Spotify - anyone heard of it?

that came off really dickish

Oh, if I'm the one you're saying came off as dickish, I apologize! I should have replied less tersely. I share your enthusiasm for fixing these, and sometimes do it myself because I have the power, even though it isn't actually my job. We do have a team whose job it *is* to fix them, and I reported this. I won't fix it myself because I'm not sure whether it will be moved or taken down. There used to be a menu option for reporting errors in the desktop app, but it wasn't included in the recent rearchitecture for reasons I'm not sure of.

Glenn, I did not find your reply dickish - I was talking to Boring, Maryland. Sorry for the confusion, I hope it didn't cause you any bad feelings. You've been great on this whole thread and your site is awesome - I'm a big fan!

As for the comment I was replying to; maybe I'm sensitive, but I get a little riled when someone refers to my "bosses" - especially when expressing frustration/ranting whatever. Just feel like people could be nicer to Glenn here. He doesn't owe anything to anybody here.

Oh, FWIW I didn't take any offense at that. It should be easier to report problems. Probably. Problem-reporting also gets abused, sadly. I read "your bosses" as "your company's priority-setters", not "your personal puppet-masters".

Also, I've been here a lot longer than I've been at Spotify, so I know what to expect. But thanks!

There used to be a form on the Spotify website to report incorrect track names etc. I reported several such errors. None of them ever got fixed.

Same.

Worth noting that track-name errors come from, and have to be fixed by, the original distributor, while artist-ambiguity/grouping errors can be fixed directly by us at Spotify...

glenn any reason why the music industry doesn’t just standardise on MusicBrainz? it something similar? wouldn’t unique IDs be good??

I definitely can't answer on behalf of the industry. A central authoritative source of definitive IDs seems like an abstract good, but doesn't actually solve a lot of the practical problems. I mean, we have unique Spotify IDs already, so if that were all it took, all industry artist-ambiguity problems would be outside of Spotify. Hold on, I'm just enjoying that idea for a moment. OK, I'm back.

It’s an incredibly hard problem, because there isn’t really an objective source of truth - even for something as simple as “artist name” you get down to what was printed on a given sleeve, and those have sometimes differed even for the same work.

It’s also hard to model flexibly enough to cope with what artists will come up with next. Like most naive models would have a 1:1 mapping between performer and title, but to fully specify it out you need an performer-name-track-title-releasedate relationship because the name a given performer gets given has varied by all those things over time (and more).

But a modelling that flexible is waaaay over-engineered for most purposes so services have much simpler models and that involves making trade-offs to fit the real world into their models; and they often do them in ways that are incompatible with one another.

Hence the misery of trying to standardise. For a long time the BBC had an entire internal fork of MusicBrainz to try and deal with the mismatches between their playout systems and MB; I’m not sure that’s still maintained though.

There needs to be a UN agency.

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Grapefruit Records picked the last couple of weeks to start advertising a Spotify playlist.
Does that just mean political apathy.

& did anybody take to boycotting Neil young cos he loudly flounced off Spotify and advertised a move to Amazon which is hardly the most ethical of companies. Wonder what the end of the pandemic is going to mean re the popularity of that firm. Is it going to gain negativity now its no longer as needed for things to be as easy.

163k outages reported

seems to be down for all

yep

What happened

the Pono was a distributed hacking device all along

russian hackers

Discord too, apparently.

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!!!

russian hackers trying to keep Joe Rogan's Real News from us

Worked for me just now.

yes, that didn't last long

Yeah, that was weird. It was asking me to fiddle with my firewall in order to log in.

Wonder what the end of the pandemic is going to mean re the popularity of that firm. Is it going to gain negativity now its no longer as needed for things to be as easy.

has this been scheduled now?

Has the search function stopped working for anyone else?

Working for me

the Barcelona soccer team got 89 BILLION streams in one day!!!

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

According to ChartMasters, the most cumulative streams ever recorded by a single artist on Spotify is Drake with 62.84 billion.

https://i.imgur.com/fg4h07C.jpg

However, of these streams, 17.57 billion were from tracks on which Drake was merely a featured artist (and therefore, wouldn’t have claimed the majority of the royalties).

stars aligning for that Shakira comeback

https://i.imgur.com/ttp1XTe.jpg

Clint's doing decent on pretty much every platform lately, I believe?

$310 million decent?

I remember when a child used to have a multimedia vertical experience on a single platform about a man kicking a ball outside

$310 million decent?

no I dunno maybe m$i0opnutll 3.2 fourteen? I just liked that an old Poppies picture turned up. The posting of that seemed devoid of any point, and so was my reply.

there is a very subtle connection between the pictures I posted and the text I posted

eg

On tracks on which Drake was the lead artist, he has to date pulled in 45.27 billion streams on Spotify. And these streams, at that average per-stream rate ($0.00348), would have generated around $157 million.

Um, so, has anyone else got this thing (I'm on the Windows client) where it says "PUBLIC PLAYLIST" above the title when selecting any playlist, even if it was made with the "Make new playlists public" option off? I notice that a Spotify representative claims on the community forum that they'd never make such bulk changes, but in that case they have a pretty bad display bug.

The terminology changed. There didn't used to be any real access control on playlists, just whether they were listed on your profile (which was called "public") or not (which was called "private"). Recently we added actual privacy, which prevents people from seeing your playlist even if they have a link to it. So that's what's now called "private", and "public" means that someone with the link can see it. Whether it's shown on your profile or not is now separate. A bit confusing as a shift in naming, but a better feature now...

Ah. Thanks. The realities make good sense, but it seems to me the terminology may be unfortunate, due to the earlier use of the word "public" for what you describe as "listed on your profile", and the word itself has a force of "completely open" to me. Three levels could have been made less confusing by calling them e.g. private / linkable / public, or something.

What is the term for the former "public" ones, those that are now shown on the profile, btw? And is this group of playlists exactly the same as those that are searchable by title, and/or those that turn up as "Discovered on" in artist pages?

And, not least: how to make new playlists truly private by default?

There's not a default-private setting yet.

To be searchable or show up in Discovered On, a playlist has to be shown on your profile (and thus has to be public), and have at least 2 listeners over some amount of time I don't remember, and sometimes it takes more than that for complicated reasons.

The new wording for the old function is "Add to profile" / "Remove from profile".

Thanks again for clear (and reassuring) replies, it is very much appreciated.

Want to not ever see podcasts again in the desktop app, or customize in other ways?

https://github.com/spicetify/

Hallelujah!

Was looking forward all day to listen to Hejira until I remembered :(