award-winners!).
― schwantz, Thursday, 29 September 2016 18:39 (seven years ago) link
in general, it seems like spotify is doing a better job of lining up lists that are well targeted at the music I actually want to hear. I think a big part of that for me is focusing on familiar music from my own playlists and then sprinkling in a few new things here and there.
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Thursday, 29 September 2016 18:40 (seven years ago) link
haven't gotten it yet but am skeptical of "like shuffling your winamp, with a few random tracks thrown in"
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Thursday, 29 September 2016 22:26 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, it depends what you want out of it. I don't enjoy lists of all new to me stuff, I still want to hear all my favorites.
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Friday, 30 September 2016 00:09 (seven years ago) link
Wait is the Daily Mix a new algorithm? I searched and find a few playlists with that name or similar compiled by individuals.
― Berberian Begins at Home (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 September 2016 00:15 (seven years ago) link
I only see it on my android app, not on the desktop app so far. I do Home, then Your Library, and it appears right at the top of the screen above Playlists.
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Friday, 30 September 2016 00:18 (seven years ago) link
Ah, I just updated iPhone app and see. I see five such Daily Mixes, numbered 1 to 5, a rock one with Big Star, The Velvets, The Modern Lovers, The Band, a funk/R&B one, a jazz one, and two others I don't know the theme of, one featuring Jane Weaver's "The Silver Globe" and one with all tracks and artists completely unfamiliar to me.
― Berberian Begins at Home (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 September 2016 00:39 (seven years ago) link
Ah, so today, all the playlists have pretty much exactly the same artists as far as I can tell but different tunes.
― Berberian Begins at Home (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 30 September 2016 10:54 (seven years ago) link
nobody feels like talkin about the mooted SoundCloud takeover?
something like this feels sort of inevitable - despite the vast amounts of money poured into human and algorithmic playlist-making, Spotify is at heart a reseller. A box store. Like Netflix. Where the playlist discovery mechanisms are Spotify's equivalents of Netflix originals. But both services are basically resellers. SoundCloud is the opposite, it's the YouTube of audio. if Spotify can sort out the rights issues (SoundCloud basically gave up on this several years ago afaict) it's not hard to imagine Spotify suddenly becoming one of the biggest indie "labels" overnight.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 30 September 2016 11:04 (seven years ago) link
But if it's not that, then I'm not sure that an extra layer of artist connectivity schmear / demo areas is going to set them apart? Apple Connect has been abysmal. Maybe I'm not seeing what they're seeing tho
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 30 September 2016 11:14 (seven years ago) link
This was the most sensible thing I read about it: http://www.recode.net/2016/9/28/13101740/spotify-sound-cloud-deal-makes-sense
― minimal hat spiritualism (seandalai), Friday, 30 September 2016 12:01 (seven years ago) link
it all seems to boil down to "spotify buys a bunch of MAUs" which doesn't seem that "strategic" imo
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 30 September 2016 12:28 (seven years ago) link
Pop stat nerd question for Glenn: what are the artist's 'top five' songs based on? I assumed it was number of plays, but over in songs that weren't a bands biggest hit, but have gone on to be their legacy song and biggest iTunes seller , we're talking about the Pretenders... the top five seem to be ranked in order of plays, with the #5 song ("Holy Commotion") reports around 44,000 plays, but if you expand it out to the top 10, or scroll down to the albums and start mousing over stats, it becomes apparent there are many with more views, like "2000 Miles" with 6,220,016, or "middle of the Road" with 1,581,639.
So just out of curiosity - - - is the 'top five' algorithm designed to bake in some kind of variety, pushing lesser-heard songs to the fore? Recently-trending stuff? Stuff Spotify is delivering in Discover Weekly or other playlists? Countless ILM stat-nerd threads could depend on this information!
― DOCTOR CAISNO, BYCREATIVELABBUS (Doctor Casino), Monday, 3 October 2016 18:37 (seven years ago) link
it's absurd for spotify to recommend me things i've already listened to
― brimstead, Monday, 3 October 2016 18:47 (seven years ago) link
Maybe you didn't listen the right way
― Al Moon Faced Poon (Moodles), Monday, 3 October 2016 18:54 (seven years ago) link
The "Popular" songs show raw play-counts in the UI, but are actually ranked based on an internal score that measures, roughly, "current" popularity...
Brimstead: where are you getting recs for things you've already played?
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 3 October 2016 18:54 (seven years ago) link