It only talks to you if you ask it to, dude.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 16:46 (one year ago) link
It's always listening, though. Like a good friend
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 16:47 (one year ago) link
(It only listens if you ask it to, too...)
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 14 March 2023 16:49 (one year ago) link
i pressed the button that i thought was the queue. it started talking.
everything's gone now and the queue is back to normal across the board. no "DJ" anyway. "add to playlist" has returned for local files on android only.
― ''can be prusuaded to show gayness'' (Austin), Tuesday, 14 March 2023 17:08 (one year ago) link
anyway=anywhere
Kind of interesting, from a business perspective, how they got snaked on HiFi audio (and still haven’t launched it).
― chemtrails over the turkey club (morrisp), Thursday, 16 March 2023 00:23 (one year ago) link
I got the new mobile version with an update today. Haha - it's laughably shit. Huge videos on the home screen for 'new' playlists or albums I might like, that autoplay as you scroll down. And no way to turn them off as yet. Utter wank.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 21:07 (one year ago) link
They're probably waiting to offer Joe Rogan in quadrophonic.
― can i play with march madness? (PBKR), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 22:14 (one year ago) link
The mobile version is utter shit now, nearly unusable.
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 23:04 (one year ago) link
There are other options.
― can i play with march madness? (PBKR), Tuesday, 21 March 2023 23:06 (one year ago) link
Spotify sent me an e-mail about this new release and I can't imagine what I've listened to that's even remotely similar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zcM9ziaNOg
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 04:43 (one year ago) link
I got the same email and wondered the same thing. I'm guessing these guys have a ton of promotional cash out there to push this to as many people as possible.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 05:16 (one year ago) link
Also took the chance to unsubscribe to marketing e-mails I certainly never asked for and probably should have flagged as spam on Gmail.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 4 April 2023 05:57 (one year ago) link
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/4/23670193/spotify-live-shut-down-obamas-audible-amazon-jay-shetty-iheart
Use Spotify most days. Never heard of Spotify Live. It was another app? Hey how about throwing podcasts into another app?
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 5 April 2023 13:27 (one year ago) link
I see they are still semi arbitrarily messing around with the interface. They cut off the queue at 80 which wasn't true a couple of days back I think and certainly not a couple of weeks back. Had the queue I was listening through disappear on me afew days ago and only built up over last few days so not sure exactly when it changed.But now won't add titles beyond position 81. So is this another temporary move or what.
THink it has been changing a bit over the last few weeks but is it still semi random or is there some hierarchy of permissions to set controls
― Stevo, Wednesday, 5 April 2023 13:55 (one year ago) link
It's incredible how we're nearing a time when stunning architectural and interior design renderings come at almost no cost! 🏠 Imagination once meant visualization, but with AI, it's becoming moot. What will we still have to imagine? 🤔 https://t.co/YcrPuen9LP— Daniel Ek (@eldsjal) April 13, 2023
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Friday, 14 April 2023 04:58 (one year ago) link
Something I really appreciate on Spotify is old singles appearing on it (often with photos of the original label) and the correct date of original release in the metadata. I'm surprised it happens, as it seems far from the usual ebb and flow of catalogues getting dumped on and off there. I can't imagine what the commercial context is for things like Mark A Mitchell's 1983 single 'How Can I?' suddenly appearing, for example.
https://open.spotify.com/track/643ojjjenyR15q32CkaQmg?si=d7c751ad90234428
― Alba, Monday, 17 April 2023 09:45 (one year ago) link
i've officially stumbled upon the weirdest thing i've ever seen.on a spotify radio this week, 1 song annoyingly kept playing. except every time I looked, it was a different song name and artist entirely.so I started keeping track. here's 49 of them.https://t.co/VrmYPyQQqg pic.twitter.com/ejrwf11Oc6— ADAM FAZE (@adamfaze) April 18, 2023
― StanM, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 09:57 (one year ago) link
spotify down for anyone else?
― ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 14:49 (one year ago) link
everything seems okay on my end?
― ''i am the kanye west kanye west thinks he is.'' (Austin), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 14:57 (one year ago) link
There were issues, but they've been fixed.
The crapfest that Adam Faze stepped in is far from the only weird cluster of stuff people deliver to Spotify. Not our doing, but I agree that we attract blame for it if it finds its way into radio...
