does anyone know how to get playlists to show album titles in addition to song titles and artists?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 24 July 2018 16:39 (five years ago) link
oh nm i see i just needed to expand the window
hey uh pretty sure that new Fucked Up song is...a different Fucked Up― Simon H., Friday, July 13, 2018 3:47 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinki’ve been reporting these mixups when they show up in release radar by clicking the three dots on the right hand side― maura, Friday, July 13, 2018 3:57 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Simon H., Friday, July 13, 2018 3:47 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i’ve been reporting these mixups when they show up in release radar by clicking the three dots on the right hand side
― maura, Friday, July 13, 2018 3:57 PM (two weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
How does this work? Using the OS X app, I see an option to "Suggest an Edit," which takes me to the Spotify Line-In web form, but I don't see a good way there to report a credits problem when two artists have the same name.
My last two Release Radar playlists have included new tracks by Spirit, but this Spirit is a contemporary act, not relevant to my listening history, whose discography has been garbled with that of the 1960s Spirit.
― Brad C., Friday, 27 July 2018 19:09 (five years ago) link
I'm still wondering how to report same-name artists with garbled discographies.
This week's Release Radar included a brand-new Spanish-language single from T. Rex.
― Brad C., Sunday, 5 August 2018 13:13 (five years ago) link
I guess this is what I was looking for:
Spotify Metadata Feedback - Wrong Album Artist?
― Brad C., Sunday, 5 August 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link
that "T-Rex" single is being fixed...
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 6 August 2018 14:30 (five years ago) link
Thanks!
― Brad C., Monday, 6 August 2018 14:32 (five years ago) link
This week's Release Radar offered me songs by Maserati, Harmonia, Poco, and Love, but none of these are the bands I've listened to in the past. Occasional garbled metadata doesn't bother me but something seems to have changed in the last few weeks ... this is happening so frequently that Release Radar is no longer much fun.
― Brad C., Friday, 10 August 2018 22:57 (five years ago) link
I had music from Crescent last week and Travis this week - neither are the bands I actually listen to.
(Yes, I still listen to Travis.)
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 10 August 2018 23:15 (five years ago) link
A rapper called Cornelius this week for me. To be fair, Spotify knew enough to know it wasn't the other Cornelius so yeah it seems to be within Release Radar's algorithms that the problem mainly lies now.
― Jeff W, Sunday, 12 August 2018 07:41 (five years ago) link
It seems a bit odd that they don't require a unique artist identifier for submitted content, so they can quickly determine if artists are actually the same. You'd think that they'd require an artist submitting content under an existing name to prove that they are the same artist somehow? I suppose that there's just too much data (particularly, old data) to require this? So they use glenn's finer-resolution genre-ing (or something else) and have some cutoff where they'd guess that same-named artists must be different from each other. It seems like a solution that will always need to be tuned, allowing for some errors to occur, though.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 12 August 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
I wonder how search results get ordered, how misspellings are handled, and if the results are influenced by money.
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 12 August 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
NO 2 Band ID cards
― Alba, Sunday, 12 August 2018 18:21 (five years ago) link
Wonder if a modern-day Negativland could release a new “U2” single
― empire bro-lesque (morrisp), Sunday, 12 August 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
It can't be that difficult. Discogs manages this issue perfectly competently.
― kraudive, Sunday, 12 August 2018 19:47 (five years ago) link
not really - anyone on Discogs can create a wrong version of an artist, or misattribute anything, and it'll only get fixed if another user a) notices it and b) knows or is able to research a definitive correction
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Sunday, 12 August 2018 19:59 (five years ago) link
and yet I can't remember ever seeing an obvious mistake
― kraudive, Sunday, 12 August 2018 20:42 (five years ago) link
Most of the historic cases of multipe artist same name mistakes have been fixed in the first few years of discogs, i ran into loads of these cases when I used to enter 90s rave/techno comps and 12”s, I swear half of these projects had a namesake from the 60s/70s.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 12 August 2018 21:10 (five years ago) link
I have fixed many dozens in the last two years and have about twenty tabs currently open to get back to sometime ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Monday, 13 August 2018 05:55 (five years ago) link
if I could remove remixes from my release radar I would
― niels, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 08:30 (five years ago) link
SAME
― maura, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 18:15 (five years ago) link
I shared your feedback about remixes with the Release Radar team, because it has been at least a week since I've complained about this myself.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 18:43 (five years ago) link
(small voice) I actually like hearing about remixes
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
Remix Radar
― 16, 35, DCP, Go! (sic), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 18:45 (five years ago) link
remixes jammin your radar
― for i, sock in enumerate (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 14 August 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
thanks Glenn!
― niels, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 19:43 (five years ago) link
I like hearing about a good remix of a track / artist I love
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 20:11 (five years ago) link
...so yes, what katherine said
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 20:12 (five years ago) link
I have mostly argued for putting a separate section of remixes at the bottom of the list, instead of mixing them in...
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 22:44 (five years ago) link
yeah, and maybe a separate playlist for U2 remixes...
― niels, Wednesday, 15 August 2018 07:19 (five years ago) link
Sometimes i am browsing the internet on my phone while listening to spotify and the music cuts out because the website—often cnn or the washington post—automatically starts playing some little video ad—often far downscreen and on mute.
Coukd someone who works at spotify fix this? Like have the music override other content? It’s very annoying
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 27 August 2018 12:03 (five years ago) link
Seconded
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 27 August 2018 12:03 (five years ago) link
Let’s get a mod in here to take care of this
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 27 August 2018 12:08 (five years ago) link
kinda feel like that's more of a cnn/wpost issue
― niels, Monday, 27 August 2018 12:59 (five years ago) link
nah it's a safari issue in general on apple--happens to me when im listening to itunes music as well.
― guardians of the gums: i am tooth (voodoo chili), Monday, 27 August 2018 13:09 (five years ago) link
Maybe try installing an extension that disables (html5)autoplay?
― willem, Monday, 27 August 2018 13:21 (five years ago) link
No dice if using Safari.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 27 August 2018 13:31 (five years ago) link
On ipad/iphone that is.
Are you listening to Spotify through the browser or the app?
― pplains, Monday, 27 August 2018 13:33 (five years ago) link
I see XTC have a new single out, called Internet
― MaresNest, Monday, 27 August 2018 13:36 (five years ago) link
I have the same problem with chrome on my android phone
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 27 August 2018 15:05 (five years ago) link
In other words, when I'm playing music on the spotify phone app, there are many websites I can't browse because their autoplay videos/ads override spotify.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 27 August 2018 15:07 (five years ago) link
website autoplay should be fucking banned, i hate that shit
― marcos, Monday, 27 August 2018 15:16 (five years ago) link
I wonder how this showed up on my release radar:https://open.spotify.com/track/2gC6syANXZIQFTgpVPVIcT
a glitch in the matrix?
― niels, Friday, 31 August 2018 14:15 (five years ago) link
I got the same track, wtf
― Brad C., Friday, 31 August 2018 14:48 (five years ago) link
As, sadly, did a <i>lot</i> of people. It's being fixed...
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 31 August 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
Glenn, any idea why when I add new albums to my New Music playlist, it takes a couple weeks before they start popping up in my shuffle queue?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 31 August 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
this isn't awful tbh
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 31 August 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
there have been far worse things on my release radar
I do not answer any questions about Shuffle.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 31 August 2018 18:38 (five years ago) link