Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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).

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.

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

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.

i think we can all agree that discover weekly remains a wonder of modern music listening. for real

^^^^ real talk

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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.

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.

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.

50% Credit for Spotify Pr

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Saturday, 9/30/2017

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Tuesday, 10/03/2017

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Appears on your statement as: 50% Credit for Spotify Pr omo on 09/30/ 17

How wondrous to live in the age of the celestial jukebox!

Huh, honestly had no clue until now that that phrase was commonly used--thought Mark S. made it up!

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.

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

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.

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).

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.

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.)

https://www.spotify-strangerthings.com/

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

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.

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.

That's definitely not supposed to happen! I've reported it to the ads team, I expect it will get fixed quickly...

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.

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.

Haha me too! Same artists. There's a reason I skipped these!!

Top Artists: Future, XTC, Talking Heads, Young Thug, Future Islands
Top Song: Future - I'm So Groovy; Future Ooooooh (Instrumental); Young Thug - Family Don't Matter; Christine And The Queens - Tilted; Future - Coming Out Strong
Top Genre - Indie Rock

Me too. Maybe it,s a paid-for promo thing? Loads of stuff I did not like.

songs:

meet me in the hallway
late for the sky
prohibited permissions
when youre near me i have difficulty
baby

artists:

r stevie moore
richard dawson
mac demarco
thundercat
sleaford mods

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

mine is "neo-psychedelic" apparently

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

the genres in spotify are an embarrassment but they are at least joyfully demented

indietronica

I also got Indietronica. My top songs were all from Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.

Top artists:

18 Carat Affair
Kendrick Lamar
Oneohtrix Point Never
Mastodon
Nite Jewel

LOL, my 2018 goal is "refuse to act your age", i.e., "you have the musical taste of an elderly person".

I listened to 55K minutes of music, although I'm sure none of this counts time on the Spotify Roku app, which doesn't seem to tie to any Spotify activity.

LOL, my 2018 goal is "refuse to act your age", i.e., "you have the musical taste of an elderly person".

I listened to 55K minutes of music, although I'm sure none of this counts time on the Spotify Roku app, which doesn't seem to tie to any Spotify activity.

I also got "refuse to act my age".

I got this despite my number one artist being Katy Perry, which is listened to exclusively by my four year old daughter.

I genuinely like "meet me in the hallway" but no way is it one of my most listened song in 2017

I assume "chamber psych" is a glenn-coined genre, and it's an awesome one.

I think "refuse to act your age" means continue to refuse to act your age, ie you get it if you listen to music that skews algorhythmically younger than you

"unfortunately we don't have enough data about how you listened this year to serve you the full experience"?
GLEEEENNNNNNNNN

lol you broke it

The song that I'm pretty is my actual most listened to song this year doesn't even seem to be on my list of top 100 songs, which seems odd.

Anyways, my Top Artists are
GAS
Stars of the Lid
Moby
Steve Roach
Sigur Ros

Because this was the year that I listened to a lot of music while asleep.

I figured people were posting in this thread to discuss this thing:
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/the-problem-with-muzak-pelly

Points include:
- Branded playlists from the likes of Nike featuring songs from artists without their permission and with no additional artist compensation
- Their interface purposely dissuading users away from albums and how they consider playlists their "product"
- Quid pro quo between spotify liasons and major labels
- Joining forces with Vinyl Me Please

The company could be worth $20 billion by next year, when it will likely be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. According to Reuters, Spotify plans to file its intention of a public offering with U.S. regulators before the end of this calendar year and to go public in the first or second quarter of 2018. Bloomberg reports that it recently hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Morgan Stanley, and Allen & Co. to “assess its options.”

the thing about that piece is, everyone uses metrics. it isn't just a Spotify thing. terrestrial radio has had terrifying amounts of fine-grained metrics for a long time now.