Xela Posted December 4, 2021 Share Posted December 4, 2021 23 minutes ago, Brumstopdogs said: Are they always on your mind? It's a Sin, mate. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted December 4, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 4, 2021 22 hours ago, Davkaus said: It's that time of the year when Spotify tries valiantly to pick 5 genres I listen to # Safe to say that For Those Who Wish To Exist is my album of the year nice list been a pop punk year for me. sum 41, offspring and jimmy eat world were my most played Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 4, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 4, 2021 Well. There's a surprise. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted December 4, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted December 4, 2021 It's wrong, of course. Although I did undoubtedly listen to lots of that stuff, there was at least as much classical and jazz that they seem to have completely ignored. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 Is this top genres and artists thing available on the desktop app or only the mobile? On the desktop home page I can see my top 100 songs playlist, but not the artists or genres list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 (edited) 15 minutes ago, HanoiVillan said: Is this top genres and artists thing available on the desktop app or only the mobile? On the desktop home page I can see my top 100 songs playlist, but not the artists or genres list. Only mobile. Not a fan of how they've done it this year. In past years there's been a webviewer for it, and you can easily scrolling through it at your own pace. I found this year's really slow, clunky and difficult to use compared to how I remember it, but I always used the web app before. I also have no idea how those squished genre images got through a dev cycle and into a finished product. Great job, guys. Edited December 5, 2021 by Davkaus 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 24 minutes ago, Davkaus said: I also have no idea how those squished genre images got through a dev cycle and into a finished product. Great job, guys. They're unbelievably hideous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted December 5, 2021 Author Moderator Share Posted December 5, 2021 I think they asked the advice of some very young primary school age children 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted December 5, 2021 Share Posted December 5, 2021 I work for a small software company several orders of magnitude smaller than Spotify, and if one of my team tried to push a design like that into the product I'd...Well, I'd give him some robust but constructive feedback, in a friendly way, in a private setting, because I'm a professional. But I'd secretly be considering slapping the taste out of his mouth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Seat68 Posted January 27, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted January 27, 2022 Neil Young has said to Spotify, either you have Joe Rogan, or you have me. You can't have both. Spotify chose Rogan. A man that spreads disinformation and influences the weak of mind and the malleable. Who presents lies and half truths as science. The podcast of words removed. Over Neil Young. Neil Young has removed, or is in the process of removing his work from Spotify. BBC News - Spotify removes Neil Young after he calls for Joe Rogan to gohttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60149951 Quote Spotify has begun removing music by Neil Young after the rock star called for the streaming platform to choose between him and podcaster Joe Rogan. Apologies to anyone that listens to or is a fan of Rogans work, I feel for you, genuinely. Also please resist from telling me that I should listen to an hour of his shit to understand him and how he comes out with some great content. I don't need to. I have already seen too much of it. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 27, 2022 Author Moderator Share Posted January 27, 2022 1 minute ago, Seat68 said: Neil Young has said to Spotify, either you have Joe Rogan, or you have me. You can't have both. Spotify chose Rogan. A man that spreads disinformation and influences the weak of mind and the malleable. Who presents lies and half truths as science. The podcast of words removed. Over Neil Young. Neil Young has removed, or is in the process of removing his work from Spotify. BBC News - Spotify removes Neil Young after he calls for Joe Rogan to gohttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60149951 Apologies to anyone that listens to or is a fan of Rogans work, I feel for you, genuinely. Also please resist from telling me that I should listen to an hour of his shit to understand him and how he comes out with some great content. I don't need to. I have already seen too much of it. Spotify was always going to side with Rogan, they pay him an obscene amount of money per year to have his podcast on their platform 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 2 minutes ago, bickster said: Spotify was always going to side with Rogan, they pay him an obscene amount of money per year to have his podcast on their platform That's part of the problem, Young went for someone that they had shelled out to. I admire his (taking a punt on the correct spelling here) principles, but they were ways going to back Rogan. Would be interested to see what would happen if the biggest streamers on the platform all took a stance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Posted January 27, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 27, 2022 Suspect Spotify might spend a bit more time and money on contract lawyers next time they sign someone up for podcasts. I'd be surprised if they're backing Rogan on principle, other than, "****. We can't get out of the contract or control what he says without it costing us a fortune." 