Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Anybody into 'binaural beats'?

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX7EF8wVxBVhG?si=QjyP3LJkSjigsmyKSR-Evw

Feel like it's a slight misnomer as there are

1) No beats

and

2) Only very subtle binaural flourishes

but it's pretty easy to just whack this on while working. However I do sort of wonder if this is the audio equivalent of Huel.

Spotify fueling a barely music renaissance

(and I'm here for it)

I came across a Delta Wave Deep Sleep one when I was searching for ambient playlists a week or two ago

Seemed an odd mix of some ambient sounding tracks and others that were just bass hums xp

there are so many incredible ambient records from the 90s that don't exist on spotify.

Yes. I wonder how hard it would be for a label to get some older releases on these popular focus/work/study playlists.

It doesn't even seem to be a genre on there - just 'ambient sounds' so gets lumped in with all the 'pink noise' and 'whale sounds' shit.

if glenn doesn't have a "pink noise and whale sounds" category already...

Can anyone (glenn?) explain how this happens

https://open.spotify.com/track/5aUf13PE8XmentDXP9zqTC?si=Xyu7FEV1T6O2wifx23iGug

It's supposed to be Slow Motion by SFF but about 47 seconds in it starts playing Babin by Josky Kiambukuta & Youlou Mabiala O_o

Anybody into 'binaural beats'?

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX7EF8wVxBVhG?si=QjyP3LJkSjigsmyKSR-Evw

Feel like it's a slight misnomer as there are

1) No beats

Aren't "binaural beats" "beats" in the sense of a rhythmic interference pattern between frequencies? Like when you're tuning a stringed instrument against another string and you get it very close and you can hear a tremolo-like "beating" effect which speeds up or slows down as you turn the tuning peg.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_%28acoustics%29

But yeah, it's a confusing name for them as a playlist on a music site.

Schicke Führs Fröhling turning into Youlou Mabiala is bizarre. The two albums come from the same licensor, so I guess my only theory involves a distracted label intern trying to do too many uploads at once. I'll ask our people to ask their people to give it another try!

As for "binaural", you can find LOTS more here: http://everynoise.com/engenremap-binaural.html

and you can see the whole genre-space reordered relative to binaural here: http://everynoise.com/everynoise1d.cgi?root=binaural&scope=all

Not enough individual whale-song artists to make a "whale" genre yet.

Nice one glenn xp

The correct version of Slow Motion appears on their 2018 Collected Works LP so I added that to the playlist I was making instead

Not enough individual whale-song artists to make a "whale" genre yet.

Am I crazy or is there no shuffle play option anymore on the desktop UI?

lol, never mind, I'm a dummy. I had a podcast still paused as my currently playing track and the shuffle option only appears when you're playing music.

Latest Test Pressing lockdown playlist, from Stevie Kotey, is an absolute peach.

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1iDtw4YCHWv9Izp5pBrqEo?si=ySgxH6U7RB2iWjZ7djH2BQ

First time I’ve ever come across something where the titles are shifted by one from the song that is playing: https://open.spotify.com/album/4WV3kUWmeCpq7I4bM6BM4J?si=cspEkw1LTq-1nx5rmcKBig

Yeah, looks like it's probably wrong at the source. I'll get a message passed along to the licensor to see if they will fix it. Thanks!

If you have autoplay on is there any way to stop it playing certain tracks/artists? When we play wheels on the bus it follows it up with kids bible songs :/

We get cutesy ukelele versions of popular classics :(

No, there's no current way to influence autoplay, and you're not the first person to discover that the current algorithm often matches non-religious kids songs with religious kids songs. I've looked at the listening patterns for these, and they basically make sense: those songs share a LOT of listeners, and it's not simple to tell from the numbers that this is because religious-kids-music audiences are happy to hear "Wheels on the Bus" but non-religious-kids-music-audiences are not as happy to hear bible songs.

Hopefully we'll eventually get artist/song banning working ubiquitously across all parts of the app, which will then give you the ability to get rid of individual things you don't want, but if we don't solve the underlying problem, banning the bible tracks you're hearing is likely to just get you different bible tracks. And solving the underlying problem means modeling the asymmetry of religious-music listening, which is a serious problem in both cultural and technical terms. It's doable, we've done similar efforts for Christmas music and kids music in general. But that's how I know it's hard.