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 16:10 (one year ago) link
I wonder if that's really the weirdest thing he's ever seen. If so, charmed life
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 17:04 (one year ago) link
^ this, yeah
― StanM, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 17:15 (one year ago) link
Feel like having utterly shit taste is the only way you’d ever stumble on that.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 19 April 2023 19:32 (one year ago) link
I’ve never listened to “Spotify Radio” but I’m sure they stream all kinds of crap
― brimstead, Wednesday, 19 April 2023 20:17 (one year ago) link
i'm sorry if this has been addressed either in this huge thread or elsewhere—
why are there so many instances of multiple listings for the same album? i'm looking at the eurythmics catalogue right now and there's three listings for their first album: one specifies that's a 2018 remaster and has ten tracks, one has no extra indicators and poorly cropped cover art, and the third also has no extra indicators but bonus tracks. their whole spotify is like this and it's ridiculous. WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS????
― W E F L Y T O G E T H E R (Austin), Saturday, 22 April 2023 18:09 (one year ago) link
yep I hate it
― nashwan, Saturday, 22 April 2023 19:40 (one year ago) link
Licensing is complicated. There are actually 7 versions of In the Garden, but only 5 of them are available in the US, and we manage to group two pairs of those to whittle the visible list down to 3.
https://everynoise.com/artistprofile.cgi?id=0NKDgy9j66h3DLnN8qu1bB
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 22 April 2023 21:26 (one year ago) link
Yeah complaining that “too many things are available via streaming” makes it seem a bit like a no-win situation (and you’ll run into the same issue if you’re trying to buy the CD or whatever).
― morrisp.fandom.com (morrisp), Saturday, 22 April 2023 23:21 (one year ago) link
Also, can’t you figure out the one you want and save it to your library or whatever?
― morrisp.fandom.com (morrisp), Saturday, 22 April 2023 23:23 (one year ago) link
thanks for the link and for your time glenn.
― W E F L Y T O G E T H E R (Austin), Sunday, 23 April 2023 02:57 (one year ago) link
also sorry if my earlier post came off angry. should have added a lol or two because it wasn't meant in an irritated way.
― W E F L Y T O G E T H E R (Austin), Sunday, 23 April 2023 03:01 (one year ago) link
I don't mind too much about the duplicates, except that, as I moaned upthread, sometimes you find you've liked a track twice from two versions of the same album and you unlike one for tidiness and then both get unliked.
― Alba, Sunday, 23 April 2023 21:18 (one year ago) link
It can be equally annoying if an album is ONLY available in a deluxe 72 track version
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Monday, 24 April 2023 13:50 (one year ago) link
I've had an update today - desktop & web player - with a total redesign of how the Your Library section functions. Essentially, all the functionality of the library is now managed in an expanded/expandable left-hand column, with buttons across the top for Playlists, Albums, Artists & Podcasts (FFS). Each element of the library opens within that left-hand column; there's also a 'search library' function, separate from the usual Search function, that works within the left column, too. You can organise by recent/recently added/alphabetical/creator. There's a fair amount of autonomy with real estate, as in you can stretch the library as far as you might want to.
Individual albums/playlists then open in the right-hand column. Home and Search buttons are in the left column but once clicked functionality is managed in the right-hand column.
I don't hate it actually.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 24 April 2023 20:36 (one year ago) link
Brought to you by a very bored and boring man.
― Shard-borne Beatles with their drowsy hums (Chinaski), Monday, 24 April 2023 20:37 (one year ago) link
It looks nice but I'm so used to the tree view (which is still on the web player for now) now I'm finding it takes more clicks to navigate to playlists and end up typing to get to some. Poor response times also.
― nashwan, Monday, 24 April 2023 22:00 (one year ago) link
The arrows still open folders in the tree view...
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 24 April 2023 23:10 (one year ago) link
^ took me a while to realise that admittedly (because clicking on the rest of the playlist 'button' opens the contents like a new page if it's a folder. To be a little more constructive, I guess it's just not being able to see as many playlists at once in that view now irking me but I'd be cooler with it if instead of showing the playlist creator's username with very playlist (not useful if most of the playlists are your own) it showed the number of tracks in it (again just personal preference but I'd love this).
― nashwan, Thursday, 27 April 2023 12:15 (one year ago) link
Could you maybe have stuff in your queue?― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, March 4, 2023 8:19 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, March 4, 2023 8:19 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
Since this post, I have caught myself accidentally putting stuff in my queue from time to time. Thanks for the troubleshooting, glenn.
