Spotify - anyone heard of it?

i'm not anyone in that thread. i just hate when the response is restart your app/phone/reinstall, when clearly everyone has already done that.

Yup. Check your power supply!

I never used playlists on shuffle until recently and have had the pleasure of discovering how shit the shuffle algorithm (or whatever) is. 207 song playlist, same ~40 songs play. It does a great job of shuffling those 40, though. #FFS

#GREATREVIVE

I find that shuffle works better or worse depending on the device.

If Spotify follow the standard tech company playbook for bugs, they'll do this "restart your phone/clean install/probably another app on your phone/manufacturer fault" gaslighting bullshit for a month or so then a new version will drop that fixes the bug and they'll act dumb about it. Their inability to just say"yes, there's a bug, we're working on it" is maddening.

That example was one of the worst though
- user shares screenshot showing full bar wifi and 4G
- "I see you are using 4G try using it with a strong wifi"
- user explains what wifi symbol means
- "try using it with 4G!"

In the absence of comprehensive year of release data on Spotify, I've started the epic task of putting every one of my Liked Songs into a playlist for its respective year. Am I crazy? I'll just do a few a day. It's then relatively portable, given the tools available for exporting playlists.

both the web player and the android app are a bit shit for me, constantly

specifically the android app just pauses playing for a few seconds every x minutes and on the web player I get "something went wrong, try reloading the page" if I try to look at an artist, album etc.

I most often listen to Spotify on my Roku, which has all sorts of limitations - can't make playlists or adjust queues, etc. You have to use the (very simple) Roku remote for everything.

Anyway, was thrilled to find Brooks' Red Tape is back on Spotify (one of my fav albums from the 2000s)...if only they would add the ep's and You, Me and Us as well. Brooks should not be forgotten.

What is this Time Capsule you speak of, my Spotify Hipster Friend?

Today I was offered a daily drive/daily commute playlist - your favourite songs interspersed with news and sports updates. Turns out you get to hear adverts you've paid to avoid as they're embedded in the bulletins. Ads aside though, I kind of like the idea for early morning listening.

(my daily commute is from my bedroom to my bathroom to the kitchen to the dining table)

I'm very confused by this song that showed up on my Release Radar today, mostly for the third artist listed on the track.
https://open.spotify.com/track/2DztFyWY3hyCArDb9VINk2?si=5iQU6VydSoiSIyl8nR8Hjg

That's gotta be some sort of glitch, right? It seems highly unlikely that there is another group with that name...

I don’t even need to click on that link to know that I was served the same track.

^^ thirded.

Ah Moveek! I’m familiar with Moveek. He’s a Nigerian artist who sometimes tries to boost his streaming numbers by tagging a famous Afropop artist’s name (like Starboy/Wizkid, Tiwa Savage or Tekno) to his songs, without them actually being on the track (but he’s also done this with Major Lazer, for instance). In the years I’ve been following Nigerian pop there’s always been a few of these types around. Many of these tracks are taken down from Spotify eventually, but some of them remain.

So why have he and this “Caravan” type now gone for Stars of the Lid, an act in a totally different genre, not particularly well-known or popular, and also not a name with other connotations that I’m aware of? I’m guessing for the same reason he’s also been tagging artist names like “Feist”, “The Cab” and “Regard” (and of course “Caravan” is an established artist name in its own right as well).
Maybe picking artists outside of his own genre that have a popularity of some significance, but not so much that they might have people actively looking out for activity like this (like I imagine a Major Lazer might), is his way of laying low while still picking up the extra streams he wants from fans of those acts that make it 30 seconds into his track.

Gotta respect the hustle!

Gotta respect the hustle!

Do we? Don't think SotL fans - nor people who like Feist or whoever he tags - will particularly appreciate this hustle tbf.

I was being sarcastic. It’s a pathetic business model, but nothing to get worked up about imo. It’s just annoying, that’s all, unless I’m missing something?

Nah, that's pretty much where I'm at tbh

I saw that Moveek thing go past in internal error-reports right before seeing it mentioned here, so it's already being fixed...

https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1215518235921133568/FA0hOBLt.jpg

Moveek says “cool”

Moveek holds a playlist in his quivering hands
Moveek sends the playlist to the American man

along those lines, I was perplexed by TR/ST's new direction until I heard the track.

Move... Ek, you say? </tinfoil>

jesus fuck why does the Spotify UI suck SO FUCKING BAD.

I accidentally added a whole album to a playlist, and the songs I did't want JUST WON'T FUCK OFF. I've had to click Remove from Playlist about 5 times for every fucking song. can they not hire developers who can make this actually function? wankers

the ajax requests are failing when i click it. 400 errors. fuck's sake your website is fucking terrible

our app was throwing 400 errors the other day and it was a google cloud server misconfiguring itself somehow. so y'know it might not be actual unforced human error. still it does hang an awful lot for me too - songs don't play, search results don't appear, 'add to playlist' doesn't work.

I find connecting to speakers at home really unreliable. Usually involves restarting the app or reconnecting the wifi. Sometimes halfway through a song it will start playing through my phone or tablet again.
This often ends up with me abandoning all of that and connecting via Bluetooth.

By which time my sandwich is made and I'm going to another room...

also my experience connecting from the app

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/oct/28/joe-rogan-hosts-alex-jones-on-spotify-podcast-despite-ban

spotify is fucking up

had some more weird issues lately where I add a track to my library, it doesn't show up in the app, shows up in web player, but can't be played until I un-add and re-add.

Yeah I often find I have to log out and back in again on my Mac for the desktop client to register tracks that I've Liked on another device, even if it was hours ago.

lol at the lede in that Guardian article

Joe Rogan, Spotify’s biggest podcast star, has left the platform....

....

...

...in an awkward position after conducting a lengthy interview with Alex Jones, the conspiracy theorist banned by Swedish streaming company for producing “hate content”.

I'm going to take a punt that their response to being put in this awkward position was to do nothing about it.

Exasperated laugh after having selected 'I don't like ROOSEVELT' at least twice in Release Radar the powers that be just won't take no for an answer here.

xp they removed it

source?

joe rogan fans on reddit

but that was yesterday and i see it back up now?

there i was thinking "joe rogan fans on reddit" an unimpeachable source.

it was a cache issue with the episode that did cause it to be missing/unplayable yesterday

you can count on joe rogan fans on reddit to complain first if spotify does pull it

you can count on joe rogan fans on reddit to complain first if spotify does pull it

fixed that for ya

In response to the "Justice at Spotify" campaign for increased royalty rates, and having paid Joe Rogan $100 million to promote Infowars, Spotify have announced the option for artists to be paid in exposure instead, except without actually providing the exposure:

https://www.thefader.com/2020/11/02/spotify-promotional-tool-discovery-weekly-royalty-rate-union-letter

I can’t understand if this is a genuine opportunity for extra cash flow for labels/bands or, Spotify monetizing an existing distribution channel like radio and getting an even lower royalty rate to artists. I’ll assume the latter?

I’ve been through a bunch of these services, is there anything out there that pays artists fairly?

Bandcamp

I used to have their app, glad to hear they’re streaming!

well it depends on what the artists want to be streamable, but yeah