Favorite new artist: Sault, 1736 new artists, 89 countries, 36k minutes.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 5 December 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link
One factor that probably upset my data is falling asleep listening to an album or podcast that kept looping/going. I appreciate that the app seemed to get the idea eventually that I didn't want it to loop albums (i.e., it didn't keep going back to the default looping).
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Thursday, 5 December 2019 16:05 (four years ago) link
I liked that last year’s data showed you how many different music genres you listened to. This time it only shows you your top 5 music genres.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Thursday, 5 December 2019 16:15 (four years ago) link
i listened to much fewer minutes than last year 58k compared to 79k... not entirely sure why. still, not bad but i really feel like i've slipped when it comes to listening to music in general for some reason.
Top non-soundtrack artists: Big Thief, Scott Walker, Autechre (no surprise there)87 different countries (wow!)
Someone called TPR who did an orchestral version of the Chrono Trigger soundtrack has been my top artist two years running, LOOOL
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Thursday, 5 December 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
maybe Glenn could tell us our microgenres again :D
― maffew12, Thursday, 5 December 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
lol my kids annihilated my decade
congrats, Mark Mancina; your symphonic work on the Moana soundtrack kept them sleeping just long enough to think THIS night was the one where they wouldn't invade our bedroom
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Thursday, 5 December 2019 16:37 (four years ago) link
My kid annihilated my year and decade too, having a Premium family plan really makes these summaries kinda meaningless. According to my summary all I listen to is the Hamilton soundtrack, Marshmello, One Direction and "Flamingo" by Kero Kero Bonito.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 5 December 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
I went through the embarrassment of not immediately recognizing my top artist of the decade lol. Klára Körmendi, thank you for your Satie.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 5 December 2019 17:05 (four years ago) link
the majority of my top stuff is stuff my kids or wife listens to. LOL at my number 3 song being the Pink Panther theme by Henry Mancini, which my daughter was weirdly obsessed with for a while this summer.
Anyway, 1303 new artists, 86 countries, 51450 minutes
― silverfish, Thursday, 5 December 2019 17:19 (four years ago) link
2019 ain't nearly over yet, but:
844 new artists, 55 countries, 22534 minutes (a new peak, it's been about that level for each of the past 4 years but going up slightly year on year)
top 2019 artist completely skewed by the fact that I listened to nearly all of the Bobbie Gentry Girl from Chickasaw County box set once, one weekend
artist of the decade: Red Velvet (fair enough)
― Jeff W, Thursday, 5 December 2019 18:51 (four years ago) link
i got 90 countries and felt quite good about that
― Mordy, Thursday, 5 December 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link
xp yeah this is early. Do they include the previous December in these things?
― maffew12, Thursday, 5 December 2019 18:59 (four years ago) link
my AOTD was Joyce Manor, which, accurate enough
― Simon H., Thursday, 5 December 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link
I listened for 100,000 minutes
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 6 December 2019 01:53 (four years ago) link
when and why did the slideshow go away?
― Tales of Jazz Ulysses (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 8 December 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
Just put me in the fucking ground already.
https://i.imgur.com/aHAML8a.png
― pplains, Monday, 9 December 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link
Things that play for hours (sleep/sexytimes) won out: Maya Jane Coles, Khruangbin, apparently J.J. Cale...
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 9 December 2019 20:46 (four years ago) link
Just put me in the fucking ground already.🖼
― Tales of Jazz Ulysses (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 9 December 2019 21:07 (four years ago) link
AN HOUR AGO.
― pplains, Monday, 9 December 2019 21:13 (four years ago) link
Missed the EOY noms thread because I'm a doofus, so here are my Top 50 songs of 2019:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6aSKZfPotvtcQPB7cthGbm?si=Z5XR91tmSHuTsjy1xiSZcw
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 11:00 (four years ago) link
And here is my Top 100 tracks of the 2010s https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0KVncdt2Pzxv6fjl43AnrU?si=FY2BhYB9TaCcOvwlToJ6OQ
― YOU CALL THIS JOURNALSIM? (dog latin), Thursday, 9 January 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
nice selection!
