Spotify - anyone heard of it?

(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

https://d2ffutrenqvap3.cloudfront.net/items/191b1V0v0R2W41410B20/Screen%20Shot%202018-03-22%20at%2000.33.55.png

immaterial girl

mmhh youtube soul wormhole

https://d2ffutrenqvap3.cloudfront.net/items/3h431t462O461y081N3K/Screen%20Shot%202018-03-22%20at%2021.40.58.png

everything else on my computer works fine

This is the correct florid techno visualisation.

spotify is a bit different than most other things on your computer though

It runs so faster on my work computer (ssd, i7)

so much faster

it might have more to do with your network connection on that computer, though

Ah yeah you're probably right

it does seem to have got slower

How do I keep The Chaimsmokers from always coming up on My Release Radar?

lol at the idea of an all-Jew Chainsmokers tribute band

“Lover Man”, oh where can you be? In my Release Radar Playlist!

Chainsmokers on my Release Radar, too. And David Guetta.

ouch

In addition to the Chainsmokers (again), I also had "The Temptations" coving Sam Smith this morning.

can I deactivate the ?si=YLlbiLPJRx2yiGRXbGCYFA string that's attached to all links I copy from Spotify? I'm guessing they're used for data analysis but I like my links clean...

IPO today

Good luck, Glenn!

Weird non-IPO IPO is sort of interesting:

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/spotifys-un-ipo-everything-need-know-132349447.html

Damn, guess they were waiting for Drag City before they IPO'd.

stock will take a beating after investors learn that they still can't listen to "halfway to a threeway"

lol

why does spotify think i like the chainsmokers? i don't get it? *orders market sell of 10,000 shares*