Spotify - anyone heard of it?

ok we might have a winner

"Since you listened to LaBelle, you might like this new release by Christopher Cross."

If I start to find bands recommending The Cure or Depeche Mode for everything then I know DJP is working for spotify

the new release in question, inspired by my checking out the LaBelle's '71 self-titled album, is two discs of Chris live in Paris, 2012.

You listened to Siouxsie and the Banshees. Check out Tangerine Dream.

If I start to find bands recommending The Cure or Depeche Mode for everything then I know DJP is working for spotify

Like the Beach Boys and the Byrds? Check out Depeche Mode.

"You listened to Simon & Garfunkel. Check out Blondie."

I got The Slits recommended on the back of listening to Throwing Muses and Can...

You listened to These New Puritans this week. Like to try Le Tigre?

"You listened to Electric Light Orchestra this week. Like to try Dion?"

recommendations suck everywhere but i am pissed about losing the "what's new" section they had, meager as it was, as a way to find out about stuff they'd recently added

"You listened to Matthew Sweet. Check out Oingo Boingo."

xp

Is Top Lists, under Apps, the same content as the old What's New?

nope

you now have to follow their new releases playlist to see what's been added:

http://open.spotify.com/user/spotifyusa/playlist/3dEjWfgB5jC6zn6tLoy9yy

"You listened to The London Suede. Check out the English Beat."

While reading The Scottish Play?

tbf "You listened to Morphine this week. Like to try Son House?" is exactly what an older record store clerk would have said twenty years ago.

xp thx DJP, following that playlist now

"Since you listened to The Byrds, you might like this new release by Devo."

you now have to follow their new releases playlist to see what's been added:

http://open.spotify.com/user/spotifyusa/playlist/3dEjWfgB5jC6zn6tLoy9yy

― DJP, Friday, June 28, 2013 5:40 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Now if only there was a way to sort by most recent...I see some stuff in there that was released a few weeks back

Because I tend to be in soundrop underground metal room a lot most of my recommendations aren't bizarre but this one made me snigger

"Since you listened to Coalesce, you might like this new release by Cunter"

Never heard of them but I want beavis & butthead to review them!

xxp: The new releases playlist has been there forever and was always more comprehensive than the "what's new" page, which is probably why they jettisoned the page. You can sort by when things were added, which is probably as close as you're going to get to sorting by release date.

I take it back. EMF and Queensryche??? Like fuck will I ever listen to Queensryche! (also I only heard megadeth because someone played the lolsy new song)
http://i.imgur.com/VuVx7GI.jpg

otoh this is proof dan is involved with Spotify!
http://i.imgur.com/TKUgNpz.jpg

You listened to Steely Dan. Check out the drummer from Gay Dad

You listened to Wire. Check out Autechre.

kinda not crazy?

thanks for the new releases playlist, i missed knowing what came out on tuesday

their Byrds algorithm is kinda messed up:

"If you like the Byrds, try Depeche Mode"

"You listened to the Byrds, here's an album you might like (picture of Talk Talk - Laughing Stock)

"Since you listened to the Byrds, you might like this new release by DEVO (reissue of Hardcore DEVO vol.1)"

There are a lot of little things about Spotify that suggest "not programmed by people who actually love music," which is a shame since on the whole it's such a great program. E.g. the fact that there are so many cases of multiple bands with the same name sharing a page, the fact that all the offbrand comps crowd out the albums, the bizarre chronological organization, the lack of advanced search capabilities, etc.

that there are so many cases of multiple bands with the same name sharing a page

^^this is annoying for me because one of my favorite fahey type guitar players is named glenn jones but he's in the database with another glenn jones who looks to have been a pop/R&B gospel singer from the late 80s/90s, which fucks up the recommendations engine

apparently my band's name from back in the mid 90s has been adopted by multiple bands since then, can I sue?

moodles u guys weren't the first band called nirvana, sorry mate

LIAR!

"If you like the Byrds, try Depeche Mode"

haha! this thread has made me lol on multiple occasions, thanks to all.

I'd love to see the recs you get!

where do i look for recommendations?

i think this is my favorite

"You listened to Electric Light Orchestra this week. Like to try Dion?"

it can be especially miserable to wade through classical composers' pages, plus sometimes there are mulitple pages with different spellings of the composer's name. Seems like it should be easy enough to just get some nerdy interns to clear all that up.

Also if you use Soundrop you get bands rooms recommended for you too.
http://i.imgur.com/VHYbCNf.png

1349 the only rec I'm not into.

Some of favorites:

You listened to Fats Domino, you might like this new release by the Moody Blues

Since you listened to Hank Williams, you might like this release by the Allmann Brothers Band

Since you listened to Primal Scream, you might like this new release by Devo

You listened to Otis Redding, you might like this release by America

You listened to DMX, you might like this song: Ice Cube "Get Off My Dick and Tell Yo Bitch to Come Here"

some of my favorites

where do i access these? i've looked all around! is this a paying subscriber bonus feature? nonstop lols?

Right at the top of the left-hand column there should be a "Discover" menu item?

My top rec: You listened to Thelma Houston and Odyssey. Here's a song you might like: "The Pop Group - We Are Time".

I don't see anything that says Discover, but I am not a paying member. It recently told me to listen to this choir called Belpor Chor singing Bésame Mucho. It's pretty good!

Or maybe you don't have the latest client? Dunno.

Since you listened to Primal Scream, you might like this new release by Devo

really pushing devo!

it also thinks i should be eating more mcnuggets

ok i updated

"Check out Blake Shelton. Trending near you."

and lolololol
"You listened to New Order. Check out Morrissey."

apparently the eagles are now on spotify

Yeah, all this Devo has to have something to do with the spiked number of plays they've gotten this week.

Eagles seem to come and go on this thing.