Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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.

Well this sounds like hell

Terrible, no thank you

There better be some way to turn this shit off.

Not sure it will make any difference to me. Don't think I've ever scrolled down my home page before and the top part looks like it'll be the same as it is now

This is my Home screen now: pic.twitter.com/MQvGiEApKg

— Charles Osborne (@charlieosborne) February 26, 2023

And its spent the past few years expanding beyond music into podcasts, audiobooks, live streams, and even video on some podcasts.

Spotify is now a full-on media platform.

Yeah, they expanded into a shittier version of each of those things than previously existed, while making the app more of a hassle to use to listen to music.

Not sure it will make any difference to me. Don't think I've ever scrolled down my home page before and the top part looks like it'll be the same as it is now

Been having a new problem during the past week. I'll be listening to a full album and then the app jumps to a song that's not in the album, but maybe Spotify thinks is similar.

For instance, last night I was listening to Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia. After the song Pretty Please, it segued into Miley Cyrus (feat. Dua Lipa) song Prisoner. This song is featured on an expanded edition of Future Nostalgia (not the version I was listening to), but the one I got had the art for the Miley Cyrus album.

Then this morning, I put on Pink Floyd's Animals. After Pigs on the Wing (Part One), Spotify shifted to Strange Brew by Cream, a song that I can guarantee I've never listened to on the app.

This has happened one or two other times in the past week. Has anyone else experienced it? I'm wondering if there's a setting or something that I need to toggle.

― peace, man, Thursday, January 19, 2023 7:30 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

Just turned on a Ladysmith Black Mambazo album and after the first song it took me to the Rolling Stones' You Gotta Move off Sticky Fingers!

Autoplay is not on, but I did listen to about 50% of Sway a few hours ago. Still, not what I wantes at the moment, Spotify!

algorithm pea brain probably went Ladysmith Black whatever >> Brown Sugar >> other Sticky Fingers track

Could you maybe have stuff in your queue?

^^

I haven't ever had that happen to me unless I had tracks queued

I don't even know what a queue is, in spotify terms.

Like, I get the concept, but I've never used it before. Maybe if I managed to somehow pocket-queue the song? Seems like a reach though, because I've never pocket-activated any of the other features on that menu "i.e. Hide This Song, Add to Playlist, Sleep Timer, etc"

the "random song playing" glitch happened to me a few times several weeks back, but only when listening on my smartphone. seems like whatever was in the next update a few days later fixed it.

i otoh am a queue obsessive and have many suggestions on how to make it a lot better☺

(seriously, you guys don't use it?! it's rad! you drop in whatever you want then you're good for a few hours.)

Use queue all the time. Definitely one of the features I couldn't live without.

well, yeah

I don’t know how you could not use the queue.

I basically use playlists instead of the queue...

me too, use the queue mostly when hanging out with people who all want to play songs

I often will put a huge playlist on shuffle then scroll through the queue and bump up anything I'm particularly excited about to next up.

Hey hey hey you're listening to HITLER RADIO [sound effect of a sieg heil, stuka dive, air raid siren, and explosion] where we're playing ALL the Reich's favorite hits ALL DAY LOOOOOOONG

[Imagine Dragons - Radioactive starts playing] https://t.co/wExe0JTQ2Y

— the prince with a thousand enemies ♂️ (@jaketropolis) March 2, 2023

(It wasn't actually a playlist, it was just the automatic artist-radio for an "artist" that was some historical albums of WWII music...)

Das Führer Weekly

Finally, a change I can get behind: the new improved Add to Playlist.

Ooh, what's this?

update on discovery mode, which lets artists accept a lower royalty rate for an algorithmic push. joe says in the first month, listeners save songs 50% more often and follow an artist 37% more often when the mode is used

— Ashley Carman (@ashleyrcarman) March 8, 2023

excellent news for consumers

Sad lol. Maybe I'll actually try it, since Spotify royalties are effectively $0 anyway.

can you switch back once you get those listeners locked in?

I don't like or defend Discovery Mode, but yes, as an artist you can opt into and out of it.

Ooh, what's this?

Last night the app offered an alternative shuffle mode that I guess throws in suggested tracks as well, no thanks

There's an 'enhanced' button that does that. I use it on some of my genre playlists and it'll throw up some cool tracks I may not have heard.

So instead of one swipe it’s now multiple actions to ‘add a song to the liked playlist.’

Gotta get those app engagement numbers up?

pro: you can add a track to several playlists simultaneously (which comes in handy for me, I do a lot of that)

con (and it’s a big one): you can longer add duplicates to a playlist (this really fucks with my playlisting methods, because I do a lot of that)

It’s only one action to add to the liked playlist. Then once it’s in the liked playlist, or any playlist, then you can click again to add to or remove from others.

That’s if you use the plus, otherwise you can use the three dots and then add to playlist.

how many slurp juices to convert your heart into a plus

but please remember to never leave the house without your laptop if you’re thinking of adding duplicates, kids!

I just created a playlist in Spotify (for sharing / to duplicate one I made in the service I actually use), and was impressed at how easy it is... you can type directly in a dedicated search box to add songs, etc.

Used to be that in the list of songs in Release Radar or something I'd swipe left and it would have a green heart and the song is saved to my likes.

Now I swipe and it pops up with another menu asking me to add it to a playlist (or multiple) and I have to tap done to make that screen go away. There also isn't a visible heart on the list of songs in a mix so I don't know if I've already liked it or not.

This seems designed entirely to make you look at the full screen view of a song (where there's the plus sign) so you can get the full Spotify-becomes-TikTok experience. I'm not looking at my stupid phone when I listen to music, I'm walking or riding in a car or working on a computer.