Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Who are the editors for Apple Music? Legit music journalists or celebrities who are likely having their assistants and management music select?
Serious question, i dunno.

Who are the editors for Apple Music - they have poached staff from bbc radio 1 and 6 music in the UK.

e.g: APPLE POACHES TOP PRODUCERS FROM BBC RADIO 1 FOR NEW SPOTIFY RIVAL
http://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/apple-poaches-top-producers-from-bbc-radio-1/

BBC 6 Music's Camilla Pia heading to Apple - sources
https://media.info/radio/news/bbc-6-musics-camilla-pia-heading-to-apple-sources

re: editorial staff - spotify already have teams of editorial staff throughout their global offices. Their the people who create the playlists. See Spotify Browse / Genres & Moods

did not know that bbc info
what i'm looking for from an editorial presence on a streaming service is more of the kind of writing emusic excelled at (and that many ilxors provided):
http://www.emusic.com/reviews/

Spotify unfortunately don't have a off platform Content Strategy. Considering the importance of content strategy, content marketing and content curation / blogging - I do find this rather baffling.

However, maybe this will change soon

as previously mentioned on this thread, re: George Ergatoudis

BBC RADIO 1’S GEORGE ERGATOUDIS JOINS SPOTIFY
http://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/bbc-radio-1s-george-ergatoudis-joins-spotify/

Spotify has confirmed the appointment of George Ergatoudis in the newly-created position of Head of Content Programming for the UK.

In his new role at Spotify, based in London, George Ergatoudis will be responsible for leading Spotify’s in-house music curation strategy and content programming for the UK.

Ergatoudis joins Spotify from the BBC where he was most recently Head of Music for BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra.

He takes up his new position in March.

however does his role extend off platform?

the person in charge of Spotify "Global Head of Curation"

Doug Ford
http://dougfordmusic.com/about-2/
Global Head of Curation/Director of Music Programming North America

Spotify unfortunately don't have a off platform Content Strategy

Well they do though, or at least they are experimenting, i.e. http://techcrunch.com/2016/03/03/facebook-messenger-spotify/

and

https://www.facebook.com/games/get-spotify

and

http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/faqs#why_do_i_have_to_export_tracks

and etc

"Seeing movies and listening to music suggested to us by algorithms is relatively harmless, I suppose. But I hope that once in a while the users of those services resist the recommendations; our exposure to art shouldn’t be hemmed in by an algorithm that we merely want to believe predicts our tastes accurately. These algorithms do not represent emotion or meaning, only statistics and correlations."

Lanier, Jaron (2013-05-07). Who Owns the Future? (p. 192). Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition.

Algorithms are not an alternative to your friends, they've an alternative to wandering blindly anywhere your friends haven't already been.

Critical question: Why is Depeche Mode's Music for the Masses missing the indispensable first track, Never Let Me Down Again?

It's on the Singles album so the only sensible fix is to create your own playlist of that version + the rest of the album. But yes, these sorts of things is the worst thing about streaming services. Listening to an album you love only to find that it's skipping an essential track? Inexcusable.

The Singles version has different mastering, right?

Normally when an album has a missing track it's visible, just greyed out and unplayable. This one is totally absent.

"Never Let Me Down Again" appears to only be missing from the album in the UK. In all other regions, it's there. This is intentional in the sense that the rights data sent to Spotify from the label (Sony in this case) specifies it explicitly, but if it's intentional in a human sense, I don't know why. I'll see if I can find out, both because I'm curious, and because maybe it was a metadata mistake somewhere along the way. (Although it seems to have been this way since 2013, so I'd have thought somebody would have noticed before now.)

article dated December 11, 2012

Depeche Mode Sign Worldwide Deal With Columbia Records
http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/1483982/depeche-mode-sign-worldwide-deal-with-columbia-records

Depeche Mode has signed a new worldwide deal with Columbia Records and will release a new album in March 2013.

The band, comprised of Dave Gahan, Martin Gore and Andy 'Fletch' Fletcher and managed by Jonathan Kessler, had previously spent its 30-year career with Warner Music labels Sire and Reprise and EMI's Mute and Capitol. Depeche Mode's 12 studio albums have reached the Top 10 in over 20 countries, including the U.S. and U.K.

looks like columbia / sony acquired back catalogue rights

see amazon uk: for label: sony
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Music-Masses-Depeche-Mode/dp/B00DJLOBDE
released (5 Aug. 2013)

I dunno what's going on with Stations/Radio at the moment, but each time I close down and re-open it's a lottery as to whether Stations is going to appear under Your Music or not.

On the plus side my Discover Weekly was ace this week.

My Discover Weekly was so so, but it did make me discover the song Seabird by Alessi Brothers.

haven't listened to discover weekly in ages, for the past two weeks all I've listened to in my spare time are (I'm not proud) MIDIs, which I think is the music-discovery equivalent of giving up and wearing pajamas and leggings out in public

whatever I sporadically listened to seems to have produced a decent doppelganger of the hype machine, or whatever the hype machine's equivalent is in 2016 (I just checked the actual 2016 hype machine and the first track shown is the Chainsmokers so I would guess something has shifted)

MIDIs?

