New and Noteworthy Additions to US Spotify

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.

Check it out

I definitely think that a lot of services that corporations provide are helpful. I think you'd have to be insane to argue otherwise.

One thing I do wonder: why aren't glenn's lists simply a part of Spotify. We're talking about the guy in charge of the software that enables them to provide music recommendations to their customers. There are about a billion playlists on Spotify last time I checked, including smooth indie, smoothish indie, chill indie, smooth chill indie, and Julianna-Hatfield-Influenced-Death-Metal. How is it that this particular list can't exist on Spotify rather than here.

I like and appreciate Glenn's posts in this thread. I hope he keeps doing them.

I don't think that anyone has asked him to stop. This really is an odd thread.

My lists are on Spotify, too. We don't currently have a way to annotate playlists track-by-track within Spotify, though. Some day we probably will. In fact, for this reason as well as this weirdness, I think I may move mine to a different venue where I can experiment more easily...

Where is your list? The funny thing is that I follow your stuff. I do think, however, that the way it's appeared here, aka "this weirdness" is kind of weird. I'd strongly encourage, however, the posting of a link to your lists on Spotify. And if Spotify could include annotations, that would be wonderful. I'm still recovering from the loss of apps (e.g. Pitchfork et al).

Glenn's new releases list updated weekly:

New Particles
https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/4KFgvtilFRbRUzEdER8lFQ

And we have a happy ending. Thanks to all!

sourced from this: Spotify New-Album Sorting Hat
http://everynoise.com/spotify_new_albums.html

Sweet 3 ppl thought a thread was weird and now it's gone?

It's a thread that was making up for a shortcoming that Spotify has. Spotify will fix it, which will be great for Spotify users. There'll be one less thread here to compete with others that don't have alternate forums, which is good for ilm. It's win/win.

Well, now it's a thread of self-referential offense-taking, which certainly makes it more normal in ILM terms.

Sweet 3 ppl thought a thread was weird and now it's gone?

seriously this whole "dude with THE REAL DEAL INSIGHTS comes in and blows the thread's mind" derail has been really dumb imo

Please keep doing this, glenn. The idea of this thread "competing with others that don't have alternate forums" is mindblowingly dumb. I will not click the jute gyte thread more if this one disappears.

I will remain unlikely to click on the jute gyte thread even if every other thread goes the way of this one and gets filibustered to death.

1. Probably Glenn was attracted to, and got a job at Spotify because he was passionate about music. That is probably also the main reason he posts here. He does not work for the PR side of the company. If he did he would be fired for spending. His time recommending black metal albums on a niche message board that looks like it had its last design update in 1998.

2. Glenn is not the only person in this forum who receives income from some part of the music industry. There are likely people here who have written PR for artists, who are involved in other websites, etc. Glenn should be praised for his best practices.

3. As someone who uses Spotify for roughly 99.9% of my listening consumption, I appreciate this thread *in addition* to all the other threads for music recommendations. My only complaint is that fewer and fewer others post here, especially since my tastes don't align with Glenn's very often. This thread used to be more robust. Perhaps that's just a testament to how thoroughly Spotify has taken over, that this thread may have outgrown its relevance.

preach

As someone who uses Spotify for roughly 99.9% of my listening consumption, I appreciate this thread *in addition* to all the other threads for music recommendations.

^Co-sign. Please don't stop, glenn.

The only reason I don't contribute is because of the specific "US Spotify" qualifier in the thread title. If we can agree it's OK to add things that might only be available on UK Spotify, I will.

please do

i wouldn't be averse to making this a more generalized 'new releases on streaming services' thread since that's basically what i use it as

Good grief, people. Put a halt to this "glenn is an industry shill" bullshit.

when will Glenn release the transcripts of his paid speeches to the RIAA?

When will glenn be released from prison so that he can resume posting to ilm?

Sorry, pretty slammed right now working on the Branding Concept documents for the big New Particles relaunch.