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Just use the last fm plugin for discovering stuff.
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Telex posted:If you keep going you get to about 2,000 lovely karaoke albums. I've found this is generally the case for any search I perform on Spotify.
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# ? Jul 1, 2013 22:35 |
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Yeah the streaming services like to boast their numbers of songs, but a large mass is probably made up of karaoke and sound effect albums.
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# ? Jul 1, 2013 22:47 |
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So how Discover is supposed to work anyways? I've been listening to hundreds of tracks from Iron Maiden and Spotify keeps on recommending trance?
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# ? Jul 8, 2013 23:45 |
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Ihmemies posted:So how Discover is supposed to work anyways? I've been listening to hundreds of tracks from Iron Maiden and Spotify keeps on recommending trance? They've since fixed it, and I wished I took a screenshot, but Discover used to have a little block telling me "Hey, you listened to 2 CHAINZ. You might like Tity Boi aka 2 CHAINZ" Captioned with a picture of Lil Wayne. That's pretty much Discover in a nutshell.
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# ? Jul 9, 2013 13:07 |
Blast Fantasto posted:They've since fixed it, and I wished I took a screenshot, but Discover used to have a little block telling me "Hey, you listened to 2 CHAINZ. You might like Tity Boi aka 2 CHAINZ" I just got this from Discover - it's trying hard, you guys. It wants us to be happy, like a mentally handicapped child handing us a piece of poop as a present. Also, Clapton's really let himself go. SgtScruffy fucked around with this message at 17:06 on Jul 9, 2013 |
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# ? Jul 9, 2013 16:37 |
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I try not to hit the Discover tab, because I don't want Spotify thinking people are using it. But I wanted to check my own recommendations and found this: Yes. That makes perfect sense. You listened to hippy country music and funk. How about some new wave! loving useless.
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# ? Jul 9, 2013 17:05 |
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I've actually had the discover tab throw some decent suggestions my way. Of course, I only know they're decent suggestions because I already knew and liked what it was suggesting - but spotify didn't have any way to know that. I guess I don't see what the outrage is all about (not here specifically, but I've seen people furious about this all over the place)? Even if it doesn't work all that well for you, it doesn't seem like it's in the way to me.
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# ? Jul 9, 2013 19:33 |
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Discover is usually pretty good but it sometimes does hilarious things by recommending you things just because they have similar names but are musically miles apart. Like the other day it said "Like Joy Division? Try The Division Bell by Pink Floyd!"
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# ? Jul 9, 2013 23:26 |
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For what it's worth, Discover is really good at recommending new hardcore and pop-punk music
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# ? Jul 9, 2013 23:33 |
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For what it's worth, my Discover app isn't half-bad. It's been recommending me a lot of Sacred Bones stuff and black metal. It did, however, just recommend me Polvo because I listened to some harsh noise albums once. Polvo is not a band I'd describe as harsh noise at all. So there's that. Friends Are Evil fucked around with this message at 00:09 on Jul 10, 2013 |
# ? Jul 9, 2013 23:58 |
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Discover even recommends local gigs. Satyricon is playing Dec 18th here at Tampere and Spotify dug that info from somewhere.
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# ? Jul 10, 2013 00:21 |
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P0PCULTUREREFERENCE posted:I've actually had the discover tab throw some decent suggestions my way. Of course, I only know they're decent suggestions because I already knew and liked what it was suggesting - but spotify didn't have any way to know that. I think most people are pissed that they replaced the 'New' tab with Discover. Had they pushed Discover alongside the New tab, it would be a much different opinion out there I guarantee.
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# ? Jul 10, 2013 00:30 |
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I'm not entirely sure why its happening but it would appear that spotify seems to prefer streaming songs rather than playing the local versions. It mostly happens when its on the artists page rather than when its saved into a playlist. I haven't been using it nearly as much either because it eats the battery on my phone and on the computer it eats download limits more than it ever used to
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# ? Jul 12, 2013 05:37 |
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Friends Are Evil posted:For what it's worth, my Discover app isn't half-bad. It's been recommending me a lot of Sacred Bones stuff and black metal.
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# ? Jul 12, 2013 08:06 |
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for those who are missing the "what's new" tab: Tunigo was aquired by Spotify last year and it looks like their app is currently being retooled to replace that function (among other things).
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# ? Jul 14, 2013 07:21 |
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Where's the best place to start if I'm looking for a few solid playlists for an upcoming work party? Just upbeat background noise for a youngish hip crowd, nothing too offensive or out there.
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# ? Jul 16, 2013 21:17 |
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Cart posted:Where's the best place to start if I'm looking for a few solid playlists for an upcoming work party? Just upbeat background noise for a youngish hip crowd, nothing too offensive or out there. http://playlists.net/ has thousands but they're mostly pretty bad. I've found a few alright ones for parties in the past though.
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# ? Jul 16, 2013 21:30 |
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Discover tab today: An ad for Kidz Bop 24, including Thrift Shop and a Spotify-exclusive track. Thanks, Spotify. That's what your users want.
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 16:42 |
fivre posted:Discover tab today: Speak for yourself, Kidz Bop is often hilarious to listen to try to figure out how they get around vastly inappropriate lyrics, and how far the censorship goes. In Gangnam Style (yes, they did that in korean) they say "Hey, hey lady" instead of "Hey Sexy Lady".
