Spotify - anyone heard of it?

sonos drove me crazy for awhile, but at least they find the speakers. spotify cannot seem to regularly find the speakers through the "devices available" button. don't know who's at fault. anyway, I'm addicted to the sonos app queueing system now

the hit box for the three vertical dots in the sonos app's tracks lists is also hilariously small. it is basically the exact same setup as spotify but not usable - you either select the track to play now or cause the hidden scroll bar to appear. I only recently learned that you can select and hold the track to bring up the same menu in both apps.

Using the web player (since I can't install the app at work.) Seems the order of my albums, which used to be alphabetical by artist, are now ordered by the date that I added them. Would really like to revert to the original view.

Excellent news for my use! Odd that the web player can't change the order.

Er, I still see the folder contents in the Mac version, at least. Which client are you using?

PC desktop version. Some folders still seem to work, but most of them just do this when I click on them:
https://image.ibb.co/naqqpp/Untitled.png

Release Radar is better this week, no weird same-name bands, a nice selection across genres

only yesterday did I realize how the local music function works - I can actually sync the bootlegs and rarities on my PC onto my phone!

trick is to activate local music (basically just point to your music folder(s)) on the desktop app, create a playlist with the local tracks you want to play on the go, then download that list from mobile device (needs to be on same wifi as desktop, I believe)

there's probably all sorts of limitations (no flac for one) but I'm streaming my Hissing of Summer Lawns demos on the go now, and it rules!

Yes, they don't make this obvious!

Having Spotify pick up all my local music made the app hopelessly unuseable so now I am copying local tracks in my playlists to a dedicated folder just for the app to refer to. Pretty dumb but at least it finds them instantly now.

And yeah we could probably use a 'I don't like remixes of this artist' as much as the 'I don't like this song/artist' option in RR.

I spoke too soon about the absence of same-name bands in this week's RR ... rap Santana is not elderly Santana

is that a Juelz Santana track that’s been tagged as just Santana or is there a new rap Santana

not sure, here's the track -- https://open.spotify.com/track/0DN9l3WjYWqTf6GEOQnCG6

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/sep/19/spotify-sued-gender-discrimination-equal-pay-violation

lol "Out on the Weekend" on my Discover Weekly!

Why are all the songs in Prince's Lovesexy lumped into one continuous 45:03 track?

lol

Only Prince can answer that one

lol @ post-CD era ilxors

(morris I like you, but yah this is legit funny)

OK, I looked it up:

The early edition of the compact disc features all content on a single track. Some later editions featured nine separate tracks. The single track version of the album is available for purchase at digital stores such as Google Play and the iTunes Store. For streaming services such as Apple Music and Spotify, the album is also listed as one track.

I was supposed to know this offhand? LOL

(I'm hardly "post-CD era," just never owned this CD!)

I had “Batman” on cassette, if that helps establish my cred.

Good lord, this thread just days away from being ten years old.

Ten years ago,
On a cold, dark night

some poor musicians were robbed
'neath the town hall light

I signed up for a (trial) subscription a few days ago, after resisting doing that (for any streaming service) for so long.

it's such a thrill, hope you enjoy it

she hopes these songs have a long, long taaaaaaail
she scrobbles herself, it's a royalty faaaaaaail
nobody knows
nobody sees
these premium tiers (tears) aren't freeeee

you can use google to search for playlists containing specific songs, for example:
site:spotify.com inurl:playlist "pour aisha"

I was thinking this might help me find songs similar to some of my favorite deep cuts

can't say it's paid off yet

Pretty awesome find anyway, thanks!

Lol, Tracer

Still no lossless option. OK, a premium option is going to be a niche market but if people are willing to pay extra for a higher quality option then I’m sure they could easily monetise it. If it wasn’t for 8 years of playlists, I’d be considering Tidal.

https://www.avclub.com/it-is-with-a-heavy-heart-that-we-report-that-tidal-is-g-1829329262

I'm all for higher bitrates (why not) but I've AB'd enough formats and tracks with different bitrates to be p skeptical when reading stuff like "Tidal’s music is punchier and scuzzier and sweeter exactly when it should be. Put on something you’ve heard a thousand times and try it from a few different sources, and you’ll be able to hear the difference"

Wow, i gotta say, that at least from a "variety of artists" angle, Spotify is fucking awesome!!! Linton Kwesi Johnson, The Residents, Gene Clark, Minutemen, Peter Grudzien, Shaggs, Lee Perry, A Certain Ratio, Pearls Before Swine, Screaming Trees, Gong, Motorhead, Parliament/Funkadelic, Leonard Cohen , Thelonious Monk, Kevin Drumm, and The Sonics! All one after the other. It's like a good set on WFMU. Which is very good, indeed. Much more "deep", IMHO, than the competitio. Infinitely deeper than YouTube's new attempt at curated radio, that's for damn sure. I should've got this as soon as i got this phone. I certainly will from now on.

CompetitioN, that is. Meaning, of course, Pandora, that new YouTube p.o.s. Etc. Anyway, yes i know i'm late to the party on this, but so far i'm definitely liking it.

And lots of Scott Walker!!

This thread is mostly tech support now, right? Because my app has suddenly got suuuuuper janky the last few days - randomly stops, starts, skips tracks, as if someone else’s is controlling it. It’s driving me nuts.

Oh well, i was just throwing that out there. I wasn't sure where to drop it. I know i'm very late to the Spotify "party". In any case, please continue and don't let my newbie enthusiasms derail things. Good luck with your situation. I hope it all pans out for u.

Oh no, I wasn’t talking specifically to you - you did drop that in the right place. I was being facetious about my own troubles.

This shuffle thing is driving me nuts. I'm quickly turning into a shuffle truther.

wait, what's the shuffle truth? i want to believe

It refuses to include certain songs and even entire albums in the shuffle. It also plays certain songs way more than it should. For some reason, it takes a weeks for new tracks in my list to enter the shuffle rotation. I just want a real shuffle.

as much as I like Spotify, I have to say I am also a shuffle truther

Personally, i've had those sorts of problems with basically every computer-based music player when in shuffle mode. Whole albums ignored for days and yet, such and such song gets played 12 times in same time frame. And thats winamp, wmp, vlc, shit i can't remember all their names, but every last one was flawed, in that mode. These days i just go alphabetical. Usually works well.

And i do that on my Android phone as well.

The truther part really ramps up when I hit shuffle, then pull up the queue and carefully inspect it, then play the last song in the queue, so that it refreshes, then inspect it again, over and over, looking for clues.

haha

are some people are upset because shuffle isn't playing the stuff they want to hear? that's now how shuffle works

I mean sure it's sometimes going to play three songs from the same album relatively close together or will play some songs and albums more than others, this happens because it's random.

https://saintlad.com/spotify-shuffle-play-is-not-random/

Spotify responds:

https://labs.spotify.com/2014/02/28/how-to-shuffle-songs/