Mine has Bronski Beat, EPMD and Tears for Fears, so it's all good.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Saturday, 30 September 2017 12:19 (six years ago) link
Is the Time Capsule a one shot thing or does it update regularly?
― WilliamC, Friday, September 29, 2017 10:41 AM (yesterday)
― WilliamC, Saturday, 30 September 2017 15:04 (six years ago) link
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.
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Saturday, 30 September 2017 16:57 (six years ago) link
still kind of amazed at how terrible mine was
― sleeve, Saturday, 30 September 2017 17:16 (six years ago) link
It's a one-time thing.
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 1 October 2017 16:17 (six years ago) link
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
― PaulTMA, Sunday, 1 October 2017 16:25 (six years ago) link
mine was full of 90s rap and alt rock + "four horsemen" by metallica *thumb up*
― brimstead, Sunday, 1 October 2017 17:12 (six years ago) link
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.
― Two-Headed Shindog (Rad Tempo Player) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 October 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
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.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 1 October 2017 17:38 (six years ago) link
my adolescence resists algorithms, feel so punk
― ogmor, Sunday, 1 October 2017 18:31 (six years ago) link
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.
― beard papa, Sunday, 1 October 2017 19:39 (six years ago) link
I'm guessing this algorithm is more accurate the more nostalgic a person is.
― beard papa, Sunday, 1 October 2017 19:40 (six years ago) link
The first half of mine looks a lot like my classic rock-flavored Daily Mixes -- a few deeper cuts, some I've pulled up/played before. The second half is a bunch of '70s AOR warhorses that I never need to hear again (I'm 56). Having said that, my Discover Weekly continues to get better and more interesting each week.
― Jeff Wright, Sunday, 1 October 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
in contrast to the Time Capsule, my weekly Discover list is dead on as usual - Michael Hurley, Moondog, Wire, and a bunch of older soul stuff that def reflects my Spotify usage
― sleeve, Sunday, 1 October 2017 20:13 (six years ago) link
It's almost like they tried to mod out the other playlist algorithms such as DW and go in an orthogonal direction, but there were no more eigenvalues left.
― Two-Headed Shindog (Rad Tempo Player) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 October 2017 20:22 (six years ago) link
My Time Capsule is an entertaining mix but not representative of what I listened to in my teens or early 20s. It's heavy on Steely Dan, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, and Talking Heads and a variety of 70s classic rock singles, with a strong infusion of 60s jazz. Of these I only listened frequently to Talking Heads as a youngster, and I rarely play them now (though I did go through their discography on Spotify prior to the ILM poll).
― Brad C., Sunday, 1 October 2017 20:44 (six years ago) link
What I assumed this would try to do is find music that you don't play much these days but might have played when younger. Obviously this is really hard to infer! But "music you listen to that is old" is kind of pointless.
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Sunday, 1 October 2017 20:53 (six years ago) link
Not sure how people think this thing's going to literally hop in a time machine to see what you were actually listening to as a teenager. Obviously it can only infer based on your spotify listening habits (I mean, if you, like me were a teen before spotify existed).
Kind of proud of mine, weirdly. It's a good bunch of songs! https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1E4ZLmqw0AeGxr
― Dan I., Sunday, 1 October 2017 21:24 (six years ago) link
Feel like it did hop in a time machine but went back to some other person's distorted conception of me- What Mad Universe-style- instead of the actual me.
― Two-Headed Shindog (Rad Tempo Player) (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 1 October 2017 21:26 (six years ago) link
i think we can all agree that discover weekly remains a wonder of modern music listening. for real
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 2 October 2017 12:29 (six years ago) link
^^^^ real talk
― stet, Monday, 2 October 2017 14:48 (six years ago) link
cosign
― niels, Monday, 2 October 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
Hahaha mine is both fun and terrible but also otm... I think they pick songs that were hits in your country from age 10 to 15.
Mine has Ace of Base, Paradisio, Fey, a song from Shakira’s 1995 album, Cardigans - Lovefool, basket case, pretty fly dor a white guy, santeria, gettin jiggy wit it, short dick man, vengaboys, ode to my family, closing time... I don’t know how they do it but I do have very vivid memories with all of those terrible songs growing up.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 2 October 2017 17:51 (six years ago) link
Other than some Maiden stuff that my kid has been listening to/learning on guitar, my Time Capsule list was pretty good. I've engaged in some nostalgic listening, though, so the algorithms probably had more to go on.
― DJI, Monday, 2 October 2017 19:30 (six years ago) link
regarding what i posted up-thread. edited my card on-flie to the Quicksilver card and got a $5 credit, so getting it now for half off.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 5 October 2017 00:11 (six years ago) link
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― Bee OK, Thursday, 5 October 2017 01:24 (six years ago) link
How wondrous to live in the age of the celestial jukebox!
― Dan I., Thursday, 5 October 2017 01:29 (six years ago) link
Huh, honestly had no clue until now that that phrase was commonly used--thought Mark S. made it up!
