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9 votes
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Introducing the Twitch DJ Program
10 votes -
Spotify raises US prices of premium streaming plans for second time in one year
33 votes -
Spotify hikes fees, passing on its tax burden, after the French government introduced a levy to support the nation's music industry
21 votes -
Studio musicians are still waiting for credit in the streaming era
22 votes -
Musi’s free music streaming app is a hit with thrifty teens. The app claims to tap content on YouTube, but some in the music industry question the legitimacy of that model.
18 votes -
Spotify lowers artist royalties despite subscription price hike
50 votes -
Johan Röhr's 2,700 songs have been streamed 15bn times – Swedish composer becomes Spotify's most-famous musician you've never heard of
8 votes -
Can Sweden keep its edge in the music industry? Stockholm has spawned both some of the world's most successful musicians and music tech companies.
6 votes -
Danish man on trial over accusations he fraudulently made more than £502,000 in royalties on music streaming sites
9 votes -
Presenting a new (old) way to solve the "album problem" when streaming music
The "album problem" is, of course, the fact that our music listening habits have changed over the past decade and the value of a well-thought-out album is not nearly what it once was. This is in...
The "album problem" is, of course, the fact that our music listening habits have changed over the past decade and the value of a well-thought-out album is not nearly what it once was. This is in large part due to the fact that it's easy for people to create playlists with a billion different songs to choose from, recommendation algorithms, "Discovery Weekly" playlists, and whatever else the streaming services can throw at us.
I may not speak for all of us, but I've personally not been able to fully consume a new album for quite a while now, finding that I gravitate toward a few songs/singles that get dumped into a separate playlist. I don't like this and I miss the days that I would discover deep cuts in the back of an album that I listened to ad nauseum.
I present to you the "Six Disc Changer" playlist. The rules are simple:
- Create a new playlist in Spotify, Tidal, or your chosen platform. Call it "Six Disc Changer"
- Add six FULL albums to the playlist
- Force yourself to listen to the playlist -- maybe not exclusively -- but a fair amount. Imagine you're driving around in your 2002 Honda Civic and the only music available to you is what you've got in your CD changer.
- Any time you want to add a new album, you must remove an old album. You should only have six CDs loaded up at any time.
If you want to take the concept a few steps further...
- Any time you remove a CD, add it to a separate playlist called "CD Catalogue".
- Any time you want to add a new CD to the catalogue, you must "purchase" it with an "allowance" of your choosing. I'm going with 1 new album per week. You can swap out albums from your Catalogue playlist freely, but new albums must be "purchased." This will simulate scarcity, which was a large part of what drove us to listen to albums over and over again.
But... why?
My goal is to get back to listening to full albums and truly taking them in. The best way I can think of to do that is to simulate the way things used to be. By using a streaming service instead of, say, just going back to CDs or records, you get the benefits of convenience, Last.fm, easy Bluetooth, etc.
As for what's in my CD changer right now, I've got:
- Sufjan Stevens - Javelin
- The Antlers - Need Nothing
- Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
- Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come
- George Harrison - Living in the Material World
- Bob Moses - Battle Lines
Is it dumb? Probably. It's been fun so far and my music listening experience has been much more focused.
25 votes -
Spotify doesn't care about musicians
13 votes -
Should I switch to Apple Music or stick with Spotify?
Spotify recently increased their price, making it the same price as Apple's service. I've had Spotify since 2016 (started with the free version), and got premium in 2018 when they had the college...
Spotify recently increased their price, making it the same price as Apple's service. I've had Spotify since 2016 (started with the free version), and got premium in 2018 when they had the college student deal where you would get that and Hulu for only five bucks a month. I've been an off and on Premium subscriber since 2019. Only re-subscribing to it when Spotify would send me offers to sign up for three months for the price of one. This is actually the first year that I've consistently had Spotify all year since I was in college.
But now that they're the same price I was wondering if I should switch over. I don't want to get into the whole quality thing and lossless (I don't even know what that is) but I haven't been happy with Spotify's algorithm for a while. Streaming services have always been how I discovered new music, going back to me using Pandora while I was in high school. But now Spotify keeps suggesting the same songs whenever it's on smart shuffle. For example, if I play a song from the late 60s or early 70s, I know the next song Spotify plays is going to be Ain't No Mountain High Enough by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. Whenever I play an indie pop song, like a Lana Del Rey song or something, I know that the next song is going to be Borderline by Tame Impala.
I'm kind of sick of it at this point, and I feel like it's limiting the scope of what I'm listening to. I'm not sure what Apple Music's algorithm is like, I've heard mixed things with some saying it's better than Spotify and others saying it's worse.
