New and Noteworthy Additions to US Spotify

Broken link for me. As long as I'm not missing anything...

Although I'm having fun imagining that Spotify would "advertise" by plugging Ukrainian semi-metal bands and TeraBrite covers on ILM. Thankfully my job at Spotify is not predicated on the commercial prescience of my personal musical tastes.

I don't mind advertisements, and I do in fact use and recommend Spotify to all of my friends as the product best suited for meeting their musical needs.

Glenn, while I'm never going to listen to either the Rick Springfield album or single and I have various issues with Spotify, I hope these dumb comments don't dissuade you from continuing with this thread. Every week you end up pointing me to something cool I wouldn't have noticed otherwise and I appreciate it a bunch.

Everything on this thread (which I didn't start) is an "advertisement" by loose definition, I guess. But my posts here are no more "by Spotify" than anybody else's.

Not only do I enjoy this thread (except when it posts dead links to artists I like) but I hope that other Spotify employees might be encouraged to join in as well, as I think the thread could only benefit by more input from Spotify employees. I often hope that Spotify will introduce a feature by which its employees can recommend great new music to Spotify subscribers directly via Spotify, but until that day comes this thread seems like the next best thing.

Although, now that I think of it, doesn't Spotify have some sort of automated process by which they can check the songs I listen to and use some sort of data analysis to suggest the best songs for me?

Yes. For you it suggests this: https://open.spotify.com/album/2JB8eHnU3NbQEHp9NDjKL6

I didn't look yet, but it had better be The Lovely Eggs.

And I am in fact kind of interested in how the recommendations here differ from the automatically generated ones in Spotify, which are supposedly individually tailored. Is this just a thread of personal preferences (in which case it should really be retitled "glenn mcdonald's favorite new albums that are available on Spotify" or is it a curated list by Spotify, or what? The thread title is "New and Noteworthy on Spotify." I'm kind of curious as to what this thread really contains. And also, if Spotify isn't providing the same info, why not? And if it is, what's the direct link? I guess the operative question is: we have a thread that's essentially a fairly prominent Spotify employee providing weekly links to Spotify streams of music that is supposed to be new and noteworthy. Why is it here, and not on Spotify itself? And along those lines, since we assume that even within ILM there's an unmanageably wide variety of musical taste, who is this new and noteworthy for and why isn't it being generated on an individual basis by Spotify?

And yes, I know glenn vaguely and vice/versa, and literally the only thing I hold against him is a certain Zeppet Store album that I foolishly bought years and years ago, and for that I can really only blame myself.

I didn't create the thread, and it doesn't have any elaborate stated philosophy beyond its title. The things I post are just my own personal lists, they are not produced or endorsed by Spotify and have nothing to do with any Spotify recommendation function*. Anybody is welcome to contribute their own finds and recommendations, and I wish more people would.

*Except that I happen to work on personalized recommendations and new-release categorization at Spotify, so sometimes I know about particular individual things because my tools found them for me.

I think we agree that more people should contribute here. I have enjoyed threads based on one person's preferences before (Bimble, etc.) but they've always been identified as such. This one is definitely a strange case...

I -did- create the thread and i am deeply pleased glenn is using it for the purpose it was intended: to share stuff he likes.

My mistake then: I didn't realize that the thread was created for that purpose. Possibly changing the thread title to "New and Noteworthy Additions to Spotify, in the opinion of someone who works at Spotify, named glenn mcdonald" might be more descriptive. I'm not exactly planning a boycott, btw, so we probably don't need to man the battlements. This is just one weird-ass thread. I like to imagine similar ones in other areas. New and Noteworthy Headphones, by Luke Wood, springs to mind. And his band was way better than glenn's.

Hmm seems like you are just being dickish now

What, Sammy were amazing. This is seriously a really weird thread. I can't quite think of anything like it on ILM.

yeah this seems very much like a sock of one of the anti-spotify folks

Lol at that last link.

Def value Glenn's contributions.

glenn has access to my facebook page, and knows that I'm a Spotify subscriber and frequently link to it. So I don't see the sockpuppet idea as having much in the way of legs.

And where the hell did the Love Is All album go (not those stupid Swedes, but the genius from Japan, while we're at it).

