also, LOL at victory records complaining about missing royalties.
― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 23:39 (eight years ago) link
LOL indeed
― Cosmic Slop, Wednesday, 21 October 2015 23:47 (eight years ago) link
Last week the discover algorithm let me down, but this week past was pretty good. Let's see what tomorrow brings.
― Franzen Arcade (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 26 October 2015 04:17 (eight years ago) link
Well, with this week's playlist I discovered that there is not one but two bands called Sports that put out albums in 2015.
― MarkoP, Monday, 26 October 2015 04:29 (eight years ago) link
seems it's been mandated that I get at least one mf doom track a week (two this week) along w a healthy portion of mediocre backpacker stuff. otoh, dorothy ashby, v good, more like this ta
― ogmor, Monday, 26 October 2015 08:48 (eight years ago) link
Getting a few "source" songs that were later used as samples in popular "rap" songs that I enjoy.
Not complaining, but after reading that article above, I'm wagging my finger at my computer going, "I see what you did there, Spot."
― pplains, Monday, 26 October 2015 13:32 (eight years ago) link
a few weeks ago my Discover Weekly was all rap songs except for a Gram Parsons track
now it's pretty diverse, but only 1 hip hop song, and a fucking Sublime song for some reason
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Monday, 26 October 2015 13:51 (eight years ago) link
I keep meaning to add the 20-25% of my Discover Weekly which is genuinely new to me (unless it's awful) to a "Discovered" playlist and then, y'know, maybe buy a physical record or two by (for example) William Basinski, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Pye Corner Audio or whoever has come up recently. But I keep forgetting. And now it's Monday and last week's playlist is gone, gone, gone.
It doesn't go out of my comfort zone very often, Discover Weekly. A month back I had four songs in a row which had been covered by This Mortal Coil or The Hope Blister and the following week... a bunch of actual This Mortal Coil tracks. Ok, ok, I used to buy a lot of 4AD back in the day (and sometimes I resort to Spotify rather than dig through unalphabetised vinyl).
Sometimes it's pretty spooky... like, a song I'd been *talking* about, but hadn't heard in years.
― Michael Jones, Monday, 26 October 2015 14:19 (eight years ago) link
I've managed to largely train it away from the self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie and now really look forward to it every Monday, am firmly in the habit of saving the good stuff. Often the good stuff turns out not to merit much further investigation but It hit the jackpot recently with Ben Frost, good Spotify, have a doggie treat.
― ledge, Monday, 26 October 2015 15:01 (eight years ago) link
my discover weekly hit the jackpot today! i learned about a group named conduits, who only have one album from 2012 but it's a fucking incredibly deep psych album http://open.spotify.com/album/0zgDKEdtzihAZmR1Bnk2yY
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Monday, 26 October 2015 19:00 (eight years ago) link
anyone who wants Spotify URLs to open in the desktop app ...glenn advised to just click "Play in Spotify" but I never saw that option, it just opened the player. Figured it out: open a Spotify URL. Click the settings gear in the Spotify webapp, look for a setting like "Open Spotify URLs in desktop app". Confusingly, it will have a checkmark, but if the checkmark is gray it's not enabled. Click it so it's green. Next time I opened a Spotify URL it gave me the option to Play in Spotify before it opened the web player.
glenn advised to just click "Play in Spotify" but I never saw that option, it just opened the player. Figured it out: open a Spotify URL. Click the settings gear in the Spotify webapp, look for a setting like "Open Spotify URLs in desktop app". Confusingly, it will have a checkmark, but if the checkmark is gray it's not enabled. Click it so it's green. Next time I opened a Spotify URL it gave me the option to Play in Spotify before it opened the web player.
this doesn't appear to be an option anymore? :(
― welltris (crüt), Tuesday, 27 October 2015 12:15 (eight years ago) link
i wish i could use the "musical map" but it keeps opening in my browser & not the app
do you mean Glenn's "Every Noise" map? I browse with Firefox and if I click the "Listen to the Sound of....." link at the bottom of the genre page it immediately asks me which program I want to use to open the link.
I'm sorry if that's totally useless informtation, but I've certainly never changed any settings to enable this so it must be automatic. Could be a browser thing perhaps? This isn't really my forte.
― Windsor Davies, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 20:57 (eight years ago) link
So I just tried to add a song to "Your Music" and was told I had too many songs in my collection.
The fuck?
― Naive Teen Idol, Thursday, 5 November 2015 01:28 (eight years ago) link
had that yesterday too on my phoneseems to work okay on my laptop
― nxd, Thursday, 5 November 2015 09:56 (eight years ago) link
Second week in a row with a version of "That's How I Got To Memphis." Keep them coming!
― Memes of the Pwn Age (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 November 2015 17:28 (eight years ago) link
Well, if you love some old songs enough...
― pplains, Monday, 9 November 2015 17:46 (eight years ago) link
:)
― Memes of the Pwn Age (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 November 2015 18:03 (eight years ago) link
Glenn - Do you know if anyone is working on parental controls for Spotify? I bought accounts for my kids, and I'd love to be able to disable explicit tracks on their accounts. This would also be helpful when playing music at work.
