Spotify - anyone heard of it?

I don't get their strategy re: TV apps

feel like it's similar to DC comics wrt digital books

Boil the Frog was on reddit front page yesterday.

cool new feature where you are asked to sign in again and all your playlists have been wiped? anyone else?

it’s just possible that i hadn’t changed my payment details after i lost my card recently - tho thought i had. even so to lose about five/six years of playlists etc is p galling.

fragility of digital.

There's a feature to restore playlists - under your account details somewhere.

There's a feature to restore playlists - under your account details somewhere.

yes, thanks, found it. unfortunately it’s throwing an error. going through a (fairly protracted) help chat process now.

still haven't found a manageable way of backing up playlists, I've got hundreds & would like to be able to automate it

You can sort of do it with IFTTT - I've got a document in Google Drive that is periodically (automatically) updated when I add new playlists, and new tracks to other playlists. Kinda clumsy but it works.

has anyone signed up for the Capital One credit card offer? they are running commercials on it. it doesn't sound like you need to be a new member just use your Quicksilver card and you get half off through April of next year.

Have tried this IFTTT thing: it looks promising, but more than 48 hours after setting it up, it has yet to actually run and do anything, so I'm not optimistic.

email subject line: "Remember Say My Name by Destiny's Child?"

really getting into the deep cuts here

(Your Time Capsule isn't supposed to be deep cuts...)

oh, sure, I just thought it was funny

Is the Time Capsule a one shot thing or does it update regularly?

the algorithms do weird things, a friend of mine got MMMBop twice. He mostly just listens to trad folk and soul.

Maybe your friend hasn't been completely honest with you.

(for me that part makes total sense -- I did a sunday pitchfork piece on the destiny's child album)

Jesus, all the KMDFM in mine--WAY TOO REAL

Mine seems to mainly be radio hits from 96-98.

Maybe your friend hasn't been completely honest with you.

enh, there's a LOT of overlap between our lists and some other co-workers' and we all have v different listening habits

I'm guessing the way this works is that it looks at the most popular songs that you've listened to from a certain time period, which is determined by your date of birth. Though I'm still not sure if that's completely correct since my e-mail said "Enjoy 2 hours of the most memorable tracks from your teenage years", and there's quite a bit of early 90s stuff on there, which is before my teenage years.

It has a mixture of things you've played and things from your youth (assuming you were honest about your birthdate) that are disproportionately popular with people of your age-group...

my only potentially actionable request for future attempts at this sort of thing would be fewer tracks by the same artist and/or some way to keep out multiple release versions of the same track appearing on the same playlist

Hmm... here are the first 10 artists in my time capsule:

Public Enemy, Front 242, Inspiral Carpets, Jane's Addiction, Pet Shop Boys, SL2, The Shamen, Sonz of a Loop Da Loop Era, Urban Hype, Ministry

Yeah this thing pretty much has me pegged, even if the time scale is a little off (it stretches up through college for a lot of the rave stuff)

It even has a random REO Speedwagon song, which I know is there primarily because of listening I did for a cabaret show but is still a song I loved the hell out of when I was a kid.

ha mine are: Brotha Lynch Hung, Ghostface, Lost Boyz, 2 Pac, Mase, Three 6 Mafia, DMX, Mystikal, Outkast, Capone-n-Norega

thats beautiful. mines pretty similar

it mostly just gave me a lot of emo which is amusing because I didn't listen to any when I was that age at all

faith no more, beastie boys, scarface, ice-t, dead milkmen, george michael, orbital, rob base, chubb roc, geto boys
it's not WRONG but it feels kinda easy

mine is very 80s heavy: The Cure, Talking Heads, Bauhaus, The Smiths and The Church. i loved that it picked up on my Boo Radleys crush and Spoon.

I can't figure out what mine is trying to get at. It's weirdly eclectic in a displeasing way. Did Glenn explain the algorithm upthread?

It has a mixture of things you've played and things from your youth (assuming you were honest about your birthdate) that are disproportionately popular with people of your age-group...

― glenn mcdonald, Friday, September 29, 2017

Ah, thanks

Mine is a very weird jumble of my songs and my wife's songs

my Spotify listening is very random so I was very curious about this.

Instead, I got a-ha, Bon Jovi, Kansas, Def Leppard, Wham!, "Bohemian Rhapsody", ad nauseum

uh, no thanks. more like "terrible high school flashbacks"

Mine's too McCartney-heavy, but it picked my favorite (by a mile) Heart song without me ever having played Heart on Spotify, so it gets points there. Range of 1968-1986, but heaviest on my high school years.

I lied about my birthday, so I'm curious what I'm going to get.

mine is actually pretty great! some of these are like...hmmm (two tracks from bubba sparxxx). i was born in 86 so a lot of 90s altrock and rap classics on it, but it does a pretty good job of getting my tastes from elementary school (selena and sheryl crow) to middle school (metallica and nirvana) to high school (radiohead) through college (kraftwerk and daft punk). the only real blind spot was the years i was pretty obsessed with my bloody valentine.

mine is like the biggest most obvious commercial 80s pop ever, which is kind of otm? but leaves out all the faith no more and minor threat and sinead o'connor and robyn hitchcock and stuff like that. and all the techno and house. i don't use spotify to listen to that stuff, so i guess there's no way it could know.. but then again it did stick the cure in there and i NEVER listen to the cure so there is a bit of triangulation going on

Mine has Bronski Beat, EPMD and Tears for Fears, so it's all good.

Is the Time Capsule a one shot thing or does it update regularly?

― WilliamC, Friday, September 29, 2017 10:41 AM (yesterday)

I got a collection of "songs you have listened to on Spotify that are from the past". Only artist I actually listened to at the time is Ash - who appear twice, so good job there I guess.

still kind of amazed at how terrible mine was

It's a one-time thing.

Mine is utter nonsense, especially considering I left school in 1999 and only one song dates from prior to then. Also, they are all terrible

mine was full of 90s rap and alt rock + "four horsemen" by metallica *thumb up*

Mine is an oil and vinegar mix of super-famous classic rock FM staples like "Hey Nineteen" and "Born To Run" mixed with New Wave/No Wave/Punk Rock songs I have listened to in the past few years. Something about this playlist algorithm bugs me more than any of the others, all of which I have found useful or rather figured out what was useful about them. It's like when someone who should know you better makes you into a low-dimensional caricature and won't let you defend yourself.

actually i do listen to a shitload of grime and house on spotify. it's hard imagining the algorithm that would identify what 80s music that would translate to. impossible, maybe. but that is the task. in my case it's whodini and madonna and quiet riot and men without hats and bonnie tyler and lords of acid and ll cool j and guns n roses and ozzy osbourne and terence trent d'arby and huey lewis and lionel ritchie &&&&. madonna's the only one of that group to make the list.

my adolescence resists algorithms, feel so punk

Mine is great, but I've already playlisted 99% of it. It's a very nice mix of late 80s-early 90's, though. The only song on it I never sought is Corona by MInutemen - not my favorite genre, but cool song. May have heard it on a Tony Hawk Pro Skater soundtrack or something.