Spotify - anyone heard of it?

i'm being flippant obvs, but it feels like a move down the line is going to be determining which music is accessible enough to be on the platform. too dissonant? spotify's not for your band, fraud... er, i mean friend.

I for one am shocked, just shocked

Well #2 & #3 at least seem to make sense? Fighting fraudulent activity (which I assume means all those bogus tracks using the name of famous artists) sounds good; it also seems that 5-second (or whatever) tracks of noise that may be gaming the system shouldn't be generating royalties

they should get rid of all the bad music too

Both desktop and app seem very glitchy recently. Slow to start, sometimes can't find playlists for 5 minutes after startup, taking forever to respond when you click play, showing previous weeks of Release Radar until you've gone out of and then back into the playlist a dozen times, etc etc.

I was having that problem, especially on my phone. I deleted the app, restarted the phone, then reinstalled the app and it's been working better.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/05/swedish-criminal-gangs-using-fake-spotify-streams-to-launder-money

Need a Breaking Bad reboot where Jesse tries to launder meth money by jumpstarting Skinny Pete’s piano career.

Cheers, President Keyes, will try that.

Cheers, milo z, will try that.

lol

I hate to say it but sometimes Discover Weekly just has my number. Today is a whole bunch of stuff I've never heard of that I'm loving (and it all flows together really well): Sun's Signature, Chris Spedding, Jacco Gardner, Colin Blumstone, THUS LOVE, The Gun Club, Pieter Nooten and Michael Brook ...

^MOD NOTE: Please be advised that the "pitchfork sucks" thread is now the designated spot for this discussion topic.

My new release radar the last couple of weeks has been dire - a lot of vaguely psych, sort of garage but mostly bluesy butt rock, bands that reminded me of college town bar bands from 20 years ago. When it's really bad I wonder how much payola is influencing the algorithm that week.

Listening to "British Steel" by Judas Priest right now. Guesses on what it serves me when the album is over?

"The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest"

The answer turned out to be "Lay It Down" by Ratt. I didn't turn it off.

Followed by "Defenders of the Faith" by Priest (all 1:50 of it), and then "Eruption" (which was weird without "You Really Got Me"). And then "Rock Rock til You Drop" by Def Leppard (fair) and "Sweet Soul Sister" by the Cult (which rules, but which seems out of place with the other stuff).

i know this is only tangentially relevant to spotify (anf imo it absolutely does not merit a new topic) but i wanted to ask a general question---

what's up with the deluge of "slowed+reverb" and "sped up" versions of catalogue hits showing under singles?

(don't get me wrong, i like it and have the "sped up" version of sza "snooze" on my radio station presently. just wondering where the phenomenon came from.)

(also, yes i used to exclusively play some 12" singles on 45 and 7"s on 33 back in the late 90s, simply because i thought the songs sounded better that way. so i get that part of the trend -some people like it- but when it start becoming a real thing?)

here's a Billboard article about it:
https://archive.ph/2ZwYl

nice, ty

it bugs me that this one track by the Lightcrust Dough Boys isn't on Spotify. i'm sure that it's not some kind of legal thing, but probably nobody has bothered? doesn't it seem likely that the legal shit has already been approved a long time ago by whatever cell phone conglomerate owns the rights? can i request it? is that how it works?

hi i have a serious suggestion. maybe someone else who sympathizes will understand the importance of this. it's in regards to the queue function thanks for listening. i know how tedious i am.

i would like to request a "play next" option in song and album menus. it has "add to queue" but that puts it at the end. if you're like me, you use the queue almost exclusively. and it gets long. oftentimes, i'm discouraged from checking out new songs because it would require me to disrupt the queue. if i want it to play next and not disrupt the queue, i have to add it to the queue, open the queue, scroll all the way down, geab the song, scroll all the way back up, and put it next. i make mistakes frequently because i'm doing this entirely on mobile. a "play next" function (in addition to the "add to queue" function) would be incredibly useful for me.

yes Play Next would be great

this is literally why i don’t use the queue

TRACER YOU GET IT I FEEL SO SEEN OMG TY

"add to queue" always adds it as the next song in the queue for me?!?!?!

I use my hands to pick up and eat a sandwich, but I don't MAKE the sandwich in my hands. That is analogically how I feel about the queue.

i am baffled by that analogy.

but i've just had a go and on desktop and on phone 'add to queue' adds it as the next track for me, definitely, no question. i can't see any settings that would affect this behaviour.

But was your queue empty?

nope, full queue. playlist or album or autoplay. adding a song or an album or a playlist adds it as the next track or tracks. if i open the queue i then get a 'clear queue' button which clears only the tracks added via 'add to queue.

oh ok i get it. an album or playlist isn't 'the queue'. even though it shows up in the queue. ok. ignore me. carry on.

the podcast app Castro allows you to add episodes to the beginning or the end of your play queue. which is nice. 99% of the time i'm adding to the beginning.

Austin, you can drag the song to the top of your queue but I guess that would still be unwieldy if your queue is extremely long.

Another workaround would be to add the songs you're listening to to a playlist instead and then when you clicked add to queue on a song it would be the next track to play

if you’re going to do that you may as well just not use the queue at all

the podcast app Castro allows you to add episodes to the beginning or the end of your play queue. which is nice. 99% of the time i'm adding to the beginning.

I have that on PocketCast too but the concept of queuing up more than one podcast is, to me, like making a three-course dinner in my hands

i do it. it is a never ending playlist though

Smart Shuffle seems broken at the moment, in that when you have to cycle through it to turn shuffle off in a playlist, the smart shuffle recommendations stay in your queue (and often the shuffle button turns back to green once you click out of your queue)

ever since the most recent update, if i leave the app open on my phone, it will never let my phone sleep. the screen just stays on. if i minimize the app or switch to something else and let it idle, it works like normal and my screen goes dark after a certain period. but if i leave spotify up and idle my phone, it'll never sleep; just sit there, unlocked, screen fully illuminated. mild annoyance but kinda crucial?

Hmm. I haven't seen other reports of that, so maybe Support could help you...

That's not happening for me and I also have the most recent update for Android. However, it's a feature I'd like to see implemented (i.e. the option to keep the screen on when Spotify is playing). It would be good to be able to glance at the screen and see what's playing at any time.

^try these hacks(?): https://www.uubyte.com/blog/how-to-disable-screen-timeout-for-certain-apps-on-android/

Probably a totally unnecessary request but when the white 'blah has been added to blah playlist' box comes up, I *always* want to click on it and a) be reminded of what else is on there and b) check I've not added the track before.

ime android and ios both have the feature that tells you if you're adding a song to a playlist that it's already on; a prompt comes up giving me the option to "add anyway" or cancel and go back to the previous screen.

it's very handy.

It's wild to me that the random button on a playlist doesn't really randomly play songs from the whole playlist and just assumes you like certain songs and prioritizes then in the queue. So if you have a big playlist there's tons of songs you'll likely never hear.

I really wish you could turn that off.

it was called "smart shuffle" or something and you used to be able to turn it off. just checked now and if it's still in there, idk where they put it.

lol

https://i.imgur.com/in7ZW5y.png

excellent

And yet they could presumably remove their music from Spotify, if they wished.