10,000 songs per device on five devices, like three years after the horse bolted
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 13 September 2018 20:42 (five years ago) link
sonos drove me crazy for awhile, but at least they find the speakers. spotify cannot seem to regularly find the speakers through the "devices available" button. don't know who's at fault. anyway, I'm addicted to the sonos app queueing system now
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 13 September 2018 20:50 (five years ago) link
the hit box for the three vertical dots in the sonos app's tracks lists is also hilariously small. it is basically the exact same setup as spotify but not usable - you either select the track to play now or cause the hidden scroll bar to appear. I only recently learned that you can select and hold the track to bring up the same menu in both apps.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 13 September 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
Using the web player (since I can't install the app at work.) Seems the order of my albums, which used to be alphabetical by artist, are now ordered by the date that I added them. Would really like to revert to the original view.
Excellent news for my use! Odd that the web player can't change the order.
― maffew12, Thursday, 13 September 2018 22:33 (five years ago) link
Er, I still see the folder contents in the Mac version, at least. Which client are you using?
PC desktop version. Some folders still seem to work, but most of them just do this when I click on them:https://image.ibb.co/naqqpp/Untitled.png
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 14 September 2018 00:49 (five years ago) link
Release Radar is better this week, no weird same-name bands, a nice selection across genres
― Brad C., Saturday, 15 September 2018 00:07 (five years ago) link
only yesterday did I realize how the local music function works - I can actually sync the bootlegs and rarities on my PC onto my phone!
trick is to activate local music (basically just point to your music folder(s)) on the desktop app, create a playlist with the local tracks you want to play on the go, then download that list from mobile device (needs to be on same wifi as desktop, I believe)
there's probably all sorts of limitations (no flac for one) but I'm streaming my Hissing of Summer Lawns demos on the go now, and it rules!
― niels, Saturday, 15 September 2018 09:00 (five years ago) link
Yes, they don't make this obvious!
― Alba, Saturday, 15 September 2018 09:25 (five years ago) link
Having Spotify pick up all my local music made the app hopelessly unuseable so now I am copying local tracks in my playlists to a dedicated folder just for the app to refer to. Pretty dumb but at least it finds them instantly now.
― nashwan, Saturday, 15 September 2018 11:19 (five years ago) link
And yeah we could probably use a 'I don't like remixes of this artist' as much as the 'I don't like this song/artist' option in RR.
― nashwan, Saturday, 15 September 2018 11:54 (five years ago) link
I spoke too soon about the absence of same-name bands in this week's RR ... rap Santana is not elderly Santana
― Brad C., Saturday, 15 September 2018 12:40 (five years ago) link
is that a Juelz Santana track that’s been tagged as just Santana or is there a new rap Santana
― ▫◌▫ (sic), Saturday, 15 September 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
not sure, here's the track -- https://open.spotify.com/track/0DN9l3WjYWqTf6GEOQnCG6
― Brad C., Saturday, 15 September 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/sep/19/spotify-sued-gender-discrimination-equal-pay-violation
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Wednesday, 19 September 2018 12:07 (five years ago) link
lol "Out on the Weekend" on my Discover Weekly!
― niels, Monday, 24 September 2018 07:00 (five years ago) link
Why are all the songs in Prince's Lovesexy lumped into one continuous 45:03 track?
― growing up in publix (morrisp), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 22:01 (five years ago) link
lol
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 22:02 (five years ago) link
Only Prince can answer that one
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 22:02 (five years ago) link
lol @ post-CD era ilxors
― sleeve, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link
(morris I like you, but yah this is legit funny)
OK, I looked it up:
The early edition of the compact disc features all content on a single track. Some later editions featured nine separate tracks. The single track version of the album is available for purchase at digital stores such as Google Play and the iTunes Store. For streaming services such as Apple Music and Spotify, the album is also listed as one track.
I was supposed to know this offhand? LOL
― growing up in publix (morrisp), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 22:10 (five years ago) link
(I'm hardly "post-CD era," just never owned this CD!)
I had “Batman” on cassette, if that helps establish my cred.
― growing up in publix (morrisp), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 22:16 (five years ago) link
Good lord, this thread just days away from being ten years old.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 22:41 (five years ago) link
Ten years ago,On a cold, dark night
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 23:01 (five years ago) link
some poor musicians were robbed'neath the town hall light
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 23:09 (five years ago) link
I signed up for a (trial) subscription a few days ago, after resisting doing that (for any streaming service) for so long.
― growing up in publix (morrisp), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 23:18 (five years ago) link
it's such a thrill, hope you enjoy it
― niels, Thursday, 27 September 2018 07:13 (five years ago) link
she hopes these songs have a long, long taaaaaaailshe scrobbles herself, it's a royalty faaaaaaailnobody knowsnobody seesthese premium tiers (tears) aren't freeeee
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 27 September 2018 11:39 (five years ago) link
you can use google to search for playlists containing specific songs, for example:site:spotify.com inurl:playlist "pour aisha"
I was thinking this might help me find songs similar to some of my favorite deep cuts
can't say it's paid off yet
― niels, Thursday, 27 September 2018 14:11 (five years ago) link
Pretty awesome find anyway, thanks!
