[ SECRET POST #5862 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5862 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

I would like to listen to my friends playlists on Spotify, but it makes you log in to listen to them and I refuse to make an account.

[(Anonymous)]

Plus I've found that a free account always mixes up the playlist or doesn't let you choose the song you want to listen to? I'm not sure if I'm missing something but my free account never seems to work correctly.

[(Anonymous)]

On the app the free account is perma-set to shuffle. On the desktop version though you can turn shuffle off.

[(Anonymous)]

The free account also throws in tracks that aren't on the playlist, just for fun.

I would listen to fanmixes on Spotify on my phone if it would actually let me listen to the actual fanmix! (On desktop I have my extremely large downloaded/ripped music collection at hand, so I never bother.)

[(Anonymous)]

I hate ads and want to listen to my and my friends' playlists constantly, so Spotify is one service I'll pay for.

[(Anonymous)]

That's why I use Spotify almost exclusively on my desktop with Ad-Block on.

[greghousesgf]

I don't know how many people remember the website musicovery. I absolutely loved it at first but it deteriorated very badly and I don't think it even exists anymore.

[(Anonymous)]

Wow, yes. That and Pandora back when I could access it in my country were my faves.

[(Anonymous)]

I hated 8tracks because so many people used it and it wasn't actually available in about half the countries of the world, including mine. And people would just not bother also making a playlist anywhere else. Or even a track listing, often.

[(Anonymous)]

This.

And honestly, just make a playlist on Youtube instead? That's what we do?

[spectrier]

Same hat, it was incredibly frustrating without even a track list at times! I could go dig them up myself if they were listed, at least...

I do miss fanmixes though, as other comments say they've fallen out of fandom spaces a bit and they were a nice way to explore new music that reminded someone of a thing you both like.

[scissorsevered]

I used to love making fandom playlists on spotify but they were so cumbersome to share with others. I'm sure there are other playlist sites out there, but I've yet to find anything good.

[(Anonymous)]

I never made an account with 8Tacks and IIRC if you didn't have an account you could only skip like five tracks per day or something? So the 8Tracks era was frustrating to me, personally. Was it really free?

I'm nostalgic for the days of LJ fanmixes, where the mix-maker would provide YT links to all the songs and then a zip-file link to the entire playlist at the end--plus "cover art" for the fanmix, and maybe a bit of meta to go with each song. I loved those so much.

[(Anonymous)]

Yesss there are a couple of LJ fanmixes that I still listen to now! One of them, I recreated on YouTube music. I miss that era.

[(Anonymous)]

I am seriously considering just bringing that shit back. Creating LJ-style fanmixes and then posting them to tumblr or wherever, no fucks given. Will it get engagement? Probably not. But if a bunch of 15–20-year-olds are going to insist on bringing back all the ugly-ass fashion of the 00's, my elder-millennial ass can damn well live my best online life with a bunch of 00's-style fanmixes.

[(Anonymous)]

Pls do! I would follow!

[(Anonymous)]

Omg I'd follow to. Such nostalgia!!! I still remember the cover art and the songs I was introduced to because of fan mixes! Some became songs I still jam to today!

Will say I was always hesitant about downloading them because it was the era of Limewire and viruses galore, and this was the family PC, but man! What a throwback!

[(Anonymous)]

I still do that! And then rarely bother to actually post them anywhere because people just want to stream so why bother. But I listen to them and look at my cover art.

Of course the downside there is you have to actually have the track in order to re-upload it.

(I still have a bunch of old ones I listen to a lot, too.)

[(Anonymous)]

LJ fanmixes were where I discovered SO MUCH good music! That's exclusively how I made fanmixes, and I still listen to a lot of them now.

[(Anonymous)]

Before 8tracks, I remember downloading so many songs from livejournal from fandom fanmixes (I still have several mp3 files on my mp3 player to this day with the fanart/edit still attached to them too). But yeah, 8tracks was good too before it went south.

Funnily enough I still find new music through the fandoms I'm in, but mostly from fanfiction/fanart (titles from songs, a reference within the work, etc), or fan videos.
I do listen to fanmixes from youtube where people have edited hour-ish long videos to compile songs in because its more accessible to me than spotify - such as a Moomins playlist for Snufkin here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8MTe-aiuAI&t=1486s - which introduced me to bands like The Crane Wives.

[(Anonymous)]

LJ fanmixes were my jam, OP. I discovered so much good music through them. All my non fandom friends alwats complimented me on my music taste, so it felt like my special little secret of how I found new artists and songs.

I remember 8tracks starting to replace zipfiles of mp3s and feeling sad, because 8tracks was not how I listened to music.

Now I have spotify and honestly I'm fine with Spotify fandom playlists - you can just write up your list (and make fanart if you want) and link to the playlist online. And yet it's rare to come across a fandom playlist. IMO The problem is that not enough people are interested in fanmade soundtracks, not the medium.

Which I suppose is partially Spotify's fault, since it and its algorithms have removed the feeling of exclusivity and obscurity from the music scene that I think has fueled the desire to make mixtapes from the 80s onwards. But still. The community could be there if the people wanted it.

[(Anonymous)]

I know multiple people who lived on 8tracks and tried to move to Spotify for their fanmix fix and it just didn't work. I think a lot of it is that Spotify is just way more interested at getting you to listen to the music it wants you to listen to than making it smooth to listen to user-made playlists, and it shows.

(Also, you can only put things on a Spotify playlist if Spotify has them, and the best bit of both 8tracks and old LJ playlists was finding the stuff that would never turn up on Spotify.)

[(Anonymous)]

So before it was bought by myspace, and before myspace became a "music" platform, I used to listen to music on imeem. I don't know if anyone is familiar with that site, but many songs and artists I still love I "discovered" through that site! It went hand in hand (since I was too scared to download at the time, given the viruses and what not) LJ fanmixes (which omg, I loved the Fanart album covers and tracklists -- I still have flashbacks to a really good one sigh). Once these went down, that's when I played around with 8tracks, occasionally listening to some stuff, finding new artists thanks to fandom.

Anyway, all this love for LJ fanmixes makes me so warm and nostalgic, makes me want to see them again with the pretty album covers people would make. Which is also why I liked the 8tracks album covers too lol.