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 16:51 |
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fivre posted:Discover tab today: I actually listened to the Kidz Bop version of Thrift Shop on Spotify. They sure do have creative ways to censor it. Also at the gym I remember seeing some little girls on Ellen singing the song vigorously. Also censored.
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# ? Jul 17, 2013 23:27 |
I really haven't been paying attention to the evolution of the "What's New" function of the android app and the "Discover" function of the windows program. This is actually pretty sweet, especially the alerts that certain bands will be in the area considering I always seem to find out that someone is here the day after they play.
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# ? Jul 19, 2013 04:26 |
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I'm huge into music and I've been paying for Spotify for over 2 years. Totally worth it.
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# ? Jul 20, 2013 16:27 |
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Did a recent Spotify update disable click-through, i.e. clicking on an element in the application does not perform the action of that element, it only focuses the application? This is how, if I remember correctly, how all Mac applications work, and technically better from a UX theory standpoint, but very annoying in Windows and Linux, where it's different from the behavior of every other goddamn application, which is a much worse crime. Namely, my most common interaction with Spotify, double-clicking a track to switch to it, now has the awesome behavior of focusing the app with whatever track I had previously selected still highlighted, and then starting from the beginning of that track. Which, I guess, is actually two bugs, since that second click should count as selecting the track I did click on, not a double click. Thanks, Spotify.
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# ? Jul 30, 2013 17:31 |
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fivre posted:Did a recent Spotify update disable click-through, i.e. clicking on an element in the application does not perform the action of that element, it only focuses the application? I've had Spotify for two years and I have no clue what you're going on about.
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# ? Jul 30, 2013 22:13 |
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I double click a track, and it plays. I double click another track, and it plays. Life is good.
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# ? Jul 31, 2013 00:26 |
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What's the cheapest way to listen to synced tracks on the go? I've started running again, but my iPod touch is too old to be supported and the only supported devices I have are an iPad and a laptop, neither of which is exactly suited to keep me company during a run.
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# ? Jul 31, 2013 21:57 |
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As if you needed yet another reason for why Spotify tears rear end all around the block: This album is on it and it's as great as you think it is.
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# ? Aug 1, 2013 20:37 |
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Electric Bugaloo posted:As if you needed yet another reason for why Spotify tears rear end all around the block: It's on Rdio, too.
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# ? Aug 3, 2013 01:04 |
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A dumb question probably, but are there any consequences to bringing a playlist back to Online mode from Offline?
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# ? Aug 3, 2013 12:50 |
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me your dad posted:A dumb question probably, but are there any consequences to bringing a playlist back to Online mode from Offline? I only use offline mode for my phone so it doesn't eat my data plan. Other than that I really don't think so unless your internet goes down.
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# ? Aug 3, 2013 18:37 |
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I think that the Spotify app is a bit slow with giving memory space back to the phone. After setting the playlist back to streaming, you might want to run something like PhoneClean to get rid of the cache files.
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# ? Aug 3, 2013 19:37 |
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On the iPhone the cache that spotify uses never get cleared until it gets overwritten.
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# ? Aug 3, 2013 19:56 |
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I need some more long awesome playlists. Someone post their Starred Tracks? Here's mine: http://open.spotify.com/user/1242610333/starred
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# ? Aug 4, 2013 00:35 |
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http://open.spotify.com/user/appropriatemetaphor/starred It's mostly stuff that's like vaguely beachy, shoegazey, and girls as singers. I use it in the car and on the bike as my go to rando list. Edit: Why does it only show 30? I have like 400 something in the reality. appropriatemetaphor fucked around with this message at 08:04 on Aug 4, 2013 |
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appropriatemetaphor posted:http://open.spotify.com/user/appropriatemetaphor/starred Looks about half stuff I already love and half I've never heard of, thanks. Also I just noticed several really awesome things on my list have been removed. Spotify!
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# ? Aug 4, 2013 12:07 |
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I just got into Spotify Premium and it's great but I don't understand how it's profitable for anyone at the price they're charging me. There are no radio-like mechanics like Last.fm has where you only get limited skips and can't request a specific song on demand, it's literally just a search engine of almost any song or album I can think of that isn't super obscure, streaming at 320kbps. How can they do that for $12 a month? Somebody's getting the shaft here and it isn't me.
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# ? Aug 4, 2013 15:28 |
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Yeah, the artist is supposedly the one that suffers. I've read reports of them getting back pennies on the pound for thousands and thousands of streams, and I know a small group of artists who have sworn off of it because of the low returns. Four Tet tweets every now and then of his hate for the service. I remember a couple of years ago reading about how Flying Lotus also does not like the service, alongside other streaming systems, like Pandora. Just a quick google search of 'artists that hate spotify' got me this article. A lot of people don't like it. But supposedly, not even the business itself is profitable. I have to wonder how long it can last.
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# ? Aug 4, 2013 15:43 |
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There are also artists that do like it because it's better than nothing. By that I mean, pennies on the pound is much better than literally nothing, which these days is what a very large number of people are willing to pay for music. Even the biggest fans of bands are always downloading the album leak instead of waiting for the release and buying it. It makes me feel old and sad. I actually own a lot of what I listen to on Spotify, for me it's just "easier than finding the record/CD" and hey it gives someone, somewhere a little bit more money than I already paid.
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Having nearly anything I could ever want to listen to, pretty much wherever I am? I would happily pay $25/month for what I'm getting out of the service. Don't tell that to Spotify though
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