Also, my kids are getting curse-filled tracks in their Discovery lists, which sucks.
― schwantz, Monday, 9 November 2015 20:40 (eight years ago) link
Also also, does private session prevent things influencing the discover playlist? idle enquiring minds want to know.
― ledge, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 09:24 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, kid-safe filtering is something we're definitely thinking about, but no idea exactly what form it will take, or when.
Private sessions are just about social sharing-or-not. You aren't hiding from yourself.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link
Thanks, damnit. No place to hide from the all penetrating gaze of self awareness - story of my life.
― ledge, Tuesday, 10 November 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link
So this happened...
http://i.imgur.com/PQ07spO.jpg
Glenn, I hope you know who made this and that you can put a turd in his/her lunchbox.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Sunday, 15 November 2015 05:43 (eight years ago) link
no way
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 15 November 2015 12:48 (eight years ago) link
flag is also on Afternoon Acoustic, Pop Chillout, Acoustic Hits, Acoustic Morning....
― Amblyomma_americanum_tick.jpg (wins), Sunday, 15 November 2015 12:57 (eight years ago) link
yeah i think the, um, all the feels playlist must have existed prior and then the flag was put on to various playlists. it wasn't put on all of them though so some further discrimination might have been advised.
― balls, Sunday, 15 November 2015 17:44 (eight years ago) link
Not my department...
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 15 November 2015 18:01 (eight years ago) link
thanks for letting us know?
― brimstead, Sunday, 15 November 2015 22:05 (eight years ago) link
So this happened...🗻Glenn, I hope you know who made this and that you can put a turd in his/her lunchbox.
🗻
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 15 November 2015 23:00 (eight years ago) link
ha ha it's pretty dope actually
― Why because she True and Interesting (President Keyes), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 18:41 (eight years ago) link
it's bc "the feels" are a cutespeak internet thing so matching it to the french flag is pretty tacky xp
― Mordy, Tuesday, 17 November 2015 18:44 (eight years ago) link
http://www.spotifyartists.com/introducing-spotify-fan-insights/
― i made a scope for my laser musket out of some (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 20:27 (eight years ago) link
Wish any playlist creator could see those sorts of analytics on a playlist-by-playlist basis
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 17 November 2015 21:48 (eight years ago) link
uh
http://boingboing.net/2015/08/21/spotifys-new-privacy-policy.html
so glad I generally don't do apps on my phone
― sleeve, Friday, 20 November 2015 15:48 (eight years ago) link
landlines and CDs! Landlines and CDs! Who's with me?
― calstars, Friday, 20 November 2015 15:53 (eight years ago) link
wtf
― i made a scope for my laser musket out of some (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 November 2015 17:00 (eight years ago) link
better article, that previous link was more of a stub:
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/cant-squat-spotifys-eerie-new-privacy-policy/
― sleeve, Friday, 20 November 2015 17:06 (eight years ago) link
it does seem quite evil
― ogmor, Friday, 20 November 2015 17:44 (eight years ago) link
http://www.wired.com/2015/08/spotify-clears-up-its-privacy-policy/
“Let me be crystal clear here: If you don’t want to share this kind of information, you don’t have to. We will ask for your express permission before accessing any of this data – and we will only use it for specific purposes that will allow you to customize your Spotify experience.”In other words, these will enable opt-in experiences, something that Spotify regrettably neglected to mention when it first announced the changes. The app won’t go scanning for your photos, but it’s reserving the right to access them if and when you want it to.
In other words, these will enable opt-in experiences, something that Spotify regrettably neglected to mention when it first announced the changes. The app won’t go scanning for your photos, but it’s reserving the right to access them if and when you want it to.
― welltris (crüt), Friday, 20 November 2015 18:09 (eight years ago) link
outrageous!!!
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 20 November 2015 20:59 (eight years ago) link
the question is can i upload my dick pics to spotify
― ogmor, Friday, 20 November 2015 21:01 (eight years ago) link
Sure, but you can't star them.
― Jeff, Friday, 20 November 2015 21:02 (eight years ago) link
you can put a star in the pictures
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 20 November 2015 21:21 (eight years ago) link
the best ones, anyway
the ones with good light
― Jeff, Friday, November 20, 2015 9:02 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I love how Jeff pops up every three months with a dig about starring.
― the fiest p (onimo), Friday, 20 November 2015 21:26 (eight years ago) link
he doesn't even know that they brought stars back!
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 20 November 2015 21:29 (eight years ago) link
Stars work fine in the Scottish version
― Cosmic Slop, Friday, 20 November 2015 21:31 (eight years ago) link
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, November 20, 2015 2:29 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
wait what now?
― I know when that Ott line zings (Spottie), Friday, 20 November 2015 21:35 (eight years ago) link
sorry, it was a ~*goof*~
― the grimes of claire boucher ('90s on) (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 20 November 2015 21:44 (eight years ago) link