Continuing with Spotify?

Automatic translations would add a whole extra layer of weirdness. The test I was talking about just used alternate-language titles that the labels were already including in the metadata...

I def. understand the skepticism. I can’t speak to the AirPods Pro thing, but in my experience so far, Atmos/360RA-compatible speaker systems are actually a lot less complicated to set up than the 5.1 system I cobbled together when we moved into our house.

One reason is that these formats are natively compatible with the soundbars that the big box stores are pushing on home entertainment buyers. Those have come along way, have more (and better) speakers inside them (including upfiring ones), connect wirelessly and don’t require a separate receiver you have to stick somewhere. They’re really slick, work with a wider range of listening spaces and speaker setups (you can use dozens of speakers and don’t need to be tuned to Lamont Young’s Theatre of the Eternal Music for it to sound right).

Another is that you are seeing film/streaming/music seemingly moving toward this format together (the latter of which which never quite happened with 5.1 pre-streaming). Collectively I think Atmos/360RA have more potential for a cross-media market than 5.1 ever did.

I would also note that the new albums with immersive mixes—like, say, The Weeknd stuff—sound pretty incredible, with the discrete feel of 5.1 where you get separation but also a much more enveloping feel (likely because of the upfiring speakers act as a kind of “glue”). You can really tell the difference between a record well-mixed for Atmos and a transfer from a 5.1 or quad transfer from the 70s.

At any rate, that’s a long thread hijack. It’s just something that I’d like to see Spotify offer as my main streaming platform. But I get the sense that they are looking at younger markets and less invested in hardware and stuff like HD (which I actually don’t care about). You never know tho.

Thankfully the tiktok style feed has fucked off.

Not for me it hasn’t.

Is the tiktok style thing how it just starts playing suggestions as you scroll down? It's annoying the hell outta me.

Got an email today telling me they're sunsetting my (quite) old version of the desktop client in May, so now I'm going to have to use the shitty nu-Spotify if I want to use it at all.

Why? Just let me live in the good old days.

so glad I quit, some free version is still stuck on my phone but it refuses to play in any other mode than shuffle

garbage platform that will only get worse

meanwhile I am easily spending over $50 a month on Bandcamp, suck it you Rogan enablers

listening to Television Personalities And Don't the Kids Just Love It and this sucks so much, it's sourced from a not particularly good vinyl copy, audible surface noise and distortion at point

had this experience with Roger Miller's Words and Music this week. :(

i found a few inconsistencies in song titles from the CDs i remember having -- one in swapped song titles and one with an extra word thrown in. it's the kind of glitch i feel like it would be hard to get anyone's attention about so i just move on.

with the swapped song titles the issue could be with the CD i have not having the titles in the correct order but what is the correct order then? (roy montgomery scenes from the south island) the other one was def an error. (the song as i know it is "you're still beautiful" and spotify claims it's "you're still so beautiful" which is not how the lyrics in the song go whatsoever.) again what am i supposed to do about this?! so i put it here.

Pretty sure all those issues will be down to the distributor that provided the audio/metadata