I might even say
― niels, Friday, 1 June 2018 23:25 (six years ago) link
my DW has gone
down the drain :O
― niels, Friday, 1 June 2018 23:26 (six years ago) link
niels do you have any clues at all how the aptly-named Klospülung might have gotten into your Discover Weekly? Could you have listened to one of the Related Artists or something?
https://open.spotify.com/artist/5tkfx36V7EUhwTOyXdrAMo/related
also have any Related Artists ever successfully sued for defamation? asking for a friend
― Brad C., Friday, 1 June 2018 23:32 (six years ago) link
don't recognize any of those related artists, nope
― niels, Friday, 1 June 2018 23:37 (six years ago) link
noel redding rings a bell, not as a solo artist tho
― niels, Friday, 1 June 2018 23:38 (six years ago) link
I've had some odd stuff appear in Discover Weekly, but nothing as improbable as that ... I wonder if someone has developed an exploit for the DW algorithm
― Brad C., Friday, 1 June 2018 23:44 (six years ago) link
my DW really wants me to listen to Laurie Anderson, but it's not going to happen.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Saturday, 2 June 2018 03:28 (five years ago) link
The toilet guy seems to have an improbably high number of followers... (Btw - the one song title that’s not a variation of “WC” seems to translate to something like “Relaxed Constipation.”)
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Saturday, 2 June 2018 03:53 (five years ago) link
apart from the toilet flush it was a decent dw week, so weird that toilet track came on right after New York City Serenade, almost as if mocking pretentious Bruce https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZEVXcHkCbzvlCkSv?si=1DH1iWA7QW--P0FlFlbh_Q
― niels, Saturday, 2 June 2018 08:29 (five years ago) link
hey glenn,
I'm sure this has been requested many times before, but is there any way to see which songs or albums you've played in the past? like if a certain artist had 10 albums and I couldn't remember which ones I'd heard -- it would be super useful to know which ones I'd listened to and how many times (for each song). this is something that itunes has had for over a decade that I used to love (when I used itunes)
― k3vin k., Saturday, 2 June 2018 19:06 (five years ago) link
Yes, I agree that that would be useful. I have an internal experimental tool that will show you what songs on a playlist you've already played, but it's extremely expensive to do in real-time for all users...
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 3 June 2018 15:01 (five years ago) link
last.fm still has its uses (though not retroactively).
― lana del boy (ledge), Sunday, 3 June 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
thanks — I assumed it had been looked at already and there was a reason for it. maybe someday the technology will be cheaper
― k3vin k., Sunday, 3 June 2018 15:51 (five years ago) link
that Klospülung song appeared on my discover weekly this week.
― silverfish, Monday, 4 June 2018 15:28 (five years ago) link
which is weird because listened to it last week when clicking on the link in this thread
― silverfish, Monday, 4 June 2018 15:30 (five years ago) link
^^ I listened as well, I will check my DW and report back
― sleeve, Monday, 4 June 2018 16:02 (five years ago) link
I sometimes wish that I could filter my own saved music and generate playlists with the results. If I was a smart programmer type of guy, I might try to use the API to create a web app that would do something like that. I find myself thinking, shouldn't I be able to filter my own collection of saved songs for years, genres, and record labels?
― beard papa, Thursday, 7 June 2018 20:01 (five years ago) link
Some kind of smart playlist functionality in general would be such a huge improvement
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 7 June 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
You two might like http://organizeyourmusic.playlistmachinery.com...
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 7 June 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
Interesting, I like the idea of filtering a playlist down by more energetic or mellow qualities. I often line up my queue that way.
Would like something that tracked number of plays, frequency, skip frequency, last play date, so I could hear songs I haven't listened to recently or automatically skip ones with a high skip count.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 7 June 2018 20:29 (five years ago) link
Great link, I have been meaning to organize my Spotify for ages and this is going to save me from weeks of tinkering and trying to decide what genre 10,000+ songs are.
― raise my chicken finger (Willl), Thursday, 7 June 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
A Different Way? A different Low more like?
https://open.spotify.com/album/5JM3Q65UzOf3bMNrFVtap1?si=t0PLhAx9TCKIPT2RIZGBzA
― Jeff W, Friday, 8 June 2018 13:20 (five years ago) link
yeah the "other" Low and Biosphere showing up on my Release Radar was hilarious
― Simon H., Friday, 8 June 2018 13:52 (five years ago) link
this is a minor problem that is probably more noticeable because of a job i have, but why does 'back' on the web player (through browser button or ctrl-right) now take the user to a page where they're asked if they want to log out? especially annoying when navigating from searches.
