Spotify - anyone heard of it?

in previous years i tried to track my listening with different genre playlists but some of them i'd rarely get to and managing so many different playlists was a pita so this year i just made one Best Of list and one To Listen list and now i'm hearing much more of the stuff i intend to but the To Listen list has gotten out of control it's too huge.

Yeah this is basically how I approach it too, my big list of favorites and my periodically rotating new music list. I have lots of other lists, but none get a fraction of the play of these two.

I've gone from a to listen playlist to a to listen folder but it's terrifyingly vast - like a Borges library. Ach, the tyranny of permutations.

In full on 'and another thing!' taxi driver mode here but why does the 'repeat' button get so much real estate? I was just looking at my CD player and thinking I've never used that button.

Everybody otm. I think we should unionize.

One day I went to smarterplaylists.net and got all of my Discover Weekly recommendations to archive to one big playlist every week.

Don't be like me.

I'm currently maintaining my digital collection with Logitech Media Server

fist bump

I’ve experienced that offline thing while commuting. Even while in offline mode, it seems to try to connect to their servers and hangs for a while. I usually get past it by selecting different tabs or closing/restarting the app.

I guess I’ll convert all of my saved albums to playlists just for the sake of being able to edit individual songs out of the albums. Ok ok ok

Salute to those still hanging in with Logitech Media Server ... I broke down and switched to Plex

why does the 'repeat' button get so much real estate? I was just looking at my CD player and thinking I've /never/ used that button.

I don't think I've ever thought 'this morning, I am going to listen to x FOUR times' - wow, a handy 'repeat' button. I might think 'I'm going to listen to that again' and press rewind or whatever.

Most frequent use for me: having the same lullaby repeat over and over for my baby.

I don't think I've ever thought 'this morning, I am going to listen to x FOUR times' - wow, a handy 'repeat' button. I might think 'I'm going to listen to that again' and press rewind or whatever.

The very thought of being that programmatic is giving me hives: I genuinely don't enter into a listening experience thinking 'I'm going to listen to this 3 times in a row'. Shit is getting existential.

Where did I even say that? I’m talking about wanting to hear the song you’re listening to at that particular moment again. It’s as spontaneous and spur of the moment as it comes: there is no programming involved in that at all, leave alone programming the number of times you’re going to listen to it in advance (which isn’t even possible in Spotify, unless you want to queue up the same song back to back.

(why do I even have to explain this?)

Sorry, not being entirely serious - was thinking more about on a CD player at that point. On a Spotify thread. I should probably go get some fresh air.

I’m getting some too lol

I don't think I've ever felt the need to relisten to a song again immediately after having listened to it. I agree, relisten button serves no purpose

Another alien lol!

Songs you could listen to on repeat for hours...

Songs you could listen to forever?

Song on repeat

...and of course: Songs to listen to while high?

I can testify that there is a non-trivial set of people for whom the Repeat button is a core part of their listening approach.

(they are all infants)

Those old threads have got some real gems in them - thanks.

i didn't realize there was a way to listen to "old town road" besides Repeat ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

if i want to listen to a song again i hit the back button, or scroll back to the part i want to hear again

i tried experimenting with listening to songs on repeat as a side effect of some fairly severe mental illness and i found that listening to songs more than twice in a row is probably not a good idea

for a while there was a radio station that had an unexpectedly long transfer of ownership and during that period it played the same songs at the same time every day, that was actually very nice, for several months i would expect to hear "give up the funk" at precisely 5:02 pm, followed by whatever the song after that was, etc. as fixed as the nature of most radio stations is i am surprised that there aren't any stations that have deliberately adopted that approach.

one station where i live (which prominently touts ''''variety'''' in its branding) basically plays the same playlist every day and sometimes barely even varies the order or timing-of-day compared to the previous day

Yeah, I was going to say: does the repeat button work for playlists? I imagine that would be a big use case for shops etc.

it does work for playlists. i leave it on.

if i want to listen to a song again i hit the back button, or scroll back to the part i want to hear again

if i want to stop listening to an album rather than having it repeat i hit the stop button

What's a stop button?

it's what the kids are calling ambien these days

I'm noticing that shuffling large playlists for roku seems to work better when I launch them in the roku app rather than launching from a separate device. For some reason, hitting shuffle on a different device and then connecting to roku causes it to diminish the range of tracks it shuffles.

I really wish the roku app would give you a menu for songs that takes you to the related album/artist page/radio list. Also wish the search function was better at searching up artists. It strange that it can't do this.

Sonos is the same - can’t shuffle large playlists.

The classic “Greatest Hits” compilation of Fleetwood Mac (the Peter Green-era band) has a bizarre alternate tracklist missing most of that era of the band’s most important hits: Green Manalishi, Oh Well (Pts 1 & 2), Man of the World.

It even features doctored art so those titles don’t appear on the front. All the relevant tracks are on Spotify elsewhere though.

That’s weird.

this one?

https://www.discogs.com/Fleetwood-Mac-Fleetwood-Mac-Greatest-Hits/master/119892

probably a rights issue on those early tunes

I somehow never realized Green Manalishi was never on a studio LP!

the Game of Thrones show creators created a playlist dedicated to the show that's featured on the spotify splash page and would you be shocked that of the 51 songs, 48 are sung by men

How many are dead?

more than 3 i assume

I counted 5 women lead singers and only one dead song. I also didnt know half the songs thank god.

you have more patience than i do, after seeing the 20th interchangeable indie band of four white guys i decided to guess

i do respect that they threw prince's "sister" on the playlist tho

choosing songs because their titles somewhat tie into a theme is the lowest form of playlist creation

hbo must pay for this list, no?

s/o to my all time favorite playlist (though it's from Apple)

Which of the songs from On the Road Again: Songs about Driving is the least about driving?

yeah there's no way HBO didn't pay for it, there were lots of featured GoT playlists on the main page

Lena Platoons' Galop is listed twice, the one labeled as released in 2015 should be Lepidoptera

Platonos

defo