Yeah, I saw some discussion of that boygenius credit go by already. People are on it.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 26 October 2018 21:21 (five years ago) link
all but one of my multi-room speaker groups (amazon echo) won’t show up in spotify. nothing anywhere on the internet. i have no fucking idea what is going on.
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 27 October 2018 10:02 (five years ago) link
now my stereo pair won't work. it's just deciding to hide random speakers for no reason. i have wasted hours on this flaky dumb shit.
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 27 October 2018 11:21 (five years ago) link
Now I’ve got Spotify reminding me to vote when I open the app. The more they move away from just playing the music the closer I come to canceling
― calstars, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 23:40 (five years ago) link
Cut 'em some slack, Jack
― greta van vliet (morrisp), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 23:45 (five years ago) link
“Workout Twerkout” playlist is the closest I’ve come to cancellation.
― beard papa, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 00:48 (five years ago) link
They're feeding me Cat Power's "Woman" into Jackson Browne's "The Load Out" on my daily playlist, and they've got me figured out.
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 13:51 (five years ago) link
Caviar the Vote!
― saddest kamancheh (bendy), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 15:07 (five years ago) link
Also a lot of tracks 10 minutes or longer are now disabled.]
Re-enabled now. That was a scary week.
― nashwan, Thursday, 1 November 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
Spotify stock closed today at an all-time low. The company's market value has declined by a whopping 0 billion since July 26. https://t.co/k20rCCfxLU Here's what I wrote back then, and it's all coming true. https://t.co/XbZuCj0lCk— Ted Gioia (@tedgioia) November 1, 2018
― jaymc, Thursday, 1 November 2018 21:34 (five years ago) link
probably not related, but i’ve just signed back up after years away, and the (ios at least) interface is so much clunkier than everything else i’ve been using (apple music, google play music, amazon music). along with the weird spotify connect issues i’ve been having, there’s no compelling reason for me to keep subscribing.
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 1 November 2018 22:28 (five years ago) link
Yeah -- I qualified for a 3-month Amazon Music trial, so I've been using that instead, and I like the mobile interface a lot more. (I haven't done a deep dive into how the selection compares.)
― greta van vliet (morrisp), Thursday, 1 November 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link
This Spotify thing is what I expected - the labels will end up setting royalty rates low enough for the company to survive (as long as it stays on the ball tech-wise) as a competitor to the tech giants but not so low that they can ever make serious money. Good for the future of the platform, not much in it for 3rd party investors.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 1 November 2018 23:06 (five years ago) link
I don't mind the UI but if Spotify ever disables API access (for DJ apps), I'll bail.
― DJI, Thursday, 1 November 2018 23:14 (five years ago) link
my #1 Spotify UI complaint is that when you clear the search bar by clicking the X, it also navigates away from whatever you were just looking at and brings you to "Recently Played"
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 1 November 2018 23:19 (five years ago) link
yeah that kills me on the reg. but would Spotify really be Spotify without many pointless interstitial taps?
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 2 November 2018 00:04 (five years ago) link
what would people suggest instead of Spotify then? Google's music interface looks even clunkier than spotify's, Apple can go do one, Tidal is more expensive (twice?), anyone had experience with Deezer?
― closed beta (NotEnough), Friday, 2 November 2018 14:24 (five years ago) link
Apple can go do one?
― Mordy, Friday, 2 November 2018 14:27 (five years ago) link
I'll find it hard to forgive apple for the agony iTunes gave me when I was synching up my 20GB iPod back in the day. Is their music app not shit now?
― closed beta (NotEnough), Friday, 2 November 2018 14:38 (five years ago) link
as in, has their app moved from shit to not-shit?
― closed beta (NotEnough), Friday, 2 November 2018 14:41 (five years ago) link
I've tried both google play and deezer and neither is as good as spotify, despite spotify's flaws. Never tried apple music because I have heard it is not very good on android and doesn't support casting. I guess I should give Tidal a shot at some point.
― silverfish, Friday, 2 November 2018 15:02 (five years ago) link
thanks. I'm fine sticking with Spotify tbh, none of the niggles really hurt me.
― closed beta (NotEnough), Friday, 2 November 2018 15:18 (five years ago) link
Try Amazon, I’m tellin’ ya. I ordered a 2CD and somehow qualified for three months of Amazon Music; maybe you can figure out how to trigger that promotion
― greta van vliet (morrisp), Friday, 2 November 2018 16:24 (five years ago) link
iTunes is incredibly powerful as a local music library manager (esp with scripts), but I’m sticking with Spotify in the browser for streaming.
