Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Seems relevant to post here:
Spotify's Former Data Guru Tells All: A Conversation with Glenn McDonald

nice! look forward to the book

Long-time readers of this thread, where I've been before, during and after my long time at Spotify, will probably recognize many of the themes and sentiments in the book, but hopefully I did a better job of organizing them into a coherent whole than came across in individual comments here...

i'm very excited to purchase the book

I haven't popped in here to say "fuck these capitalist pigs" for a while, this is also relevant:

https://www.nme.com/news/music/music-fans-and-artists-hit-back-as-spotify-ceo-claims-the-cost-of-creating-content-is-close-to-zero-3761004

this guy is such a piece of shit

I use YouTube Music now. Tried a couple of scrobblers on my phone but they don't work :/

so they're still messing around with the interface while not improving it.

It’s basically become worse in every way in the last year

My book, mentioned above, is now out. It contains a lot of stuff about streaming, and a fair amount of stuff about Spotify as an example of streaming, but nothing at all about Daniel Ek.

Congrats on getting the book out Glenn!

link?

https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/you-have-not-yet-heard-your-favourite-song-how-streaming-changes-music-glenn-mcdonald/7590219

My copy just arrived! Exciting

awesome Glenn, just bought my copy

I'm in the middle of reading You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: How Streaming Changes Music. Quite interesting.

I just read the part of how the Recommended feature to add songs to your playlist causes problems and specifically caused Martina McBride anguish because it took 136 recommendations before her empty playlist named "Country Music" came up with a song not by a man. The book does a good job discussing the implications of that.

I never create empty playlists so never noticed this feature before but I'm not sure if it still works or not.

When I create a playlist "American Classical Music" on Windows anyway, the recommendations are mostly tracks I play from other genres - Led Zeppelin, Bardo Pond, obscure recorder music etc. It does include Terry Jennings, who was arguably an American Classical composer. And it has a song by Stereolab, John Cage Bubblegum, which is at least a reference to my somewhat obscure genre.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6H4wMlqU40uDKQTmjDAhFV?si=60643bd5b20f40d0