Spotify - anyone heard of it?

rely pretty heavily on Release Radar ever since they stopped notifications so I'm happy with minimal messing

is there a way to browse labels in Spotify?

Label:name in search e.g label:Warp

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nice, thanks!

If the label is two or more words put the search term in quotation marks otherwise you'll get lots of unconnected crap.

I suppose it's been discussed already but the thread is so huge...
So, I've noticed lately that the spotify app on my iphone takes much more space than it's supposed to (even when removing all the "downloaded" stuff).
After checking online, it appears the issue is well known but the only way to really fix it is to erase the app and dl it again (indeed it reduces the space to a fraction of what it was before, like 10%).
the problem is that it then "grows" again quickly, even without downloading anything...
is erasing the app regularly the only way to keep it under control ? seems very primitive !

xp roger that

just did a label:rhino search and man they have a nice catalogue

would be nice if it was more incorporated, also for browsing compilation series...

re:size if you've an android phone I think you can just manually erase the spotify cache through explorer (way I did it: connect your phone via usb then scan for large folders using Treesize)

I've got some album only playlists. Is there anyway to collapse them so they only display the album names rather than listing 400+ songs it lists the 35 albums?

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thanks but unfortunately I have an iphone... no way to empty the cache... other than to delete the app altogether each time apparently !

Same issue here, just deleted and re installed yesterday.

I think the old trick of attempting to rent a movie (on iTunes Store) that is larger than the amount of space you have left on your device still works to free up room from space hoggers like Spotify. You can do it multiple times in a row to free up more space. Just be careful because after a few attempts they switch up the rental dialogue on you, apparently to trick you into letting the rental fully go through

People online saying it doesn't work anymore, but it do, I think

such an idiosyncratic Apple thing to not allow users/apps access to cache cleaning

(I know Spotify and every other app could/should just include it in their programming but since they don't it would be nice to be able to use 3rd party apps for this purpose)

Google play music on iOS has an option to clear the cache of temporarily stored music. Why not Spotify?

I usually complain about issues with Spotify functionality, but there is one semi-recent change that I'm truly glad about. In the past, I could only load files for offline playlists onto the Android app if my phone was unlocked and the screen was on. This was a major pain because Android does not provide a straightforward way to stop the phone from locking after 10 minutes of non-use, so I would have to monitor it while it was loading files, which could take hours. On newer versions of the app, it loads just fine while the phone is locked, and I am very grateful for this.

another thing that is so annoying with spotify is that most of the times it takes sooo long to connect when you open it, whether I'm outside on 4g our inside on wifi...
they could definitely use some rework on their program.

Related: takes long to start + navigate playlist tree even when the phone is in flight mode (eg when on a plane wanting to listen to a downloaded playlist). I don't know why of course, but it almost seems like it is trying to connect to Spotify server in this case as well, only falling back on the last stored playlist tree when connection obviously fails.

Spotify helps me know what opinions I should have on the issues of the day.

#resistance

more on the space issue : I'm not sure but it seems like deleting the app makes it angry !
initially, it took like 1G instead of the 100M (without anything downloaded).
now after only a couple days after deleting/reloading the app, it's up to 2G !

how come alexa can understand voice commands when i ask it to play music on spotify but siri can't

DW much better of late until tonight when I got to the last three tracks of this week's playlist - and two of them were John Cage's In A Landscape! But - this has a happy ending - one of them is the one I know, the other was some crazy prepared harp version. Which is great. Thanks, Spotify. Thotify.

hey Glenn, could you have one of your algorithms do a 150 most important female albums/singles list?

i imagine glenn clapping his hands twice and the little bits of code all perking up to attention

"now listen up!"

haha, that's also how I see it

this is kinda interesting btw
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywgeek/why-spotify-lowered-the-volume-of-songs-and-ended-hegemonic-loudness

Artist gender (or even apparent non-binary vocal gender) is one of those things we don't really have in data yet, so even if I replace "important" with "popular" or "central" or something else computable, I can't currently produce a gender-filtered list in any automated way...

(But -- don't tell the robots -- here's a personal list I've been making of a certain kind of thing from just this year: https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/1CmsHI9rh0ImWu2iQyObiA)

Glenn, re my question upthread. Is there anyway to highlight albums only on a playlist i.e. so the NPR playlist https://open.spotify.com/user/openculturedotcom/playlist/54bpprOSA0Gkflr3oPOBkg displays 150 albums rather than the 1500+ tracks?

No, but I made a one-track-per-album version of that here: https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/2iSlRdLpIoAPbj6tJ43Xtk

xp ok thx glenn

xp
Ah, shame. Would love a gallery view of an album only playlist. More inclined to use it to pick something from it rather than just a line of text.

any plans on Spotify adopting MQA?

heh, was just thinking about how glitches (presumably due to updates) in DW results in the same "discovery" turning up again and again

like a deja vu in the Matrix o_O

It's shocking how many artists have posted public playlists! Most of my recent music discovery has come this way. I think there has been a kind of cultural shift among pop musicians to allow it, though. In the past, a lot of musicians seemed pretty cagey about reporting the music they listened to (in interviews, for example), preferring to make it seem as though their own genius had arisen completely sui generis. I'm happy so many are willing to share nowadays.

btw, am I missing something about how Daily Mixes work? You can "heart or hate" each individual track, which results in the disliked ones being dropped from the list, but since the liked tracks remain in the mix, and there is apparently no shuffle function, you end up listening to the same tracks over and over unless you scroll down the playlist far enough that unfamiliar tracks start appearing. Is the intended user behavior to just "prune" the list of disliked tracks and then listen to the remaining tracks in the same order over and over again?

artist playlists are often done by the label, same as artists tweeting about tracks

(I mean, if it helps you discover music, that's great; it's just not a "cultural shift" so much as cross-promotion moving to a new platform)

Aw, I should have thought of that. Sure seems like some of them have the personal touch, though.

No interest in Spotify, but the Samuel Jackson ad is funny. (Because it's Samuel Jackson--there's nothing beyond that.)

Daily Mixes change as you listen to them?

That is, all you need for them to change is listen to them

But I listen to them and when I go back later it seems to be almost all the same songs (minus the ones that I actively disliked)? Not in exactly the same order though, I was mistaken above. It looks like some new songs are added, but it's mostly all stuff that was in there to begin with. Do they get a big overhaul once per week like discover and radar?

Just feel like maybe I'm using it wrong or am mistaken about what it's supposed to be

there seems to be an issue in the android app with the queue. When I select items in the queue and then scroll around, they get un-selected.

In the iPhone app, when I scroll to the bottom of a daily mix list, there's an option to load more songs.

xp re daily mix

Glenn, just noticed that a bunch of Pharoah Sanders' classic albums are listed under Singles instead of Albums

Dan, that sound annoying - I don't rate the songs but ime once you start listening and it loads more songs the list changes

also if my listening habits change I get different kinds of lists

It's shocking how many artists have posted public playlists!

spotify & artist managers encourage artists to do this - and it's fun and people really enjoy it. easy to fall behind though.