I am trying hard to find another thread on ILM where a well-known employee of a music company posted links to his employer on a weekly basis.

Like the Spotify playlists that accompany rolling threads, Glenn's 'new on spotify' updates are very useful to me. If this thread concept bothers you, don't click on it. It's pretty simple. Jealousy manifests in many different ways.

Fucking hell, the thread is about music that is available on Spotify. The thing I'm "advertising", if that's your word for mentioning something, is the music. Which is not made by my employer.

jealousy?!?

people think it's weird because the whole I LOVE MUSIC board is dedicated to recommending music (much of which is new music). So a thread that's just "here's new stuff on spotify" is viewed as sort of unseemly. is this really that hard to grasp? i'm not calling you out, glenn, because i honestly don't give a fuck about this one way or the other.

viewed as unseemly because it's most often being updated by a poster who works at spotify (and who doesn't hide that he works at spotify).

i'm just wikipedia'ing this for everyone, again, i don't care either way.

and the whole "if you don't like a thread, don't click on it" thing is and always will be the weakest of weak sauces

Anybody is welcome to contribute their own finds and recommendations, and I wish more people would.

we do, we post them elsewhere, we don't post spotify links, though, so i guess it's all vain

sorry for being dickish

what the fuck is wrong with you. glenn is cool. this thread is cool. what does it have to do with you?

I don't think glenn is a bad person, fwiw. I think this has turned into a strange thread that rides an odd line. And again, I'm not aware of any other threads on ilm where an employee of a company provides weekly updates of his or her company's products. And to be clear, this is an employee who's main job involves music recommendations for consumers. He doesn't mop the bathrooms.

then don't click on the fuckin thread. i think all the poll threads are tedious and stupid but i don't go clickin on em and posting bitching about the people that run them (and put a ton of work into doing them).

if you honestly think glenn is a plant sent here to brainwash into listening to all the ridiculous uncommercial stuff he posts on this thread then you have some serious problems.

fuck you, man, learn to read.

^that was a personal attack, the other shit was posting was obviously not

all this endless circular bitching is what makes ilm boring and bad now. why are you contributing to it? why am i contributing to it?

fucking babies

sorry, adam you're the fucking baby.

lol personal attack. get a grip

seriously fuck this board. can't discuss shit without people getting all butthurt.

glenn isn't a plant, obviously. He's a nice guy, he works for Spotify in the business of providing musical recommendations to Spotify subscribers, and he is essentially the only current contributor to a thread on ILM (which is not affiliated with Spotify) titled, "New and Noteworthy Additions to US Spotify." I think that at this point, anyone reading the thread would be aware of the overall situation, so there actually isn't anything to be done. I would like to be able to find the Japanese "Love Is All" album on Spotify, I'm glad to learn that I didn't miss anything important by Rick Springfield, and that's pretty much it.

nobody fucking engages with any arguments, people just see glenn's name and instantly turn their fucking brains off and just shout some variation of "personal attack"

just what is the problem though? You hate the fact that someone is recommending music on an established platform that a lot of people are using? the fact that there are spotify links in this thread while you don't post spotify links yourself in other threads make you fume with anger? sounds kinda weird.

I don't recall using the word hate, being angry, or demanding anything. This is a very unusual thread on ILM, unless I've missed something.

we need more unusual threads on ILM, obviously

"New and Noteworthy additions to the iTunes store."

Well sure. I'd check that.

HOWEVER... streaming and subscriptions are changing people's listening habits and this thread reflects that in a way that an itunes thread in 2016 wouldn't. I believe there's also a comparable Bandcamp thread that's been happening for a while? So yeah.

Does the bandcamp thread contain mostly posts from someone who works for Bandcamp? If that's the new ILM, then that's the way things are. I'd never want to fight progress.

I wish Glenn posted hip hop albums is my only complaint.

Damn, I was going to post a Spotify link to this illuminating and relevant track, but the album isn't on Spotify. Nobody's ever heard of the band, so not really a big deal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skqESfiv0Js

I guess I just see it as a quirkier "new releases" page of Spotify, like the main one is just really big releases and the Discover one is really based on what I've listened to so I guess I find this helpful, I church it out.