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Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify

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Re: Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify

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Post by parthdesai »

somehnguy wrote: post #55
volkk wrote: post #34

Spotify's discovery playlist is a double edged sword. My account is permanently screwed because I decided to listen to a lot of rain sounds when going to sleep for a few months while I had a puppy. Now ALL I get for recommendations are calm sounds. I don't actually listen to these during the day, I want my old stuff. I hate it and want to reset the discovery playlist, but seems I have no way of doing so aside from ge…

YES! I played Daddy Yankee's Gasolina at a party once as kind of a joke and for weeks my Discover Weekly was filled with Spanish music. I wish they had a 'stealth' mode or at least an option to reset your tastes.

Private session?

Re: Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify

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Post by screye »

qppo wrote: post #47
jdxcode wrote: post #8

I feel Spotify makes it hard to listen to albums. I can queue up a song to play and it’ll then get back to my playlist, but if I play and album eventually it’ll reach the end and quit playing anything. Then I will have to stop what I’m doing and find something else to play. I feel the UX could be improved and it might change listening habits similar to Discover Weekly

What, you don't appreciate an ad between the Happiest Days of our Lives and Another Brick in the Wall part 2 or 2112 Overture and The Temples of Syrinx ? This comment may date myself

Concept album problems :(

Although that's fine taste mate. 2112, timeless and fundamental to an entire genre.

Re: Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify

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Post by bicknergseng »

somehnguy wrote: post #55
volkk wrote: post #34

Spotify's discovery playlist is a double edged sword. My account is permanently screwed because I decided to listen to a lot of rain sounds when going to sleep for a few months while I had a puppy. Now ALL I get for recommendations are calm sounds. I don't actually listen to these during the day, I want my old stuff. I hate it and want to reset the discovery playlist, but seems I have no way of doing so aside from ge…

YES! I played Daddy Yankee's Gasolina at a party once as kind of a joke and for weeks my Discover Weekly was filled with Spanish music. I wish they had a 'stealth' mode or at least an option to reset your tastes.

Second the option to reset, but there is an "private session" mode in the nav menu that seems to not track your listens the same way.

Netflix and the video streaming services are the worst here. I hate my Netflix recommendations, and can't get out of them.

Re: Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify

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Post by tgb »

BeniBoy wrote: post #58
hanniabu wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One more reason why I prefer Google Play. The recommendations are based off a single station. If you start a new station it starts from scratch.

Am I the only one that received an email from Google telling me that Google Play music was going to close soon and that I should transfer my playlists?

I do not seem to have received such an email.

Re: Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify

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Post by DocG »

volkk wrote: post #34

Spotify's discovery playlist is a double edged sword. My account is permanently screwed because I decided to listen to a lot of rain sounds when going to sleep for a few months while I had a puppy. Now ALL I get for recommendations are calm sounds. I don't actually listen to these during the day, I want my old stuff. I hate it and want to reset the discovery playlist, but seems I have no way of doing so aside from ge…

Uh, I do similar thing. I use narrated let's plays or podcasts on YouTube to go to sleep in the evening and YouTube knows this. It knows my habits so much that even not to recommend stuff I listen every evening, durning daytime. Only when I open my phone in the evening reccomendations are suddenly full of stuff I want to listen to get to sleep.

I use YouTube bc it autostops playing and turns phone off when I'm already sleeping. And funnily enough, ads help me start sleeping faster :D

Re: Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify

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Post by tgb »

boplicity wrote: post #21

65,000 listeners a month – $800 in revenue. 1.23 cents per listener per month. That works out to 14.7 cents per year. To earn a modest $50,000, you would need ~360,000 monthly listeners. This doesn't seem sustainable without outside sources of revenue.

I pay for Google Play Music which is similar to Spotify. I wish I knew how much of my money was going to which artists I listen to, but I suspect the result is disappointing. $10 a month is far more than I would spend on music otherwise and if even half of it went to artists I listen to, then I'd be supporting them reasonably well IMO. It should add up decently. I kind of doubt that it does.

Re: Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify

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Post by dilap »

volkk wrote: post #34

Spotify's discovery playlist is a double edged sword. My account is permanently screwed because I decided to listen to a lot of rain sounds when going to sleep for a few months while I had a puppy. Now ALL I get for recommendations are calm sounds. I don't actually listen to these during the day, I want my old stuff. I hate it and want to reset the discovery playlist, but seems I have no way of doing so aside from ge…

Yeah, mine jumps all over depending on what I've recently listened too. Sometimes it's great and I'm like, "wow, this is magic!" Recently it's been garbage.

Re: Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify

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Post by faramarz »

volkk wrote: post #34

Spotify's discovery playlist is a double edged sword. My account is permanently screwed because I decided to listen to a lot of rain sounds when going to sleep for a few months while I had a puppy. Now ALL I get for recommendations are calm sounds. I don't actually listen to these during the day, I want my old stuff. I hate it and want to reset the discovery playlist, but seems I have no way of doing so aside from ge…

LOL! Same shoe; I cannot escape the piano and other instrumentals I played during my wife's pregnancy months. I'm almost at a point of surrender that maybe my time with Deep House and Electronic music has reached an end. The Discovery Weekly was my only way of finding hot indie talent in the electronics world.

Re: Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify

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Post by jasonv »

aeturnum wrote: post #44
volkk wrote: post #34

Spotify's discovery playlist is a double edged sword. My account is permanently screwed because I decided to listen to a lot of rain sounds when going to sleep for a few months while I had a puppy. Now ALL I get for recommendations are calm sounds. I don't actually listen to these during the day, I want my old stuff. I hate it and want to reset the discovery playlist, but seems I have no way of doing so aside from ge…

I think Spotify would do well to allow users to set a label of some sort on their listening. Like, there are times when you listen to your music for yourself in the car, and there are times when your phone is being used to power the speakers at a gathering. I don't know what the internals of the system looks like, but it seems like allowing users to maintain different profiles would be simple.

Things I've wanted from Spotify, or from another platform:

* Album playlists, with "shuffle by album/entry"

* Disable song in album

* Tags for albums/tracks, sort by tags

* Genre block lists (they have artist block lists, let's go one step forward)

* Download n-minutes of a playlist (for when they're 16 hours long)

* Block tracks over n minutes on shuffle

Re: Carving out a niche as a small artist on Spotify

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Post by StavrosK »

DocG wrote: post #65
volkk wrote: post #34

Spotify's discovery playlist is a double edged sword. My account is permanently screwed because I decided to listen to a lot of rain sounds when going to sleep for a few months while I had a puppy. Now ALL I get for recommendations are calm sounds. I don't actually listen to these during the day, I want my old stuff. I hate it and want to reset the discovery playlist, but seems I have no way of doing so aside from ge…

Uh, I do similar thing. I use narrated let's plays or podcasts on YouTube to go to sleep in the evening and YouTube knows this. It knows my habits so much that even not to recommend stuff I listen every evening, durning daytime. Only when I open my phone in the evening reccomendations are suddenly full of stuff I want to listen to get to sleep. I use YouTube bc it autostops playing and turns phone off when I'm alread…

Late at night, I usually design stuff to 3D print, and I figured I should live-stream some sessions. However, since my wife is asleep at that time, I had to be quiet, and the livestream turned out to be ideal to listen to while trying to fall asleep, which was the opposite of what I intended:

https://youtu.be/i7aVCR5vE6g

Maybe this'll be as useful to you as it was to me.

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