Me nether!
ooh me nethers. fyi if you use the desktop app it's the discover tab in the browse section.
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 10:36 (four years ago) link
Anyone else get one of those "You're one of [band x's] top fans worldwide. You're one of their top 1% of fans." messages"? The band I got it for is extremely popular and it doesn't make much sense that Spotify would clock me as one of their top 1% of fans.
― ☮️ (peace, man), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 13:07 (four years ago) link
I got one for Big Thief
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 13:10 (four years ago) link
"top 2% of Miles Davis fans"
not sure what these messages are supposed to achieve but w/e
― Brad C., Wednesday, 26 February 2020 13:47 (four years ago) link
never
― Oor Neechy, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 13:58 (four years ago) link
I got 'top 1%' one for Dylan. It seems to be a sell to get you to sign up for the artist radio.
― Ngolo Cantwell (Chinaski), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 14:37 (four years ago) link
I got top 1% Cure fan with a link to listen to them even more which turned out to be an "artist radio" playlist full of Smiths and New Order songs
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 15:46 (four years ago) link
i don’t know about you guys but i 5-starred the Dylan catalogue years ago.. i remember New Morning being particularly tough. had to respawn a lot iirc
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 15:57 (four years ago) link
I got one for the Beatles, but I think it must be counting Podcasts as well, because I binged two or three different Beatles related podcasts in the last few months, but haven't played as much Beatles music compared to like Echo and the Bunnymen or New Order.
― brotherlovesdub, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 18:12 (four years ago) link
That reminds me: the worst thing about asking for a track by the Beatles on the Spotify Alexa skill is that it *without* fail plays instead a cover by 'x beatles tribute band' who presumably exist just to capitalise on such accidental plays. I have to resort to using Spotify Connect instead.
― Alba, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 18:57 (four years ago) link
I mean, that's the only bad thing, but it's really bad.
― Alba, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 18:58 (four years ago) link
Half of the streams for "Sunflower" have to be from my son asking Alexa to play "Spiderman on Spotify"
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 19:09 (four years ago) link
I feel like I've asked this before but...why doesn't spotify provide users with their stats all the time, a la last.fm?― musically, Friday, December 9, 2016 12:01 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― musically, Friday, December 9, 2016 12:01 PM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink
how is this still not a thing?
― Indexed, Thursday, 27 February 2020 16:30 (four years ago) link
My "top 1%" message was for Ariel Pink, which... I didn't really anticipate.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Friday, 28 February 2020 01:54 (four years ago) link
I got Chaka Khan
― brimstead, Friday, 28 February 2020 05:11 (four years ago) link
Top 1% for Rihanna, which I don't believe! I mean, I listen some, and my partner listens a lot, but it still seems like a limited number of minutes for her potential audience.
Totally know I'm in the top 1% for Sina Alam and Michael Dracula
― Julius Caesar Memento Hoodie (bendy), Friday, 28 February 2020 16:31 (four years ago) link
I'm in the top 2% of listeners of M83! Which is, sorta believable but I don't listen to them any more than other bands who have a decent smattering of stuff in my playlists. Perhaps I don't listen to enough of anyone to be in their top 1%, but tbh it seems like all these artists are on the Grammys radar, so it is probably not going to tell me about how I am the number one fan of Saariselka or something.
― Frobisher, Friday, 28 February 2020 17:10 (four years ago) link
Ugh to all the thumbnails on playlists. Is there anyway to switch them off?
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 28 February 2020 21:28 (four years ago) link
They added thumbnails, and removed the text that tells you the name of the album. Not helpful.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 28 February 2020 21:42 (four years ago) link
I doubt I'm in the top 2% of King Crimson listeners, especially since I have their discography on my Plex server at home.
― beard papa, Saturday, 29 February 2020 00:05 (four years ago) link
I think it would be great if you could subscribe to the Release Radar playlists of celebrities. Talk about vertically-integrating the influence chain.
