Spotify - anyone heard of it?

ah thanks, I had no clue they were called canvases - that option is right next to the "disable behind the lyrics" in ios settings so that was simple

I don't think there's a way to turn them off on android. Beach House, Parquet Courts, LUMP (Laura Marling), and The Beatles all have them.

They just added the ability to turn them off on ios within the last couple of weeks, and thank god for that

I have to say very satisfying effects achieved by combining my top 100 tracks for each of the last 3 years into one playlist, adding in all the saved tracks from my discover weeklies, and then generating a "radio" station from that.

good call! Went to try this, but I'm no longer seeing Radio options for playlist on Windows desktop client. I have the option to "create similar playlist" which saves me a new playlist of 130 songs. I hit it a second time and got the same 130.

I guess I could enable Autoplay, go to the end of my playlist, and hit Next for something like the old endless Radio based on playlist feature?

still seeing "go to album radio" on albums fwiw

"artist radio" still there as well.

and wouldn't you know, when I'm on the Autoplay after going to the end of my playlist, and I click the cover art of what's playing, I'm at "playlist radio"

The playlist-radio command went away temporarily, but it should be reappearing imminently on desktop (and is already back on mobile)...

thanks Glenn. What's with this create a playlist based on this playlist thing? is that sticking around? Going to mess with feeding it back into itself a bunch of times....

That command has been there for a couple years, and I'm not aware of any plan to remove it...

I can only seem to get around 230 unique songs after hitting it a dozen times on reach successive generated playlist.. but they are all different from what I generated a few hours ago. hmmmmmmm

dozen times on *each

Have been using the radio function a lot lately to discover music similar to what I like. Wish it was a bit more randomized, but it's very helpful in general.

So Spotify has done away with the release date info. Only the year of release will be provided from here on end apparently. Well gee, thanks guys. Who cares about those details anyway?

This seems to have gone back to normal, but Spotify is going through some changes here. I think I’ve been presented with five different interfaces just today, and the app keeps crashing on me.

A lot of disappointed Low fans are being recommended a same-name shitty rapper's new album.

Coulda sworn I already reported that "Low" album, but it must have been a previous single. Reported it now, at any rate...

Cheers!

Weird things are going on in my Spotifyworld this week:

*Tracks that are not in a playlist not playing - and not visible when added to one of my playlists (but appear 24 hours later).
*New Music Friday playlist today only showing me one song, i.e. the one I have previously added to one of my playlists.
*Release Radar today only showing me 6 songs - again things I've added or streamed previously.

Any ideas, glenn?

No idea. Sounds like your client maybe thinks you're not online? Get @SpotifyCares to help you...

ah yes, connected now to a different Wifi outside the office and problem solved. Must be some new restrictions introduced to use of media on the work Wifi; they hate fun.

Music -> joy -> sedition. Can't really blame them.

Why is it that whenever I update the desktop client, I'm suddenly following a bunch of huge playlists I've never seen before? And where did the display of how many followers a playlist has go?

If you're following playlists you didn't follow, then somebody has access to your account. Contact @SpotifyCares on Twitter for help resetting it.

(Usually the reason you can't see the follower count is that you've resized your window a little too small.)

why did you guys drop the follower names?

Doesn't scale.

okay, that makes sense.

If you're following playlists you didn't follow, then somebody has access to your account. Contact @SpotifyCares on Twitter for help resetting it.

I logged out of all devices a few days ago when these playlists first popped up. The exact same showed up in a batch all at once after the latest update. I think it's a bug and not a hack.

It sounds like a programmatic abuse of your compromised account. There's no bug or feature that would add random playlists to your account...

I should note that there's been no perceptible change to my discover weekly and release radar playlists since I first noticed this happening

i love my release radar playlist. i only wish it were longer.

Follow more artists. Release Radar only cuts off at 30 if you run out of Followed artists before then...

I tried this service: http://parknarrative.com/labellove

Added a couple labels, but so far, the list hasn't updated. Hard to tell if it's just that the labels haven't had new stuff come out, or if the service is broken/abandoned.

Is having an artist in a playlist or having listened to an artist once enough to "follow" it for Release Radar or should I be doing so manually?

Listening to artists is enough to get them in Release Radar normally, but RR only goes past 30 tracks for ones you Follow. It basically has 3 sections: 1) artists you Follow (unlimited), 2) other artists you listen to up to 30 tracks, and 3) Discover-Weekly-style recommended artists to get to 30 tracks if 1 & 2 haven't already gotten you there.

ah, that explains the "wait when did I listen to that" effect

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/spotify-teardown-book-streaming-music-790174/

Much of the book discusses how Spotify is not really Swedish or a music company at all. So why do we all know it as such?
Snickars: Spotify has used the label of the “Swedish cool,” which is sort of exotic, at least in the U.S. market. But it resembles any other company who is dependent on financial capital; the investigation we’ve done clearly shows this.
Eriksson: Spotify is not very different from any other tech company. It relies on investment capital and attracting sponsors of various different kinds. And even though the headquarters are located in Sweden, much of the key areas of the company are located in New York or various other global cities.
Snickars: The old-fashioned music industry was bands producing records and selling them in record stores. Today, because of Spotify and others, it’s just a mess of finance, tech and cultural production. The other day it was announced that Spotify is buying a podcast platform. It’s moving in that direction. When you start looking into it, it starts becoming very apparent that it’s not only about music, even though the company is very keen on branding itself that way.

I would love to read something like this book, but the linked interview makes me think the authors didn't learn very much because this is not groundbreaking stuff.

Aw, man, didn't even get a specific mention of Boston in that piece. "other global cities"...

there's a chapter titled "glenn macdonald". it's about your name not being swedish and how you buy your groceries with money not cool points.

they also suggest a different spelling for your name which is rude

Swedes always spell "glenn" right, though.

Why did you monsters change the way artist pages look?

I can’t see the top tracks or the discography, just links to playlists with the artist on it and another link to “merch”

oh, meant to add, subscriber #s still not visible on my work macbook even when it's maximized

Quit and restart, Treeship. I saw mention of a glitch earlier that was causing parts of the artist page to not appear, sounds like you may be hitting that.

this happened to me as well on mobile actually. tried quitting and restarting and nothing changed. i can work around it for now, but it's sticking for me

Woah there's a new Burial album?! Ah wait.

Got me too.

Reported...

The shit artwork had me ???? WTF.