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 27, 2022 Author Moderator Share Posted January 27, 2022 5 minutes ago, Anthony said: Suspect Spotify might spend a bit more time and money on contract lawyers next time they sign someone up for podcasts. I'd be surprised if they're backing Rogan on principle, other than, "****. We can't get out of the contract or control what he says without it costing us a fortune." Might get interesting if a few more major artists remove their content (I suspect they won't) because despite Spotify pushing and pushing podcasts at people, people join the platform because of music Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 27, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 27, 2022 7 minutes ago, bickster said: Might get interesting if a few more major artists remove their content (I suspect they won't) because despite Spotify pushing and pushing podcasts at people, people join the platform because of music My money's on Taylor Swift next. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 27, 2022 Author Moderator Share Posted January 27, 2022 2 minutes ago, mjmooney said: My money's on Taylor Swift next. Well she does have form for it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrusr Posted January 27, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted January 27, 2022 2 hours ago, Seat68 said: Neil Young has said to Spotify, either you have Joe Rogan, or you have me. You can't have both. Spotify chose Rogan. A man that spreads disinformation and influences the weak of mind and the malleable. Who presents lies and half truths as science. The podcast of words removed. Over Neil Young. Neil Young has removed, or is in the process of removing his work from Spotify. BBC News - Spotify removes Neil Young after he calls for Joe Rogan to gohttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60149951 Apologies to anyone that listens to or is a fan of Rogans work, I feel for you, genuinely. Also please resist from telling me that I should listen to an hour of his shit to understand him and how he comes out with some great content. I don't need to. I have already seen too much of it. Had to mooney him and to be honest I am still a bit perplexed as to who he actually is and what he has done save for being "controversial"! I don't really care for Spotify anyway (personal preference) but I suspect I would be more likely to listen to Neil Young than Joe Rogan. It would genuinely be funny if a lot of other musicians pulled their music from Spotify because of this though. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 3 hours ago, Seat68 said: Neil Young has said to Spotify, either you have Joe Rogan, or you have me. You can't have both. Spotify chose Rogan. A man that spreads disinformation and influences the weak of mind and the malleable. Who presents lies and half truths as science. The podcast of words removed. Over Neil Young. Neil Young has removed, or is in the process of removing his work from Spotify. BBC News - Spotify removes Neil Young after he calls for Joe Rogan to gohttps://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60149951 Apologies to anyone that listens to or is a fan of Rogans work, I feel for you, genuinely. Also please resist from telling me that I should listen to an hour of his shit to understand him and how he comes out with some great content. I don't need to. I have already seen too much of it. I would imagine perhaps that Rogan’s podcast gets more listeners than Young’s playlists. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted January 27, 2022 Share Posted January 27, 2022 3 minutes ago, bannedfromHandV said: I would imagine perhaps that Rogan’s podcast gets more listeners than Young’s playlists. That is probably the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted January 27, 2022 Author Moderator Share Posted January 27, 2022 37 minutes ago, bannedfromHandV said: I would imagine perhaps that Rogan’s podcast gets more listeners than Young’s playlists. Yes, but that isn't really the point. People don't join Spotify for Rogan's (or anyone's) podcasts. They sell their service as a streaming music platform Sure Spotify is pushing podcasts to subscribers but that effectively means that the music for which they pay buttons is being used to attract people to the platform where they are then getting pushed the podcasts and those podcasts have no content filter. The artists are being used to attract people to the opinions of nutjobs. Not only that but they are paying peanuts to the artists and paying the likes of Rogan $100 million a year and when those artists that have control over their catalogues start to realise that, more may follow. Established artists don't really need Spotify as much as the up and coming ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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