Spotify - anyone heard of it?

So it looks like Autoplay was turned on somehow (I didn't do it). Hopefully, that will solve it. In the past when I've had autoplay turned on, it would wait until the end of an album to start spewing recommendations at me. That was bad, but in these cases, it has changed to recommendations in the middle of albums, and I'm wondering if they can be brought before The Hague over this.

spotify is CONSTANTLY turning autoplay back on. very naughty stat juicing

Aren't they better off the less you play? Like a gym.

Haven't had this issue... across Android, Windows, and Linux

lol I was listening to... To Pimp A Butterfly i think? and out of nowhere, like halfway through the album, it plays me the Staple Singers' "Respect Yourself". and then just slips back into the album. okay. I mean.. it's a great song. But for a few seconds I was like man, I don't remember Kendrick sampling this!

Queued up by you previously? Or someone else is also on the account. Really weird

Tracer - glad to hear I'm not the only one. It's very jarring.

In my case, I'm the only user of this login.

would be logging into the website and checking "devices" and whatnot

I’m on a family plan, everybody has their own accounts. It’s only happened once to me, and it was last week.

Sorry if this has been asked before (I searched but there are lots of iterations of what I'm asking) but is there any way to see who has Liked your playlist, and if not, why not/is this something that's in development?

Dream feature list: a "donate" button on every track/album/artist that would allow me to charge my card and directly contribute $x to an artist

Little Pitcher, Big Wallet: Eight Year Old Maxs Out Parent's Credit Card with Donations to Lil Yachty
"It was for the lolz," naughty kiddo says

I believe the donate button already exists, artists have to set it up themselves https://artists.spotify.com/en/help/article/fan-support

vice did an article a while ago https://www.vice.com/en/article/k7qqw3/spotify-tip-jar-donations-fair-pay-royalties-musicians

No way! That's awesome...but I can't actually find how to donate to any of the artists named in that article? Anyone know where this is hidden?

Also hope this does not affect anyone here:
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/23/spotify-to-cut-6percent-of-its-workforce-as-tech-layoffs-continue.html

oh maybe it was a covid-19 thing only? weird
seemed like a decent idea

When I listen to The Clientele a "donate directly to the artist" button pops up. I bung a fiver to them every now and then - although it's actually a PayPal account in the name of Alasdair MacLean so I guess he's the only one who gets the money!

Removing the like/heart button is a weird UI change

They just changed it to +

i feel like that's what it used to be!

all apps should replace the heart icon with a + or thumbs up. I do not love this random song by an Australian band that sounds like Imperial Teen, I like it okay but would mostly just like to flag it so I can look up their other stuff.

Anyone noticed spotify on iphone is taking time to load?

just noticed that on Wild Orchid’s same titled debut album from 1996 half of the tracks have some combination of songwriter(s) and producer(s) as the performing artist, instead of Wild Orchid itself.

(Wild Orchid, for reference, are the pop r&b girl group Fergie was in before she became a Black Eyed Pea - yes, I’m reading Tom Breihan’s Number Ones column on “London Bridge”)

Also, fucking YIKES pic.twitter.com/o4H3JtrJ6m

— Katie Notopoulos (@katienotopoulos) February 13, 2023

I hate that the latest update for mobile doesn’t seem to allow you to search for other people’s profiles. Is there a workaround this?

damn, gross company xp

Oh wait it’s there, forget about it. You have to press enter in the search form for the “bubble autocomplete” to disappear.

I don’t like the autocomplete function… it makes it harder not easier for me.

In my Discover Weekly today: a track called "Coyote" by Urbxnxd, with generic artwork. It's the Joni Mitchell track from Heijra (which of course is not on this streaming service, along with most of her catalog). Nearly 10 million plays. Posted Feb 11, by "Retain Music Entertainment". Might want to look into that :)

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"circle game" too. same artist.

Not as popular as "their version" (i.e. rip and upload) of My Chemical Romance's "Dead", which has 139m plays. "Verified artist" too!

The algorithm is recognising that it's the same track - if you look on the My Chemical Romance page the play count is also 139m for Dead. So who knows how much Urbxnd has actually made off the scam, but not as much as that!

Leopantforte is another one of these. A rip of Case of You.