That's what I used to listen to in the days before I had computer that could properly play Mp3s.

that's hysterical katherine.
though i do have the kk slider extension for chrome (before he got the inevitable take down) so maybe i'm there with you
http://www.polygon.com/2015/4/5/8348795/animal-crossing-soundtrack-background-music-free-google-chrome-browser-extension

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E413-Oi_j5A

to be fair "two weeks" was an exaggeration, it's more like five days

Spotify FireTV app updated to full Spotify (not just Connect), and works now!

Discover Weekly keeps handing me Stand On The Word style lo-fi gospel soul stuff like this http://lightintheattic.net/releases/481-like-a-ship-without-a-sail

I love it!

for the past two weeks all I've listened to in my spare time are (I'm not proud) MIDIs

this is awesome

is there still a dedicated community of people making General MIDI versions of current pop songs?

why does Spotify list Meshell Ndegeocello as a collaborating artist on Bauhaus's "Hair of the Dog"???

is there still a dedicated community of people making General MIDI versions of current pop songs?

― micro brewbio (crüt), Tuesday, March 15, 2016 10:48 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

belatedly: idk about "dedicated" or "community" (it's either scattered or for sale as ersatz karaoke backing) but sort of? I have a midi of "Problem." it will surprise no one that a midi synth still outraps iggy

YSI?

The technical answer to the bizarre Bauhaus/Ndegeocello thing is "Because the label sent it to us that way." Looks like they sent it to all streaming services that way. She has a different song by the same title, but I have no idea why that would lead to this error. We will ask them to correct this...

According to the On Tour Near Me feature, Baauer (Philly trap and bass dude) is opening for Jonathan Richman next month. (If only.)

my discover weekly does not suck this week and is in fact great. (apropos of nothing, but I just felt the need to cancel out at least a small portion of complaining)

Mine is full of Flying Nun and related and is thus also great.

Jukebox reinvented for the streaming era

SPOTIFY POWERED JUKEBOX APP ALLOWS USERS TO DJ AT VENUES
http://djmag.com/news/spotify-powered-jukebox-app-allows-users-dj-venues

The app, designed in collaboration with Nightlife Music, is currently only available in Australia where it has been beta tested in 250 venues including bars, gyms and bowling alleys.

I'm not sure how to report this, but Suicide's second album has a track mix-up. Track 5, "Touch Me," has the audio for track 6, "Harlem," and vice-versa: http://open.spotify.com/album/4X26FOEhz57Q7y6xKF9MrO

― welltris (crüt), Friday, October 16, 2015 1:13 PM (5 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

This is still the case. I even reported it to Spotify months ago and it still hasn't been corrected. How can this get fixed? If the problem is on the publisher's end, how do I contact the publisher? This is driving me absolutely crazy because I want to be able to listen to this album and have it scrobble correctly on last.fm.

I will have us ask again for the label to fix it. Mute/INgrooves/BMG: it's anybody's guess who in that chain actually maintains this data.

i thought this was really good:

http://omnifeed.com/article/motherboard.vice.com/read/there-is-a-subtle-power-struggle-for-control-of-music-metadata

not specific to spotify but wasn't sure where else to post it

This is driving me absolutely crazy because I want to be able to listen to this album and have it scrobble correctly on last.fm.

If you listen to both tracks does it matter which order they're scrobbled in? If you want to hear the tracks in the right order swap then in a playlist.

swap *them*

THE SCROBBLES ARE COMING FROM INSIDE THE ROOM

we scrobbled in its subtle brume

what is the point of scrobbling, exactly? Does anyone actually care enough to read lists of what other people listen to?

lol you are asking that question on ILM, of course we do!

fair dos.

i thought this was really good:

http://omnifeed.com/article/motherboard.vice.com/read/there-is-a-subtle-power-struggle-for-control-of-music-metadata

not specific to spotify but wasn't sure where else to post it

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, March 23, 2016 1:43 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://wtf.tw/ref/bardzell.pdf

^this paper is really dry but it's a starting point for "feminist hci" which says self-disclosure is important in these systems among other things.

what is the point of scrobbling, exactly? Does anyone actually care enough to read lists of what other people listen to?

Apart from the lists/stats/OCD thing, scrobbling means last.fm can recommend you music based on artists you listen to. But now last.fm has gone to shit so it's kind of pointless (their recommendations now include stuff you already listen to and you can't even delete them, also they don't recommend you "neighbours" (= people with similar taste) anymore either)

Finally got access to our "Fan Insights" page, and it's pretty neat. You get some basic demographic and location info for listeners, and lots of graphs, etc. Turns out we have a lot of fans in Stockholm (??)

Maybe you have as many or more fans elsewhere, but more of your Swedish fans have Spotify since it's a Swedish company? Sounds potentially really helpful in terms of deciding where to tour, though.

Font changes on iPad app, now kinda small and high contrast and hard to read.

Is there any reason why I'm getting so few notifications this week? I kind of rely on them! Music is dropping left and right but searching through the 1500 or so artists I follow just takes too much time.