Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Wishing you all the very best, Glenn. I've always valued your contributions to this thread. Your employers are silly sausages to be letting you go.

Echoing all the well wishes Glenn. Hopefully once the dust has settled you'll be in a better place and can spill the tea if you feel so inclined (and/or are legally able to).

I read how it went down, getting an email from HR "within two hours" of Ek sending an email. Really impeccable bedside manner there, right before Xmas as well

Unless you've been like reheating fish lunches in the office microwave it seems insane they would let someone with your obvious passion and skills go Glenn

Best wishes Glenn

Good luck Glenn, you have been valuable here.

so so sorry to hear this glenn. hope you're able to find a new gig soon and that you are able to keep everynoise archived at least.

That’s some bullshit Glenn, I’m sorry.

I'm so sorry, Glenn. Thank you for all the help you've offered us over the years and best of luck with your next gig.

Looks like Glenn's book can be pre-ordered on Amazon ahead of its June release - You Have Not Yet Heard Your Favourite Song: How Streaming Changes Music Kindle Edition. Count me in...

I didn't know Glenn was writing a book, I look forward to reading that. Although, I wonder if the description on the cover of him as "Spotify's data alchemist" will be changed now. Commiserations Glenn, I love everynoise and use it a lot. I saw the note on your blog and I really hope it doesn't disappear, you've put too much work into it.

Joining the chorus of appreciation for Glenn's efforts here over the years, and hoping something better's ahead.

A lot more than just the cover will have to be changed. But at least this happened in time for that.

wtf are they doing, is my next year's favourite genre going to be just "pop"? No fun. Might switch to some other thing. Interested to hear where you get from here Glenn. Sorry.

Good luck glenn

Glenn, so sorry. I do hope we can look forward to further feats of music data alchemy!

Sorry to hear it glenn; sent you a PM

stet’s gonna hook you up with a lifetime supply of Zing Touch.

just came here from the furia blog - sorry to hear that glenn, ENAO was fantastic. sucks, especially with that book coming out. ingrates. good luck with whatever you do next.

You elevated them Glenn. Excited to see wherever you go next.

I hope Glenn won't mind if I link directly to that post here; it's relevant to the subject of this thread and includes some wisdom about corporate employment I wish I had encountered a decade or so ago.

https://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=473

without exception the best things i've done at work, the things i'm most proud of, were in little windows when no one was minding the store

> The advice industry, like most modern industries, encodes a sneaky bias to sustain corporatism by implicitly casting individual adaptation as the only medium for change.

Oh this is my hobbyhorse and once it was pointed out, I saw it everywhere -- tort lawsuits instead of safe products, patient "choice" instead of medical access, recycling and electric vehicles, and on and on and on

YouTube continues to be vexed by the ease of pricey piracy with tools like 4k downloader that convert youtube to mp3 - how will they stop this menace

Does anyone know what to do with an mp3 anymore?

plain disgusting

https://i.imgur.com/eDnEj7w.png

...but in truth

https://images.app.goo.gl/6fsgLjEaj35HKSXv7

attempt two:

https://x.com/JazzMemes_/status/1236284512025313281?s=20

who writes the furia blog? David Brooks?

xp haha that's v good

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Glenn McDonald. xp

Pp

Anyone else get nearly half live tracks on the their Release Radar today? Not sure if it's a quirk of the algorithm or just that record companies aren't releasing studio recorded material this week much

Spotty keeps defaulting to smart shuffle which is a bit annoying

My Release Radar is the usual 200 tracks and over 14 Hours. However over 120 are repeated from last week.
link:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZEVXbna71kiV69B1?si=68wT47W_SCCoKevNHVvinw&pi=e-IUdSrtk8Q7mT

However this time of the year if the artists you follow aren't releasing music it will be reduced.

how on earth do you get a 200 track release radar?

Systems thinking

Search doesn't work for me at all lately on Mac desktop app. Lots of issues lately (couldn't play anything for quite a while the other day after multiple restarts).

Nor does clicking through to an album from a playlist entry work now.

I guess you just need to follow lots and lots and lots of artists xps

Alba at 5:33 23 Dec 23

Systems thinking

lol deep cut

I hope Glenn won't mind if I link directly to that post here; it's relevant to the subject of this thread and includes some wisdom about corporate employment I wish I had encountered a decade or so ago.

https://www.furia.com/page.cgi?type=log&id=473

― Brad C., Sunday, 17 December 2023 22:12 (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Thanks Glenn (and Brad for sharing) - this spoke to something I think about a lot, as someone who also works in a big tech corporation. All the really great ideas I've seen have come from individuals thinking up something cool, or getting frustrated at something not-cool and wanting to do better. As a manager I sometimes think my best work involves putting those individuals in situations where they will be sufficiently inspired/frustrated and then retrofitting our existing plan to whatever great ideas come along.

Took me a while to realise that if you click on the green tick next to a track in the desktop app it now tells you what playlists you've added it to. Miss being able to see which songs I've liked at a glance though.

the worst change ever getting rid of the heart AGAIN. you can post your displeasure with it here:
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Community-Blog/The-Heart-button-is-being-replaced-with-a-Plus-button/bc-p/5831722#M23900
and vote for it here:
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Bring-back-the-heart-button/idi-p/5709907

Clicking on the tick works on the phone apps too.

I do really like that feature

It doesn't work properly on the phone for me. Even when the green tick shows it only sometimes tells me which ones it's in. Weird, as exactly the same track it doesn't work for on desktop will not work on the app.

https://i.imgur.com/KA7C43F.jpg

Aghhh im paying to be advertised to agghhh

They wanted me to listen to some booktoky audiobook about singer songwriters :/

how can I copy/paste japanese from spotify?

for when I happen upon a massive banger but have no clue who the artist is

japanese lettering* that was supposed to be (or kanji or furigana or katakana, sry for being a complete novice)

If you open your Spotify acct in your web browser, you should be able to copy the text