Spotify - anyone heard of it?

''I've said all I need to say, so that just leaves being a dick some more''

Gute nacht arzt.

^ mods, FP count?

I think we're all aware that criticism of Spotify or its employees is grounds for instant ban on ILM. No need to get Sleeve on the case. I'll be gone by morning.

is this really the hill you want to godwin on

Godwin (and XKCD and various other bits) were crafted for different times. Regardless, that Spotify "Refugee" playlist is insane, and ought to also include the Tom Petty song and the Genesis song for all that it's good for.

which Tom Petty song? "Zombie Zoo"?

don't come around here no more

sorry was drunkenly referring to dlp, that was not conceived as a joke abt refugees or trump's executive order

take it to the irrationally angry thread, dlp

Hahaha at that spotify playlist... I might be wrong but it kind of has a concept tho... I guess it's about immigrant artists or something? MIA is from Sri Lanka, Freddie Mercury from Tanzania, Wyclef is from Haiti, Gloria Stefan from Cuba... but they're not refugees... it's a weird concept... (only refugee artist in there is Caetano I think?)

I wish there were more places to find political commentary online than on the front pages of our streaming services, but someone has to lead the charge I guess

it's really important that my music streaming service reflect my exact politics clearly, loudly and often, otherwise what's the point

i also like when it suggests political stances I haven't heard yet

it's called Discover

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/spotify-capitalizing-trump-travel-ban-230439592.html

I think they've added "The Immigrant Song" in case that helps.

people might have had similar reactions toward tidal if they'd known it exists

I think we just need a contest for great songs to add to the Spotify playlist. Let's be supportive. Did Roman Polanski record anything worth adding?

Did polanski do Zombie Zoo?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKJkfE1M9wA

dlp, did you suffer head trauma recently?

If you'd rather, here's one from Lin-Manuel Miranda: https://open.spotify.com/user/tobillo24601/playlist/284iTzCId32KEGwQLGKh1B

Can you post the Tidal link to that?

Yes. I'll post it on the Tidal thread. Go wait for it there.

Oh, just post it here. It's making a major impact on Trump, and deserves to be as widely heard as possible. I hear that the Spotify Refugee thread is making a lot of people rethink their attitudes towards Queen.

What the fuck is your problem?

I mean, do you realize that Queen was banned from all US sporting events for years, that their albums were restricted from sale at major outlets, and that they're barely known in the US, even by those who grew up during their heyday. It is seriously no fun being a ....refugee.

Luckily, as I understand it, Spotify is planning to move to the US to avoid the horrible restrictions on business in Sweden.

http://money.cnn.com/2016/04/13/news/companies/spotify-sweden-stockholm-new-york/index.html

As we all know, housing and education are just ducky in NY (glenn, you're from NY so probably have a lot of info on this). So it must be those, and not the stock options.

Is it possible to post an entire persona to the trenchant thread?

After you look up the definition of trenchant, perhaps. Look, we all love glenn. Without him, we wouldn't know which Popp and Jopp voter was the most like the 10th percentile of the top Jopp and Pazz voters. I get that. And he likes metal (now that Julianna Hatfield has taken out an order of protection). Rock on. Seriously. I loves me that Smoke on the Agua song. Anyway, Spotify. Refugees. Discuss.

yikes

http://i.imgur.com/3RQYJKn.gif

lotta people itt really don't remember what it's like to be 13 or a sock

I think spotify must have fucked the girl he was lusting after

Hahaha I kind of like how irrationaly angry this thread is.

well, just one poster

it's a weird beef for sure

socks come unravelled

is it a new feature for spotify to immediately start playing a related radio station once an album/playlist is over? wish it would ask instead of doing it automatically...

The same thing happened to me, it's really annoying. You can go to settings in the app (top right), choose playback then deselect Autoplay

what's wrong u don't like music

Yeah, it's very annoying, it even overrules tracks you had already queued up. Have adjusted the settings. Thanks, badg!

Glenn please hardcode autoplay into bespoke client for Tracer Hand txs

The autoplay radio "feature" happened to me when I was listening to downloaded music offline and it gobbled up the last of my data for the month by the time I'd realised what the fuck was playing. I had it set to only stream when connected to wifi as well!

Dude

thanks for the tip badg!

I have unlimited data so I didn't even think about it from that perspective but I'm sure spotify is gonna get a bunch of angry emails about this feature for sure... at the very least disable autoplay when not on wifi as default or something

I will pass along all this feedback about Autoplay...

this is weird but somehow I had saved two albums by the same band to play, I started playing one and it definitely played a few of those songs, and then for some reason, despite shuffle not being on, it jumped to the other album for no good reason (I didn't notice right away cos lol it was death metal and I hadn't listened to iether album enough to know the songs by heart).

turning shuffle on and back off fixed it.