Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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

how is this still not a thing?

My "top 1%" message was for Ariel Pink, which... I didn't really anticipate.

I got Chaka Khan

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

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.

Ugh to all the thumbnails on playlists. Is there anyway to switch them off?

Ugh to all the thumbnails on playlists. Is there anyway to switch them off?

They added thumbnails, and removed the text that tells you the name of the album. Not helpful.

I doubt I'm in the top 2% of King Crimson listeners, especially since I have their discography on my Plex server at home.

I think it would be great if you could subscribe to the Release Radar playlists of celebrities. Talk about vertically-integrating the influence chain.

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.

I really like the thumbnails in Playlists but don't really understand the point when in Album view?

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)?

Check you don’t have a squatter in your account on another device - when that happened to me that was the cause.

they took out the goddamn album art window???

(lol -- great handle, brad)

they took out the goddamn album art window???

― mellon collie and the infinite bradness (BradNelson), Monday, March 2, 2020 bookmarkflaglink

disaster

If you're seeing less album art, rather than more, something is probably wrong. Maybe restart?

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.

Glen: is the backward search text in the desktop app a known bug? It’s driving me crazy.

I've heard of it happening to people, but I can't find any information about it, sorry...

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?

Ugh and the edit function is now minimized and not sticky. These are very irritating changes

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

You guys need to give Tidal a shot, lol

some really classy distribution by blooming jazz records

https://i.imgur.com/nd52dEU.png

the shittiest company

https://twitter.com/DanBoeckner/status/1234862578830102536/photo/2

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?

Buying ads is not payola.

You never got coverage in music mags if your label didn't advertise in it

music mags didn't make money off of distributing your music

So it’s like Tower Records (R.I.P.) soliciting labels to place ads in Pulse! magazine.

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.

How is Spotify equivalent to Revolver Distribution here?

how are they similar to a magazine?

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.

(My analogy wasn’t that they’re similar to a magazine, it was that they’re similar to Tower Records.)

I suppose. Spotify has, what, 30% of the streaming market?

lol I forgot that Tower owned Pulse, sorry about that

I suppose one big difference is that Tower Records was actually a profitable business once haha

Now, if they were soliciting payment to place songs on curated playlists, feature certain artists on “hero” images, etc., I agree that would seem shady. Do they do that?

why would they ever admit that they do

I don’t know, but presumably someone would find out and write an article about it

Why would you pay to advertise if it didn't get you onto the only place you can make money? I would be less skeptical of this scheme if Spotify hadn't done everything they could over the last few years to jam themselves in-between artists and listeners and push listeners into listening exclusively to Spotify-created (whether curated or algorithmic) playlists.

I feel like the streaming services should be treated as a common carrier and allow anyone to build value-added services on top of them. At this point, all the vertical integration is pretty clearly NOT A GOOD THING.

presumably someone would find out and write an article about it

this already happened years ago fyi

here let me google that for you etc

https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/6670475/playola-promotion-streaming-services

https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/19/spotify-sponsored-content/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly9kdWNrZHVja2dvLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAHzL2RJZd1tc1VAHw9WAwL0Uuiwvkcc9Ibyltq2zlFaE6wiY_BjbjYPC4AS3Pm8NLP3ePY3HMbpeFCCdyc-q59S9snQpeGbVhsbBov4QFXxNXzYHFVrCIxL89toWXi3qAhRjAZHJ2H5xAXWETQW376MUXHtgktwFuCOLCN001WlV

and it's (of course) a game of whack-a-mole - every time something like this draws attention/bad press they back away from it, and then move on to the next payola scheme