― Siegbran, Friday, 2 November 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
The new spotify app is finally available for roku. Only problem is you have to have the latest roku OS, and the roll out for that could extend through the end of the year.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 3 November 2018 01:42 (five years ago) link
― calstars, Saturday, 3 November 2018 03:08 (five years ago) link
Doug's scripts for iTunes are the ones i know - i haven't looked at the site for years but i think he keeps them updated
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 3 November 2018 03:16 (five years ago) link
Amazon seems shit unless you ONLY want to listen to an act's most recent album. This is in Australia, though, where every aspect of Amazon is more expensive and less good than everywhere else in the world.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Saturday, 3 November 2018 08:30 (five years ago) link
Indeed the Doug’s scripts site is a great resource but I’ve also written a few myself to scrape info like year/genre through the Discogs API and Google.
― Siegbran, Saturday, 3 November 2018 09:00 (five years ago) link
Yikes
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20181105005454/en/Spotify-Announces-Stock-Repurchase-Program-1.0-Billion
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 5 November 2018 16:02 (five years ago) link
I approve of this
Welcome online, Adam Rickitt! Abandoned pop's digital revivalSome of the biggest 90s and 00s pop hits are now available to stream, thanks to one dogged fan’s Twitter campaign, Pop Music Activism
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/nov/06/pop-online-forgotten-90s-00s-hits-pop-music-activism?CMP=fb_gu
― Alba, Tuesday, 6 November 2018 13:37 (five years ago) link
https://thanksgiving.withspotify.com/
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 9 November 2018 15:42 (five years ago) link
i am blown away by how terrible spotify is compared to when i stopped paying two years ago.
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 10 November 2018 06:34 (five years ago) link
and right now spotify's displaying track 2 but playing track 4 and that's only coming out of one speaker
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 10 November 2018 06:38 (five years ago) link
i'm not having any of the problems you are (except the albums/saved artist thing, which is the design)
maybe try restarting your computer, or buying a new computer?
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 10 November 2018 06:44 (five years ago) link
but yeah, if you were using the same computer 2 years ago and didn't have any of those problems, i can see why that would be really frustrating
believe me i've tried restarting, reinstalling, regrouping speakers, everything, makes no difference. i use apple and google (and sometimes amazon prime) music and they're all fine.
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 10 November 2018 06:53 (five years ago) link
right now it's just started playing track 13 of the same album, and like three seconds in the display suddenly jumped to track 14 for no reason whatsoever, but track 13 is still playing.
with a few days in this sub month i'm almost completely uninvested in trying to fix any of these daft bugs, just entertained by how kak it is.
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 10 November 2018 07:03 (five years ago) link
maybe try buying CDs?
― Sing The Mighty Beat (sic), Saturday, 10 November 2018 07:04 (five years ago) link
what is this “buy” music
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 10 November 2018 07:29 (five years ago) link
This 'mouse' is awful. I can barely move it with my foot and the buttons seem to be for someone with two massive toes.
― Have the Rams stopped screaming yet, Lloris? (Chinaski), Saturday, 10 November 2018 11:10 (five years ago) link
i am blown away by how terrible spotify is compared to when i stopped paying two years ago.discover weekly claims it's "updated every monday" but i'm still seeing a playlist from 2016 (same with release radar)
discover weekly claims it's "updated every monday" but i'm still seeing a playlist from 2016 (same with release radar)
Maybe those playlists are premium features if they stopped at the same time you stopped paying.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Saturday, 10 November 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link
I've never had any of those issues, very strange
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 10 November 2018 17:07 (five years ago) link
Maybe those playlists are premium features if they stopped at the same time you stopped paying.i’m paying now though
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 10 November 2018 20:02 (five years ago) link
how long ago did you start paying again? maybe it just takes a few weeks to analyze your listening and come up with a new discovery playlist
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 10 November 2018 20:24 (five years ago) link
yeah i’m guessing that’s what it is (despite me actively using it on premium for weeks), but i can’t see that written anywhere. i’ve just unfollowed it to see if that kickstarts anything.
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 10 November 2018 20:35 (five years ago) link
someone posted on this thread a few months ago about the albums saved to their library would now only display in the order they were added, rather than a-z by artist
the same thing happened to me, so I guess this is an across the board thing - does anyone know if there's a way to change this?
― soref, Sunday, 11 November 2018 17:16 (five years ago) link
this is on apple watches now
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 13 November 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
can people with the free version of Spotify search for playlists? i'm assuming they can, but it's been awhile. i want to share a "mix" with a friend, and the easiest way i can think of to do it is to make a spotify playlist, but he doesn't have the paid version.
― Karl Malone, Monday, 19 November 2018 20:46 (five years ago) link
If you right click on the playlist you can copy the link and send it to him via text/mail.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Monday, 19 November 2018 20:55 (five years ago) link