Spotify - anyone heard of it?

FWIW, we don't remove stuff, the labels do. And one common reason is changes in licensing, in which case the missing stuff usually comes back again before long...

Year search is probably my single most-used feature of Spotify. Is it really gone?

haha ums that BOC list sounds interesting

It's called the Playlist of 1000 Psychic Wars

It's still pretty good even without "Pocket"

Glen I figured that was it

search in general and search by year are working fine for me in the web client

My Release Radar this week seems to have set a record for song carryovers from the previous week

year doesn't work for me at all on either web or mobile (year:2002 should pull up albums and songs from 2002, right?)

Those being:
Le Large - Françoise Hardy
Let’s Stay Together - Low
I Did It! - Kitten
Box of Noise - Chris Butler
Leslie -Amy Rigby
Bodys - Car Seat Headrest
The Dixon D90s Series - Cornershop
Ascending - Lost on Purpose

Should be
The Dixons D90 Series - Cornershop

I was wrong -- year search is not working for me either on Chrome or iPad

glenn, is there any chance that the running-by-bpm-function will return soon? My marriage is at stake. And no, those other workout playlists don't work just as well, she informs me.
I'm guessing there must be some big business squeeze behind the decision to phase out such a popular feature based on the timing of the announcement coinciding with Spotify going public but it still seems weird.

My daily mixes are getting too samey, to a point where I'm not convinced they change daily.

Track selection seems to come from a very narrow pool for each artist - e.g. the magic data cruncher knows I like the Damned and have a couple of poppier Damned songs in playlists so I only ever get 'Eloise', 'Alone Again, Or' and 'Shadow of Love' in a daily mix despite me listening to earlier (better) Damned stuff regularly.

I always get mid-80s poppy Cure too.

seems possible that the daily mixes only personalize at the artist level

Daily Mix looks at both artists and songs, and doesn't care what you have in playlists.

The year search wasn't removed, there's just a parsing bug. Looks like it still works if you follow it with a genre, like:

year:2018 genre:pixie

i mainly listen to my variously mooded daily mixes these days which i worry is creating a feedback loop

oh man same here, my go-to lately has been a 19-hr mix called Downers lol

Ahem, link plz?

https://open.spotify.com/user/suckerblues/playlist/4QvqISunilUQiyXzFLyH75?si=PXaongmqRJehCtXVsKpO3w

Hours of fun. Thank you.

Surprised nobody has mentioned Spotify's Line-In tool for allowing users to contribute to metadata:
https://line-in.spotify.com/

I'm not going to live blog Simon's playlist but where the HELL have Augie March been hiding all my life?

Hey Glenn - thanjs for the tip about the parsing bug. Looks like if you just put the year first and any other search term next, it works? Hopefully the bug gets squashed. Glad it wasn’t on purpose!

today's discover weekly recommended St. Vincent's "Hang On Me," which is a) somewhat old at this point b) from an album I reviewed c) via listening to the album a lot... on spotify

(obviously the algorithm has no way of knowing that I reviewed the album -- although it was funny when they'd show review excerpts with albums a couple years ago and present me by way of recommendation with my own writing -- but surely having previously listened to a track many, many times months ago should keep it off any discovery-oriented playlists?)

also s/today's/Monday's

hmm Discover is not about new releases? I do believe there was chatter uphtread regarding why you can sometimes find a track on Discover which has previously been played on the same account, can't recall the outcome though

it's less about "have played before" than "have played before, often."

if there were not +8000 (!!) messages itt I would try and find glenn's response

this right here is a great idea, I feel like ILM should be able to pool together the required 25 kudos for such a feature https://community.spotify.com/t5/Closed-Ideas/One-click-to-follow-all-artists-in-Your-Music-gt-Artists/idi-p/877171

ooh, I see somebody came up with a solution http://www.nativenoise.co.za/spotify/follow-all-artists/

I'm not going to live blog Simon's playlist but where the HELL have Augie March been hiding all my life?

Melbourne, probably

OFFICIAL: SPOTIFY WILL GO PUBLIC ON APRIL 3

Spotify’s CEO and Chairman, Daniel Ek, is about to give a live presentation to investors and would-be investors in New York.

The company’s Head of Investor Relations, Paul Vogel, has just confirmed that Spotify will publicly list shares on the NYSE via an usual ‘direct listing’ on Tuesday, April 3.

Vogel said the company had taken the choice to float via a direct listing because it was “more transparent and more accessible to a wider range of investors”.

He also confirmed that Spotify will announce financial guidance for Q1 2018 on March 26, the week prior to trading.

The news brings to a close mounting speculation on the flotation D-Day for Spotify, following the company’s filing of a preparatory F-1 document with the US Securities and Exchange Commission last month.

Spotify’s current valuation is currently above $20bn, according to some recent private share trades between investors in the company.

At that valuation, it is believed that the three major music companies (Universal, Sony and Warner) plus Merlin currently own Spotify shares jointly worth somewhere between $2bn and $3bn – thanks to a cumulative ownership stake covering between 10% and 20% of the streaming company.

Sony is the biggest industry shareholder with a 5.7% holding in Spotify.

Spotify’s F-1 revealed that it finished 2017 with 71m paying subscribers and 159m monthly active users (MAUs).

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/official-spotify-will-go-public-on-april/

I'm not going to live blog Simon's playlist but where the HELL have Augie March been hiding all my life?

Fantastic band, Strange Bird in particular is essential

Another day, another non-working, utterly useless mac app...

Probably banal question: I've got a shit ton of playlists, only a handful of which I keep offline at any one time. Is there any way to isolate these so I don't have to scroll through everything to find the downloaded ones? 'Offline mode' bizarrely replicates online mode, as far as I can tell - it just takes away the possibility of data usage.

i have often wanted exactly this - just show me my offline playlists

you actually can just filter your playlists for offline only though?

just select 'downloads' on the filter

lol i never knew that was there :/ hidin in the burger menu!

Same here - not seen that before. Duh.

glad to be of service!

new to me too, very helpful

Another day, another non-working, utterly useless mac app...

One day the desktop version will work properly within 30mins of being launched.

I don't know what I do right with Spotify on my 4-year-old Macbook but it works pretty much like a dream.

The ropy, features-dropping-off, non-album-artwork-displaying unupdated old version running on my crappy old Windows XP pc at home where I have shitty bandwidth responds much better, starts up faster and does searches near-instantly. The up-to-date version running on my shiny new PC at work with high bandwidth takes up to an hour of the dreaded spinning circle of dots before it will do a search or even display a selected playlist. I usually just give in and use the web browser version just so i can actually listen to some music before lunch.

My shiny, up-to-date PC desktop version remains forever convinced that I am still listening to Kid Creole's "Stool Pigeon", with Narada Michael Walden's "Tonight I'm Alright" queued as the next track. Thus, every time I start it up, the second track I hear is always Narada Michael Walden's "Tonight I'm Alright", unless I remember to clear the queue first. Luckily, I'm quite fond of Narada Michael Walden's "Tonight I'm Alright".

Lol

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immaterial girl