There's no nudging in DW. I guess it's produced in a facility that also produces editorial products, but it uses different equipment, so it should be pretty safe for the nudge-allergic.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 6 June 2016 18:03 (seven years ago) link
But people read news, and then go listen to things on Spotify, so it's totally expected that events in the world can end up affecting recommendations that are based on collective listening patterns.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 6 June 2016 18:05 (seven years ago) link
Spotify has been telling me it has lost the internet connection a lot lately. It's fine when I restart it but there has been a lot of restarting. I don't wanna live this way.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 6 June 2016 18:11 (seven years ago) link
felt a brief nostalgic impulse to traverse some of my family's inexplicable understanding of 80s tastefulness and found that there are no Flim & the BB's recordings on spotify
― goole, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 16:41 (seven years ago) link
Lol
― The Servant of Two Jam Masters (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 17:09 (seven years ago) link
I had a roommate who was an early adapter to CDs and that was one of the first few he got. He always played it whenever we had a visitor to impress them with the sonics.
― The Servant of Two Jam Masters (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 17:11 (seven years ago) link
Early adopter
― The Servant of Two Jam Masters (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 17:43 (seven years ago) link
Haven't gotten into my DW Playlists the previous few weeks but this one is top shelf.
― Poe, I know all about Ulalume (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 15:39 (seven years ago) link
it's pornographic?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 22 June 2016 21:02 (seven years ago) link
There are so many missed opportunities that I just can't imagine would be that difficult to provide. For example, the ability to search for playlists that contain a certain song would be huge. You can approximate this by Googling: site:spotify.com inurl:"playlist" "[artist name]" "[song name]"...but why isn't that available in app?
― Dan I., Thursday, 23 June 2016 15:31 (seven years ago) link
It's one of those things that you just sort of assume would be available by default whenever you do a search, until you find that it's not.
All playlist-searching things are complicated by the fact that there are billions of playlists on Spotify. Improvements will come, but when you can't imagine why the one you're wanting would be difficult, sometimes that's the thing you aren't imagining...
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 23 June 2016 17:13 (seven years ago) link
Ah, I see, thanks. That makes sense.
― Dan I., Thursday, 23 June 2016 17:30 (seven years ago) link
I definitely didn't antagonize any Spotify co-workers by impatiently demanding obvious-seeming features before fully comprehending this myself. No way.
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 23 June 2016 17:39 (seven years ago) link
My laptop is glitching which means I can't put anything new on my iPod which in turn means that I finally got over myself and tried Spotify for the first time ever yesterday and was jamming out to a pretty cool space jazz playlist and discovering some cool new things and then the app kept telling me that I wasn't connected to the internet except for the thing where I was totally connected to the internet and it hasn't worked since. Oh well. It was fun for about nine minutes.
― There must be some magic clue inside these gentle walls (Old Lunch), Thursday, 23 June 2016 17:56 (seven years ago) link
― Poe, I know all about Ulalume (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 23 June 2016 18:01 (seven years ago) link
plz keep antagonizing them until they get local files figured out
― Mordy, Thursday, 23 June 2016 18:09 (seven years ago) link
If I worked a Spotify I would add stars emoji to every email I sent.
― Jeff, Thursday, 23 June 2016 18:10 (seven years ago) link
lol
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 23 June 2016 18:36 (seven years ago) link
just a few months ago the correct (1983) version of "Temple of Love" was on the Sisters of Mercy's Some Girls Wander By Mistake: http://open.spotify.com/album/42HVWb7R8TxLHgVjc2OOIV
now it's been replaced by the 1992 version, which has never been part of this album's official tracklist. what happened? I'm bummed.
― ejemplo (crüt), Monday, 27 June 2016 12:01 (seven years ago) link
Weird, looks like that was a label decision. Or a label action, anyway. Whether it was intentional or not is a different question.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 27 June 2016 17:56 (seven years ago) link
found a DIY way to use the Star playlist https://ifttt.com/recipes/311224-save-a-track-in-spotify-and-add-to-playlist
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 1 July 2016 19:41 (seven years ago) link
you can use the + just like the old star . works great for me, i don't even use Your Library anyways
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 1 July 2016 19:49 (seven years ago) link
That helps a lot, thank you.
― Dan I., Friday, 1 July 2016 20:28 (seven years ago) link
Still can't unstar easily though, which was half of the star power!
