Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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.

I can see it's sort of tailored to my listening (or at least my Spotify listening which is about 10% of it) but it's badly named if I'm supposed to discover something from hearing 'Release the Bats' or 'O Superman' for the thousandth time.

― ilxors ananimus (onimo), Friday, January 22, 2016 4:14 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

'O Superman' in my Discover playlist yet again this week.

So... is there ANY way of getting notifications back once they've dried up? It's been five days since I got my last one now and it's very frustrating to miss out on new music. I need to know.

jfc the Beatles are on Spotify

who let them on?

https://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/spotifys-billion-dollar-challenge/

I can see it's sort of tailored to my listening (or at least my Spotify listening which is about 10% of it) but it's badly named if I'm supposed to discover something from hearing 'Release the Bats' or 'O Superman' for the thousandth time.

― ilxors ananimus (onimo), Friday, January 22, 2016 4:14 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

'O Superman' in my Discover playlist yet again this week.

― Don't opine. Dead inside. (onimo), Saturday, April 9, 2016 8:03 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

and this week it has 'Release the Bats' again ffs

What's your Spotify username? I can tell the team responsible.

The handful of misfires and repeats that show up on my DW can all be forgiven every time it digs up a barely remembered nugget like Translator's "Everywhere That I'm Not" (warning, do not watch video if you hate the 80s)

K-major & Basmo on this week's Fresh Finds! Nice!

I had no idea until today that my Spotify library had a maximum capacity but according to the Android app it does and I've just hit it.

^ is the reason i routinely check to see whether apple music is working properly yet (it's not) and end up deleting downloads from spotify instead. this offline limit is the only thing that will push me away from spotify one day, perhaps in 2019 when apple gets its shit together.

It's not just an offline limit - even if you don't have a saved album available offline it still counts toward your Your Music 10k limit (I had maybe 5 albums that I had made available offline when I got the notification). Seems that play lists don't count towards this limit so I ended up moving lots of albums from Your Music to play lists.

Btw speaking of play lists I turned on my phone yesterday on the way to work and all my play lists were gone...I almost had a heart attack. Luckily I restarted spotify a few times and they came back. Is the playlist restore feature on spotifys website any good or should I be backing them up some other way?

It's not just an offline limit - even if you don't have a saved album available offline it still counts toward your Your Music 10k limit

well if that's the case it's pretty ridiculous. on ios it doesn't even tell you about any limit, it just stops downloading, and then you leave the house to find half an album/playlist is not there.

I have an iphone and got the message...tho I got it when i was just saving something (a notification popped up), I wasn't toggling the save offline switch on something I had already saved.

Anyway I can see some reason why they'd decide to cap music saved offline but music that's saved online only is basically a collection of shortcuts, idg why that's capped. Especially since that cap doesn't extend to playlists; so all the functionality did was make me unsave a bunch of albums, then add them back as playlists. Not sure what the point of that is...

caps might have made sense a few years ago when streaming services weren't the centre of the music industry. now that it's ~the way~ so many people use music, the limit is just an archaic pain in the arse, and i'm surprised spotify still has it. i've mentioned this itt before but i'm pretty sure no other major service limits to ~3,300 offline songs.