Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Are people genuinely finding it hard to discover new, challenging music? That seems mad.

My mood in 2017 was mellow gold. Good to know.

as an apple music user i feel very left out of this fun :(

And yes, Vinyl Me please is corny as hell, though I'll admit that I've clicked on a few of their articles that pop up on my fb as sponsored posts

It makes me very happy when somebody's top genre is one I named. Mandible, fluxwork, chamber psych! Mellow gold, sorta. But the fact that it's your #1 genre (which means you listened to a bunch of artists we think belong to that cluster) is evidence for the idea that it's a thing. I do sometimes make up names, but I don't make up the music or the listening patterns.

And if you didn't notice that the genres in that thing are links, you can always find them on everynoise.com...

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Accounts/Not-enough-data-for-Wrapped-2017-playlist/td-p/3638076
^this worked btw, probably worth fixing?

68k minutes, 6360 songs, 2659 artists
top artist was apparently E.T. Mensah and the Tempos, fave song was Duane Pitre's 'Bayou Electric'... which given that the song is 48 minutes suggests it's working off total time, not plays.
so the artist i listened to most had his big hits in 50's and 60's West Africa and the song i listened to most was a new age soundscape from 2015; cutting edge there.
on the other hand, my top genres are "pop rap, rap, indie r&b, hip hop and 'escape room'" lol

one of my "resolutions" was "keep paying for spotify!"
c'mon now

one of my top genres was "escape room" as well, and after doing a couple minutes of sleuthing i figured out an ilxor was behind it:

https://festivalpeak.com/what-is-escape-room-and-why-is-it-one-of-my-top-genres-on-spotify-a886372f003f

oh yeah, i think we cracked that one last year on this same thread! Glenn is creative.

my top genre was called "indie rock". I'll have what glenn's having!

Listening to the mandible playlist of 400-odd songs definitely confirms it is my thing, I was just startled by the name

Not that I have listened to all 400, but you know what I mean

I see the ones that got away (ugh) but where are you seeing Top Genres. Website? Email?

Guess it’s an email but don’t see it yet. Did notice a two-week old email from Spotify Research I had previously overlooked and clicked on the link which had expired.

Go to 2017wrapped.com

My phone provider gave me free Apple Music with free data this year so I've only logged 12k minutes of spotify listening. Can't quite remember my reason for continuing to pay for it.
Seems I still favour Alternative Rock and the new JAMC album not being shit was a big factor in my most listened artists/songs.

If Spotify mentions some genre that I've never heard of, that sounds made up, I just assume Glenn came up with it.

Unless he comes in here and says that he didn't come up with the term Metropopolis.

Metropopolis was the beginning...

Mondeopopolis

Popyourdopolis

george popotimismopoulos

i think the article does an impressive job of laying bare the incentives powering the industry along at the moment and suggesting how that could accelerate some not-always-great changes. and it doesn't just breathlessly imply idiotic stuff like "streaming gives the music industry data for the first time!!" as some other articles lately have come dangerously close to doing.

Some of the phrases and word choices are unnecessarily dramatic, but I kinda agree with the article although iHeartRadio is a larger threat at the moment.

i have seen some articles in the past few months saying that iheartmedia is in trouble financially and may not be able to operate anymore within a few years? does anyone who knows anything about business/corporate blahblah know if this would have any serious implications as to how radio operates if true?

2017wrapped.com, fun but inaccurate. It had Voivod as my #1 artist, but I never even played them on Spotify! I bought the reissue CDs and played those. Also, I probably ran Spotify 14 hours since yesterday, but the # minutes never changed.

The Wrapped list seemed not to take into account some (or all?) of the listening I did to music that had been saved to my phone. I've noticed that when I look at my queue/history on my laptop it tends to only reflect bits of what I've streamed on the phone, too.

Fastnbulbous, the Wrapped thing doesn't involve any guessing, so if it says Voivod, then your Spotify account definitely played them during 2017. Whether you were listening when it did, we can't tell!

The data for it is a static snapshot as of a little while ago, sadly, so it won't update with your listening from the rest of the year. I wish it did, but that would make the project much harder.

