Spotify - anyone heard of it?

I started using it asa mainly podcast platform because i had it. I got it because of teh radio show I was doing thanks to a government scheme I was on a few years ago.
It has some major problems and I don't have a comparison referent for it. So not looked at what else is out there.
i tend to listen to each podcast interspersed with a music track which I like.
& I do listen to it a lot and get frustrated by negative quirks it has a lot pretty much daily.
So I dunno. it does work when it works.

sometimes i get so frustrated with the propaganda bullshit that spotify is trying to regurgitate on me that i just uninstall it for a few days because fuck that noise.

"podcasts from being freely available on whichever apps the user prefers, which has been the law of the podcast land for as long as podcasts have been around, is infuriating."

TBF there are very few of these exclusives. The overwhelming majority of podcasts are available on all platforms. I imagine most of the ones you care about are?

But certainly you should expect to see a handful of high profile corporate-owned podcasts go behind paywalls or become exclusive to a platform. It's one of the only levers Spotify and others have to pull to entice people to come to their service and stay. The music catalogues are all pretty similar and everything's on YouTube anyway.

What's interesting about the current moment in podcasting to me is that going exclusive to a platform will pretty much always involve a hit to listening figures, and hence to ad revenue. Rogan's listenership is down because he's only on Spotify. But this will also be true of any exclusive. If you're a podcast star and your monthly earnings are tied to your listenership you are going to need cash up front from the platform to make up for this loss. Or some other kind of compensation. How long will Spotify and others be willing to essentially bribe talent to be less famous?

And the related question: how long will talent be happy with that arrangement?

It has worked for Stern for many years.

Stern wasn’t on a vitamin grift though

Stern has a podcast? I thought he was on Sirius

Oh you mean the move to Sirius from terrestrial radio is analagous I guess? That’s true and yes he seems quite happy w it

Sorry yes, that’s what I meant. I never subscribed to Sirius/XM, and never really listened to St rn again. I’m sure there were lots like me, but the dumptruck of cash seemed to make up for it to him.

Yeah. I think that math is different for people “on the up” though.

https://mobile.twitter.com/MBVofficial/status/1484292521329106949


https://mobile.twitter.com/mrsimonraymonde/status/1484306180017061895

I believe Musixmatch provides those lyrics

for free?

Every sic has his day: https://www.stereogum.com/2173905/neil-young-spotify-joe-rogan-vaccine-misinformation/news/

you know what really annoys me kind of a lot? spotify doesn't show you the individual track lengths until you're playing a song. and even then you have to look at the detail screen. why is it so hard to just display that info on the main tracklist page? is there a setting or something that i can tweak for this?

On mobile? I get track lengths for playlists and albums on desktop.

yeah, mobile. i looked all around settings on desktop and mobile and i can't find anything that would indicate it's an option.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jan/27/word-salad-of-nonsense-scientists-denounce-jordan-petersons-comments-on-climate-models

rogan is into idiotic climate denialism too? great. i wish radiohead & some other high profile artists would follow neil young's lead.

That would make the tracklist page look cluttered I think. Prefer it without track lengths tbh.

xp

rogan is into idiotic climate denialism too? great. i wish radiohead & some other high profile artists would follow neil young's lead.

― for 200 anyone can receive a dud nvidia (ledge), Thursday, January 27, 2022 1:00 AM

he's a right wing mouthpiece of the worst variety imo. total dregs of society. would also love to see a mass exodus of significant acts following neil's example. unfortunately not likely.

there's also this

On Joe Rogan's Spotify podcast -- Jordan Peterson claims Michael Eric Dyson is "not Black"

Rogan replies: "Unless you are talking to someone who is like 100% African from the darkest place where they are not wearing any clothes all day ... the term Black is weird." pic.twitter.com/Wyk00WHwus

— Alex Paterson (@AlexPattyy) January 25, 2022

BREAKING: Spotify has shutdown its live customer support due to an unprecedented number of complaints after they doubled-down on their Joe Rogan anti-vax campaign pic.twitter.com/yscw97xTkt

— LeGate (@williamlegate) January 27, 2022

Finally remembered to cancel Spotify Premium, they really set a record for "r u sure u want to cancel?!?!" screens. It was quicker to cancel a porn subscription in 2001 than Spotify.

quoth papal hotwife

BREAKING - Spotify is no longer letting people cancel subscriptions.

— Tristan Snell (@TristanSnell) January 28, 2022

I have instructed my management to do what we can to remove my music from @Spotify. @UMG controls The Commotions & my 90's catalogue. Here's hoping they want to be on the right side of this moment.

— Lloyd Cole (@Lloyd_Cole) January 28, 2022

I'd like to see more creativity here.

"Disable my 100 most played songs"

I would imagine most musicians have zero control over whether their music appears on Spotify.

Lloyd Cole - still always on the right side of history!

I like that he says “this moment” not “history”. Give historians a chance!

Joni's out

Forks, start a new thread for the current Spotify fallout

only if you vote in the television poll

Joe Bob is not on the noms list!

as has been mentioned, you can add non-nominated shows to your ballot

Armando Iannucci's ilx film

I don't think I can quit, DW is too good. Never listened to much PJ Harvey and today it played me "We Float", christ.

Tidal's discover daily has not been very useful so far (all stuff I've been listening to forever) but it doesn't have much to go on as far as my listening.

Having moved over to Apple Music, Discover Weekly is the one thing I miss; is there any remotely equivalent feature on AM? How much would Apple have to pay Glenn to bring him on and how soon can we make this happen?

Apple has a New Release Radar equivalent (but crappier), no Discover Weekly AFAIK.

Spotify Sources Say Joe Rogan’s Deal Was Spotify Sources Say Joe Rogan’s Deal Was $200 Million, Double What Was Originally Reported00 Million, Double What Was Originally Reported

how in the world is $200M a good value for even a popular non-shitty podcast, let alone this dumpster fire?

Don't be rash, this is over three years.

Even if I didn't spurn podcasts on spotify, the artwork for his piece of shit thing is viscerally unappealing

Is there a streaming service that treats albums the way iTunes (or any other similar software) does? As in, I can have folders and sub-folders and sub-sub-folders etc. of albums, or a system of playlists where I can file albums (say, "Black Metal From 1993 I Need to Listen to" or "New shit recommended on ILX" etc.) and they'll be displayed as albums with a "listen" button, and NOT as a long-ass and useless list of tracks?

You can add folders of playlists in Spotify. However, on 3rd party devices these often show up as one big playlist.

You can make folders on mobile? I've only managed to do it on desktop but I never use the desktop version.

Desktop only afaik

Dunno if Glenn still has the job he had last time I read this thread, but some disaggregation here looks necessary:
https://open.spotify.com/track/6AXmTRvKJQueNxI9YZAHgV?si=cCn4zJR1QvGqgFoRLv1EOA

(don’t play it, it’s some half assed piano piece, not Low - feels decidedly dodgy)

It hasn't ever been my job to fix these, but I've reported it to the team that does so...