Spotify App • Page 37

Saw someone post their Wrapped today and it said 141,000 minutes listened - like, WTF? There's no way you actively listened to that much music this year. That's 97 straight days of listening. Highly likely they just left Spotify running in the background throughout the day. I listen nearly every day and only hit 28,421 minutes, apparently

 

Spotify Wrapped is inventing lots of new genres this year

 

That's almost 7hrs a day, right? Some people listen to music for the duration of the workday. That's the most plausible explanation apart from what you suggested.

 

I mean, I listened to 81,990 minutes of just Spotify, not counting tracks I uploaded myself that aren't on streaming, and the vast majority of that was actual listening while working at my desk. 141,000 tho sounds like it being left on in the background.

 

Maybe mine isn't counting right, as I listen to Spotify every day while at my desk, for a few hours each day, and while in transit on the train using the phone app. 141,000 has to be leaving it on in the background playing continuously

 

I didn't get a genre breakdown in mine this year. Only artist and song

 

Yeah I didn't get a genre or album breakdown either. Apparently listening to A$AP rocky makes me a Football Hype Rap Core fan though lol

 

The Wrapped sucks this year, everyone hates their stupid micro genres and now they gave them even more space

 

Before I got a sound machine for sleeping I used to let my spotify play all night on a ocean waves playlist on loop so its very possible to get a ton of extra listening hours from stuff like that. I dont do this anymore and my totals tend to be a decent chunk smaller.

 

my top 5 artists for the year:

blink-182
taylor swift
mourn
the sound
jimmy eat world

sounds about right. more accurate sounding than last year's.

 

75,000 mins of pure country goodness

 

This AI podcast thing is so dumb lol

 

Gotta save all that money they don't pay to artists.

 

So just had an idea, and I think I've been going about this Spotify thing all wrong.

I can't make a playlist for every band's individual album, because then I hit the upper limit on playlists.

And I'm finding one playlist per band to not be ideal, especially for bands with a lot of albums or b-sides. It's too messy.

I really just want something as simple and flexible as Windows File Explorer... and then it hit me.

Instead of trying to force Spotify to be like Explorer, why not just use Explorer?

Bookmarks, man, bookmarks! he says in the same tones as someone claiming his grift really is the future.

I can make a bookmark per album, still have a playlist (and bookmark) for b-sides, there's no upper limit on bookmarks, and I can use Explorer's search to filter by year if I so choose. Supreme organization and flexibility!

The only downside is the shortcuts open the web app and not the desktop client, but that's not a deal breaker by any means.

Ladies and gentlemen, I could be onto a winner.

 

I keep seeing Benson Boone on many top lists and I've never even heard of the guy before, and I'm a fairly online dude. What kind of music?

 

He plays on the radio a lot. That "don't take the beautiful things that I've got" song. Singer songwriter associated with imagine dragons. Mormon dude.

 

So I got a reply from Spotify to that post I made on their boards a couple days ago about artist discographies no longer being chronological, and apparently it was unintentional because they reverted it back and apologized.

The system works sometimes.

 

Good job Pen

 

Thanks! I guess other people chimed in on the thread and liked my post so Spotify took notice.

I feel like I accomplished something.

 

One thing I will give Spotify credit for is it looks like they added the ability to switch to visual on some podcasts? Didn’t know that and it’s pretty cool esp for my gaming podcast which sometimes shows captured video of a game they’re discussing.

 

Video podcasts been there for quite a while

 

Maybe it was just the podcast I listen to finally implemented lol

 

One very annoying thing about Spotify is that, when I want to get through playlists like Release Radar, which has a new list of 200 songs every week, it takes me days to get through it ('cause I don't have time to listen to 200 tracks in one go). The issue is that, when I go back to the playlist to listen to the next batch of tracks from that playlist, Spotify has reshuffled the entire playlist, so I have to go back to the beginning of the list and figure out which tracks I've already listened to and which ones I've haven't. So I have to force myself to spend greater chunks to time listening to the playlist, to ensure I spend less time having to figure out what I haven't heard yet.

 

DJ X got an update recently and it's 1000x better, still not great, but it seems to actually dig a little deeper into your liked songs and isn't just playing the same shit over and over and over.

 

Is that new? I haven't paid attention for a while but I remember Release Radar always adding new songs to the top.