If you go to the Spotify Artists page for Joni Mitchell, it shows "covers" by these artists. Leopantforte does a mean Nancy & Lee too.

Not entirely sure what's happened here - like a sort of cybersquatting. I assume this is nothing new, and Spotify are on the case.
I've had tracks with <100 plays pushed to my Release Radar before by artists called "Beck" or "Gas", but nothing quite like this.

Just the other day, on a different service, I came across several random tracks titled "Mariah the Scientist," which come up when you search that artist's stuff (she seems to be a particular target for "spoofing," not sure why)

Leopanforte, sorry.

And... also I notice that Circle Game, Coyote, Big Yellow Taxi, Both Sides Now and Case of You are about the only JM tracks that are actually available from their parent albums (everything else greyed out), and those are the songs that are being re-appropriated under these dummy artist accounts. So they are there for real, just also under a fake name.

No, it's worse than that: the bootleg uploads are why they show up as available on their parent albums. I've reported these internally. People suck.

Oh wow. So is the scam that the bootlegger gets the stream count if people search for BYT by Joni and then play it?

If someone were to upload a bootleg of an album that has never been on Spotify, are there any automatic checks on the file to stop it? Like, I know Shazam's database covers more than Spotify's catalogue but is there some industry-standard rights management system that identifies copyrighted work?

Glenn I was wondering... could one say something about what the most albumey album on Spotify is by looking at what albums have songs with the most even distribution of plays (which would indicate they are listened to back-to-back)? Or maybe albums with the closest relation between plays of first and final track?

Looking at Dark Side of the Moon (an albumey album if ever there was one) it seems like the album was started 78 million times (although some of those Speak To Me plays could obv come from playlists/shuffle) but only 22 million made it to the grand finale of "Eclipse" ;_;

Yeah, it's a sensible idea about albums that get played all the way through. It gets messy to calculate, in some cases, due to Deluxe Editions adding bonus tracks that aren't always easy to identify as non-original from the metadata (but the fans know). I do a variant on that kind of idea for my yearly Album Populism chart, which is underway for 2023 here:

https://everynoise.com/tview.cgi?source=album_populism_2023

I basically try to weight an album's popularity by how far through it listeners tend to get...

so sorry to be like a jocky guy but there was this nfl football fan meme a few years back where they telling the teams to RUN THE DAMN BALL and i wanted to start a music one that was PLAY THE DAMN ALBUM.

a real thing that i've wondered about— how does it figure which album it directs the listener to from the artist's top 5? like on bob dylan, for example. one his top 5 is "like a rolling stone" and it directs you to highway 61 revisited. but what about all the people who listen to that song from bob dylan's greatest hits? do those count towards the overall total or do does that song have two sets of data, one for each release? i've also noticed that sometimes it will direct to a compilation from the top 5, even when the proper album (including that song) is available. the answers to these questions are quite tedious so i understand if.. well, you know.

congratulations you've entered the first circle of the hell that is pop music metadata. i think glenn has probably visited all of them.

lol

used to live there, then made a deal with the devil to ferry other people across
(I swear I don't intend that as mean as it sounds)

those count towards the overall total or do does that song have two sets of data, one for each release?

xp thanks glenn, that's cool!

One thing really bugging me still is in the Friend Activity panel if you see they're listening to their 'Your Top Songs 2022' playlist if you click on that you get yours rather than theirs. I actually kinda hope that's a bug because surely people wanna see each others versions of this playlist?

I imagine that's a privacy thing

Alba's explanation of aggregation by recording is correct. Liked Songs ought to do the same thing, in principle, but didn't originally and it apparently hasn't been a high enough priority to fix yet.

The single magic link to everybody's own Your Top Songs playlist is partly a feature, partly a technical shortcut. It turns out to be way easier to have just one link than one for each person...

Time for me to turn off auto app updates, I think

Spotify is redesigning its app to create a TikTok-like feed.

Here’s why it will go down as one the biggest new product announcements this year:

— Turner Novak 🍌🧢 (@TurnerNovak) February 24, 2023

"Rudy Van Gelder Edition / 2007 DIGITAL REMASTER" appearing at the end of every song title: c/d?

xp further evidence if it were needed that they are not a music company.