Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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

The one listed as "Gallop" looks like the 2015 reissue with titles translated to English. Lepidoptera is here: https://open.spotify.com/album/5VRkFwDGXmrv5AiRVHyiob?si=YJumVND2RbCQEjTOE-FtDg

My "your heavy rotation" is exclusively composed of albums I've played once this month. (Instead of, like, Paranoid or Voices Carry which I've played a zillion times.)

Anyone else have the incredibly irritating thing where the desktop app refuses to search for what you have typed in the searchbar, and instead keeps on returning results for your previous search?

my desktop app regularly starts spelling what I'm typing in backwards until I hit the x button. that shit drives me nuts, it's the only app that does that on my mac.

it's quite something!

Great Friday morning goes to listen to new VW and Spotify is down

They're just looking out for you, is all

What a disaster

Servers going down on new music Friday is a bad look for sure

Is it still not working for you? I was able to pull it up with no problem.

Might be regional but others in my office are down too

this is really disappointing from a paid service . been down all night in some parts

the most upsetting thing is that they have multiple outlets to communicate this stuff and they just say nothing.

Im able to play music from my saved playlists but not my saved albums, and not from anything else. And I don’t mean downloaded, just saved.

lmao this sucks

as usual, i feel bad for musicians

the web client gave me an error message earlier, but I had no problems with the iOS app, and now the web client is working too

they finally said something

Uh oh, we’re having some issues right now and are investigating. We’ll keep you updated here!

— Spotify Status (@SpotifyStatus) May 3, 2019

but pretty fucked up these artist get fucked out of some excitement for their new album debuts

With this pause plus the above article and other recent ones I've read about just how bad streaming income is, I'm starting to think about moving to buying more music again. Sort of wish I didn't sell like 90% of my CDs though!

https://blog.usejournal.com/music-streaming-services-are-gaslighting-us-d782fe44072f?fbclid=IwAR0moqkMsSmAd9TKGd9girnYtoW_YYCAJGYXIFwnzSY1nFNtGIZZuS31sHg

that is an irresponsible use of the word “gaslighting”

With this pause plus the above article and other recent ones I've read about just how bad streaming income is, I'm starting to think about moving to buying more music again. Sort of wish I didn't sell like 90% of my CDs though!

― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Friday, May 3, 2019 10:09 AM (fifty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My retirement plan will be selling burned CDRs to former Spotify subscribers for $1000 a pop

that article is weird.

the decline of music journalism (if that is in fact what is happening) isn't the fault of spotify. bandcamp does a better job of curation than spotify but can't match spotify's massive catalog. this guy is having choice fatigue but if you're able to source good recommendations (like maybe from ILM, or doing independent research) bandcamp can't match the spotify library. the compensation for artist question is obv a good one but unrelated to the complaints he's trying to root his thesis in.

On my album picks today was the deluxe edition of 'Foxbase Alpha' by Saint Etienne https://open.spotify.com/album/1qAnfCre0JU0IREm1esVJU?si=Ai0w_22HS-Gv-IfFBQeuCw which piqued my interests as afaik the deluxe editions have never been on Spotify. So I do a search for Saint Etienne Deluxe and a couple of the comiplations show up, but no Foxbase Alpha deluxe. Do a search for Foxbase Alpha and only the standard edition shows. What's going on with the search?

Looks like the Deluxe Edition is only actually available in Ireland. We match up tracks by audio, so that's why you can play the first "disc" of the deluxe edition, and 3 of the 14 songs on the second one: those tracks are available on other releases...

Thanks Glenn. That's a shame, wonder why they're available in Ireland but not the UK.

Can't see anywhere to report errors on Spotify unless I have a "role" in the music industry. Anyway glenn, if you can be bothered, Leonard Cohen's track "True Love Leaves No Traces" from Death of a Ladies' Man is listed as True Loves plural.