Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Yes, these use a variation on the same technique described for places: a combined weighting of absolute cohort popularity and the share of global popularity that represents. So it would take a lot for the kids in Estonia to represent a non-trivial share of Drake listening, for example. But more is still better.

I'd be interested in how genres map and differ across regions. Like does a 20 year old Scottish Lil Peep fan listen to broadly the same other music as their Australian, Estonian, etc. counterparts? Are there specific genre artists that don't connect across borders?

runrig

Ha, they keep coming up in the Duolingo Gaelic course.

This thing goes into a lot more detail: age, gender, genres...

http://everynoise.com/everydemo.cgi

the fun never ends. thanks @spotifyartists "Thanks for your interest in Spotify for Artists.

We took a look at the info you gave us but can’t confirm a connection between you and the artist you claimed, which means we can’t grant you access."

— loscil (@_loscil_) September 15, 2020

FWIW, I just fixed this "Loscil" track, which looks like part of the same nefarious batch as some earlier cases discussed here...

I just noticed this group session feature!

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2020-07-28/your-squad-can-now-stream-simultaneously-using-spotifys-group-session-beta/

I've been trying this out, doesn't seem to work exactly. You can have other people in a session listen to what you are listening to, but having participants update the queue seems broken.

oh i guesshttps://app.jqbx.fm/ is still the best option for that than

"This radio station cannot be started. Please try with something else."

It's the "radio station" of a birthday playlist my sister made for me in July -- and back then it worked fine and I liked it. What's changed? Why doesn't it play now?

please mark, you can’t reasonably expect your whole life to be one big birthday

*throws embarrassing tantrum*

why is the web app so much worse now, releases on artist pages are now automatically sorted by popularity mixing singles and albums and EPs all together. you can click on the "popular releases" heading to get through to a better organised discography like before but only if they have enough releases and the text space for release titles is limited enough to be annoying which it wasn't before

my desktop version has been being pretty erratic over the last couple of weeks. I'm getting duplicate podcasts turning up in my queue.
& they don't delete.
NOt sure what is going on . Pretty annoying having to correct it.

why is the web app so much worse now, releases on artist pages are now automatically sorted by popularity mixing singles and albums and EPs all together. you can click on the "popular releases" heading to get through to a better organised discography like before but only if they have enough releases and the text space for release titles is limited enough to be annoying which it wasn't before

― ufo, Thursday, October 1, 2020 7:06 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

This is the case - and indeed highly annoying. They did, yesterday, at least change one thing back, which is putting the latest release on the left again (that had also disappeared, so you had to scroll through popular to find the latest one yourself). It's a mess.

So a lot of artists "popular releases" now list the same (the newest) album twice, on the left side. Prob because it's both most popular (because it's new) and the newest. It looks like this, and it's ridiculous imo:

https://i.imgur.com/irSt4ee.png

https://i.imgur.com/CVBF62B.png

i expect that those pages are used only a tiny fraction of the amount that the big playlists are, so they become an afterthought. anything considered 'niche' functionality - even something as basic as an artist page - will get deprioritized

You're probably right, but it was good the way it was? Sorted by release year, descending in order from left to right. If it doesn't have a big priority, just leave it be, it was ok the way it was.

wtf Loveless has gone

Don't worry, it'll probably be back soon in fifteen years time.

Wha? I can still see it, here in the US at least.

nope, not here in the UK. guess the thought of someone listening to it at 320kbps finally got to him.

All the MBV albums have been gone from Spotify since spring 2019 for me.

if you ever want to check which regions an album is available on Spotify, for making a playlist for people overseas etc, there's this tool:

http://kaaes.github.io/albums-availability/

These are the current limits of Kevin Shields' empire:

https://i.imgur.com/AQsT4Bl.png

I think the tool needs to be updated, as the grey seems to indicate countries where Spotify itself is unavailable, but Ireland and North African countries have been added since then, I think. But good for checking US/UK etc.

Can a VPN get around that or is it based on verified billing address?

The latest MBV is not on US Spotify.

Onimo - I think it's based on IP address not billing country so yes I guess a VPN woild work in theory

No, it's based on where you pay.

Should have just waited for Glenn – apologies for bad information.

What the ....? https://open.spotify.com/show/2Zy2XZMKHDGBSv8ouqwZ0R

get that starred

android app having many issues with the playbar freezing

or maybe not freezing. just displaying the wrong songs and showing |> instead of || while playing. seems to be a real bug related to recent android update. it eventually happens after every reboot. anyone else notice this?

I've had this happen a few times recently

I usually have to exit and then force stop the app to clear it up

yes, me too

Oh, me too! I just assumed it was my shitty phone being shitty, glad it's just the Spotify app being vmic.

this happens to me constantly

app is borderline unusable now

Is this the latest Android update?

Not had any problems with it at all myself (on Moto G7)

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Spotify-displaying-incorrect-track/td-p/4632956

a master class in shit support

i'm not anyone in that thread. i just hate when the response is restart your app/phone/reinstall, when clearly everyone has already done that.

Yup. Check your power supply!

I never used playlists on shuffle until recently and have had the pleasure of discovering how shit the shuffle algorithm (or whatever) is. 207 song playlist, same ~40 songs play. It does a great job of shuffling those 40, though. #FFS

#GREATREVIVE

I find that shuffle works better or worse depending on the device.

If Spotify follow the standard tech company playbook for bugs, they'll do this "restart your phone/clean install/probably another app on your phone/manufacturer fault" gaslighting bullshit for a month or so then a new version will drop that fixes the bug and they'll act dumb about it. Their inability to just say"yes, there's a bug, we're working on it" is maddening.