Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Sucks that the recap is only available for phones this year. Whose dumb idea was this?

my top artists were the Orb, Fleetwood Mac, Underworld, Jefferson Airplane, Steely Dan ... but my top genre was microhouse?

1. Underworld (ilm poll)
2. Janet Jackson (ilm poll)
3. The 1975
4. Charli XCX
5. Dua Lipa

That's a very ilm top 5. I find 3-5 quite surprising, in my mind I listened to their albums a couple of times all the way through and then kind of forgot about them, maybe that's all it takes

Top 2 genres were Art Pop and Float House which I guess I recognise

Sucks that the recap is only available for phones this year. Whose dumb idea was this?

Part of the sucky ongoing storification of everything.

One minor fraction of a weekly Rogan payout would cover a nice big shiny set of customisable desktop end-of-year infographics for everyone but where's the ROI?

(^awesome display name!)

A coworker shared her top genres and wrote "But what is this?" over the graphic for Escape Room (her #2); I thought, "Let me introduce you to a fellow named Glenn..."

Artists
1. The Rolling Stones
2. Autechre
3. András Schiff
4. John Maus
5. Wiener Philharmoniker

I decided to listen to more or less the whole Stones studio catalogue this year, instead of waiting for one of the major principals to die (partly inspired by that at-home performance of "You Can't Always Get What You Want"). I also listened to a lot of Bach and Bruckner earlier this year.

The "I'm John Maus. Please listen to my music on Spotify" ad from nine years ago (when I first joined, before I got Premium) seems to have proved very effective over the long term — seems like he's in my top 5 every year.

1. Neil Young
2. Taylor Swift
3. Phoebe Bridgers
4. Jimi Hendrix
5. Blake Mills

these were all ilm threads

1 Stereolab (several days-long dives throughout the year)
2-5 Hendrix, Bowie, Zappa, Neil Young

Top Genre was Soul, because I listened to the playlist for WFMU's Downtown Soulville all summer and followed up with an Atlantic R&B 1947-1974 playlist for another 2-3 weeks.

I was in the top .05% for Autechre, probably because I started putting a random ae playlist on shuffle with the speakers off when I leave my desk for an hour at lunch. My #1 song was 'Pat-a-cake' because until recently my account was the default when my wife asks Sonos to play nursery rhymes for the kids.

It says I listened to 464 genres, I would like a list plz.

1. Sam Prekop
2. Taylor Swift
3. Jeff Parker
4. Jessie Ware
5. SAULT

A little surprised that Prekop ended up on top, but I guess I have listened to his new album a lot as background music.

Every single one of my top 100 songs were songs that ended up on my Best of 2019 playlist, which I spent the first five months of the year compiling and sequencing. My #1 song was "Capacity" by Charly Bliss, which I liked well enough to put on a (200-song) playlist but would not have chosen as one of my absolute favorites. The reason I streamed it 23 times is because I was having trouble figuring out where to slot it in the playlist and kept replaying it to test how it sounded going into one song or other.

I think this was the first year that jazz ended up in my top genres (at #5, after indie rock, electronica, pop, and art pop).

My top songs are all from the Solaris soundtrack, which is my perennial 'music when I'm trying to nap on a train/plane/sofa' album. Cliff Martinez only #3 on my artists' list though. Rest are New Order, Magnetic Fields, Brian Eno and the Beatles. Eno is the only surprise there. Maybe I was giving his ambient works a go as alternative napping music.

Top vaguely new track is Julia Jacklin's Don't Know How To Keep Loving You, which I listened to three or four times in a row once, despite not having a relationship crisis to pin it on.

My tap track is "Workaround 2" off Beatrice Dillon's album, which as in jaymc's case is playlist-related — I keep a running playlist of songs I like from the current year, and that one went on there early because the album came out in February. So it's mostly been buoyed by me playing that playlist on shuffle repeatedly, plus also I've listened to that album a fair number of times.

I guess a song called "Workaround 2" from an album called Workaround is a fitting 2020 pick.

top track, that is. tho it could be a tap track too.

57k minutes, 700 genres. Apparently I'm in the top .1% of listeners to Janet Jackson so I have that going for me.

5375 artists, including 2175 new ones

Top artists:
1. Kabza de Small
2. DJ Maphorisa (my last.fm disagrees)
3. Wizkid
4. Fireboy DML
5. Tiwa Savage

876 genres, including 317 new ones (if you say so...)

