I got Lambchop and Andrew Bird in my Release Radar today.
― DJI, Friday, 22 March 2019 17:07 (five years ago) link
I hit that "follow" button on every artist I'm even remotely interested in, and I'm pretty sure it keeps my release radar pretty on point. It feels pretty customized to me every single week.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 22 March 2019 21:13 (five years ago) link
I stumbled across my list of followed artists on my phone earlier. There weren't many names on it but for some reason The War on Drugs were, which explains the mystery of why that stupid band kept showing up on my Release Radar. Later on I tried to find the list again on my phone and couldn't! Anyway eventually tracked it down on desktop and did a bit more pruning then added some artists I actually like.
BTW, the Google tip someone mentioned upthread of finding other people's playlists that feature a song you like is great (eg site:spotify.com love is deep matthew e. white). Ended up finding a guy who has a load of great playlists I'm plundering. Would be great if this function were built into Spotify.
― Alba, Friday, 22 March 2019 21:23 (five years ago) link
Is it just me or is the iOS mobile app fucked today? The new releases section in search has disappeared and reappeared twice for me , new song by Becky G and other artists are just not even there when u click it
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 22 March 2019 22:13 (five years ago) link
they’ve just done an update to the ‘browse’ section and it’s still rolling out. my app is wonky as well.
― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 22 March 2019 22:17 (five years ago) link
agh wrong thread ignore delete delete
― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 22 March 2019 22:18 (five years ago) link
Is this "Hulu free w/Spotify" a limited time thing for people who get it? I don't mean is it being offered for a limited time because I know it is; I'm asking if the free-Hulu part will expire after a certain time for people who sign up for it, or do they allege that it will last for the duration of the Spotify account.
― Fox News Has Normalized a Lie About the Origins of ILX (WmC), Friday, 22 March 2019 23:57 (five years ago) link
Dear Spotify: please just stop changing the UI. Just stop.
― calstars, Saturday, 23 March 2019 12:41 (five years ago) link
I love the new UI but I prob use the app different than u
― but I can't let Trae do it I got Huerter on my mind (Spottie), Saturday, 23 March 2019 19:53 (five years ago) link
So wait- saving a track and liking a track are the same thing now?
― bendy, Sunday, 24 March 2019 21:19 (five years ago) link
― calstars, Saturday, March 23, 2019 6:41 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
for real. my searchbar disappeared? i kind of use that feature often
― shoulda zagged (esby), Sunday, 24 March 2019 22:44 (five years ago) link
The thing for searching within a playlist moved up into the "..." menu.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 25 March 2019 01:55 (five years ago) link
I know this is probably not Glenn's department, but I wonder if my right honorable friend has any insight into this deal. (sorry, under the influence of uk commons fussin')
― Fox News Has Normalized a Lie About the Origins of ILX (WmC), Monday, 25 March 2019 16:37 (five years ago) link
Nothing with these services is ever permanent beyond a few months - I expect they'll bundle it for a while, see how the uptake pans out, and then either kill it, make it a paid upgrade (ie still cheaper than standalone Hulu) or continue as is.
― Siegbran, Monday, 25 March 2019 16:43 (five years ago) link
I'm grandfathered in with the defunct Unlimited at $5/mo, and it's going to take some expression of permanence to get me to step into the Hulu snare.
― Fox News Has Normalized a Lie About the Origins of ILX (WmC), Monday, 25 March 2019 16:48 (five years ago) link
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, March 24, 2019 7:55 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i was looking around online and saw ppl complaining about this but it's not the issue i'm having -- on desktop (mac) there used to be a bar at the top of the program to search from anywhere, now i seem to have to go to the search page which takes a cpl seconds to load. don't know what happened there but i hate it.
― shoulda zagged (esby), Monday, 25 March 2019 16:53 (five years ago) link
I am tired of managing my library at the 10k limit. generated playlists are worthless if I can't easily save the songs I like to remember them later. The limit has forced me into actively managing a library of songs, which is the fundamental problem streaming solved for me. I will always appreciate spotify for moving streaming forward, but I am going to try and use the amazon prime music I already pay for anyway to save $15/month. lagoon's prophecy etc.
― say it with sausages (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 25 March 2019 17:18 (five years ago) link
Self-hosted music streaming is the solution for your own library, you can forget about Spotify/Amazon/Apple Music ever doing that well. Plex (that's what I'm using), Emby, Subsonic, Ampache, Funkwhale, take your pick and don't look back.
― Siegbran, Monday, 25 March 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
Ugh. I can understand having a limit but why have it be so low?
― lukas, Monday, 25 March 2019 17:31 (five years ago) link
xp the limit isn't for my own library of digital music. I don't own any digital music (technically, I spent maybe one hundred dollars on mp3s that are now lost forever). the limit applies to just saving the artist/song/album names to "your library" and not even downloading. It is absurd.
― say it with sausages (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 25 March 2019 17:37 (five years ago) link
still a huge issue that i have no idea why they havent addressed
― but I can't let Trae do it I got Huerter on my mind (Spottie), Monday, 25 March 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
I can think of two reasons why they might do it: 1) to bound the amount of number crunching they need to do when finding your library's overlap with other users' libraries and 2) force you to prune your own data so they have a better idea of who you currently are and what you currently like.
― say it with sausages (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 25 March 2019 17:46 (five years ago) link
but to be clear, it is still bad and dumb. so I am throwing a tantrum and leaving.
