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  • ReverendReverend Frets: 4974
    I don't trust phone batteries to last so prefer my iPod. 
    I've probably got over 5000 physical albums and I also have haulix so I'm getting free new digital albums every week. 
    As for recommendations, i find plenty of recommendations on Facebook.

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  • darthed1981darthed1981 Frets: 11670
    Reverend said:
    I don't trust phone batteries to last so prefer my iPod. 
    I've probably got over 5000 physical albums and I also have haulix so I'm getting free new digital albums every week. 
    As for recommendations, i find plenty of recommendations on Facebook.

    Sounds like you arent the target market!

    Facebook recommendations for music all seem a little skewed to me, I get...

    Putin on the Ritz
    Crimea River
    Ukraine (if you want to hang out, you must let us invade Ukraine... ")
    Georgia on my mind
    The Baltics on my mind

    Etc...
    We have to be so very careful, what we believe in...
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  • Philly_QPhilly_Q Frets: 22516
    I've only got four Daily Mixes, it seems:

    #1  Graveyard, Spiritual Beggars, Spirit Caravan and more...
    #2  Y&T, Winger, UFO and more...
    #3  Green Druid, The Ugly Kings, Ruff Magik and more...
    #4  Ten Years After, Rick Derringer, Eric Gales and more...

    I guess in each case it picks up a few things you actually have listened to and then tries to find similar stuff.

    There's also the "Discover Weekly Playlist" which seems to be more of a mix of different things.
     
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  • It's bloody brilliant just to have on in the background during the day.... my genres are lazy descriptions but you get the drift....

    Best thing is to get Spotify Family - five completely separate accounts for £15.  This means I don't end up with Trivium and Killswitch Engage amongst my saved albums, thanks to my lad.  ;)

    1. Recent Metal - C.O.C., Gojira, Machine Head, Meshuggah etc
    2. Thrash - Whiplash, Death Angel, Agent Steel, S.O.D. etc
    3. Older Punk - UK Subs, The Rezillos, The Adverts etc
    4. Various Dance, Pop, Indie - Prodigy, Carter USM, Orbital, Shamen etc
    5. Hardcore-ish - Terror, Power Trip, Turnstile, Brutality Will Prevail etc
    6. Hair - Crue, Van Halen, Twisted Sister, Love/Hate etc

    Lots of rumours about a Hi Res version coming soon...... 

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  • strumjoughlampsstrumjoughlamps Frets: 3261
    edited September 2018
    Spotify Family here too family of 5, no way I am having Icicle Works, Tom ODell and modern rap/grime mixed in with my superior choices

    1.Inspiral Carpets, The Sundays, Gene

    2.Screaming Trees, Counting Crows, Afghan Whigs

    3.INXS, Kajagoogoo, The Pretenders

    4.The Moody Blues, Neil Young, The Band

    5.Gene, The Dylans, Ned's Atomic Dustbin

    6.Rancid, Stiff Little Fingers, Eddie and The Hot Rods

    its not bang on the money for my weekly listening tho as at least 50% of what I listen to is via Vinyl
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  • To get around the always-on shuffle feature I had the brainwave of making multiple playlists with just one song.  Great - except it adds a whole load of unwanted songs onto the playlist and proceeds to shuffle its way through.  I looked a having a family account like with Netflix but it closes you down to single user when it detects usage in multiple postcodes.  Back to Youtube it is...
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  • Necrobump..

    1.Marcus King, Robben Ford and Dave Lee Roth(!)

    2.Allman Brothers, Jeff Beck and The Black Crowes

    3.Barr Brothers, Yo La Tengo and My Morning Jacket

    4.Bowie, Dire Straits and Dylan

    5.Primal Scream, New Order and Joy Division
    6.Pixies, Radiohead and Television

    Very interesting as I've been listening to Megadeth's Rust in Peace and The New Mastersounds lately - not showing up here but present in my end of year list.
    "A city star won’t shine too far"


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  • FretwiredFretwired Frets: 24601
    Sporky said:
    1: (mostly American) punk and post-hardcore
    2: Ambient and "modern classical"
    3: Post-rock
    4: Heavier post-rock, some hardcore, some mathcore
    5: Post-metal and ambient black metal
    6: Assorted non-dance electronica
    We should swap play lists .. :-)

    Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
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  • Tone71Tone71 Frets: 619
    I listen to music for a minimum of 4 hours a day at work and would be lost without Spotify, £15 for all the family is brilliant value, today's playlist are;

