Spotify - anyone heard of it?

well, it would matter, but it seems to be working fine atm #knockingonwood

(last.fm does have the occasional hiccup tho in my experience, so maybe you’re having one of those?)

I occasionally have to re-enter credentials for last fm scrobbling but it's been fine recently.

I just noticed it scrobbled some stuff I played on my phone this morning, but the desktop app for Linux doesn't have last fm in the Settings. Lemme go check the changelogs from the project I guess?

SPOTIFY TYPO, IDENTIFIED:

spotify:track:4DkW4or9lWD1psWQvfE0WO

Rothko Chapel
by Morton Feldman

Rohtko Chapel 1

https://i.imgur.com/CV3W8Mc.png

bitroht

Lol

My most recent RR has all kinds of confusing ringers, artist-wise and title-wise.

> Based on your listening habits, I can also tell you your spotify was...
> remember-when-williamsburg-was-cool bad

Quite impressed that it picked this out (among other things). I have been hitting the 'High Maintenance' play list recently.

Pretty sure this isn't Johnny Marr: https://open.spotify.com/track/097pzmJXGs1xdpGr7g7Atk?si=1Wh1fcwBQzy4D7D4FGnPXw

Okay, I’ve got and X plus collabo of Roger Miller and Buck Owens, neither of which seems to be the artists I am familiar with sorry.

Oh and then Cream.

Luna too

And Fanny

The Outsiders. WTF?

I got the Roger Miller / Buck Owens collab too, lol

Pretty impressive direction for two dead country icons.

this isnt justin k broadrick https://open.spotify.com/album/42TWZTm8U1tZP1wSiM8Zsu?si=fU3LtlH2SwusFkyNPS-QKA

Pretty impressive direction for two dead country icons.

Can you still sync local files with the mobile app? Via a playlist or something ?

On desktop, you can choose a playlist folder and play the whole folder (or shuffle it). Am I missing something, or is this impossible on the iOS app?

That hasn't been available on mobile apps for years

My Discover Weekly playlist currently says "This playlist is currently empty". Anyone else getting that? Shades of "Today, there is no news".

working for me, haven't got round to listening to ࿃ूੂ࿃ूੂੂ࿃ूੂOOOOOOOOOOOO ̟̞̝̜̙̘̗̖҉̵̴̨̧̢̡̼̻̺̹̳̲̱̰̯̮̭̬̫̪̩̦̥̤̣̠҈͈͇͉͍͎͓͔͕͖͙͚͜͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢ͅ ooooooooo by ⣎⡇ꉺლ༽இ•̛)ྀ◞ ༎ຶ ༽ৣৢ؞ৢ؞ؖ ꉺლ off ooo ̟̞̝̜̙̘̗̖҉̵̴̨̧̢̡̼̻̺̹̳̲̱̰̯̮̭̬̫̪̩̦̥̤̣̠҈͈͇͉͍͎͓͔͕͖͙͚͜͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢ͅ oʅ͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡͡( ؞ৢ؞ؙؖ⁽⁾˜ัิีึื์๎้็๋๊⦁0 ̟̞̝̜̙̘̗̖҉̵̴̨̧̢̡̼̻̺̹̳̲̱̰̯̮̭̬̫̪̩̦̥̤̣̠҈͈͇͉͍͎͓͔͕͖͙͚͜͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢͢ͅ ఠీੂ೧ູ࿃ूੂ yet though.

Mine has now replenished and it looks like a good one.

The android app's performance has been total garbage lately. Lots of pauses, crashes, slowness. Very frustrating.

Desktop app choosing to not play anything by mogwai today.

Did you get your computer wet?

Sorry.

In the past week, the android app also tried to load and then re-load all my offline tracks multiple times. I updated permissions to let spotify manage storage, which I hope will stop this.

I used to be able to Smart Zoom (double-tap mouse) in Spotify to zoom in on cover art, but no more. Sad!

These two were mocking people for wearing masks and downplaying the severity of COVID just a few months ago, now they're doing shows and blaming the crowd for being there. Unreal. https://t.co/AdfGACsvi7

— almostperfect.co.za (@almostperfectza) January 30, 2021

Spotify paid this guy $100 million of musicians' money to tell people to take vitamins and plant pigments instead of the COVID vaccines, because everyone's going to catch the 'vid anyway but zinc stops all viruses in their tracks.

Dude has used 14.4 of that 100 to "flee overcrowding and homelessness" in Los Angeles by buying a mansion in Austin. (obv spending over 14 million dollars on one house in Texas is a great way of combatting the houselessness in California that badly affected Joe Rogan! thanks Mr Ek.)

because he believes that there he can create a place where comics feel safe and are surrounded by like-minded artists (despite ppl repeatedly catching covid at his maskless live shows)

and people who wear double masks against the new mutant strains are dumb bcz they “don’t know anything about vitamins and quercetin and saunas”

Today my Release Radar has tracks by the wrong Devo, the wrong The Cult and the wrong Tricky :(

Are we not Devo? We are Devo!

I've got the wrong Devo too, and, for the second week running, a chapter of the audiobook of Bob Dylan's Chronicles – in German!

I got Roosevelt for the 37th time despite telling it I don't like Roosevelt almost as many times.

Wish there was an 'about' button for albums.

And the album cover could be at least 25% bigger in full screen mode.

More! Even on desktop with the left panel expanded to the max, it's only about 8cm square on my screen. Would be great to be able to double click on it or whatever and get a big version.

I wouldn't mind more access to those little looped video clips that I only get on the iPhone.
Is there a name for them?
*googles*
Oh, Canvas.

I'm very happy with them being phone only! Though as someone said above, having album's exact release date on mobile only seems like a weirder discrepancy.

Christ the shuffle is shite. Plays the most recently plays first. Deep cuts will wait another century

It's March 1 and 'It's Spring' by Sun Ra is on my Discover Weekly. I'm not saying I don't believe it's all algorithmic but …

Hi Glenn - Are you still lurking? I have a question about your (awesome!)New Releases by Genre website:

Is there a way to add more than one genre to the query?

Yes! Pick the first one, and then you'll see little gray "+" links when you hover over the others in the list. You can keep adding them until the URL-length maxes out...

I’d like to do the opposite. Is there a way to remove genres? I’ve no interest in Dinner Jazz or ASMR for example.

wow that's a cool site!

silly me for thinking this bump was to address the many protests happening at Spotify hqs around the globe yesterday

There's no anti-filter, but you can just pick the genres you DO want.

(Token in-person "protests" at closed offices during a pandemic seem like the definition of "publicity stunt", but I didn't go see if anybody showed up outside the Boston office.)

Thanks, Glenn! Now if you would support Tidal, that would be great (had to add Tidal after Spotify removed DJ support). ;)