Spotify - anyone heard of it?

we are 70% certain

I...don't know what point you're making.

100% of these increased revenues will make it into the quarterly report, no matter how they are divided up and trickled down. there is a relationship between revenue growth and spotify's own growth story that will probably be used to justify their stock price.

perhaps the response is "revenue growth still benefits the artists, and we can't continue to grow revenue without enriching many assholes." but we can at least complain about it here along the way?

Yes, I think ILM's capacity for complaints will be unaffected.

I like it when glenn's like @SpotifyCares gone rogue.

spotify should increase prices. but it should also turn the 70% knob up as they do so. because ILM will spend it's money on more records. Spotify will spend it on more Joe Rogan growth milestones.

*its money. spotify should also pay glenn for participation in this thread.

the only pressure on that 70% knob seems to be the threat of users leaving over it. i agree forks should stop complaining about the UI fwiw.

Lol, tell me more about not posting on a thread devoted to the thing I am posting about

I was only joking, forks. The ui complaints are relevant, and you tied them nicely into larger problems I hadn't really considered.

oh, cool cool
I'M SO ANGRY

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.

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”

$100,000,000 worth of medical advice from Rogan and Jim Breuer. The experts thought this pandemic was going to be bad at the start, but it's all overblown and the doctors just won't admit that they got it wrong. Only 6% of the reported deaths are real. Nearly everyone who has died of it is obese anyway. Don't take a test, because then the government will know if you have it. Doctors should just give you zinc and steroids to make it go away if you tell them you have it, which you know for sure because you gave it to your wife (who has stage 4 cancer) and one of your daughters, and your other two chickenshit daughters moved out of the house wearing cowards' facemasks. You didn't tell anyone until three months later, though, because you didn't want any promoters to cancel your comedy club bookings. Also, people transition gender for sympathy bcz if "they were marginalized for being genuinely dumb people, if they transfer over and become another gender, then they get praised."

Joe Rogan continues: healthy people should not get vaccinated, and he got both of his kids infected with covid but they didn't die, so that just sucks for people who did die.

https://i.imgur.com/l78eLhq.jpgr

is there data that shows rogan has significantly boosted revenue and at least benefited non-shitheads? can spotify take a smaller cut of the revenue and pay less money to fewer shitheads and still run a sustainable business?

Is there not some Rogan is a fuckwit thread this shit can go into?

There is:

JOE ROGAN VS. CARLOS MENCIA... FITE!!!

Is there not some Rogan is a fuckwit thread this shit can go into?

It's a Spotify-exclusive programme, owned by Rogan (aiui) but funded by Spotify. People talk about Netflix programmes on the Netflix thread, NYT business practices on NYT theads, and other Spotify uploads on this thread. If Spotify spend $100,000,000 on promoting covid denialism and advocating against vaccines, seems that a Spotify thread is not a ridiculous place to discuss that?

otm

extremely otm, finally making me get off my ass to cancel premium and just stick with Apple Music.

100M move to triple the stock price while subscriber and ad revenues have not tripled. Solution is to give artists more revenue share as you pursue these stunts. Or dont give 100M to Joe Rogan.

is there data that shows rogan has significantly boosted revenue and at least benefited non-shitheads? can spotify take a smaller cut of the revenue and pay less money to fewer shitheads and still run a sustainable business?

Spotify (this morning) reported strong Q1 revenue growth, fueled by positive subscriber additions and strong ad sales, as well as lowered headwinds from foreign exchange rates.

The Swedish tech giant noted that increased subscriber growth and user engagement can be attributed in part to the better-than-expected performance of "The Joe Rogan Experience," a podcast it acquired exclusively for over $100 million.

By the numbers:

Revenue increased 16% year-over-year to €2.147 billion for the quarter ending on March 31, exceeding analyst expectations.

User growth: Spotify added 11 million monthly active users (DAUs), bringing its total active user based to 356 million globally.

Subscriber growth: The company added 4 million subscribers to its premium plan, bringing its paid subscriber count to over 158 million globally.

SHITHEAD POWER

this machine powers shitheads

Fair dos, I just hate having to see his horrible opinions here. As you were.

A colleague on Slack (where this article was being discussed) says he’s been a Spotify Premium subscriber since 2009, but is now investigating other options due to Rogan.