― say it with sausages (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 25 March 2019 17:52 (five years ago) link
Amazon Prime Music seems to have reduced song/artist availability massively to push people into the additional subscription of Amazon Unlimited. Prime has around 2 million songs while unlimited seems to have more than 40 million.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Monday, 25 March 2019 18:12 (five years ago) link
yeah, I will likely end up paying for unlimited or apple music. saving $15/month would be nice, but I ultimately just want something to work.
― say it with sausages (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 25 March 2019 18:43 (five years ago) link
Sorting Hat is down, anyone know if it’s a temporary break or something more permanent?
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 30 March 2019 14:36 (five years ago) link
i've never heard of Sorting Hat, but Google led me to a new post from Glenn ,it seems? http://everynoise.com/spotify_new_releases.html
― maffew12, Saturday, 30 March 2019 14:44 (five years ago) link
That makes sense, thanks for that. Impossible to listen to everything obviously, but handy resource to help spot stuff I’d otherwise miss.
― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 30 March 2019 14:55 (five years ago) link
The numbers in that post are nuts. Are more people making music or is this robot stuff? Both?
― maffew12, Saturday, 30 March 2019 14:59 (five years ago) link
I’d assume that one important factor is that more and more music from more and more countries is being released/uploaded on Spotify. This has certainly been my experience with African pop music over the past few years - and there is still room for significant growth there. For instance, Tanzania, home to the leading musical scene in East Africa, is seriously underrepresented on Spotify compared to a country like Nigeria.
― breastcrawl, Saturday, 30 March 2019 16:57 (five years ago) link
That as well eh. I need to check more of that. Cheers!
― maffew12, Saturday, 30 March 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link
New releases is fun! It’s like going to the record store.
― DJI, Saturday, 30 March 2019 17:40 (five years ago) link
my desktop spotify is now doing this bizarre thing where if i search for something, the letters i'm typing type BACKWARDS into the search box. the letters literally go from right to left, as if i'm typing in arabic or something. so if i search for "Robyn" it types out "nyboR". i have restarted and it still does it! just astounding
― Lil' Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 30 March 2019 22:41 (five years ago) link
If you C&P from a notes or text file, does it paste in correctly?
― 16 Historic English ILXors You Must Explore Soon (WmC), Saturday, 30 March 2019 22:45 (five years ago) link
perhaps you'd enjoy Abba?
― maffew12, Saturday, 30 March 2019 23:48 (five years ago) link
wow key thx for the heads up
― Mordy, Saturday, 30 March 2019 23:56 (five years ago) link
Finding it a useful tool for listening to Podcasts recently. Also means i can listen to them on my phone while I'm out and about.& now finally found my remote control for my dvd player so may go back to watching d/lded video files more.So being able to listen to podcasts while mobile might be very useful.
― Stevolende, Sunday, 31 March 2019 00:32 (five years ago) link
So far so good on the Everynoise Sorting Hat replacement. I search for new American classical releases every week. Searching by genre is easier to do now.
― aworks, Sunday, 31 March 2019 04:18 (five years ago) link
why must we have to go through 100 steps to add local music to our phones (and then not be able to listen to it on a sonos speaker anyway)
has anyone cooked up a decent alternative method?
― musically, Sunday, 31 March 2019 17:46 (five years ago) link
This version of "The Sun's Gone Dim and the Sky's Turned Black" from ahem "Cafe Mambo, Music for Dreams: The Sunset Sessions, Vol 1" is credited to Swedish pop star Johan Johansson instead of deceased composer Johann Johannsson. Easy mistake to make.
https://open.spotify.com/track/6XIHgwF5yfOSWI7rb1oS2l?si=HBDIwYd1RQi2_aPVm-3MJQ
― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Monday, 1 April 2019 14:19 (five years ago) link
excellent april fool's joke spotify
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 1 April 2019 16:15 (five years ago) link
Does everyone get the same Discocover playlist?
― Simon H., Monday, 1 April 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
i think so
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 1 April 2019 16:17 (five years ago) link
how is last dance by donna summer a "disco cover" or "cover of disco"...am i forgetting something or did this joke playlist not go through a rigorous vetting process
― musically, Monday, 1 April 2019 16:38 (five years ago) link
Does everyone get the same Discocover playlist?not this morning, maybe they're operating to strict US time zone april fools.
― what if bod was one of us (ledge), Monday, 1 April 2019 17:02 (five years ago) link
^Don't think I've got this (maybe I'm too late now?) but all tracks on Spotify were playing all distorted as if through a ring modulator until I restarted the app. Never have The Unthanks sounded so rad!
― Jeff W, Monday, 1 April 2019 17:07 (five years ago) link
Discocover Weekly is personalized, but from a fairly small pool of joke-relevant tracks, so they won't vary nearly as much as regular DW...
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 1 April 2019 20:16 (five years ago) link
ahhh i was wondering, thanks for clearing that up glenn
― jolene club remix (BradNelson), Monday, 1 April 2019 20:19 (five years ago) link
Maybe someone already posted this, but it's a FAST way to browse music on Spotify:
https://discoverquickly.com/
― DJI, Monday, 1 April 2019 23:16 (five years ago) link
Where's this Discocover Weekly? All I'm being offered are endless playlists with different photos Billie Eilish looking extraordinarily gormless.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Monday, 1 April 2019 23:58 (five years ago) link