Best Ever Albums

Re: Taplog 2

craola — Fri, 12 Jul 2019 19:15:38 GMT

Author: craola

Posted: 07/12/2019 23:15

Tap wrote:

so I'd be curious what you all think about this one
https://endaural.tumblr.com/post/186086778798/heres-my-past-week-but-since-were-halfway

after talking a bit about some 2019 albums, I use a series of charts to show how I think using the "recently played" tab impacted my music listening and is leading me to have a shallower experience with music than I had in the previous years. personally I'd recommend not using that feature, though I guess people can still use it responsibly. But I guess what I'm wondering is, is it better for Spotify to do what they did and remove it from mobile for the people like me who abused it, or should they only be concerned with delivering features people want for those who use it responsibly?

i'm pretty bummed about them removing it, though it was always a bit eratic for me in the first place. i frequently queue an album rather than playing it directly, and the queued albums never showed up for me in the recently played section. my work-around has been to screen shot everything i'm listening to and delete the screenshots after i've properly sorted out what was what. not ideal but manageable.

they got rid of the "songs" filter on mobile as well, which messes with me. i might remember a song title and forget the artist/album, and it was nice being able to search for that quickly....as someone who generally doesn't use playlists and almost never listens to podcasts, i can't say i love the new design.

Re: Taplog 2

Tap — Tue, 9 Jul 2019 06:07:27 GMT

Author: Tap

Posted: 07/09/2019 10:07

thanks!! I dont think i explained it well enough so heres the main hits:

So basically the recently played tab shows you what you played recently

I relyed on that page when I picked things to listen to again

The page included things I listened to because I wanted to check in on them

These albums pushed down the albums I was listening to more frequently

Because these album's were not immediately visible on the tab, i stopped listening to them more easily than I did other albums

Re: Taplog 2

RoundTheBend — Mon, 8 Jul 2019 23:46:41 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 07/09/2019 03:46

It's beautiful.

Also, you lost me with this Spotify feature thing...

Re: Taplog 2

mickilennial — Sat, 6 Jul 2019 13:23:27 GMT

Author: mickilennial

Posted: 07/06/2019 17:23

thats a lot of analytics

Re: Taplog 2

Tap — Sat, 6 Jul 2019 05:43:54 GMT

Author: Tap

Posted: 07/06/2019 09:43

so I'd be curious what you all think about this one
https://endaural.tumblr.com/post/186086778798/heres-my-past-week-but-since-were-halfway

after talking a bit about some 2019 albums, I use a series of charts to show how I think using the "recently played" tab impacted my music listening and is leading me to have a shallower experience with music than I had in the previous years. personally I'd recommend not using that feature, though I guess people can still use it responsibly. But I guess what I'm wondering is, is it better for Spotify to do what they did and remove it from mobile for the people like me who abused it, or should they only be concerned with delivering features people want for those who use it responsibly?

Re: Taplog 2

Tap — Thu, 20 Jun 2019 04:56:37 GMT

Author: Tap

Posted: 06/20/2019 08:56

I'm just gonna move this to tumblr because I can easily convert the spreadsheets to html and post them there, so if you wanna keep up with this go to https://endaural.tumblr.com/

Re: Taplog 2

RoundTheBend — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 14:20:46 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 06/11/2019 18:20

For those interested you can export your last.fm data to CSV using this then you can import to Tap's stuff:
https://benjaminbenben.com/lastfm-to-csv/

Re: Taplog 2

Tap — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 02:18:41 GMT

Author: Tap

Posted: 06/11/2019 06:18

no prob, glad to share. im still adding stuff that I might not get into the template, like something where I'll just have to enter in Monday's date and I'll be able to generate these graphs for the week

Re: Taplog 2

RoundTheBend — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 22:11:51 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 06/11/2019 02:11

Much Excite. Keep it coming. Also thanks for the template!

Re: Taplog 2

Tap — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 13:59:49 GMT

Author: Tap

Posted: 06/10/2019 17:59

A big part of it is what I believe to be the hockets on Finite. Maybe I'm getting the term wrong, but where the melodic line is being created by multiple instruments alternating one note at a time. Having that over the bed of consistent instruments and the way instruments rise up from that and exit the group and do their own thing and then return to the group creates this sort of swell that really hits me. That most recent listen was on a train, having this soundtrack what I saw out my window was an excellent experience.

Re: Taplog 2

Anonymous — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 10:36:58 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 06/10/2019 14:36

Wanna share your thoughts on why Mandatory Reality is special to you?

Re: Taplog 2

Tap — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 03:35:54 GMT

Author: Tap

Posted: 06/10/2019 07:35

If anyone wants to try this spreadsheet for themselves, I've made a template with instructions here

And if you'd like to see my full sheet, it is here

Taplog 2

Tap — Mon, 10 Jun 2019 03:34:40 GMT

Author: Tap

Posted: 06/10/2019 07:34

I made some advancements with my listen tracker and figured I might try starting up one of these to go over my previous week's listening habits.

I mostly didn't focus on much, the most I listened to anything this week was from two new releases, Lifted - 2 and Nebulo - ASCII Snake. Both are very highly recommended. The Lifted album is a great sequel to the first album, they've expanded their lineup and gone even further into studio constructed exursions that feel untethered from time but with a significant amount of rhythm. Throw in that hifi synth production and I'm all set. The Nebulo one is an EP, the latest from Conditional Records. They do great stuff with weird computer music that is sometimes abstract and sometimes a little more digestible like some IDM or weird techno. This one is on the latter side, Autechre fans should check this one out.

There were a whole bunch of other new releases that I'll have to give more time to. I did 6 in a row there on Thursday night, I was really feeling it.

Some stuff I hadn't listened to in forever popped up. The new Suzanne Ciani archival release made me pull out her Buchla Concerts 1975 album, I guess it had been close to 2 and a half years since I'd heard it but it really did not feel that long.