Here are some nice recordings from a show in Copenhagen, March 6th, 2005 at Huset. I was traveling with Genevive ( Paon), who played the show too. I played the whole album of No Flashlight, just solo, and then I sang these extremely short songs which have never been recorded or released.
Just to remind you, this Saturday, Dec. 10th, 2022 I\u2019ll be at the Fantagraphics Bookstore in Seattle for a book launch of the big Genevi\u00E8ve Castr\u00E9e monograph, showing artwork and sculptures, selling books, playing songs from the tribute compilation. More details at this post here. See you there I hope.
My friends Ragana are recording with Nich Wilbur at the Unknown in Anacortes. The other day they asked to borrow my gong. I said \u201Cyes of course, but it\u2019s with me a few islands away\u201D. No problem, Nich has a boat. So I met them at the beach in the morning for a quick gong hand-off at the waterline, then they zipped away to go record like one gong hit for their next album. Can\u2019t wait.
In the last couple hours of school day empty home freedom I got out the electric guitar and recorded some jangling for a song that I hope will turn out good enough to send to a compilation in Japan. After a long time without playing much guitar it hurts my tender fingers. Maybe it\u2019s nerve damage? Worth it though.
I\u2019m kind of always managing the archives over here. Lately, in between other recording tasks I\u2019ve been transferring old CDRs onto the computer of live recordings from Mount Eerie shows over the past many years, but mostly older. CDR culture has mostly died out as far as I know and maybe bootleg taper culture too?
Mostly these live recordings are bone-chillingly mortifying to me, but occasionally I\u2019ll find something interesting and forgotten and \u201Cgood\u201D. I plan to release these things gradually here for paid subscribers, and maybe someday as an actual thing more widely (but probably not).
Here are some nice recordings from a show in Copenhagen, March 6th, 2005 at Huset. I was traveling with Genevi\u00E8ve (\u00D4 Paon), who played the show too. I played the whole album of No Flashlight, just solo, and then I sang these extremely short songs which have never been recorded or released.
They are the only ones that consistently don't show up in my library, no matter how many times I try to put them on my phone (through dropbox). Like I said though, they exist on my phone and I can find and play them, the problem is that they don't show up in my library.
I just figured it out. On the main page of the music library there is a gear at the top left where you can modify the filter settings for how short a track has to be to stop appearing in your library. Moving the slider to 0 seconds solved my issue.
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Recently the quality of Daily Mixes have declined significantly. I tend to listen to albums that have a short intro (1-2 minutes long) and long individual tracks. And in the past few weeks all of my Daily Mixes are filled with these intros and very short tracks from the albums (very few are over 7-8 minutes long).
I have noticed for already some months that when you Start a Radio from a song, the Algorithm chooses too many short songs, which is useless because many times you end up listening to intro, interludes, etc. Many tracks/songs below 2 minutes. #annoying
Keep in mind that your Daily Mixes are created based on the music you listen to, disregarding of its length. This means that if there's a song that matches the Mix's genre or topic, it can be added no matter if it's just a short intro.
The thing is that I haven't changed my listening patterns, and I usually skip the intro tracks when starting the albums manually. I've always done that. And most of the time daily mixes for the genres and artists that I've been listening for years have been fine with occasional intros here and there. In the past weeks I noticed that Daily Mixes are practically unlistenable, because there's intro after intro. This is really noticeable.
If you start going track by track in my daily mix, you can clearly see that more than half of the tracks in the playlist are the shortest tracks (1-3 minutes) from the respective albums. Usually these are either intros or interludes. There's an undeniable bias there.
We'd like to add some insights about this behavior. Keep in mind these playlists (e. g. Daily Mixes, Discover Weekly) are created by Spotify based on your recent listening activity. If you can replicate it across all your devices, we suggest you make sure the Private Session is off, so the algorithm can gather enough info about your most recent listening activity. Also, make sure you're listening to music not only from other recommended playlists like Discover Weekly or Daily Mix, but through the Search option as well.