I'd be out of I didn't have a family plan full of friends and family...... who don't even live with me..... take that!!!!

if

"What I will say is we have 8 million creators, and hundreds of millions of pieces of content," Ek said. "We have a content policy and we do remove pieces that violate it."

Spotify says it has 8 million creators, but the company continues to single out and champion Rogan, a major name in podcasting who it signed to a licensing deal last May. On its first-quarter earnings report released Wednesday, Spotify name-dropped Rogan twice. The report said Rogan's podcast was helping Spotify grow its ad-supported business and that the podcast had performed above the company's expectations for adding new users and engagement.

On Spotify's earnings call Wednesday, Chief Financial Officer Paul Vogel cited Rogan for contributing to the platform's strong podcast consumption last December. That was the same month Rogan's podcast became exclusive to Spotify. He mentioned Rogan again when asked about podcast advertising.

"Spotify prohibits content on the platform which promotes dangerous false, deceptive, or misleading content about COVID-19 that may cause offline harm and/or pose a direct threat to public health."

message received!

i don't really care tbqh

why would you

So many annoying things about the recent Spotify revamp, but maybe the worst is that hitting the expand/full screen button that used to show a large version of the album art now shows you a big random photo of the artist - while the album cover actually shrinks in the corner!

the UI has always been rife with obnoxious counter-intuitive bullshit imo. a constant annoyance to me: downloading something automatically adds it to "your" stuff (heart icon), but *removing* the download does not un-heart it.

when you download a track, your user profile and the track data are sent to a special server in the datacenter for a ceremony. "What God has joined together, let no man put asunder".

i just hate the asymmetry of it. like a text adventure where you enter a mine by walking "north" into the entrance, but have to go "up," not "south," to leave.

stanley kubrick designed the spotify ui this way to subtly make you uncomfortable

Little one for Glenn:

XTC's Real by Reel is incorrectly spelled Reel by Reel here:

https://open.spotify.com/album/4S6y2iTYbGONSlNJHYyrVl?si=BqvX4dtLTgakTJ1_yQ48Rg

Oh, and the version of Sunday Girl on Parallel Lines is wrongly titled 'French Version' here:

https://open.spotify.com/track/5v6VaqC8b4P7NcKb45W77j?si=5679f5ba1bdb4c3e

Glenn can't help to fix such errors. There's a way of reporting them but I reported a bunch over a year ago and they've never been corrected.

Oh, never mind then. I did look around the fabulous options on the desktop app but couldn't find anything. I'll leave my campaign for truth there.

Probably a wise move. Should you change your mind, instructions for reporting incorrect titles &c. are here>

https://support.spotify.com/uk/article/report-content/

THey just updated the interface and dropped some features and apparently about 3 months of recent podcasts. So the most recent ones from several things i'm following are now fro february. Bah and indeed humbug.

Not seeing the recently played option or the list of previous searches. How awfully annoying.

I've noticed that on desktop you sometimes need to re-re-order by date to see the newer episodes of a podcast.

It updated the podcasts when I looked back at them. So must have just been redoing the visuals then adding in the links incrementally. Spotify has taken an age to up date daily podcasts recently. So have listened to things i wanted to hear over breakfast hours later.
Wonder if new interface will make that faster but seems like some features are currently missing.
I did find having access to a list of most recent searches by clicking blank in the search engine was really handy. Not seeing that at teh moment, so wonder if it will reappear in some form.

Looks like they have done away with the track popularity bar (on desktop) in favor of just presenting a track's play counts directly. (You used to have to hover over the popularity bar to see the play counts.)

I like this change because I keep a running playlist of new albums to listen to, and instead of dragging over an album's entire tracklist, I'll just drag over one track. And I generally like the use the most-popular track because that's usually the single and I can sample it on its own.

lol yeah i was complaining about that upthread. i'm cool with the playcounts being thee but slightly hidden, displaying them so prominently makes me feel like it'll contribute even more to the ongoing sports-ification of music

ILX's very own Adamrl once told me that Audioscrobbler brings together his four passions in life: music, the Internet, voyeurism, and meaningless statistics.
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Motherfucker, now I have the new desktop version and lo, local files have fucked off into oblivion.

I've been using a desktop version from 2014 or so, I'm sure I'm missing out on a few features (can't play podcasts for one) but i like local files being functional and every update seemed to cause more aggravations. I think I was happier with the 2012 version tbh.

There's a switch for Local Files in Preferences...