Spotify - anyone heard of it?

they call me the believer

ancient sea on the toss of the world

lol i hope song meanings is right:

Hulk Hogan flashing all across the world

who does music recommendations the best? apparently facebook and google are launching their own APIs for this. who do they need to topple? pandora? echonest? last.fm?

here you go: http://bit.ly/2CilC7

Rdio uses Echonest so is actually pretty great. I think I'm going to switch and give them my money instead of Spotify.

I dunno crut! Since they don't have any Fatima Mansions or Microdisney albums, I assumed there'd be no Pigmeat or Moms Mabley.

afaik Pigmeat Markham's recorded comedy is a lot more historically significant than Microdisney

Two Coyle and Sharpe albums!

i wish spotify would team up with datpiff or whoever to include rap mixtapes

probably sample clearance issues with that

Recommendations are hard. But if your idea of a recommendation is "You've been listening to a lot of song by artist lately. Play now?", where song is a song I listened to once, 4 months ago, then your problem is not that recommendations are hard, it's that you are acting in bad faith, filling in boxes on a feature checklist instead of caring about music or people or freedom. Ditto "Owner of a Lonely Heart was huge when you were a teenager. Play now?" and "You listened to Charlotte Church. Check out Olivia Newton-John."

Presumably they're keeping track of how successful the different templates are, maybe it will switch up after a few months' worth of data. With this stuff though I always assume that I (and other big music fans) are looking for a different kind of recommendation engine to 95% of users.

so maybe there needs to be one kind of recommendation engine for the casual punter and another kind for the hardcore music fan?

If it's worth their while - how many hardcore music fans are there? how influential are they?

- fewer than you think
- less than you think

that said, they are the first adopters of pretty much any new service so it needs to work well for them too or the service is going to get bad word-of-mouth

so i guess in that sense they're influential but if you're talking about the influence of hardcore music fans on what, say, a record label plans on investing in over the next year it's close to zero

I keep listening to these best of the year lists, so it's all "We noticed you listened to Marvin Gaye and After the Fire recently, how about some Earth Wind and Fire?"

It'd be great if it was just stringing words together like ELIZA or Dr. Sbaitso. I NOTICED YOU LISTENING TO SIMPLY REDD AND KRISS KROSS, HOW ABOUT SOME RED KROSS?

They got me this morning wtih a Meredith Monk recommendation for people who listen to Matthew Shipp, because I said, oh, let's see what Meredith Monk is up to. (Though it's probably too early in the morning for MM, for me.)

(And I see they don't exactly have a lot. Some new remixes. I think I will pass on Meredith Monk remixes.)

"You've been listening to a lot of song by artist lately. Play now?"

yeah those are super dumb. also I used Spotify a lot around Christmastime to play Xmas music for my daughter (which she got way too into and wanted to hear over and over of course, until finally sometime around April she moved on to something else) and now I'm constantly getting hit with "You haven't listened to 'You're a Mean One Mr. Grinch' in a while" and I'm like YOU'RE GODDAMN RIGHT I HAVEN'T GET OFF MY SCREEN.

God, you should see our netflix queue.

Still can't believe they haven't worked out how to do playlist durations. motherfuckers.

Last.fm's recommendations/radio-generator stuff seems to work really well. They should just steal that.

but then again they have over 10 years of data to work with.

Spotify probably have a comparable amount of data though.

If you like Broadcast try Suicide.

An even meaner record store clerk

The inaccuracy is bad, but it's the incredible smallness that really irks me. You've got 20 million tracks to play with, and the best you're even going to try to do is ask me if I want to hear something I've already heard again? An individual song? Not even an informative histogram of my listening habits over time? You do have computers there, don't you?

The record-store-clerk experience we're trying to make possible, I would think, is the one where no matter what you ask them about, they have a secret room in back that's full of stuff like that. And repeat.

If they just had the recommendations and not the reminders, I think I'd like it a lot better. Most of my recs actually make sense, except for all the cases where Spotify tells me to check out some artist it knows I've already listened to.

A new low: "Abracadabra (Round N' Round) [Radio Edit] was huge when you were a teenager. Play now?" And the linked song is a horrific 2012 club remake erroneously listed as by the Steve Miller Band.

Probably been asked before, but do many of the "rolling" 2013 threads have their own playlists? I am on the bobbins one and find it useful.

that's a good one. one for reminiscing about around the virtual fire of 2033 with frenz. is there a nostalgia of disgust/contempt? must be. xp

I'm getting annoying by all these "this song was huge when you were a teenager" things. That song came out when I was 30! Where are you getting your data from, Spotify?

the only one I like is "you recently listened to [for example] The Joe Perry Project. Want to play it again now?" because when that is in fact what you wanna do it's immensely satisfying. you're God damn right I wanna play that thing, enjoyed listening to it and it'll hit the spot right now, good lookin out Spotify

Since you listened to Neil Young, you might be interested in this new release by Bob Dylan.

Spotify is just straight trollin' me now.

if you go through intense genre phases then spotify recommendations are for the most part on point. for instance i've pretty much only been listening to disco and '80s r&b and i got recommended a taste of honey

Since you listened to Neil Young, you might be interested in this new release by Bob Dylan.

Spotify is just straight trollin' me now.

― Kissin' Cloacas (Viceroy), Wednesday, August 28, 2013 7:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what is wrong with this

Ha yeah I thought the same thing, seems like a pretty straightforward recommendation

Spotify just told me that Poolside have been listening to a lot of Nature Sounds Nature Music, I wonder if they're having trouble sleeping. It was a good recommendation. Overall I really like the discover thing.

Just got a rec for "Minnie Ripperton", presumably because I sometimes listen to Minnie Riperton.

You listened to Shuggie Otis this week. Want to try The Durutti Column?

uninspired information, spotify

xp primarily the "new release" part.

http://i.imgur.com/McF5V6k.png

Some amusing choices in there http://open.spotify.com/user/record_club_umc

spotify, like everyone else, insists i should listen to swans

IT'S A TRAP

(j/k you should listen to Swans)

limp bizkit weezer damian marley now that's music

You listened to They Might Be Giants. Like to hear the new album?

(1998's Severe Tire Damage)