The queue-sharing issues are independent of the underlying listening history, which as far as I *know* has no systemic issues. I think the only way we wouldn't know about something you played offline is if you wiped the app or the phone after listening but before going back online again.

I'm puzzled at its insistence that 'indie Rock' is my most listened-to genre when very little in my top 100 would qualify save for maybe a handful of songs. I listened to Future Islands a bit, and a Camera Obscura song I like a few times but mostly it's other styles.
Was also consistently bamboozled at the Discover Weekly telling me I had to listen to things like Grizzly Bear and the National and other indie rock fare which I really dislike, and never any trap or afrobeat or dancehall or even house and techno which make a big part of my listening these days. What have I been doing wrong?

I dunno but my Tom Petty binge really screwed up my algorithms, that's for sure. note that you can slap an "I don't like this artist" tag onto particularly objectionable suggestions.

thanks to an assignment from whiney the chainsmokers are on my most played list :(

THREE TIMES :( :( :(

i mean spotify isn't the only place i listen to music so i knew this was going to be imperfect

but still

has any1 herd ov 2017wrapped.com

Thanks to my nutso kids listening to their Echo Dot, Boss Fight is my favorite band. I went and created another Spotify account on my family plan for all of the Echos.

do what you got to do

My DW is completely dictated by my nutso 15-year-old. I don’t want to pay for a second acct for him. What oh what can a guy do?

Dog Latin, make a playlist with several examples of each of those genres, turn on repeat and hit play. Leave this playing on your laptop / phone overnight. I think playlists have the most impact on your DW reccs but I don’t know for sure.

I mainly enjoy listening to my friends' lists, so is there anyway I can follow them without them and have them be identifiable, rather than all called "Your Top 100 Songs 2017"? I mean, I made individual empty playlists and copied my friends' playlists in and retitled them... but can Spotify save me those 8 clicks.

Also yes, one of my resolutions was "Keeping buying premium!" which reminded me of that "Keep gaming... it means keep gambling" bit in The Simpsons episode where Springfield builds the casino.

Love to see artists link to (Your) Release Radar with "Hey everyone check my new track on this amazing playlist" or whatever.

probably a mistake, but it's almost smart in a roundabout way -- anyone who clicks a "check out my new track" from an artist is likely to be a fan who's listened to them before, and anyone who does the three-point turn of loading spotify from a spotify URL probably has an account already

Good news! Turned on the Spotify Roku app today and got a message saying it would be temporarily offline starting Friday as they are working on rolling out a new app. I had thought that they basically gave up on Roku, so I'm pleasantly surprised that an improvement is in the works. There's a ton that could be better about the Roku app, I really hope this makes a positive difference.

roku needs to get on the ball imo

Think this is more up to spotify than roku

nevertheless

Is there a Spotify app on Apple TV?

no but you can airstream the audio from your phone through it

https://open.spotify.com/user/ulyssestone/playlist/54hZLPMDWjHVpCi9eJtUPB
^^seems ECM have now heard of Spotify!

oh hell yeah

Spotify loves to recommend me Chris Spedding for some reason. I really don't know why. (But I don't mind.)

― Animal Bitrate (Raw Patrick), Thursday, 11 August 2016 21:10 (nine months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And I think "Video Life" by Chris Spedding has appeared six or seven times overall now. He must have made nearly a penny from me.

― Animal Bitrate (Raw Patrick), Monday, June 5, 2017 10:12 PM (six months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Good old "Video Life" by Spedding appears yet again in my Discover Weekly as it veers increasingly away from anything I would like to discover.

Technical Question, maybe Glenn knows - if I sync 30 albums offline and then Un-sync them, does the app then (or eventually) release that used space on the device? I don’t think it used to but maybe the app has evolved ?

Today I heard that if you download a playlist to your phone, Spotify will continue to stream it (bypassing the download and using your data allowance) unless you make a point of taking the app offline.

This sounds wrong to me but appears to be confirmed here:

Thanks! If the app isn't set to Offline from the settings, it'll continue to stream songs, instead of reading them from the cache /BH

— SpotifyCares (@SpotifyCares) September 22, 2017

If so this is a very recent change, right? It's insane.

hmm i've been listening to lots of downloaded playlists in the past few weeks and not used any data