    1 Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Moon Duo, Wooden Shjips

    2 Lou Reed, David Crosby, The Faces, The Who

    3 Black Mountain, The Flying Eyes, Samsara Blues Experiment

    4 The Asteroid, The Black Angels, Psychic Ills


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  • SporkySporky Frets: 27569
    Fretwired said:
    Sporky said:
    1: (mostly American) punk and post-hardcore
    2: Ambient and "modern classical"
    3: Post-rock
    4: Heavier post-rock, some hardcore, some mathcore
    5: Post-metal and ambient black metal
    6: Assorted non-dance electronica
    We should swap play lists .. :-)
    Tell me how and I'll happily do it. 
    "[Sporky] brings a certain vibe and dignity to the forum."
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  • timmysofttimmysoft Frets: 1962
    Perhaps if spotify actually paid the people who submit music to their platform rather than developing a stat tracker then i could afford a subscription to their service.
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  • darthed1981darthed1981 Frets: 11670
    timmysoft said:
    Perhaps if spotify actually paid the people who submit music to their platform rather than developing a stat tracker then i could afford a subscription to their service.
    Spotify is essentially owned by the record labels.  They give 70% of their (substantial) revenue to said labels, their own profit margin is, well, non-existent, they lose money.

    So really the blame lies with the labels for the horrible deals they get artists to sign?
    We have to be so very careful, what we believe in...
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  • TrudeTrude Frets: 914
    I wish Spotify had a "cover band member" mode, where it would disregard the songs you have to play over and over whilst learning them. My personal listening tastes have very little crossover with the stuff I end up playing in bands!
    Some of the gear, some idea

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  • Trude said:
    I wish Spotify had a "cover band member" mode, where it would disregard the songs you have to play over and over whilst learning them. My personal listening tastes have very little crossover with the stuff I end up playing in bands!
    My top 10 is all stuff I've been learning too. 
    "A city star won’t shine too far"


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  • What if you start a Private Session before playing the tracks - does that help?
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  • IamnobodyIamnobody Frets: 6887
    edited December 2018
    timmysoft said:
    Perhaps if spotify actually paid the people who submit music to their platform rather than developing a stat tracker then i could afford a subscription to their service.
    It’s £9.99 a month - I appreciate the artists get next to fuck all but that does seem to represent good value to the end user? 

    Ok you don’t actually own anything - but you get access to an almost limitless library of music.

    Even if you just used it as a filter it could potentially save you that a month in cds/whatever format that you bought and then found you didn’t like.
    Previously known as stevebrum
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  • darthed1981darthed1981 Frets: 11670
    Iamnobody said:
    timmysoft said:
    Perhaps if spotify actually paid the people who submit music to their platform rather than developing a stat tracker then i could afford a subscription to their service.
    It’s £9.99 a month - I appreciate the artists get next to fuck all ...
    It really is just the labels fucking the artists as they always have, it isn't fair to blame Spotify.

    It's a big opportunity for artists the modern business as well, but you need to connect with and sell to fans.  The youtube model provides a living in music for Rabea Massad, Mary Spender and a fortune for Rob Chapman.  Band can happily get fans spending £50 on a package containing one album with a t-shirt, signed, with a mug etc.

    Gigs now have far higher prices than they did a decade ago, merchandise sales at said gigs are a huge part of revenue.

    The business has changed, recorded music "sales" are now a smaller chunk but there are still good livings to be made.

    You see indignant artists comparing their revenue from 30k CD sales to 30k streams, but that's just..... bollocks.... when you think about it.
    We have to be so very careful, what we believe in...
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  • TrudeTrude Frets: 914
    What if you start a Private Session before playing the tracks - does that help?
    Nope - that just stops your plays from being published, but it still goes into the taste algorithms it seems  :(
    Some of the gear, some idea

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  • Arktik83Arktik83 Frets: 431
    edited December 2018
    OK so my daily mixes are:

    1: Video game music - Lena Raine, Jessica Curry, Darren Korb.
    2: Modern metal/rock - Foo Fighters, Halestorm, Trivium.
    3: Female pop singers - Rita Ora, Ellie Goulding, Halsey.
    4: Alternative - Youth Lagoon, Father John Misty, Blood Orange.
    5: 00's metal: In flames, Lacuna Coil, Dream Theater.
    6: Classic Rock: Van Halen, Scorpions, Fog Hat.

    I rarely listen to albums in their entirety nowadays, I just find a song that I like and end up playing that song on a heavy rotation really and the video game music is for when I'm concentrating and need something to help me focus.  
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  • Trude said:
    I wish Spotify had a "cover band member" mode, where it would disregard the songs you have to play over and over whilst learning them. My personal listening tastes have very little crossover with the stuff I end up playing in bands!
    I have exactly this problem.  A friend told me he'd had a nice time listening to his "most played for 2018" list and I thought that's a good idea; but when I looked at my list it was dominated by songs I learned to play in bands.  It's not only that some of it doesn't reflect my taste, but even when it does I've usually listened to these songs too often to want to want to hear them again. for a while at least.

    I suppose it's too much of a niche problem for Spotify to think about addressing though.
    “To a man with a hammer every problem looks like a nail.”
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