― anatol_merklich, Thursday, 27 September 2018 15:20 (five years ago) link
Lol, Tracer
― Harper Valley CTA-102 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 27 September 2018 15:57 (five years ago) link
Still no lossless option. OK, a premium option is going to be a niche market but if people are willing to pay extra for a higher quality option then I’m sure they could easily monetise it. If it wasn’t for 8 years of playlists, I’d be considering Tidal.
https://www.avclub.com/it-is-with-a-heavy-heart-that-we-report-that-tidal-is-g-1829329262
― Dan Worsley, Sunday, 30 September 2018 13:37 (five years ago) link
I'm all for higher bitrates (why not) but I've AB'd enough formats and tracks with different bitrates to be p skeptical when reading stuff like "Tidal’s music is punchier and scuzzier and sweeter exactly when it should be. Put on something you’ve heard a thousand times and try it from a few different sources, and you’ll be able to hear the difference"
― niels, Monday, 1 October 2018 07:30 (five years ago) link
Wow, i gotta say, that at least from a "variety of artists" angle, Spotify is fucking awesome!!! Linton Kwesi Johnson, The Residents, Gene Clark, Minutemen, Peter Grudzien, Shaggs, Lee Perry, A Certain Ratio, Pearls Before Swine, Screaming Trees, Gong, Motorhead, Parliament/Funkadelic, Leonard Cohen , Thelonious Monk, Kevin Drumm, and The Sonics! All one after the other. It's like a good set on WFMU. Which is very good, indeed. Much more "deep", IMHO, than the competitio. Infinitely deeper than YouTube's new attempt at curated radio, that's for damn sure. I should've got this as soon as i got this phone. I certainly will from now on.
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Thursday, 4 October 2018 01:31 (five years ago) link
CompetitioN, that is. Meaning, of course, Pandora, that new YouTube p.o.s. Etc. Anyway, yes i know i'm late to the party on this, but so far i'm definitely liking it.
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Thursday, 4 October 2018 01:39 (five years ago) link
And lots of Scott Walker!!
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Thursday, 4 October 2018 01:43 (five years ago) link
This thread is mostly tech support now, right? Because my app has suddenly got suuuuuper janky the last few days - randomly stops, starts, skips tracks, as if someone else’s is controlling it. It’s driving me nuts.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 4 October 2018 01:47 (five years ago) link
Oh well, i was just throwing that out there. I wasn't sure where to drop it. I know i'm very late to the Spotify "party". In any case, please continue and don't let my newbie enthusiasms derail things. Good luck with your situation. I hope it all pans out for u.
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Thursday, 4 October 2018 02:25 (five years ago) link
Oh no, I wasn’t talking specifically to you - you did drop that in the right place. I was being facetious about my own troubles.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 4 October 2018 02:54 (five years ago) link
This shuffle thing is driving me nuts. I'm quickly turning into a shuffle truther.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 4 October 2018 05:29 (five years ago) link
wait, what's the shuffle truth? i want to believe
― Karl Malone, Thursday, 4 October 2018 05:32 (five years ago) link
It refuses to include certain songs and even entire albums in the shuffle. It also plays certain songs way more than it should. For some reason, it takes a weeks for new tracks in my list to enter the shuffle rotation. I just want a real shuffle.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 4 October 2018 05:35 (five years ago) link
as much as I like Spotify, I have to say I am also a shuffle truther
― niels, Thursday, 4 October 2018 06:13 (five years ago) link
Personally, i've had those sorts of problems with basically every computer-based music player when in shuffle mode. Whole albums ignored for days and yet, such and such song gets played 12 times in same time frame. And thats winamp, wmp, vlc, shit i can't remember all their names, but every last one was flawed, in that mode. These days i just go alphabetical. Usually works well.
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Thursday, 4 October 2018 06:32 (five years ago) link
And i do that on my Android phone as well.
― VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Thursday, 4 October 2018 06:34 (five years ago) link
The truther part really ramps up when I hit shuffle, then pull up the queue and carefully inspect it, then play the last song in the queue, so that it refreshes, then inspect it again, over and over, looking for clues.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 4 October 2018 13:48 (five years ago) link
haha
― niels, Thursday, 4 October 2018 14:09 (five years ago) link
are some people are upset because shuffle isn't playing the stuff they want to hear? that's now how shuffle works
I mean sure it's sometimes going to play three songs from the same album relatively close together or will play some songs and albums more than others, this happens because it's random.
― silverfish, Thursday, 4 October 2018 14:49 (five years ago) link
https://saintlad.com/spotify-shuffle-play-is-not-random/
― sleeve, Thursday, 4 October 2018 14:51 (five years ago) link