Keep in mind that if most of the music and episodes you listen to come from your personalized playlists (like Discover Weekly, Daily Mix, etc.) the new suggested content won't update as often. It's worth mentioning that these playlists update regularly, so please give them some breaks, explore actively some new music, and check in the coming weeks and let us know how it goes.
Also, for personalized playlists (such as the Daily Mixes), you can improve the suggestions you receive by liking and disliking songs. You can do it, in the case of Daily Mixes, just from the mobile app.
Why some artist radios often have mostly unrelated approximately 1 minute long (Chinese) songs on them? I'm in Europe and I'm listening mostly European artists. Those songs are like some sort of AI spam music. Spotify algorithm seems to be really bad quite often.
I have never listened more than few seconds of those short Asian AI songs and I'm pretty sure nobody else has listened them either. I'm also quite sure that not many people (if any) have heard my example artist Coneville in Asia. So I wonder where does that Asian AI **bleep** music come from? Spotify algorithm is not bad normally, so why does it suck on (small) Artist Radios?
Spotify algorithm likes a lot of these Asian artists that make songs that are all same length like 1:04, 1:02, 1:07, etc and seem to have AI generated song titles. To me these look and sound like some sort of fake (AI) artists. Even if they are real artists, I wonder why on earth Spotify algorithm favours these artists so much on Artist Radio's?
The artist that appear in the "Radio" are most of the times correct, but short songs are definitely something I don't enjoy or listen to more than I listen to longer songs, above 4 minutes up to 20 minutes.
I have also all of a sudden gotten these shorter tracks in my discover weekly. I never listen to these short tracks, I even take time to use the delete button when you do recommend these to me. They have been appearing since about a week or 4, and to me it more so seems like spotify aquired a new database of these 1 minute tracks and wants to push them. They are barely even containing anything Id listen to.
Same here, like 80% of songs suggested are under the 2 minute mark. And it has nothing to do with the lists I listen to, like Alex suggested. I mean, look at these names, none of these bands are what you would ever consider "straight to the point punk rockers"
I have also been noticing this issue, I only ONLY listen to long ambient tracks greater than 5 minutes but more often 10-15 minute tracks of well known soundscape musicians, but my recommendations are never longer than 2 minutes. It wasn't like this only a few months ago.
Update: I literally just listened to an entire album of 7-8 minute long tracks and the next recommended track was 1 minute 30 seconds in length, followed by another lasting 1 minute 70 seconds. I kept skipping to the next recommended track and nothing was longer than 2 minutes until I started getting repeats.
Do you mean exclude the whole Daily Mix from the taste profile or make a new playlist, fill it with all the short tracks and exclude them from the profile in one bulk? ATM, exclusion feature only works for playlists.
First of all, you can like/dislike songs only from the phone, while track length is only visible on desktop. So I had to scroll down the daily mixes both on phone and desktop, check lengths on desktop and dislike them on the phone.
Lastly, I noticed the following pattern - if I listen to a new album, it starts appearing in my daily mixes, but the tracks appear in the playlist in ascending order loosely sorted by their length. So if an album has the following tracks:
This is definitely a result of a recent change to how the daily mixes are generated. This was not a case a few months before, when daily mixes were actually listenable and mostly had the tracks which I listened to the most, not the shortest ones from albums of the same genre, that I haven't even listened before. (like really, I see a track from a new album in my daily mix, that I haven't listened before, and it's a 1:18 acoustic intro).
In the '50s and '60s, pop and rock music packed the most punch with songs that hovered somewhere around two and a half minutes. In 1964, the year the Beatles first arrived in America, each of the Top 10 Singles on the Billboard Hot 100 was between two and three minutes long, the perfect amount of time to satisfy and engage listeners without taking up too much of a radio station's airtime.
There's no need to wonder if you're missing any subtext here. The second of four songs on the Ramones' acclaimed debut to feature "Wanna" in its title is about exactly what you'd expect: bassist Dee Dee Ramone's childhood memories of sniffing glue. You also won't have to spend much time memorizing the lyrics, which consist of the same four lines - and really, the second couplet is just a slight variation on the first - repeated three times over a propulsive guitar riff. (Matthew Wilkening)
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