Spotify - anyone heard of it?

working for me. Listening to Beaucoup Fish as I type this.

"New" Scott Walker and The The tracks very much not by who you'd expect

and a new track by The Smiths (but not by The Smiths) came up in my Release Radar today. I thought there used to be a way to report mislabelled tracks?

indeed, about bullfighting; i'm sure Morrissey's delighted.

The option to add an album to a playlist has returned on the android app

it wld be really cool of them to pull six of their old albums for a few months to drive ppl toward the six new albums they're releasing in November

surprised that labels haven't pulled this shit before tbh

eheh yeah that Smiths "new release" is fun : but do artists get paid if everybody stops listening after 5secs ?

artists don't get paid regardless, it's Spotify

touché !

Reluctant as I am to add to the litany of complaints on this thread, why are all the tracks I play pausing briefly after the first nine seconds?

It was actually completely down for me yesterday, I found this page https://downdetector.com/status/spotify/ which had other commenters complaining about the nine second thing.

There was a giant delivery of old 45s this week that had a bunch of artists with the same names as much newer ones, The Smiths among them. We're on it.

Snarkiness notwithstanding, you don't get paid unless the listener plays at least 30 seconds of the song.

Wait, Spotify rips vinyl themselves?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFkGEi0Et08

Ha, no, "delivery" meaning "upload of music". Although I wouldn't bet that nobody has ever mailed a box of vinyl to our offices, I can say with pretty high confidence that we do no ripping of anything ever.

Anyone got an idea why most of the DM catalog is displayed in greyscale right now?

https://i.imgur.com/mpZ5Vev.jpg

^ browser version, btw.

Doesn't that mean not available, but it's showing because you've told it to display non-available tracks?

No, they play as normal.

That's weird. I'll see if I can find out why it is...

Seems to be the work of the band (or label), not a bug, but I don't know why. A little searching turned up a bunch of reddit threads of speculation about it, but no answers.

Yeah, I was informed it was like this on all platforms.

There is a problem on the spotify android app with many artists pages displaying just a shuffle button. This has been mentioned by other premium users on twitter.

Someone probably mentioned this already but it would be really great if when adding a song to a playlist it brought up the last playlist you added to? Sort of like saving a file on a pc .

lol my bad there is an option. don’t know if it was always there but cool

actually no it just filters the last playlist added not the last playlist you added something to

Did you try the Relevance filter?

I've been waiting for this for years: https://gizmodo.com/spotify-is-testing-a-new-social-feature-that-could-add-1840533060

Here's a legit non-existential issue I have with Spotify -- my artwork for my most recent album disappeared. It's bizarre. Still there on other services, so presumably doesn't have anything to do with distro.

i have been screaming for user tastemakers since spotify started; where's my check

I've hung on to my $5/month Spotify Unlimited acct for years, never "upgraded" to Premium. At some point I put the Spotify app on my phone; I don't remember why, since Unlimited is supposed to be desktop-only. But I used the app yesterday to see if I could look stuff up on it even if I couldn't play it, and discovered that I can now use the phone app for playback! I don't know if it's an app bug, account bug or account upgrade, but it's pretty nice. (Glenn, if it's an account bug, don't rat me out.)

Ha, I see the codes for those old accounts in queries sometimes. You've probably outlived the special-cases in the code that were intended to restrict them...

victory through attrition

The only thing I'm OCD about in the world is music metadata, so it's a bummer when a reissue gets the year of the reissue rather than then original year. It's sorta understandable if it's remaster, but this is the same Recloose LP that was released in 2002.

drives me crazy when it's the reissue year and not the original.

This morning we announced that @spotify is acquiring The Ringer. Couldn’t be more excited to work with @eldsjal and his phenomenal team.

More details to come down the road... but @ringer will remain @ringer in every respect. They appreciate what we do and they want us to be us.

— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) February 5, 2020

glenn, can you make the track titles on Selected Ambient Works II show up as the little pie charts? thanks

I have a collaborative playlist with a couple of friends but I can't add to it from the browser version, and it's quite difficult to add even on the phone app, though doable, in a reeeeal make shift way. I know it's because it's someone else's playlist but given he's made it editable, and I follow it, it would be very cool if I could add things to it easier.

I'm not kvetching 'cause I love this thing really but I don't really get how after two or three weeks of listening to Vangelis, Jarre, TD etc, Discovery can recommend me Emmylou Harris and Buffy Sainte-Marie.

Discover Weekly uses six months of your listening history...

Ok, that's good to know, though I've definitely had it respond faster than that before. Still not sure who's been listening to country on my account!

Ah, maybe the 6 months thing explains why DW sometimes gives me tracks I've listened to many times before (a while ago).

I do feel that it's often surprisingly cohesive as a playlist: eg one week it'll be very heavy on a particular genre. Which would make sense, but it may be an artifact of my pattern-sensing brain.

i've basically stopped listening to DW because it's been like >50% repeats for over a year now

just listen to daily mixes at least there's songs on those i know i'll like

Can’t believe they haven’t got around to offering a lossless option, sure there’d be a demand for it.

my DW is usually good about not repeating tracks from previous DWs (more so now than in the past)

my Daily Mixes are reliably listenable, though one is interestingly garbled these days with random audiobook tracks from a huge "Horror Classic Collection" I liked ... I just unliked that anthology to see if the mix will straighten itself out

my main complaint these days is the way the Discover feature has gotten buried in the iOS app ... it used to be accessible from the footer menu, then it got moved to an item on the Search page, and now it seems to be drifting farther below the fold there ... Discover is the 10th item on my search page (not counting the search field itself) and the only one I use regularly

Mundane spotify UX issue #2354728:

How to explain this latest minor irritation? You know the three dots to the left of the track title - the dots that lead to a menu for "add to playlist," "view album" etc. Well, either my thumbs have gotten fatter or something changed behind the scenes in the app, because now, half the time I try to press that button, I wind up just pressing play on the track, or starting the track over. This is killing my vibe man.

Discover is the 10th item on my search page (not counting the search field itself) and the only one I use regularly

you know you can add it to your playlists though.

I think we're talking about two different things ... I'm talking about the Discover feature, not the Discover Weekly playlist

good idea though to follow Discover Weekly, I have done that