Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Yeah, lately every time I search a new artist and try to play a track, nothing happens until I force quit and restart. Great tech!

same problem but the answer has been to drop that music in a playlist that is set to download to my mac. plays fine after that! obviously not optimal!

OH MY GOD. The deals between the majors and the streaming services.

The thread many of you requested. It gets a bit sticky, tricky and puzzling, but that’s the point.

— Tom Gray #BrokenRecord (@MrTomGray) June 14, 2020

Jfc

The business model is so weird. Imagine being a record executive and being pitched “no one is paying for the CD for the yes album relayer these days, for example, so would you rather make pennies or nothing”

Or maybe it would be “we can augment existing cd sales with a growing digital-based revenue source” ugh

this is a lot better than whatever spotify wrapped was

https://pudding.cool/2020/12/judge-my-spotify/

I just noticed a couple of days ago that in the Mobile app, Spotify will return search results of songs that contain the searched phrase in its lyrics. Is this relatively new?

this is a lot better than whatever spotify wrapped was

https://pudding.cool/2020/12/judge-my-spotify/

― Roz, Wednesday, 23 December 2020 04:48 (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

Things I didn't know I needed till now: a robot that looks at my listening habits and says "what the fuck is wrong with you?"

Things I didn't know I needed till now: a robot that looks at my listening habits and says "what the fuck is wrong with you?"

The diagnosis you've really been waiting for rn.

https://www.spotlistr.com
^^i've found this to be a useful tool, let's you create playlists from text, such as:

Joni Mitchell - Amelia
Kacey Musgraves - Rainbow
Linda McCartney - I Got Up

lol. I am 6% basic.

"You are 3% basic. Have you considered there's a reason nobody listens to The Wolfgang Press?.

You're stuck in the early 2010s. You only listen to Obama-era jams like Don't Go Where I Can't Find You by Eraldo Bernocchi and 1,618 by Charlotte Adigéry."

Ha ha.

I am 7% basic and also stuck in the early 2010s, though it seems to think 2017 = "early 2010s"

Also asked me if I listened to Perfect Way by Scritti Politti "ironically". GTFO.

i got like, "you know there was music released before 2019, right?"

I got accused of living in the 2000s and also a weird sideswipe at Ketty Lester that suggests A.I. still has some way to go

oh great another Miles Davis stan...

lol

You are 14% basic. Karen Ramirez and Jupiter? Where do you even find this shit?

I did this but I hardly use Spotify and was pretty confused until I realised it was mostly basing the results off me listening to the ILM tracks poll playlists. I am definitely not obsessed with the 1975, I've never listened to them outside of that playlist! It also seems to think I listen to the Dirty Dancing soundtrack for some reason.

Patrick Swayze over here

"Your spotify was nineties-dorm-room-walmart-hawaiian-shirt-ken-burns-jazz bad" ok ouch

It called “spirit” by Bauhaus an Obama-era jam...

“Your Spotify was ponytail pop escape room tay tay fan girl bad” AND
“Your taste is so obscure that’s so cool I bet you’re super interesting...”

(What is ‘escape room’? Is it a Spotify made up genre or something?)

Yes, pretty much. It’s discussed upthread and here is an explanation:

https://festivalpeak.com/what-is-escape-room-and-why-is-it-one-of-my-top-genres-on-spotify-a886372f003f

Did the pudding thing and I dunno.

imo we should just make a playlist collecting all the songs we "listened to way too much" in order to make this thing productive

Yeah

http://i.imgur.com/UV0ksAN.png

2% basic, bow to me suckers

15% basic. I stan these artists to an uncomfortable extent:

Fiona Apple
Taylor Swift
They Might Be Giants
Janet Jackson
Billie Eilish

(TMBG are due to the ILM poll a couple years ago)

The other 4 it's true I stan to an uncomfortable extent though.

3% basic thanks to edgelord listening habits like this:

You're stuck in the early 2010s. You only listen to Obama-era jams like Baa Baa Black Sheep by Nursery Rhymes 123 and Jelly on a Plate by Nursery Rhymes 123.

I got "oh great another Gunn-Truscinski Duo stan"

You only listen to Obama-era jams like El Bandito Pt. 1 by Delroy Edwards and Untitled Reversion by Lee Gamble.

lol

ok that was fun

2 percent basic

17% basic because my ex-wife used to share my account and just listened to future and 21 savage constantly :'-( she really destroyed my algorithim

Ha, I eventually got a family account so my wife could listen to her own stuff and my year end wouldn't be all 50 Cent.

Sort of weird because I split between Apple Music and Spotify.

Listen too much:
Lithics, "Excuse Generator"
Cat Power, "I Don't Blame You"
Sextile, "Disco"
The Fall, "Theme From Sparta FC"
Priests, "The Seduction of Kansas"

my taste is
studded-leather-jacket bad
lilith-fair bad
skrt-skrt bad
weeping-in-your-bourbon bad

Certified 0% basic

I think it got a bit confused as it called Jyocho idol-rock but OK.

https://i.ibb.co/KhYKnmK/Screenshot-20201223-220440.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/mG7Yssn/Screenshot-20201223-220515.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/Jdb7PHH/Screenshot-20201223-220809.jpg

https://i.ibb.co/0c1YLLr/Screenshot-20201223-220820.jpg

I didn’t really find this funny, sorry. Not Zappa-level unfunny but still.

it shamed me for liking Kendrick Lamar and it's not funny

It's like an annoying roommate or cousin or co-worker who picks up some random article from your stuff and says "haha, you like this?"

I forgot who posted that screenshot but was reminded when I saw Iced Earth.

It's like an annoying roommate or cousin or co-worker who picks up some random article from your stuff and says "haha, you like this?"

That’s the joke, innit?

D'oh!

"Your spotify was so-ambient-its-barely-music-mom-and-dads-date-night-swiftie-fangirl bad."

https://www.nytimes.com/1983/04/17/us/test-on-street-language-says-it-s-not-grant-in-that-tomb.html