My practical recommendation is to use the songs you LIKE from Autoplay to build a playlist, and then use the Recommended Songs at the bottom of that playlist to fill it out with more things you like or at least tolerate, and then turn Autoplay off and go with your own longer list.

Is the autoplay the 'Radio based on' type thing that starts when you get to the end of a playlist?

If so have nothing but praise for it as have made some fantastic discoveries listening to it

It's also a really really useful on smart speakers: just being able to ask for a single track and let it run from there is a lot less fiddly than specifying names of playlists.

thanks for the info and tips glenn, very informative. i guess the large religious-kids-music user base in the states is also a factor.

might be easier to be a devout follower for awhile, stopping immediately when the algorithm is fixed

i thought about exclusively listening to kids religious music for a few weeks then hitting "i don't like this artist" when it starts showing up in discover weekly.

Ugh, I apologize on behalf of the entire software industry for uncontrollable algorithms you're forced to try to game indirectly...

I was impressed when a ~700 song playlist shuffled from Smiths' "Rubber Ring" into Kenny Chesney's "I Go Back"

Ugh, I apologize on behalf of the entire software industry for uncontrollable algorithms you're forced to try to game indirectly...

we suffer, it's true.

hey, maybe wrong place to ask, but is there a way to put my music on spotify and just decline any royalties or possibilities of monetary compensation?

(not that i have any delusions of making money, i just 100% don't care about getting any money from the music i make. just want to make it available on another platform besides bandcamp.)

also it's 1000% bee ess that aaliyah's second and third albums aren't available. that's classic material. never should have traded those. i had the self-titled on double vinyl, too. regrets.

OneRPM has a free plan, that's what I use for my own music.

Discographies of the surf rock band and afro-jazz group both named the Pyramids are mixed together

disappearance of “appears on” listings is a bummer

seriously though. Glenn? Help!

I still see "appears on" listings...is this on a newer version of the desktop app that I don't have yet?

yeah, it's not on my desktop.

The Appears On thing is a temporary casualty of a complicated situation I can't get into, but it will come back. Nobody wants it gone.

I reported the Pyramids page, thanks. It should get cleaned up in a day or two.

thanks for that update. i really would hate to see the "appears on" feature go away permanently, it seriously hobbles usability.

The badge that appears on the play button if you have shuffle on: heroic ui move, applause.

Does it always appear?

I see two different buttons a regular play button near the bottom and a shuffle play button that appears closer to the top

Hmm maybe it isn't what I thought it was. It's at the top below the album or playlist image - is it just shuffle play then? It does show whether I have shuffle on or off. This is in the app btw.

Was this a recent update? I don’t see it there.

version 8.5.65.852 ¯\(°_o)/¯

further investigation confirms it is just shuffle play :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipgtPCrd1O0

Wondering why the list of releases an artist Appears On stopped appearing in reverse chronological order recently - now seems to be random.

see upthread. Glenn keeps reassuring us it will be alright.

The Appears On thing involves issues that have nothing to do with what you're seeing. Hopefully it'll be back soon...

― glenn mcdonald, woensdag 27 mei 2020 2:16 bookmarkflaglink

The Appears On thing is a temporary casualty of a complicated situation I can't get into, but it will come back. Nobody wants it gone.

― glenn mcdonald, donderdag 2 juli 2020 21:30 bookmarkflaglink

Maybe it's dependent on Trump being voted out of office in November?

I said it would be back, and it is. The sort order is different now, that part is correct. There may be further developments there, eventually, but sorting by popularity is what allowed the feature to be reenabled...

Okay Glenn, now you’ve got me confused (and worried). The reordering/sorting by popularity instead of (reverse) chronology was precisely the issue longneck and I complained about back in May. You then said in reply this was a temporary issue.
The actual disappearance of the feature only came up here last week ( I never experienced it myself). So now you’re saying the sorting by popularity is a permanent thing? That’s... very bad news, for the reasons outlined back in May.