Spotify being amazing again

Spotify rolled out "Discover Weekly". They use your listening habits and the listening habits of people similar to you, to find things you don't know about.

Every Monday they give you a new two hour long mixtape of songs and artists that you have not listened to, but the system predicts you'll like.

Two weeks in and so far it's reeeeally good... 'course Spotify knows everything I've listened to since 2011, so it has a lot of data on me. But so far, shockingly good. Worth the price of admission good. Change your life good.

runs about 50/50 for me.... but this is what was missing... and why I still kept Pandora. New to me music.

They need the thumb up/down thing now. I need it to understand that I hate Lou Reed and Elvis Costello.

Spotify is great, I've been using it for years.
It's amazing how just by following simllar artists can take you onto a wonderful journey of bands you never knew existed and the great music that you wonder how you missed it.

I'm picking up one or two new (or forgotten) tunes per week so far. I think I'll drop links to them in here as they grab me.

Here's a good'un:

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This guy's voice is so familiar... I just can't place it.

and a forgotten gem:

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lumberjim;935948 wrote:

and a forgotten gem:

Hey this gem made it to your office playlist :D I took notice :D

The one I just posted made the same list. I have several playlists that I play based on the customer I'm with.
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You were listening to Toe Tappers, because you're a musician in a rhythm section, and it's got all the good up tempo stuff. Slow and Groovy has more subdued tracks, and Chick Tunes is self explanatory. Weird songs has shit like Miserlou and Primus and Brand new Key... I have classical and Latin lists too for coffin dodgers and beaners.

This weeks lists is exceptional. I sent it to you

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The INXS version came up on my discover this week, but I like this one too

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AND

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AND!

did you know they have lyrics now? when did this happen????

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ANd it sounds like he's saying 'ran to Taco Bell' right here

just discovered 'Your Daily Mix'

that's what it was missing. My playlists get old, awesome as they are...

I wish they would bring the lyrics back now...

Aaaand Jim's back.

:)

just discovered 'Your Daily Mix'

I should have posted this post in this thread. Sorry about that.

Gravdigr;982523 wrote:

Aaaand Jim's back.

:)

He was trapped near the inner circle of listening.

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Yeah and over the weekend, Spotify seemed to figure out that I was listening to Daily Mix 4 the most, and now my Daily Mix 1 is a lot more like 4 used to be.... either that or the songs I "liked" from 4 are being pushed into 1...

I recommend "liking" songs to give Spotify more information about what you like, and it also uses your "liked" songs in forming these playlists...

Spotify playlist, Songs of resistance.
https://open.spotify.com/user/williamj83/playlist/4M7c5U1EIhArctFVbsXiVJ

This is another great feature of the Daily Mix

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I can't stand Lou Reed, Steely Dan or Jackson Brown. They always seem to make it into my Discover weekly somehow... this cures that.

I'm really digging this. It's like the best aspects of Spotify and Pandora.

I guess I'll cancel my Pandora account.

cool

Heard of Hi-def streaming service called Tidal? My brother swears by it.
We jammed some last weekend and it sounded fantastic

Your brother has a special relationship with Tidal. At their central offices they call him "the listener" as he is the one person who uses Tidal.

:p:

Spotify's high quality level is 320bps OGG which is quite excellent and nobody is able to identify it in blind tests.

Tidal was introduced as a service that was owned by musicians because you're supposed to care about that. I think by "musicians" they mean Jay-Z.

Although I didn't mean to be disrespectful. All the streaming services will compete and we'll see who sticks around...

I really do believe 320 kbps ogg is good enough; I'll wager none of us can hear the difference. But for people who want what they call "lossless" format, with no encoding, Spotify is apparently setting up to offer that for a few extra bucks per month.

http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/1/14776780/spotify-hi-fi-preparing-launch-lossless-audio-tier

It might as well be. Encoding is just meant to ensmallen the files for transfer, in ways the human ear can't detect. Without encoding, the files will be twice as large or larger. But we will have that bandwidth, now. They want you to get video on your mobile device, un-encoded audio is much smaller than that.

No worries... I lol'd at him as well, but only because I had never heard of it. I guessed it was some super ridiculous thing as you described. Full disclosure - his stereo is probably worth upwards of $30k when you add in all the acoustic tiles and room modifications.

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announced on Joe Rogan's show, Tool will be releasing it's catalogue on streaming services on August 2nd.


Yay.


and the new album will be released August 30th: Fear Inoculum


Yipee Yai Yay~!

Oh yeah! Can't wait for that.