Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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same problem on Windows 10, happened about a week go. Seems to be a growing common problem as reported by others via the spotify community:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/forums/v3_1/forumtopicpage/board-id/desktop_windows/thread-id/52157/page/3

Just logged in and it's now resolved ! so hopefully things will be back to normal.

lovin that seabird, we might have a thread for DW faves

https://i.imgur.com/D6aWoYv.jpg

please please please make the label/copyright info at the bottom of an album a clickable link that works like Search by Label

^^

Yes, that would be awesome, but it won't exist or be awesome for a while, because the label data we get is currently just tragically inconsistent freeform text...

Artwork (C) Robert Wyatt
This compilation (P) 1999 Robert Wyatt, under exclusive licence to Domino Recording Co. Ltd. Manufactured and market by EMI Music Australia Pty Ltd under exclusive licence.

Yeah ok a simple regular expression isn't going to cut it.

In other complaints news why is the app on my phone automatically playing, on someone else's remote device (!), and not taking pause/listen on this phone for an answer?

i suspect this is a typo?

“We know it’s the only way we’re going to achieve our goal of getting billions of fans” on the service, said Gustav Soderstrom, chief R&B officer.

http://variety.com/2018/digital/news/spotify-announces-dramatic-upgrade-to-free-service-which-it-says-will-increase-paying-subscribers-1202784478/

"unlike radio, we actually share the revenue with artists and users.”

ummmmm

would help if that article actually had any information in it

Oh wow, chief R&B officer is awesome.

Disappointing that there's no mention of lossless audio, would be nice if they threw a bone to paid subscribers.

"unlike radio, we actually share the revenue with artists and users.”

in the US, terrestrial radio play pays performance royalties to songwriters, but they're exempt from paying artists or labels for master recordings.

who is Chief Pet Calming Officer can i be that

careful what you wish for

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/apr/24/weve-got-more-money-swirling-around-how-streaming-saved-the-music-industry

it quickly emerged that what they were willing to pay artists was a couple of thousandths of a penny for each stream. There is a big debate over exactly how many thousandths – the latest survey by Digital Music News suggests that Apple Music pays $0.00783 and Spotify pays $0.00397.

Apparently 400-800 is 'a couple'.

This article raises more questions than it answers, and it seems to state a lot of interesting sounding things but doesn't really substantiates anything. On one hand it claims that Acts with global appeal obviously perform much better than those who are only popular in one country, which means region-specific sounds can lose out. , but also Now, Afrobeat, Danish rap, hundreds of genres of niche electronic music and particularly British urban music are flourishing commercially.

There are ways to exploit the system, too. “Almost every track we release, we then release in an acoustic version a few weeks later,” says Varma.

ugh, shut it down

I'm so sick of acoustic versions
This is a trend that needs to die.

they should also change the lyrics to descriptions of coffee aromas

Momus at the top of my Discover Weekly!

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

― MarkoP, Wednesday, March 9, 2016 11:13 AM (two years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah that's how i heard about this song too, although it was in the film Hunt For the Wilder People

> "the next 30 minutes are ad-free"
> ad

Not sure if my account's been hacked, but about a week ago about 3 playlists appeared on my feed of Chinese (?) pop music. I deleted them but one appeared again earlier this week and now one's appeared again. Other than that everything seems fine.

Have you changed your password?

I did after the third time.

any good Chinese (?) pop music to report?

Um, no. Lots of rather dull piano ballads like this https://open.spotify.com/track/5h6R8U3G3GLZc6nMsrxBV4?si=gn-gBv3RQYuBixA9KdkzDw

Was hoping for some k-pop weirdness but sadly not.

So hmm.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/8455375/spotify-removes-r-kelly-music-playlists-new-hate-content-conduct-policy

This begs a LOT of questions.

yeah I tweeted this but I'm really curious to see what his metrics were before his stuff got pulled. not even in a gotcha sense, I genuinely do wonder whether the news stories have had any measurable impact whether in the short- or the long term (obviously the biggest of the news stories predates Spotify).

(obviously they aren't having much measurable impact for like xxxtentacion, but he's a new artist where r. kelly is a legacy artist)

(it also goes without saying that if R. Kelly's metrics really were flagging, then that's... not something I can be too upset about, all things considered)

if I was working at Spotify I'd feel bad about promoting R Kelly through popular playlists

I no longer play Ignition when I dj anymore, rarely listen to his tunes (although I admit that sometimes I really want to hear "You Are Not Alone" by MJ which was written/plagiarized by R Kelly)

XXXTentacion out as well

https://pitchfork.com/news/spotify-removes-r-kelly-from-its-playlists/?mbid=social_twitter

what about the ukulele covers of these songs though? this question sounds snide but i mean... how does the policing here work, exactly

I think that's a fair question, probably a bit more difficult to decide, but I imagine they wouldn't want to promote covers either

I don't think it's a bad idea because it raises complex questions

There are gonna have to be a fuckton of other artists they pull from their playlists too.

chuck berry?

the beatles had a short run on spotify

Yeah, I would think they'll only apply this to living artists

Incidentally, there is a full compliment of Bill Cosby albums on Spotify

But are tracks from Cosby albums featured in playlists?

It makes sense that they wouldn’t to promote artists who are currently in the news for bad things. I wouldn’t expect them to go through rock history and start picking & choosing others, unless something bubbles up, new info comes out about an older artist and everyone’s talking about it (as with Kelly), etc. They say it’s about their “values” but of course it’s more about shielding themselves from criticism; nothing wrong w/that, of course.

Ahhh for some reason I read this as if they were pulling their music entirely.

Duke University Student Affairs VP, what's on your Spotify playlist?

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/then-the-censors-came-for-rap-music/560003/

https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/37i9dQZF1DXaKIA8E7WcJj?si=6hOC7rvMSSidvk1jy8RDyg

xpost
Re: the central question raised by the author of that piece – about how/why community & commercial "standards" are different for lyrics than other forms of mass media – obviously, there are "clean" versions of songs/albums released for radio play, and when (uncensored) Spotify playlists are used in place of the radio, there is a possibility for the standards set by radio to be exceeded (I say this without taking anything away from the awfulness of the employees being fired, of course). I guess a rough analogy would be if a cafe were playing uncut R-rated movies on a TV, instead of a cable network like USA or Lifetime.

This “pushback” is unexpected (not by the artists themselves, I expected that, but by others): http://variety.com/2018/biz/news/spotifys-ban-on-hateful-content-and-conduct-is-too-subjective-and-concerning-experts-say-1202807394/

I guess Spotify must have screwed up the messaging... but it’s clear that, in the current climate, they simply don’t want to feature artists on their playlists who are the subject of active controversies involving mistreatment of women. All the “Whatabout... (X) artist from the past? Who gets to be judge & jury?” etc. questions seem disingenuous to me.

at the end of the day this is really just a PR win for Spotify. I have to imagine the revenue cut to the artists is minimal.

I agree — and I guess that’s partly why I’m surprised there’s “OMG censorship”–type pushback. It’s about as mild an action as Spotify could possibly take.