Spotify - anyone heard of it?

The "top X%" of BAND listeners is interesting but probably massively skewed by individuals who listened to a single song on a playlist or sampled BAND at some point. I would like to see how long the tails are on those stats and would be more interested in where I rank among "fans," however that might be defined.

On an unrelated note, as of last week my Spotify web player is completely fucked. I will press play on an album and it will play the first 2 seconds of each of the first five or so songs in a row, then play about 10 seconds of the sixth song, then just stop. A google search suggests others resolved this by creating an entirely new account and having Spotify migrate everything over, which is insane? Have to play everything off my phone now. Ugh.

finally checked my spotify wrapped, i was only in the top 0.1% for autechre, massive fail. and my top two moods were tender and yearning *gazes wistfully*

Think I had maybe the same moods, and my 0.1% was a POLL-driven Afghan Whigs!

Sorry, not quite, mine was innovative and wistful.

And I was top 0.05% Whigs.

POLL-driven Todd Rundgren was my #2 artist.

It's my assumption that % is calculated from a population of people who listened to x artist at all, rather than all Spotify users, but I could be wrong.

Any idea why some friends have suddenly disappeared from my friend activity feed? I know they've been active lately and I like to keep up with what they're listening to.

i think that means they turned off the setting to share what theyre listening to

We [Spotify, not me] recently changed the default sharing setting from Yes to No, so anybody who had never touched that setting will have sharing off now. They can turn it on, but since you don't see the sharing on the phone apps, the vast majority of people didn't know it existed and didn't know other people could see their listening to begin with.

oh that sucks - i'd hesitate to ask even a family member to turn the sharing setting on so I can continue to stalk them

I discover so much new music that way it's ridiculous

I'd better be careful, lest "Seaside Woman" skews next year's stats. Or do late December listens just drift off into the interstellar void.

I have noticed a seeming uptick in the number of solo artists who are also credited as second (third, etc.) artist on tracks from groups they were or are a part of. E.g. "Sweet Dreams" credited to The Eurythmics, Annie Lennox, Dave Stewart. This seems like a positive development in lots of ways; but I'm such an old fart, reared on physical media and record stores, that it does take me a minute to get my head around it.

... but actually I think the specific change I was reacting to was the fact that the Eurythmics' version of "Sweet Dreams" show up as the #1 most-played song on the artist page for Annie Lennox. Which is cool, notwithstanding the breaking of my brain; if someone hears her name and wants to know what her biggest song is then I think that would be the correct answer.

Otoh, "C.R.E.A.M." does not appear to be Raekwon's most streamed song, nor Inspectah Deck's. Is this a case-by-case decision by Spotify? An option that can be exercised individual artists and rightsholders? I'm very curious about this side of the biz.

Trying to credit all the individual contributors on Wu-Tang tracks is going to break the spotify DB

Can't drag tracks into collaborative playlists in the web version. Could we ever (been so long since I needed to) ?

No, dragging to collaborative doesn’t work on browser. Not sure if it ever has but certainly been that way for a long time.

k thx

Pretty cool

https://www.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/rnoz4b/i_accidentally_left_a_script_running_for_a_decade/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Is long pressing me on the cover art meant to preview the track? I get nothing

me

Another year past, another year Spotify Hifi streaming fails to appear

How “hifi” is it supposed to be? Like Tidal?

Take your pick – Tidal, Amazon, Qobuz. Spotify Premium tops out at a measly 320kbit/s. There’s no reason to subscribe if bitrate is important to you.

(YT Music is even worse at 256, and it sounds accordingly shitty)

Don't want to start any bitrate wars but don't you need a top end system or amazing hearing or something to tell the difference between 320 and say flac or whatever?

I don’t know if my hearing’s amazing, but I’ve tried out all the above using cheapy BT headphones and can def tell the difference (I actively use YT Music and Amazon Music HD, and it’s night & day).

(granted, 320 isn’t 256. and there is added cost vs. Spotify with some of those HD services, but not Amazon or Apple)

One thing I did notice when had both Apple Music and Spotify subscriptions is that Apple’s AAC sounded very different (better, tbh) than Spotify’s top rate.

I've done tests on the good hifi system, swapping between the same tracks on CD and Spotify Premium through a Bluetooth DAC. The CD versions sound very slightly better if you listen closely, but there's not much in it.

i can't tell at all on my hifi gear. look up some "abx" tests with real time switching to get a good idea if it matters to your ears.

Don't want to start any bitrate wars but don't you need a top end system or amazing hearing or something to tell the difference between 320 and say flac or whatever?

― groovypanda, Sunday, December 26, 2021 1:28 AM (seven hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yes and I have all those things

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RfGe6MvY84

it’s kind of amazing to me that in 2021 when music streaming is essentially a commodity service, each service is…. ripping its own files? really?

I thought I recall reading on this thread that record companies supply the rips

Wanna know the rest? Hey, buy the rips.

Distributors supply the original audio files, but each service then creates its own encoded versions...

Last night, I was supplying the rips.

Last night I dreamt I went to Spotify again.

Lol

seems like yer gettin' a lil confused, friend.

https://i.imgur.com/wQ2dtSS.jpg

i am an american overweight lover

Yes, we were all waiting for this!

https://www.engadget.com/spotify-call-to-action-cards-podcast-ads-160009589.html

Are there a lot of people looking at the audio podcast playing on their phone? Just watching the seconds on Marc Maron's intro passing by?

No but if the trusted voice in their ear says they can tap a link to go straight to the thing that's being talked about that's a pretty powerful traffic driver

I've yet to encounter a single person (except for maybe a Rogan fan in the wild) who even likes Spotify as a podcast platform. I've dropped some Gimlet shows I really like (Science VS and Every Little Thing) from my routine simply because they became Spotify-exclusive. I will not use Spotify for podcasts and I hope this whole power grab blows up in their faces.

Same

It saves people having to use a different app for their music and their podcasts, is the main thing