Links tagged with “spotify”
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Pavement’s “Harness Your Hopes” And Spotify’s Algorithm - Stereogum
“‘Play Galaxie 500’ may really come to mean, ‘Play the song by Galaxie 500 that most resembles songs by others.’” (via Things Magazine)
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The Problem with Muzak | Liz Pelly
Although I love having so much music available in Spotify, I’m increasingly aware how often I use it unthinkingly just for “background music for working” which I’m not very proud of. So even aside from these odd industry-changing effects, I’m feeling uneasy about Spotify.
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CASH Music - The Secret Lives of Playlists
On how record labels make and influence Spotify playlists. In case you want to feel a little bit used. (via Buckslip)
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Massive dump of Spotify created playlists - 1.4k+ genres, 12k+ playlists! : spotify
Amazing, but it’s annoying this stuff is practically impossible to discover or browse in the app itself. Even having seen everynoise.com before, I didn’t realise all these playlists existed.
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Discover Weekly Archive by hansjuergenbardenhagen - IFTTT
“Every Monday, this Recipe will automatically add the 30 tracks on your Discover Weekly playlist to a personal Discover Weekly Archive playlist.” (via @tomtaylor)
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TV Networks, Algorithms and the Demise of HMV
I’m not sure i buy all of this, but some interesting thoughts in there. Almost says that without better discovery tools, Spotify is like HMV, huge but daunting and soulless. (via Paul Mison)
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Why Spotify can never be profitable: The secret demands of record labels — Tech News and Analysis
A look at the “demands that digital music companies [like Spotify, Rdio, etc] are compelled to agree to” by the major record labels. “Onerous” would be a word. (via Blech)
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Spotify Instant
Find-as-you-type search of Spotify. Tab, hit Return and the track plays in Spotify. Nice.
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Echofi - Better Spotify Radio
Enter an artist name and it plays a stream of similar artists (chosen using Echo Nest) in Spotify.
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Liesen/spotify-api-server - GitHub
“Implementation of parts of the Spotify playlist API. … It’s a web server that talks to Spotify using libspotify.”
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Groovify your music tweets - Denoiser the better
Tweet a song and @groovify generates a Spotify or Grooveshark playlist based on it.
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Spotibot.com - Generate Spotify Playlists powered by Lastfm!
Makes Spotify playlists based on the name of a music artist or your Last.fm favorites/recommendations.
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Overhere
Listen along with any last.fm user in real time, using Spotify. So simple.
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Topsify - Top 40 chart playlists for Spotify
Exactly what I was after — I feel I should listen to the Top 40 once in a while and maybe this will help me do it. But the charts are in the “wrong” order, with number 1 first.
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Philgyford | Share Spotify Playlists at ShareMyPlaylists.com
Here are my Spotify playlists, in case anything takes your fancy. i’ll update it when I make new ones worth sharing.
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Simon Reynolds’ 2010 (Playlist by philgyford - Spotify)
I made a playlist of all of the albums and tracks Simon Reynolds liked most from 2010. Well, those I could find on Spotify, around 50%.
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Playlist by mildlydiverting - Spotify
Kim made a playlist of that list of bands in that Paul Morley article what I linked to the other day. Thanks Kim!
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Crowd-sourcing the office stereo, using Twitter and Spotify
Python script to enable sending Spotify URLs @ a Twitter account which then queue and play, and also scrobble to Last.fm.
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Spotify playlist: Chart Hits 83
I made a playlist of that K-Tel double cassette compilation I was banging on about a while back. A few omissions, but otherwise it’s all there.
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Spotify + sharemyplaylists.com = good
I had exactly the same problem with Spotify — unsure what to listen to. ShareMyPlaylists does seem like a good way in.
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Last.fm + Spotify + Find new albums
Find albums by your top artists on Last.fm that have recently been added to Spotify. Although many are albums I already have, which is how I’ve listened to them on Last.fm… (via Tom Taylor)
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Festive 50 - Lists between 1976 and 2000 « www.indiefy.co.uk
Spotify playlists for (incomplete) John Peel’s Festive Fifties. (via Paulpod on Twitter)