― DJI, Saturday, 29 February 2020 03:25 (four years ago) link
I don’t like the ui of the new iOS app. Very weird to have two sets of play controls so close together. Hate the new home view.
― beard papa, Sunday, 1 March 2020 20:59 (four years ago) link
I really like the thumbnails in Playlists but don't really understand the point when in Album view?
― Indexed, Monday, 2 March 2020 16:44 (four years ago) link
Anyone finding on the desktop app's Recently Played block it's listing stuff you did not listen to (in my case Slade's 'Merry Xmas Everybody') or if you did it was not at all recent enough for you to remember (or corroborate with last.fm)?
― nashwan, Monday, 2 March 2020 18:08 (four years ago) link
Check you don’t have a squatter in your account on another device - when that happened to me that was the cause.
― stet, Monday, 2 March 2020 21:33 (four years ago) link
they took out the goddamn album art window???
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, 2 March 2020 21:39 (four years ago) link
(lol -- great handle, brad)
― tamagotchi revival artist (morrisp), Monday, 2 March 2020 21:42 (four years ago) link
― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, March 2, 2020 bookmarkflaglink
disaster
― Thybulle on the Dash (Spottie), Monday, 2 March 2020 21:44 (four years ago) link
If you're seeing less album art, rather than more, something is probably wrong. Maybe restart?
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 2 March 2020 21:51 (four years ago) link
I don't understand why there isn't a single music player that has a good "let me zoom in on the art without distraction" UI, not even as a modal dialog.
― lukas, Monday, 2 March 2020 21:54 (four years ago) link
Glen: is the backward search text in the desktop app a known bug? It’s driving me crazy.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 01:56 (four years ago) link
I've heard of it happening to people, but I can't find any information about it, sorry...
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 02:37 (four years ago) link
WHAT is this giant green play button suddenly sitting at the top of my playlist, and why does it insist I shuffle my carefully ordered mix?
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 05:02 (four years ago) link
Ugh and the edit function is now minimized and not sticky. These are very irritating changes
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 05:05 (four years ago) link
i rolled back my app to an earlier version and set it to never auto update after they removed my search bar a year or two ago,.. it seems like most updates tamper frivolously with essential features?? Lol
― lumen (esby), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 05:18 (four years ago) link
You guys need to give Tidal a shot, lol
― tamagotchi revival artist (morrisp), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 06:04 (four years ago) link
some really classy distribution by blooming jazz records
https://i.imgur.com/nd52dEU.png
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 12:11 (four years ago) link
the shittiest company
https://twitter.com/DanBoeckner/status/1234862578830102536/photo/2
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link
When underpaying artists for their labor isn’t enough to keep your company going pic.twitter.com/kaSIUUL8gB— Jabroni And The Air-rifle (@DanBoeckner) March 3, 2020
How is that not payola?
― DJI, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 18:46 (four years ago) link
Buying ads is not payola.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 21:35 (four years ago) link
You never got coverage in music mags if your label didn't advertise in it
― Oor Neechy, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 22:30 (four years ago) link
music mags didn't make money off of distributing your music
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 22:36 (four years ago) link
So it’s like Tower Records (R.I.P.) soliciting labels to place ads in Pulse! magazine.
― tamagotchi revival artist (morrisp), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 22:42 (four years ago) link
no, it's like if Revolver Distribution had a publication of its own and in order to get distribution you had to buy ads in their publication. It's absolutely payola.
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 22:43 (four years ago) link
How is Spotify equivalent to Revolver Distribution here?
― tamagotchi revival artist (morrisp), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 22:45 (four years ago) link
how are they similar to a magazine?
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 22:46 (four years ago) link
Spotify is closer to being a distributor than they are to being a publication
They’re closer to being one record store of many on the same digital “block,” no?It also kind of sounds like studios having to pay theaters to run movie trailers.
― tamagotchi revival artist (morrisp), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 22:47 (four years ago) link
(My analogy wasn’t that they’re similar to a magazine, it was that they’re similar to Tower Records.)
― tamagotchi revival artist (morrisp), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 22:48 (four years ago) link