Spotify - anyone heard of it?

i concede this is correct for some, many, perhaps even most albums, i must have just hit a bad patch. please mentally insert a 'when' after the colon in my previous post.

Nah, I think most of the time it's the reissue date - you're not just in a bad patch.

The dates come from the licensors, and it's true that they are sometimes not correct in a real-world sense, particularly on reissues. We (Spotify) can override and fix individual ones, but there are far too many to do this at any kind of scale...

Fairly simple, just run a script periodically with an artist + album query against the discogs db (you can download the db offline for added speed), that’s how I cleaned up my iTunes library. I’m willing to bet that this takes an intern about two days.

release dates for everything would be so nice

I will settle for please please restoring the cover art display next to track title and artist...or just a more obvious 'go to this song in playlist' prompt

I still see the cover art and it still works to take me to the playlist. What platform are you on?

I wish all clients had the same sorting and search functionality.

I wish you could advanced filter your own collection of saved music. (genre, year, label, etc.)

I wish I could find an album on the macOS client that I’d saved on my iOS device.

I wish I was a little bit taller

Hey Glenn I am on Win 10 desktop but the Microsoft store version (reluctantly), thanks!

Also a lot of tracks 10 minutes or longer are now disabled. Saw something about this being UMG trying to encourage purchases of them on iTunes? Infuriating.

https://artists.spotify.com/blog/learn-how-to-get-playlisted-with-two-new-game-plan-episodes

oh great, now "playlisted" is a verb

it predates Spotify tbf

Oh, Windows. I don't know anything about that, but I'll ask somebody...

No, nashwan, it wasn't removed. Get @SpotifyCares to help you figure out what's going wrong for you...

metadata issue for the new boygenius EP - "boygenius" is an artist, but it only shows their three singles - not the EP. in order to find the EP, you have to type in one of the 3 member's names (julien baker, phoebe bridger, or lucy dacus), where it's then displayed as an album.

That case/lang/viers album from a couple years back was the same way.

Yeah, I saw some discussion of that boygenius credit go by already. People are on it.

all but one of my multi-room speaker groups (amazon echo) won’t show up in spotify. nothing anywhere on the internet. i have no fucking idea what is going on.

now my stereo pair won't work. it's just deciding to hide random speakers for no reason. i have wasted hours on this flaky dumb shit.

Now I’ve got Spotify reminding me to vote when I open the app. The more they move away from just playing the music the closer I come to canceling

Cut 'em some slack, Jack

“Workout Twerkout” playlist is the closest I’ve come to cancellation.

They're feeding me Cat Power's "Woman" into Jackson Browne's "The Load Out" on my daily playlist, and they've got me figured out.

Caviar the Vote!

Also a lot of tracks 10 minutes or longer are now disabled.]

Re-enabled now. That was a scary week.

Spotify stock closed today at an all-time low. The company's market value has declined by a whopping 0 billion since July 26. https://t.co/k20rCCfxLU Here's what I wrote back then, and it's all coming true. https://t.co/XbZuCj0lCk

— Ted Gioia (@tedgioia) November 1, 2018

probably not related, but i’ve just signed back up after years away, and the (ios at least) interface is so much clunkier than everything else i’ve been using (apple music, google play music, amazon music). along with the weird spotify connect issues i’ve been having, there’s no compelling reason for me to keep subscribing.

Yeah -- I qualified for a 3-month Amazon Music trial, so I've been using that instead, and I like the mobile interface a lot more. (I haven't done a deep dive into how the selection compares.)

This Spotify thing is what I expected - the labels will end up setting royalty rates low enough for the company to survive (as long as it stays on the ball tech-wise) as a competitor to the tech giants but not so low that they can ever make serious money. Good for the future of the platform, not much in it for 3rd party investors.

I don't mind the UI but if Spotify ever disables API access (for DJ apps), I'll bail.

my #1 Spotify UI complaint is that when you clear the search bar by clicking the X, it also navigates away from whatever you were just looking at and brings you to "Recently Played"

yeah that kills me on the reg. but would Spotify really be Spotify without many pointless interstitial taps?

what would people suggest instead of Spotify then? Google's music interface looks even clunkier than spotify's, Apple can go do one, Tidal is more expensive (twice?), anyone had experience with Deezer?

Apple can go do one?

I'll find it hard to forgive apple for the agony iTunes gave me when I was synching up my 20GB iPod back in the day. Is their music app not shit now?

as in, has their app moved from shit to not-shit?

I've tried both google play and deezer and neither is as good as spotify, despite spotify's flaws. Never tried apple music because I have heard it is not very good on android and doesn't support casting. I guess I should give Tidal a shot at some point.

thanks. I'm fine sticking with Spotify tbh, none of the niggles really hurt me.

Try Amazon, I’m tellin’ ya. I ordered a 2CD and somehow qualified for three months of Amazon Music; maybe you can figure out how to trigger that promotion

iTunes is incredibly powerful as a local music library manager (esp with scripts), but I’m sticking with Spotify in the browser for streaming.

The new spotify app is finally available for roku. Only problem is you have to have the latest roku OS, and the roll out for that could extend through the end of the year.

iTunes is incredibly powerful as a local music library manager (esp with scripts), but I’m sticking with Spotify in the browser for streaming.

Doug's scripts for iTunes are the ones i know - i haven't looked at the site for years but i think he keeps them updated

Amazon seems shit unless you ONLY want to listen to an act's most recent album. This is in Australia, though, where every aspect of Amazon is more expensive and less good than everywhere else in the world.

Indeed the Doug’s scripts site is a great resource but I’ve also written a few myself to scrape info like year/genre through the Discogs API and Google.

Yikes

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20181105005454/en/Spotify-Announces-Stock-Repurchase-Program-1.0-Billion

I approve of this

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Some of the biggest 90s and 00s pop hits are now available to stream, thanks to one dogged fan’s Twitter campaign, Pop Music Activism

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/nov/06/pop-online-forgotten-90s-00s-hits-pop-music-activism?CMP=fb_gu

https://thanksgiving.withspotify.com/

i am blown away by how terrible spotify is compared to when i stopped paying two years ago.

• discover weekly claims it's "updated every monday" but i'm still seeing a playlist from 2016 (same with release radar)
• no way to see albums in my saved artists (why would anyone design anything like this?)
• track time played/time remaining vanishes after two seconds (again, why?)
• the app claims to be offline ~30% of the times i open it and just won't let me do anything
• alexa/spotify connect integration is a train wreck, it never lists all my speaker groups and the volume does whatever the fuck it likes
• the current song keeps playing even if i pause, change tracks, kill/restart the app, etc – this happens seriously 80% of the time

and right now spotify's displaying track 2 but playing track 4 and that's only coming out of one speaker