Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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.

got the wrong KING in my release radar this am

https://open.spotify.com/track/6YvyrLlTVMW7B9vllp11Af

also got the wrong stevie b in there a few weeks ago

https://open.spotify.com/album/7dm56Ix8VsU3wxjGWWYpBf

there's a weird glitch in the elf kid artist entry too, an (awesome) unrelated malian band's latest record

xp

Ha, I listened to that King track very briefly, was fairly confused about their new direction.

Ha! Just came here to post the KING fiasco.

but there's this in my Release Radar! Not sure what it is but it sure ain't ABRA:
https://open.spotify.com/album/1waSktqN636A1pwqhnuUMZ

Glenn can you cook up a "here are playlists by artists you dig" feature real quick, thanks

Just to say that not being able to 'add to queue' in the web player is a very strange UX decision.

As is making users watch a spinning circle of dots for 15 minutes when they click on a playlist

That's ok, the roku app just got rid of playlists altogether

As is making users watch a spinning circle of dots for 15 minutes when they click on a playlist

Two spinners no less! One over the other but offset slightly. I do have six billion playlists tho.

can't search by label anymore :(

Rhythm & Sound - S/T

can't search by label anymore :(

noticed this today as well.

Worked for me just now...?

whoop me too!

So my paid-for-a-year subscription ran out about two months ago, I've not renewed yet, and what has amazed me ever since is the complete lack of anything-near-intelligent ads. I mean, I get execrable ads for "lazy Sunday" playlists, or for fucking Avicii's new ep. Both couldn't be farther from what I listen to. It's so completely off the money, pumping "LISTEN TO AVICII" to someone with my listening habits. It's off the chain. Yeah, I just listened to Liars, Microphones and Daisuke Miyakami, I *really* need some Avicii now...

Two options, here, really:

A) The ads are such abhorrent misfires because Spotify hopes to annoy me into a new subscription
B) The "algorithm" hasn't a clue, is not used with ads at all, and is clueless.

I'm guessing it's the latter. "Lazy Sunday" lol.

Would love a dedicated portable Spotify device, I wonder if such a thing exists. There's the Mighty, but that seems pretty buggy/flawed https://bemighty.com/products/mighty

I'm considering getting a Bluetooth/Wi-Fi streaming box for my stereo so I can play spotify on my stereo without having to connect my phone directly to it. Of course, I wouldn't need to waste money on this if the roku app weren't completely hosed

I use a Gramafon (https://gramofon.com) to connect to my existing amp+speakers. It works great.

Before that I had a Rocki (http://www.myrocki.com), which worked like crap and eventually exploded.

ooh yeah, I'd forgotten about little streamers. I wonder if there's one I can use entirely without a smartphone (part of the goal here is to get apps out of my bedroom)

We really should poll the most entitled posts in this thread

Meaning what exactly? I've been a premium subscriber since day 1, and I've watched the quality of once good apps steadily deteriorate. I really want to support spotify because I think it's great, but I'm frustrated th at the many elements of it that I've put time into are now broken.

Gramofon looks interesting although it gets mixed reviews. How is the sound and connection quality?

If I'm reading the details correctly, I think stet could use it to stream from the desktop app.

The Gramofon sounds fine, and stays connected. (The Rocki constantly disconnected from WiFi and had to be rebooted, even before exploding.)

if Airplay worked properly on my Airport Express I'd use that, but :(

plenty of cheap bluetooth dongles on the market, quality varies but I know this one is decent so you needn't pay more
http://www.ebay.com/itm/N-Logitech-Bluetooth-Audio-Adapter-for-Speakers-980-000910-/301357217458?epid=2173091400&hash=item462a4a36b2:g:UuEAAOSwDN1UQVWZ

if you're looking for a cheap wifi dongle I doubt anything beats the chromecast audio, but I'm sure the gramofon thing is cool

Would love a dedicated portable Spotify device
you can buy a cheap Android phone (a Motorola G4 or smth) and use it without a sim, DAC is sure to be better than the tiny iPod shuffle thingy, if you want it to only be able to use the Spotify app I imagine you can do that with a custom launcher or a kiosk app

Chromecast Audios hooked up to my upstairs and downstairs stereo receivers are doing a good job playing Spotify as synchronized multi-room audio.

Amazon Echo works great for Spotify! I have a Dot hooked up to some speakers in my kids' room.

Does gramofon allow you to stream local files or only files in spotify library?

You can play local files, but you have to use their oddball player to do it. It works, but I don't do it much.

what's the oddball player? my big goal is to stream from spotify on either my PC or phone to my stereo, including local files, what is a good device for that?

I use Apple TV and it works pretty well. Very much wish that I could also connect Spotify on my PC to the Apple TV but haven't found a good way to do that.

I've been using a Cambridge Audio DAC for Bluetooth Spotify streaming for many years. The sound quality is vastly better than using the headphone jack, and barely discernible from CD. https://www.cambridgeaudio.com/products/hifi-and-home-cinema/dacmagic-100

Chromecast Audio will do this, no?