Spotify - anyone heard of it?

guy is scared of vampires

Random seems fucked… got a playlist of a hundreds and the same shit comes on

Wait, WHAT!?!?!

This was the only request I had in our ever changing industry! We don’t create albums with so much care and thought into our track listing for no reason. Our art tells a story and our stories should be listened to as we intended. Thank you Spotify for listening 🍷♥️ https://t.co/XWlykhqxAy

— Adele (@Adele) November 21, 2021

Revelatory

is this brand new? it's more sensible anyways... you used to have to be aware that to pay in order you had to kinda weirdly tap song 1 and not the big play button. There is still the shuffle toggle on the playing screen... just like every other music player ever. Even when you're playing "30".

I'm glad it still defaults to shuffle on playlists

https://www.world-today-news.com/spotify-founder-daniel-ek-is-investing-100-million-euros-in-helsing/

Daniel Ek invests 100 million Euros into arms industry AI tech.

― mirostones, Sunday, November 21, 2021 2:39 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

so we're gonna just ignore this or

Random seems fucked… got a playlist of a hundreds and the same shit comes on

That seems true for me for any media player I've ever had: WinAmp, iTunes, BlackPlayer etc

Piece about Spotify here:

https://www.businessinsider.com/spotify-made-shuffle-feature-less-random-to-actually-feel-random-2020-3?r=US&IR=T

Also seems a common complaint for the last 20 years or so that if you've got a huge playlist, your media player appears to only shuffle the same 100 songs or so

https://www.world-today-news.com/spotify-founder-daniel-ek-is-investing-100-million-euros-in-helsing/

Daniel Ek invests 100 million Euros into arms industry AI tech.

He seems pretty desperate to join the big league of morally bankrupt tech bros.

@Groovypanda yeah , I know it’s a common problem of the ages… I guess the S algorithm favors songs that have already been played skipped or something. Just odd…

it's like there are two threads here

xp I have a long playlist I like to shuffle by copypasting urls into something like Notepad++ and back into Spotify, changing the order of the tracks will change the shuffle routines

the adele thing is good news!

I don't think anyone really shuffles albums anyway, do they? I thought that button was really there for playlists. I'm not suggesting people treat the track order as sacrosanct but if they mess about it with it, it's more by jumping in at whatever they point, skipping tracks they hate, no?

One where lots of us talk about features and functionality/bugs and one where you continually hate on the company itself? xps

this is the issue that's currently really bugging me https://community.spotify.com/t5/Other-Podcasts-Partners-etc/Connect-Autoplay-DISABLED-but-still-ACTIVE/td-p/5279608

Much bigger problem than the whole "funding future wars" thing

the murder AI will teach itself how to fix the autoplay bugs

the issue with the button was that the default "play" button was a "play in shuffle mode" button - has definitely annoyed me many times, so very glad they're changing it!

Can we just get back to basics with a million tunes in the room, a simple search and playback. I see “feature” creep all over the place and it’s ugly af

Then they'd never have been successful enough to give hundreds of millions of dollars to right wing podcasters and arms companies.

the issue with the button was that the default "play" button was a "play in shuffle mode" button - has definitely annoyed me many times, so very glad they're changing it!

I have no memory of every experiencing this, either on desktop or mobile, so now I feel like the rest of the world is in on some elaborate prank against me.

every = ever

Oohh, mystery solved. It was free-tier users who got that. I've been a Premium member for ever.

Yes never knew about it until yesterday, what an amazingly churlish idea assuming it was just to try and incentivise people to go Premium.

They should try just playing a different song to free members.

Rickroll every fifth song.

Really

Oohh, mystery solved. It was free-tier users who got that. I've been a Premium member for ever.

Yeah that was a confusing button. I just clicked the first track if I'd wanted to hear the album sequentially

Oh I’m probably wrong then. Yeah, I think my instinct would always have been to tap on the first track so maybe I just ignored that button.

premium here too, had the shuffle as default on play button, overjoyed that it is gone. Thank you Adele! (though very weird - but not bad - for artist requests to drive UI change)

i have zero doubt that her request happened to align with a decision they arrived at by other means and this was essentially a (successful) PR stunt

Yes, win-win for them all. Adele gets lots of extra publicity and plays for her album, Spotify cone across as good guys who are sympathetic to artists’ needs. Just don’t mention the streaming rate, ok,

or the article linked above about where subscribers' money is going

Just don’t mention the streaming rate, ok,

They never rolled out that HiFi plan that they teased, did they?

this is a godsend honestly, the app itself is very clunky. https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_spotify

wow that's super cool

queue I was listening to just reset in the middle fo a podcast i was listening to. Wasn't sure what happened when it did this a couple of weeks ago when i was listening to things on my phone in another room when it just stopped dead. Seems like its done teh same thing again.
So this time i just happened to be sitting at the desktop when it did it. So there are no other factors in it that I'm aware of.
THought it might be my phone last time. Or something hitting the full capacity of memory being used, can't be with the desktop surely.
Pain , has me wondering what is causing that if it is somebody somewhere triggering my machine going off or if it is an automatyic thing somewhere. Annoying anyway.
I don't want to go to the bother of sticking a playlist together in a more time consuming way but are queues just open to being switched off somehow. I still don't get how this works so how to avoid it. I tend to listen to a podcast once so not going to be something I'm going to be wanting to revisit like it was a sequence of music.

new lyrics feature otm afaic

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

Some kind of scat transliteration, maybe?

exactly. idk how they did it!

looks like the lyrics to Medzi Medzi by ET Mensah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svkohDSAVy4

So Wrapped this year is just a couple of playlists? I don't see any neato/perplexing stats or anything in the app.

There's a button on the Top Tracks playlist (phone app version) that's supposed to take you to a slide show like last year, but it's not working for everybody.

If you share your top tracks playlist and someone clicks on it it just brings them to their own top tracks playlist , not yours
I know it’s probably a feature and not a bug right

if it isn't showing for you try updating the app, i did that and then it appeared on the home menu

Your Artists Revealed looks kind of weird.

https://ra.co/news/76439

In case anyone missed it up thread

Nobody here cares about that, apparently. This appears to be a safe space for Ek and his Skynet-y plans

To my coworkers sharing that your top artists were Kanye, John Mayer, etc.… yr IG Stories are making me see you in a new light!