Top genres:
1. Nigerian Pop
2. South African Pop
3. Pop
4. Amapiano (more SA Pop!)
5. Dancehall

1. Art Pop
2. Funk
3. Rock
4. Fourth World
5. Pop

Weird that I have zero songs from my Year End #3 Artist in my Year End Playlist.

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— Iola Ella (@IolaElla) December 3, 2020

Just enjoyed 10 minutes of spinning wheel after clicking on an artist, now it won't play the album I was eventually able to get to. Oh wait it will play track 2! I hate to sound like an entitled motherfucker but I do pay money for this product which enables me to listen to almost any damn music on the planet at the click of a button but also fails at basic tasks every single day. And underpays artists. Unless they're right wing podcasters.

Was just reminded that on the mobile app (which I have barely used this year other than to control remotely the app on my Mac) you can see the specific release date of something but not on the desktop app >:[

update: won't play any tracks on the album other than 2 or 3.

The android app has been performing like shit lately. Constant sound dropouts, having to restart frequently. It forced me to re-download my 6000 offline tracks yesterday for no apparent reason.

Was just reminded that on the mobile app (which I have barely used this year other than to control remotely the app on my Mac) you can see the specific release date of something but not on the desktop app >:

And of course neither allow you to show even the year of release in playlist/library view. It's annoying.

i wonder if they can't just program a routine force stop into the app somehow. when you aren't using it. logo is green. grogu is hot. force stops. Disney to acquire spotify.

Yeah, lately every time I search a new artist and try to play a track, nothing happens until I force quit and restart. Great tech!

same problem but the answer has been to drop that music in a playlist that is set to download to my mac. plays fine after that! obviously not optimal!

OH MY GOD. The deals between the majors and the streaming services.

The thread many of you requested. It gets a bit sticky, tricky and puzzling, but that’s the point.

— Tom Gray #BrokenRecord (@MrTomGray) June 14, 2020

Jfc

The business model is so weird. Imagine being a record executive and being pitched “no one is paying for the CD for the yes album relayer these days, for example, so would you rather make pennies or nothing”

Or maybe it would be “we can augment existing cd sales with a growing digital-based revenue source” ugh

this is a lot better than whatever spotify wrapped was

https://pudding.cool/2020/12/judge-my-spotify/

I just noticed a couple of days ago that in the Mobile app, Spotify will return search results of songs that contain the searched phrase in its lyrics. Is this relatively new?

this is a lot better than whatever spotify wrapped was

https://pudding.cool/2020/12/judge-my-spotify/

― Roz, Wednesday, 23 December 2020 04:48 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Things I didn't know I needed till now: a robot that looks at my listening habits and says "what the fuck is wrong with you?"

Things I didn't know I needed till now: a robot that looks at my listening habits and says "what the fuck is wrong with you?"

The diagnosis you've really been waiting for rn.

https://www.spotlistr.com
^^i've found this to be a useful tool, let's you create playlists from text, such as:

Joni Mitchell - Amelia
Kacey Musgraves - Rainbow
Linda McCartney - I Got Up

lol. I am 6% basic.

"You are 3% basic. Have you considered there's a reason nobody listens to The Wolfgang Press?.

You're stuck in the early 2010s. You only listen to Obama-era jams like Don't Go Where I Can't Find You by Eraldo Bernocchi and 1,618 by Charlotte Adigéry."

Ha ha.

I am 7% basic and also stuck in the early 2010s, though it seems to think 2017 = "early 2010s"

Also asked me if I listened to Perfect Way by Scritti Politti "ironically". GTFO.

i got like, "you know there was music released before 2019, right?"

I got accused of living in the 2000s and also a weird sideswipe at Ketty Lester that suggests A.I. still has some way to go

oh great another Miles Davis stan...

lol

You are 14% basic. Karen Ramirez and Jupiter? Where do you even find this shit?

I did this but I hardly use Spotify and was pretty confused until I realised it was mostly basing the results off me listening to the ILM tracks poll playlists. I am definitely not obsessed with the 1975, I've never listened to them outside of that playlist! It also seems to think I listen to the Dirty Dancing soundtrack for some reason.

Patrick Swayze over here

"Your spotify was nineties-dorm-room-walmart-hawaiian-shirt-ken-burns-jazz bad" ok ouch

It called “spirit” by Bauhaus an Obama-era jam...

“Your Spotify was ponytail pop escape room tay tay fan girl bad” AND
“Your taste is so obscure that’s so cool I bet you’re super interesting...”

(What is ‘escape room’? Is it a Spotify made up genre or something?)