Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Platonos

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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.

I'll ask people to ask the label to fix that. Cohen deserves it.

Many thanks glenn!

https://support.spotify.com/us/contact-spotify-anonymous/ seems to be the place for this kind of thing (select on "Report an offensive or broken track/album"). I've reported the Cohen error there.

I have had several podcasts cued up on a number of occasions and just hit one that appears to play silently. Does taht mean it's been removed or what, it tends to be shows that have several episodes listed at the time but just don't seem to want to play
JUst came across the Thurston Moore episode of Turned out to Be A punk which is thankfully available on its own website.
Would be interested to find out if they do play for anybody else.
I think I have a standard subscription to Spotify so would be surprised if things taht were listed were in some way restricted.
Or is it a glitch?
Have come across it on 3 or 4 different unrelated series so can't really see a connection since other things continue to play if i switch to them.

Xp looks like that might be a good link to report some seriously racist country music I stumbled on recently.

Morrissey came up on my Release Radar today and did something I’ve never done, which was to block him from appearing again. Made me curious which acts are most blocked. I assume Spotify have the data, but keep it closely guarded.

i didn't know you could block an artist!

You can thank R Kelly for that feature, I think.

Why is Spotify putting him on recommendations when he is now so far to the right? I mean, I understand that his stuff is going to be available, and I'll admit to listen once in a while for the purposes of research, but actively promoting him is another thing altogether. And I'm wondering what the racist country music records are....

The active promotion is presumably being done by software based on your listening, rather than a human agent, though?

anybody know how to open a spotify link in the app instead of in the browser?

Paste the url into the app search bubble

Sort of weird, and I should just let it go, but I'm wondering if there is a reason for this, and if
it's something to look out for.

I go to Joy Zipper's page to download the first album. It only has 10 songs and is missing "The Power of Alan Watts"
I search the song title and it takes me to an an album that includes it. From that album I go to the artists page and again
only find the album that's missing the Watts song. So is seems if I had not searched for the song, there was no way of finding
the 11 song album.

The two versions of this album are grouped together. I don't know why the shorter version is the "main" version, and I'll report that. The desktop client has a "1 More Release" button that lets you go back and forth between versions. (But the mobile version doesn't.)

Every week, my New Release Radar recommends something from the new Madonna but I can't fathom what I've played that's even similar to latter day Mads.

I think Release Radar is made up of new(ish) releases by artists you've played before, so if you've listened to Madonna before and there aren't enough other new things from artists you've played in the past, it makes sense that a track would show up.

Ah, fuck, Stations has vanished from my desktop app.

Also, the David Axelrod promoted in this week's RR is very much not the same as the David Axelorod people will actually be wanting to listen to.

people seem to want to listen to Obama's David Axelrod more, given that they just put his podcast behind a paywall