― maura, Friday, 8 June 2018 13:56 (five years ago) link
"web schmeb"- every service ever
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 8 June 2018 14:01 (five years ago) link
lol
So @Spotify, I don’t want to tell you how to do your job, but a Lonnie Johnson (blues musician, 1899-1970) compilation album shouldn’t have Lonnie Johnson (Super Soaker inventor, still alive) on the cover. pic.twitter.com/nKpuuV9i3G— Thomas L. Strickland ☕️ (@ThomasLS) June 10, 2018
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 10 June 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link
Yacht Rock guys really upset about the official Spotify “yacht rock” playlist
― calstars, Sunday, 10 June 2018 22:53 (five years ago) link
Not yacht-y enough?
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Sunday, 10 June 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
What’s the problem? It’s full of Yacht classics like Call Me Al and Jack and Diane
― President Keyes, Sunday, 10 June 2018 23:06 (five years ago) link
Not enough Krokus imo
― President Keyes, Sunday, 10 June 2018 23:07 (five years ago) link
Can anyone explain why Spotify takes about two minutes to open and play from my iPhone?
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 11 June 2018 04:54 (five years ago) link
Same on Android - two minutes is a good day.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 11 June 2018 09:32 (five years ago) link
I haven't had any problems like that on my phone, but the desktop client is virtually unusable anymore. I'm in the browser version almost all the time now.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 11 June 2018 11:54 (five years ago) link
Same (as mentioned many times here already). Desktop version is useless.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 June 2018 11:56 (five years ago) link
I have had problems with this in the past, but these days the android app and desktop app both load prettu quickly for me andvrun smoothly.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 11 June 2018 12:54 (five years ago) link
yeah, the desktop client takes forever. Not worth the effort.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Monday, 11 June 2018 14:49 (five years ago) link
on my mac mini it's been unusable for months, not checked it recently. ios app is pretty good on my SE tho.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 June 2018 14:50 (five years ago) link
actually on desktop the Spotify web player works really well, i.e. at all!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 June 2018 14:51 (five years ago) link
Biggest desktop issue for me over the last couple of months is when I try to edit a large playlist (hundreds of tracks) which at first it will allow fine but start slowing down after a few minutes and then fail to load other playlists entirely - even ones you were just on, like it's having to reload that information fresh every time.
― nashwan, Monday, 11 June 2018 14:53 (five years ago) link
My desktop app works really well at the moment, but I had to get a whole new computer for that to be the case, and it's only been a month. Full expect it to get slower and slower and then useless over the next wee while.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 12 June 2018 06:22 (five years ago) link
Downloading for me on iPad is now getting totally out of hand. I left it downloading 800+ tracks overnight, when i got up in the morning it had completed 50. At Extreme quality tbf, but I have fast internet.
― stet, Thursday, 14 June 2018 15:09 (five years ago) link
ha, I bet you do
― sleeve, Thursday, 14 June 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link
what's up with the change from "related" to "fans also like"?
― austinb, Friday, 15 June 2018 01:51 (five years ago) link
"Fans Also Like" is more accurate and descriptive. "Related Artists" implied personal relationships between artists to some people, which wasn't really what that list represents...
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 15 June 2018 16:25 (five years ago) link
nice! i'm a fan, honestly. agree that it seems more accurate, and foregrounds the role of the listener to boot.
― austinb, Friday, 15 June 2018 23:08 (five years ago) link
i'm into anything on the platform that highlights the idea of "fans" tbh
― austinb, Friday, 15 June 2018 23:09 (five years ago) link
i wish i could "engage" with the little feed that shows you what your Spotify friends are listening to. just a thumbs up, or a comment would be cool. i imagine that opens up a can of worms Spotify doesn't want opened but still.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 June 2018 23:15 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/2AbMp2C.png
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― pplains, Friday, 15 June 2018 23:51 (five years ago) link
― calstars, Saturday, 16 June 2018 02:48 (five years ago) link