Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Much bigger problem than the whole "funding future wars" thing

the murder AI will teach itself how to fix the autoplay bugs

the issue with the button was that the default "play" button was a "play in shuffle mode" button - has definitely annoyed me many times, so very glad they're changing it!

Can we just get back to basics with a million tunes in the room, a simple search and playback. I see “feature” creep all over the place and it’s ugly af

Then they'd never have been successful enough to give hundreds of millions of dollars to right wing podcasters and arms companies.

the issue with the button was that the default "play" button was a "play in shuffle mode" button - has definitely annoyed me many times, so very glad they're changing it!

I have no memory of every experiencing this, either on desktop or mobile, so now I feel like the rest of the world is in on some elaborate prank against me.

every = ever

Oohh, mystery solved. It was free-tier users who got that. I've been a Premium member for ever.

Yes never knew about it until yesterday, what an amazingly churlish idea assuming it was just to try and incentivise people to go Premium.

They should try just playing a different song to free members.

Rickroll every fifth song.

Really

Oohh, mystery solved. It was free-tier users who got that. I've been a Premium member for ever.

Yeah that was a confusing button. I just clicked the first track if I'd wanted to hear the album sequentially

Oh I’m probably wrong then. Yeah, I think my instinct would always have been to tap on the first track so maybe I just ignored that button.

premium here too, had the shuffle as default on play button, overjoyed that it is gone. Thank you Adele! (though very weird - but not bad - for artist requests to drive UI change)

i have zero doubt that her request happened to align with a decision they arrived at by other means and this was essentially a (successful) PR stunt

Yes, win-win for them all. Adele gets lots of extra publicity and plays for her album, Spotify cone across as good guys who are sympathetic to artists’ needs. Just don’t mention the streaming rate, ok,

or the article linked above about where subscribers' money is going

Just don’t mention the streaming rate, ok,

They never rolled out that HiFi plan that they teased, did they?

this is a godsend honestly, the app itself is very clunky. https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_spotify

wow that's super cool

queue I was listening to just reset in the middle fo a podcast i was listening to. Wasn't sure what happened when it did this a couple of weeks ago when i was listening to things on my phone in another room when it just stopped dead. Seems like its done teh same thing again.
So this time i just happened to be sitting at the desktop when it did it. So there are no other factors in it that I'm aware of.
THought it might be my phone last time. Or something hitting the full capacity of memory being used, can't be with the desktop surely.
Pain , has me wondering what is causing that if it is somebody somewhere triggering my machine going off or if it is an automatyic thing somewhere. Annoying anyway.
I don't want to go to the bother of sticking a playlist together in a more time consuming way but are queues just open to being switched off somehow. I still don't get how this works so how to avoid it. I tend to listen to a podcast once so not going to be something I'm going to be wanting to revisit like it was a sequence of music.

new lyrics feature otm afaic

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

Some kind of scat transliteration, maybe?

exactly. idk how they did it!

looks like the lyrics to Medzi Medzi by ET Mensah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svkohDSAVy4

So Wrapped this year is just a couple of playlists? I don't see any neato/perplexing stats or anything in the app.

There's a button on the Top Tracks playlist (phone app version) that's supposed to take you to a slide show like last year, but it's not working for everybody.

If you share your top tracks playlist and someone clicks on it it just brings them to their own top tracks playlist , not yours
I know it’s probably a feature and not a bug right

if it isn't showing for you try updating the app, i did that and then it appeared on the home menu

Your Artists Revealed looks kind of weird.

https://ra.co/news/76439

In case anyone missed it up thread

Nobody here cares about that, apparently. This appears to be a safe space for Ek and his Skynet-y plans

To my coworkers sharing that your top artists were Kanye, John Mayer, etc.… yr IG Stories are making me see you in a new light!

My Wrapped had a slide show. I was in the top 0.5% of Tori Amos listeners, which sounds right

I’m in the top 0.5 of Sparks listeners.

does glenn still post here? a friend asked me what “permanent wave” was and i couldn’t really explain. is it like new wave, but not so new anymore?

refers to hair in a pompadour, like the rest of the Romeos wore, iirc

Sucks so hard to see artists I like posting about their 2 million streams knowing that paid like $4000 if they're lucky.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2e/1f/76/2e1f76dca43bc15e299a8648f6600ba8.png

I'm in the top 1% of Grouper listeners around the world apparently. My prize is a week on a foggy hillside and a jumper with the sleeves slightly too long.

I've got the wrapped playlists but no stats :(

They’re wrapped in a very annoying Innocent smoothie wrapper and there’s no way to skip through the guff. You can have mine if you want. Once again Cliff Martinez is my favourite artist, just because I use the Solaris to try to sleep.

Yeah, 3 of my top 5 artists are Celer, Nomist & Loscil because they're what I leave on every night when I'm going to sleep

Huh - even my boss just IG’d that her top artist is the one she uses to fall asleep every night. I didn’t know so many ppl did that

Does Youtube Music have anything other than the Year In Review playlist? I'd love to join everyone in posting stats.

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

my other top artists were brian eno, steve tibbetts, and harold budd — all folks i play nightly to fall asleep to.

also that military alignment is wild. having visions of kate bush's "experiment iv" coming to life.

I'm in the top 0.05% for autechre! I like to listen to them while I work

I did the update, but now can't get past the first slide of the slideshow without the app crashing.

If Spotify has money to get into ai weapons, they certainly have money to fix this (and pay artists more).