― Jeff, Friday, 1 July 2016 20:37 (seven years ago) link
just click the check mark, it does the same thing
― brimstead, Friday, 1 July 2016 20:40 (seven years ago) link
we've covered this, it does not do the same thing
― moistest hoist (Spottie), Friday, 1 July 2016 20:41 (seven years ago) link
Good point Jeff! But I do like to be able to hit one button and know exactly where the song goes
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 1 July 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
Just today realized there's no YMO on Spotify! :(
― Dan I., Friday, 1 July 2016 23:19 (seven years ago) link
The Serato Pyro app (mentioned upthread) does a more than serviceable job at beat-mixing Spotify tracks (and local files held within iTunes). It's not perfect, but it rarely does a duff mix. And it's free.
― mike t-diva, Saturday, 2 July 2016 13:39 (seven years ago) link
Pyro seems neat from the video demo, but fuck any app that's iOS only.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 2 July 2016 14:44 (seven years ago) link
How does the algorithm know how much I like "I Walk On Guilded Splinters"? It has furnished me with several versions thus far, even including the slightly less enjoyably spelled "I Walk On Gilded Splinters" by Paul Weller.
― My City Slang Was Gone (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 17:34 (seven years ago) link
Should have prefaced that with a "B-b-but" for full rhetorical effect.
― My City Slang Was Gone (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 5 July 2016 17:35 (seven years ago) link
It seems that desktop notifications are officially dead: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Windows-Web/Removal-of-desktop-notifications/td-p/1343904
Instead you can sign up to receive notifications...by email.
wtf Spotify
― ǂbait (seandalai), Saturday, 9 July 2016 00:52 (seven years ago) link
dafuq? EMAIL?!
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Saturday, 9 July 2016 00:59 (seven years ago) link
https://www.buzzfeed.com/reggieugwu/the-unsung-heroes-of-the-music-streaming-boom
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 16:45 (seven years ago) link
also https://twitter.com/KendraJames_/status/753212999758934019
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Wednesday, 13 July 2016 16:47 (seven years ago) link
whoops, wrong thread
Glenn, there's a thing I noticed quite a while back but forgot to mention until now -- there are two George Lewises, a New Orleans clarinetist (1900-1968) and a Chicago composer/trombonist (1952-). Their streaming titles are mashed together in Spotify -- is there any way to separate them?
― pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Sunday, 17 July 2016 02:38 (seven years ago) link
There is a way. I'm not going to fix them myself, because there are a lot of them and because jazz. But I'll pass the message along.
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 17 July 2016 04:01 (seven years ago) link
Cool, thanks!
― pleas to Nietzsche (WilliamC), Sunday, 17 July 2016 12:25 (seven years ago) link
OK, everyone probably already knew about this, but I've just come across Boil the Frog, and am having fun. http://static.echonest.com/BoilTheFrog/?src=Godspeed%20You%20Black%20Emperor&dest=Shonen%20Knife is an example--it tries to create a 'seamless' playlist to get you from one artist to another
― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Wednesday, 20 July 2016 06:40 (seven years ago) link
Though its attempt to get from Grimes to Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan via a comedy bit from Stephen Fry and Catherine Tate doing a Shakespeare soliloquy suggests there are still a few bugs in the mix.
― 🐸a hairy howling toad torments a man whose wife is deathly ill (James Morrison), Wednesday, 20 July 2016 06:43 (seven years ago) link
A few months ago ledge asked why "Never Let Me Down Again" was missing from Depeche Mode's Music for the Masses (in the UK). It took a few tries to get the label to fix this, but it finally worked!
Triumphantly: https://open.spotify.com/album/5Yyx661Ksxl2pmRUuGLzw3
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 22 July 2016 13:25 (seven years ago) link
Awesome. I knew you wouldn't let me down.
― chad valley of the shadow of death (ledge), Friday, 22 July 2016 13:51 (seven years ago) link
I think this might be a Rick roll
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Friday, 22 July 2016 13:55 (seven years ago) link
Obviously the alternative was to just tell you to enjoy the silence.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 22 July 2016 14:02 (seven years ago) link
http://www.classicalite.com/articles/28710/20151001/vulfpeck-album-sleepify-spotify-loophole-earn-20000.htm
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Thursday, 28 July 2016 00:04 (seven years ago) link
Everything counts.
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 28 July 2016 01:28 (seven years ago) link
This looks cool: https://news.spotify.com/us/2016/08/05/release-radar-your-personalized-playlist-of-the-newest-releases/
Not sure why Elvis showed up on mine this week, though. :P
― schwantz, Friday, 5 August 2016 17:06 (seven years ago) link