I'm also happy taking recommendations on other things to do or try with Spotify to correct this.
27 votes -
The playlistification of music
19 votes -
Spotify music shows
Hello Tildes! Short term lurker, first time poster here. Please let me know if I did anything incorrect. Also, not sure if this is the best place to post this question but.... Recently, I stumbled...
Hello Tildes!
Short term lurker, first time poster here. Please let me know if I did anything incorrect. Also, not sure if this is the best place to post this question but....
Recently, I stumbled across a really slick Spotify music show called DnB All-Stars Radio (https://open.spotify.com/show/4WiHEU7mnT5n6uYRyTnWtv?si=5qFaxyvvRuSsO_tq3KPZFw) that I really enjoy. It's basically a DJ mix for Drum and Bass music. This type of show is easy to find on SoundCloud and other various websites but I really love the format Spotify has created. It's a nice mashup of audiobook, podcast, and music playlist.
Does anyone know how to find more content like this on Spotify? Given DnB is generally a nieche genre of bass music, I'm feeling like there should be more shows like this. I've looked under podcasts, audiobooks and artists, but I can't seem to find anything similar.
9 votes -
Rocking Africa together: Triller & Boomplay are partnering to showcase Africa to the world
4 votes -
Discover the hidden gems on Spotify that would never normally get surfaced with their algorithms
5 votes -
This 'boring' album cover is hiding a masterpiece
5 votes -
Tove Styrke: ‘I wanted to do something different. It's okay for a song to be 3'30''’
4 votes -
The woes of being addicted to streaming
9 votes -
Lilja Alfreðsdóttir will meet with the CEO of Spotify this week to discuss the proliferation of “fake artists” posing as Icelandic musicians on the music streaming platform
12 votes -
Resonate: A co-operative music streaming platform
13 votes -
Neil Young pulls his music from Spotify after his ultimatum regarding Joe Rogan and ‘fake information about vaccines’
32 votes -
Spotify finally rolls out real-time lyrics to global users
13 votes -
Early on-demand music streaming required lots of nickels - In the Pacific Northwest 70-plus years ago, a telephone-based jukebox connected callers to their favorite tunes
3 votes -
What do you like and dislike about your chosen music service(s)?
(Wasn’t sure how to word the title to fit both those who use streaming services and those who purchase music either digitally or physically.) What are the upsides and drawbacks you’ve found for...
(Wasn’t sure how to word the title to fit both those who use streaming services and those who purchase music either digitally or physically.)
What are the upsides and drawbacks you’ve found for what you use for music, whether that’s Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, buying from Bandcamp, etc. What’s so good that it’s keeping you on that service instead of other competitors? Meanwhile, what should they change or fix?
21 votes -
The case for music.gov
14 votes -
Why is the obscure B-side “Harness Your Hopes” Pavement’s top song on Spotify? It’s complicated.
12 votes -
Ticketed live streaming comes to Bandcamp
12 votes -
Vintage Trouble - War (50th Anniversary) (2020)
3 votes -
Spotify announces that artists and labels will be able to select specific tracks for its algorithms to prioritize in exchange for being paid a lower royalty rate
21 votes -
RIP Google Play Music, 2011–2020 - A look back at the nine-year life of Google's music service
24 votes -
The Bullseyes - World Doesn't Care (2020)
2 votes -
Youth Sector - Renting Spaces In My World (2019)
2 votes -
Henri Texier - Les Là-bas (1977)
7 votes -
Daniel Norgren - Rolling Rolling Rolling (2019)
6 votes -
A tale of two ecosystems: On Bandcamp, Spotify and the wide-open future
28 votes -
If an album isn't streaming online, does it really exist?
16 votes -
Google Play Music streaming ends in September/October 2020, fully shuts down in December
16 votes -
Google Play Music will shut down later this year - features are now available for transferring history/library to YouTube Music
21 votes -
We asked thirteen artists how Spotify's 'Tip Jar' is working out for them
3 votes -
Hamilton original Broadway cast Zoom performance of "Alexander Hamilton"
6 votes -
Twitch Stream Aid global charity event, livestreamed Saturday, March 28 starting at noon ET
3 votes -
Advice for curating, refining, and developing a Spotify playlist that people will actually listen to and follow over time
4 votes -
How artist imposters and fake songs sneak onto streaming services
4 votes -
Neil Young’s lonely quest to save music: He says low-quality streaming is hurting our songs and our brains. Is he right?
8 votes -
Looking for some feedback/constructive criticism on a track some friends and I made!
6 votes -
Metadata is the biggest little problem plaguing the music industry
7 votes -
How streaming affects the lengths of songs
8 votes -
Music streaming services are gaslighting us
23 votes