― Dan I., Thursday, 5 October 2017 01:33 (six years ago) link
This isn't a huge deal but recently I've noticed that the track timer sometimes stops working. Track plays fine but timer stays at at 0:00.
― Dan Worsley, Thursday, 5 October 2017 13:56 (six years ago) link
Does anyone else experience songs randomly getting removed from their library? It's been happening so long that I just take if for granted now, but it is a persistent mystery. I've got an IFTTT set up to save every song I manually add to the main "Songs" library while listening to a separate playlist (e.g. "Saved on Spotify")--so logically every song in that playlist should also appear in my "Songs", right? And they do, at first, but sooner or later a not-insignificant number of songs (at least 10%) in that "Saved on Spotify" playlist become unchecked, meaning that they've been removed from my "Songs" library--and I'm definitely not manually unchecking them.
I had assumed for a long time that this occurred because my "Songs" library had hit the 10,000 track limit, but it hasn't (it's at ~8,900), and anyway I have heard that when you do hit the 10k limit you get a pop-up message explicitly saying so, which I've never received.
It's not really a complaint, and I know opening a support request for this kind of thing would be fruitless anyway, I'm just wondering if this is a common thing that other people have experienced, or if I'm just some kinda weirdo
― Dan I., Thursday, 5 October 2017 20:38 (six years ago) link
I see albums, especially from smaller indie labels, go unavailable all the time, and just assume it's that the track licensing goes wonky for a few months until someone pays up.
― Mungolian Jerryset (bendy), Thursday, 5 October 2017 20:45 (six years ago) link
There is a setting, at least in the Windows and Android versions (with different wordings for some reason), where you can choose whether unavailable tracks should be hidden or visible (and grayed out).
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 5 October 2017 21:11 (six years ago) link
Yeah, that's not what's happening to me. For example, I saved La Bouche - Be My Lover (yeah, yeah, I know) four times over the last year, and three times it has become unchecked. I saved it an hour ago and it became unchecked just since then. It's not unavailable.
― Dan I., Thursday, 5 October 2017 21:27 (six years ago) link
Ah right sorry, I see now that's what you were saying. (It didn't quite register because I don't use that save functionality myself.)
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 5 October 2017 22:55 (six years ago) link
https://www.spotify-strangerthings.com/
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 26 October 2017 21:06 (six years ago) link
also cool easter egg if you play on the website or desktop app and just let the playlist play for a few without touching the mouse
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 26 October 2017 21:09 (six years ago) link
At the weekend I was trying to add to the queue mid-play & no matter how hard I tried, more than one time in ten I started playing the track instead of adding it. So much for being mr cool dj.
― Monogo doesn't socialise (ledge), Monday, 30 October 2017 13:41 (six years ago) link
I realise I'm probably the only person here who uses Spotify a lot but still uses the free service, but has anyone else noticed recently the soundtrack to the ad that sits at the bottom of the page playing over the top of the track you're listening to? It's happened a couple of times to me in the last week.
― Jeff W, Monday, 30 October 2017 16:13 (six years ago) link
That's definitely not supposed to happen! I've reported it to the ads team, I expect it will get fixed quickly...
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 30 October 2017 17:55 (six years ago) link
So the 2017 summaries are happening: 2017wrapped.com
Apparently my favourite genre is "mandible", which I had never heard of.82000 minutes of music listened to in 2017, which feels like some sort of achievement to put on the gravestone.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 06:55 (six years ago) link
What is this "The Ones That Got Away" playlist that has appeared? It literally seems to be made of music I find revolting -- Fleet Foxes, Morrissey, Grizzly Bear etc.
― Animal Bitrate (Raw Patrick), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 10:03 (six years ago) link
Haha me too! Same artists. There's a reason I skipped these!!
Top Artists: Future, XTC, Talking Heads, Young Thug, Future IslandsTop Song: Future - I'm So Groovy; Future Ooooooh (Instrumental); Young Thug - Family Don't Matter; Christine And The Queens - Tilted; Future - Coming Out StrongTop Genre - Indie Rock
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 10:16 (six years ago) link
Me too. Maybe it,s a paid-for promo thing? Loads of stuff I did not like.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 11:14 (six years ago) link
songs:
meet me in the hallwaylate for the skyprohibited permissionswhen youre near me i have difficultybaby
artists:
r stevie moorerichard dawsonmac demarcothundercatsleaford mods
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 11:35 (six years ago) link
baby by tei shi
My top genre is "chamber psych" which I had also never heard of but gives me a pretty neat and specific answer the next time someone asks what kind of music I like
― silverfish, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 14:38 (six years ago) link
mine is "neo-psychedelic" apparently
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 14:39 (six years ago) link
when asked to guess whether my fav genre this year was freak folk, noise pop, anti-folk, uk post punk or escape room I could only sigh
― ogmor, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 15:17 (six years ago) link
the genres in spotify are an embarrassment but they are at least joyfully demented
indietronica
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Tuesday, 5 December 2017 15:18 (six years ago) link