Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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

Why would one album from an artist not be available when all others are, despite them all being on the same label?

I don't see Kaleidoscope by Siouxsie and the Banshees listed under their albums or when I search by album title.

I can find the album on Spotify via a Google search but the only songs available are those on a compilation.

I noticed the Kaleidoscope issue last week. Assumed it's out of print for a bit, whatever that means these days. Looks like it's missing on iTunes too?

Strange -- I'm pretty sure I listened to Kaleidoscope front to back a few weeks ago, but now it's gone, yes.

Though I am 100% committed to streaming I do miss packaging, kind of sucks not to have any details whatsoever about the recording - lyrics, credits, etc. And the cover image you get when playing full screen could be 50% larger, there's loads of empty space above and below. I'd be willing to pay extra for digital packaging, maybe that's a minority opinion.

whatever happened to apple's premium digital packaging thing?

^ https://www.reuters.com/article/us-digital/digital-album-packaging-should-improve-in-2008-idUSN3049009520071231

Why would every song from the CD of Richard & Linda Thompson's End of the Rainbow: The Island Record Years be included on the Spotify version except for the last and best track, an epic live take of "Calvary Cross"?

Any idea why My Bloody Valentine's whole catalogue has been unavailable in the EU for a few weeks now?

Don't Ask Why

I just realized a good way to find good playlists that might have stuff on them that you haven't heard before. They're in the "about" section when you look at an artist. Gives you a better, more personal context for an artist when you want to hear other stuff in that vein.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/31/spotify-social-listening/

outloud.dj / turntable.fm social thing in the works apparently

Thats cool - I guess the next step will be adding live mixing to this?

Hadn't realised taht podcast wouldn't be streaming from Spotify as website. Or to put taht another way. I just had my old modem cease to function which meant that both utorrent and internet websites didn't connect whereas a podcast I was playing through the computer continued to play. So does it download first then play or what, which is why I'm asking if it does something other than play on the site. Just would have thought it would cut out when both the other things I was getting just ceased. THink it would have played through to the end if I hadn't stopped it to get the new modem attached.
Otherwise just not geting how that worked, thought it would rely on having an internet connection to continue.

Just would have thought Spotify feed would stop almost immediately on the Internet disconnecting. Continued playing for several minutes after.
Would have thought that a buffer would be very short I. E.several seconds.
Think it only went off because computer did when wrong lead got pulled as I was attaching new modem.
Broadband service gave me new modem this afternoon. Seems to have been timed to have old modem turn off a couple of hours after I signed reception with he courier.

The default on Spotify now seems to be to repeat whatever song or album you've selected instead of just stopping when it's over. I don't consider this desirable at all. (If I fall asleep listening to From Genesis to Revelation, that's one thing, but I don't want to wake up also listening to it.) I realize you can de-select the repeat button, but I don't feel I should have to do this every time I want to listen to something. Is there a way to change the default?

can anyone tell me how to bulk remove checks/stars from songs? i use that on the fly to rummage and notate long playlists of new music and hitting that boundary is pissing me off.

i think just go to your library and select whatever songs and right click 'remove songs from your library'. also go post on the spotify community about it. more and more people are going to hit that limit and they need to know its a horrible thing and they need to fix it.
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Your-Music-Increase-maximum-Songs-allowed-in-Your-Music/idi-p/733759

thanks, that seems to work in batches of like a hundred or so.
yeah, it's totally dumb.

ive maxed it out three times now.

second time but i spent an hour unchecking stuff and knew their must be a better way.

oh god what a trash ios mobile update

what changed, should i avoid?

it's just a mess imo .. changes to Artist library and shit idk .trying to figure it out now but it's not good