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 9 January 2020 21:11 (four years ago) link
excellent
― championship winning vibration (Spottie), Thursday, 9 January 2020 21:31 (four years ago) link
I helped put together a playlist for a work party that celebrates Black History Month:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1VETLZKxcZ78EMgFqtXXsC?si=cdAYBxiXRCO1zTPK4x8RSw
― totally unnecessary bewbz of exploitation (DJP), Friday, 21 February 2020 14:34 (four years ago) link
I made a pseudo-pan-African-pop/not-pop playlist for the rolling afro 2020 thread and lots of Afro-adjacent threads, generously defined - of course including the (South African) House of Sun-El and Amapiano threads. It’s already 108 tracks deep, so enjoy!
ILM rolling✳️all-inclusive✳️afro 2020
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:44 (four years ago) link
As a distraction from all this self-isolating I’ve started a mandala-like approach to making playlists. I made “A Playlist for Today” - roughly ten songs which I will delete and replace with roughly ten other songs every couple of days. First one is up and I’ll probably replace it with a new mix tomorrow:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5cgWPbrz6uBPlN9g846TZG?si=6UkzMIoRRFKOck3_ZCAsUg
As of today the track list is:
1. Sam Cooke: Lost and Lookin’2. Colleen: Push the Boat onto the Sand3. Harry Belafonte: Jamaica Farewell4. Palace: Gulf Shores5. Daniel Lanois: Space Love6. Delmore Brothers: Take Away this Lonesome Day7. Tony Caro & John: Waltz for a Spaniel8. Christopher Bissonnette: Color Deceives Continuously9. Terry Callier: Cotton Eyed Joe10. Les Paul & Mary Ford: Vaya Con Dios
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 22 March 2020 19:53 (four years ago) link
So, one of my bars called 'Voodoo' has djs and live acts on the weekend, but we also have two revolving Spotify playlists + a huge, local files Itunes playlist. We use them on downtime and on weekdays. We use a 'day playlist' from 2pm - 7pm and a 'night playlist' from 7pm until 2am. I sometimes use theSE on house parties too, as they have a little bit of everything and work well as background music.
Voodoo Día: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/72IhufyFMawe4bClFQCy8F?si=eLi2RZ1jRgelI0_qyAx4Sg
Voodoo Noche: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0dAQfoZGFwKQ6j6Npuiu8w?si=EH_xN9SzSni4hruBZ503_Q
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 03:08 (four years ago) link
I love Callier's "Cotton Eyed Joe" so much.
― brechtian social distancing (Simon H.), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 03:31 (four years ago) link
Called this 'Self Isolating Sounds' but it's mostly just a bunch of lesser heard classics from the 60s and 70s that I really really love
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0XSqYti3E2T4cT9s5ZnOBA?si=6U_520RfQJK5_janw9QdMA
― doorstep jetski (dog latin), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 20:29 (four years ago) link
This is a real nice list, having a mellow afternoon listening to it.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 24 March 2020 21:36 (four years ago) link
Lots of good stuff in that self-isolating playlist.
btw as promised I redid my "today" playlist - whole different batch of songs now.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 25 March 2020 02:40 (four years ago) link
As a distraction from all this self-isolating I’ve started a mandala-like approach to making playlists. I made “A Playlist for Today” - roughly ten songs which I will delete and replace with roughly ten other songs every couple of days. First one is up and I’ll probably replace it with a new mix tomorrow:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5cgWPbrz6uBPlN9g846TZG?si=6UkzMIoRRFKOck3_ZCAsUg
Bumping to thank you for this and encourage others to listen – the latest iteration is a dreamy peach.
― Alba, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 14:46 (four years ago) link
Dog latin I'm really enjoying your playlist, those Roches songs are something else
― badg, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 16:56 (four years ago) link
Thank you Alba! They're fun to make. I assume no one but me is listening to them but I enjoy the game of trying to make a succinct mix - and all the more gratifying to know that anyone else is listening and enjoying.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 21 April 2020 23:19 (four years ago) link
I've found myself replaying old CD-R compilations and adding them to Spotify, for example:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4Is4SdGF7WSraCzcvdmJvg
― djh, Tuesday, 21 April 2020 23:31 (four years ago) link
awesome idea
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 08:29 (four years ago) link
I'm brand-new to spotify but one of the first things I did was to make a playlist featuring a song I remember from every year that I've been alive:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3PHnnD0zvVDNtVMNCVUehh(See if you can pick out where I went through treatment for addiction!)
― handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 10:22 (four years ago) link
Also just as a side note, can I say how profoundly unimpressed I am with Spotify's trash-tier user interface? Is there really no way to reorder or remove songs I've added to my "Now Playing" queue? No way to add an entire album or playlist to the queue? This is incredibly basic functionality that Apple had 15 years ago on a piece of hardware with five buttons, and I can only assume Spotify have deliberately left it out to make their own curated playlists and fake 'radio' service more appealing.
― handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 10:33 (four years ago) link
in the desktop app you can drag sounds around the queue and add albums from the three dots button at the top, not playlists though.
― a slice of greater pastry (ledge), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 10:37 (four years ago) link
sounds? songs.
same in the phone app too.
― a slice of greater pastry (ledge), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 10:39 (four years ago) link
oh weird, I thought I had installed & was using the desktop app, but I guess there's an actual full-featured version of the app! (the one that installed when I first started using it is pretty clearly just a re-skinned Google Chrome pointing at the Web Player)
― handsome boy modelling software (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 10:57 (four years ago) link
Wait - can you move songs around a queue on an Android?
― Alpha 666, The Number of the Beast (I M Losted), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 12:07 (four years ago) link
yeah, drag the three lines on the right.
― a slice of greater pastry (ledge), Wednesday, 22 April 2020 12:37 (four years ago) link
I've been making lots of playlist lately
90s one - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0mlUE8D3kn3JYGr0MADDwj?si=22Cgti1cRsu1DMjipBxtiA
Jazz - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Azy2dnS7yKxziGZXrNJ4j?si=z9x7Xci6S9i5PAEYfMOf4A
Country music - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1ZGYc4pZzw1KL9XICyr0Yj?si=tB_aks9iSn6edmDyxkxTwQ
All sorts (laid back groovy stuff) -https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4tBeCEz4sawjFQI8QQVl7v?si=kIwMNSFSR22WFDHcWZS_oQ
Gritty psychedelic stuff - https://open.spotify.com/playlist/571ejORog3nLqrYadDyEKD?si=9844iLfGTxeKbeNjj_KQEA
― Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Saturday, 23 May 2020 19:30 (four years ago) link
I haven't been very much active in the playlist making. This is the only new one I've made and the one I'm listening to the most:
Quarantine Summer Mix:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2Ekk8UJl2YvzAWphF4d0NS?si=onCZ_TrSQpa4Tt17oFNGlw
It's mostly deep house + hip house + downtempo and a dash of what I suppose could be considered indie pop. It's a 'chill' sort of playlist if you will, I guess it's the sort of music that generates me the less anxiety on this quarantine.
Yé-yé et Retro Chichttps://open.spotify.com/playlist/7eMG6GtxYxF0XPPmnAahzc?si=HWy3FIYdTZ6lPJHdHemkbw
I've also been listening to this one a lot, mostly in the mornings. It was originally made for a friend back in 2016 who wanted some recommendations on a french yeye + retro chic sort of mood and it was set to private ever since. I guess it needs a bit of polish here and there but it's a fun listen.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 23 May 2020 20:23 (four years ago) link
Oh, I thought I'd posted this somewhere but perhaps I haven't. This was my attempt at a *now* mix:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/33aFZ6aGAcIdmheZOJ2HhB
― djh, Sunday, 24 May 2020 10:14 (four years ago) link
Now with a 40-track playlist for each year dating back to 1965, like-sized playlists of charting R&B singles from 1970 through 1999, a changing two-hour playlist of (mostly) current stuff (plus a repository), and other foolywang (all with minimal overlap): https://open.spotify.com/user/avilyn. Tracklists with links: https://www.andykellman.com/
― Andy K, Sunday, 24 May 2020 15:01 (four years ago) link
Thought this revival would be related to the recent passing of ILX0r Ρεμπετολογια and his gigantic playlists linked to upthread, such as https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1mhT8G19F2INMMVit9jLiF?si=4vbVF6ukSd2bxPe-hBPfXQ
― Spocks on the Run (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 May 2020 15:08 (four years ago) link
I've spent the last few months making a Best of 2019 playlist. Now finished at 207 tracks:https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7hlCt0ivBqIhcgmeBcPGH5?si=PoRyQWYXTA-qtZViM5-xaA
― jaymc, Thursday, 28 May 2020 16:41 (three years ago) link