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!
― Dan I., Tuesday, 15 March 2016 14:44 (eight years ago) link
for the past two weeks all I've listened to in my spare time are (I'm not proud) MIDIs
this is awesome
― micro brewbio (crüt), Tuesday, 15 March 2016 14:48 (eight years ago) link
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"???
― There was a hole bunch of problems whit his campaigns (crüt), Sunday, 20 March 2016 23:10 (eight years ago) link
― 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
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 21 March 2016 04:39 (eight years ago) link
YSI?
― ulysses, Monday, 21 March 2016 05:03 (eight years ago) link
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...
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 21 March 2016 08:57 (eight years ago) link
According to the On Tour Near Me feature, Baauer (Philly trap and bass dude) is opening for Jonathan Richman next month. (If only.)
― dc, Monday, 21 March 2016 17:32 (eight years ago) link
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)
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 21 March 2016 19:44 (eight years ago) link
Mine is full of Flying Nun and related and is thus also great.
― Poacher (Chinaski), Monday, 21 March 2016 21:28 (eight years ago) link
Jukebox reinvented for the streaming era
SPOTIFY POWERED JUKEBOX APP ALLOWS USERS TO DJ AT VENUEShttp://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.
― djmartian, Tuesday, 22 March 2016 23:09 (eight years ago) link
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.
― ejemplo (crüt), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 13:21 (eight years ago) link
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.
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 13:30 (eight years ago) link
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, 23 March 2016 13:43 (eight years ago) link
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.
― onimo, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 18:03 (eight years ago) link
swap *them*
THE SCROBBLES ARE COMING FROM INSIDE THE ROOM
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 21:38 (eight years ago) link
we scrobbled in its subtle brume
― Toof Seteltha (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 22:07 (eight years ago) link
what is the point of scrobbling, exactly? Does anyone actually care enough to read lists of what other people listen to?
― like Uber, but for underpants (James Morrison), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 23:32 (eight years ago) link
lol you are asking that question on ILM, of course we do!
― the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 23:35 (eight years ago) link
fair dos.
― like Uber, but for underpants (James Morrison), Wednesday, 23 March 2016 23:38 (eight years ago) link
i thought this was really good:http://omnifeed.com/article/motherboard.vice.com/read/there-is-a-subtle-power-struggle-for-control-of-music-metadatanot 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
― 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.
― map, Wednesday, 23 March 2016 23:45 (eight years ago) link
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)
― moans and feedback (Dinsdale), Thursday, 24 March 2016 08:04 (eight years ago) link
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 (??)
― schwantz, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 22:54 (eight years ago) link
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.
― dc, Tuesday, 5 April 2016 23:07 (eight years ago) link
Font changes on iPad app, now kinda small and high contrast and hard to read.
― Chuck_Tatum, Wednesday, 6 April 2016 23:14 (eight years ago) link
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.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 7 April 2016 06:56 (eight years ago) link
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
― 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, 9 April 2016 19:03 (eight years ago) link
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.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 9 April 2016 21:17 (eight years ago) link
jfc the Beatles are on Spotify
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Sunday, 10 April 2016 05:57 (eight years ago) link
who let them on?
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Sunday, 10 April 2016 14:37 (eight years ago) link
https://musicindustryblog.wordpress.com/2016/03/30/spotifys-billion-dollar-challenge/
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 10 April 2016 14:46 (eight years ago) link
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
― 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
― Don't opine. Dead inside. (onimo), Monday, 11 April 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link
What's your Spotify username? I can tell the team responsible.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 11 April 2016 23:57 (eight years ago) link
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)
― Freakshow At The Barn Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 02:52 (eight years ago) link
K-major & Basmo on this week's Fresh Finds! Nice!
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 14 April 2016 10:54 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 14 April 2016 13:41 (eight years ago) link
^ 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.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 15 April 2016 03:53 (eight years ago) link
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?
― musically, Friday, 15 April 2016 04:34 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 15 April 2016 07:37 (eight years ago) link
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...
― musically, Friday, 15 April 2016 07:56 (eight years ago) link
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.
― Autumn Almanac, Friday, 15 April 2016 08:31 (eight years ago) link
not sure if it's been brought up here but like three or four years ago they took away the ability to see who is following your playlist and have yet to bring it back. Is there a reason for this? it seems like a fairly obvious social media feature to have available and i used it a lot to find people with like taste.
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 15 April 2016 15:01 (eight years ago) link
Showing followers didn't scale. One could imagine showing them only up to some cutoff, but that's kind of arbitrary. I feel the pain, too, as a playlist maker, but it's a tricky design problem...
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 15 April 2016 16:29 (eight years ago) link
why not show them all? infinite scroll? paginate? there are options
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 15 April 2016 18:03 (eight years ago) link
I haven't had any notifications in 11 days...I restarted Spotify and now the notifications icon (the bell) has disappeared completely...
― tay.ai fan (seandalai), Saturday, 16 April 2016 01:03 (eight years ago) link
It's going to hang out with the stars.
― Jeff, Saturday, 16 April 2016 01:09 (eight years ago) link
hm, same thing
― ulysses, Saturday, 16 April 2016 03:43 (eight years ago) link
12 days since I got my last one. I contacted Spotify about it and they were very helpful, advising me to reinstall via several emails. After I reinstalled and told them that it still wasn't working I haven't heard from them though. At least the bell is still present, I guess.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 16 April 2016 07:41 (eight years ago) link
I haven't gotten any in a while, either. I'll see if I can find out what's going on.
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 16 April 2016 08:44 (eight years ago) link