― peace, man, Thursday, 27 April 2023 13:09 (one year ago) link
Just fat fingers, I guess.
― peace, man, Thursday, 27 April 2023 13:10 (one year ago) link
New menu is a bit hair triggered. I just tried clicking on a space within the designation to find taht it started playing instead of what I was trying to listen to. I had just been trying to see if a show on my library list had any new episodes that I wasn't aware of.Haven't liked the interface being very iffy about picking up a track/episode and shift it up the playlist queue for a while. Either doesn't pick up or may start playing and feels like the process is only minutely different. Also trying to pick up a specific track and finding it crosses a highlighted one to be replaced, or just gets left behind without you knowing. Is there a feel I'm just not getting so far, like trying to avoid one thing you wind up doping another. Ho hum. & if it's anything it's level of pressure of touch which doesn't seem to be a constant.
― Stevo, Saturday, 29 April 2023 08:53 (one year ago) link
I find this interface really dodgy.I thought you could click on the icon or below where the text was and just wound up with the show starting. So not sure how you get this menu thing to work if you're only seeing thumbnail for whole show as in not episode specific.Again was trying to avoid things that worked negatively before. & did think these menu items were there to allow further investigation not just as play right now. Like trying to work out what to cue vs arbitrarily going for anything within the designation. JUst seems a bit full blown wrong really
― Stevo, Saturday, 29 April 2023 09:39 (one year ago) link
I'm not really following you, sorry. Which "menu" are you discussing, and what do you mean by "the designation"?
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 29 April 2023 13:23 (one year ago) link
haven't tooled with desktop a lot since this change but I'm surprised they saw fit to make it this complex
― maf you one two (maffew12), Saturday, 29 April 2023 13:26 (one year ago) link
New set up has what was a different page called Library incorporated into teh left hand column of the main page menu.I think people had been talking about taht over teh last few days. I'm not getting all updates of new episodes so thought I would check the titles/thumbnails of the shows and instead of being able to look at theings at teh same time as listening to the show or track I was playing it just switched the audio onto an episode of the show. Not sure if tehy were even current episode and thumbnail should take you to a place where you could choose the episode you listened to since the library page had that option. So again, hating the interface. THought it looked ok when I first saw it but seems to be pretty flawed .
― Stevo, Saturday, 29 April 2023 19:26 (one year ago) link
a thing i was curious about is whether the recent big jumps in large language model power can be used to radically optimise recommendations. it feels somewhat uh instinctively (i'm not a data scientist) like they should, given the large amount of a) structured data and b) user insight spotify has. apologies doing a shameless 'hi glenn i has a question' post. a friend of mine was moaning about spotify recommendations saying 'last.fm was better' - that hasn't been my experience particularly - 'ze algorithms' will often surface something that counts as a proper 'discovery' for me and this particular gripe felt more like 'person moans about thing not being like another thing' but it did generate this question!
― Fizzles, Monday, 1 May 2023 07:50 (one year ago) link
I've enjoyed getting recomendations from teh program but since they keep changing everything around continually the space taht used to have the recommendations on disappears for months. I see it has returned recently but i think it is so far repeating things i already know. Have been surprised in teh past. Which actually surprises me since I am already aware of a large amount of music.
― Stevo, Monday, 1 May 2023 10:02 (one year ago) link
actually that’s a good point: discover weekly used to be generally v good for me. i just went hunting for it, and it’s completely off beam now. though that may be because i’m listening to a lot more cds and bandcamp these days, and spotify has become more of an erratic “ok let’s see” place.
― Fizzles, Monday, 1 May 2023 10:45 (one year ago) link
Is the interface in Spotify still being semi randomly updated to check out what individual designers want to have a go at as it has seemed fro teh last couple of years or is there a more organised process by which things are being done. & is everybody else having teh same experience with thumbnails not leading to menus but starting new tracks/shows playing.
Again I tried to get to a menu for a show that should have had a new episode today and tried to click on an area of the box designation for the thumbnail plus details that had worked before to get to menu to have the audio flicked over to a semi random episode. New episode hadn't come in yet anyway. So is that happening to everybody else too or is it a fault in the set up I'm using. & not sure how I'd break taht down further, Ubuntu through a computer that's a few years old or whatever. Would hope that an interface that worked on several layers of menus wouldn't arbitrarily bypass them. Would think that would be recognised to be a design flaw.
― Stevo, Monday, 1 May 2023 14:46 (one year ago) link