Friday, December 25, 2015

The Beatles: Capitol US albums and notable compilations, as Spotify playlists


Meet the Beatles! (1964)

https://open.spotify.com/user/ulyssestone/playlist/0vk5yPXEMhpn90XmEBinvu

The Beatles' Second Album (1964)

https://open.spotify.com/user/ulyssestone/playlist/6bRVod9igviPr9GccXpEA0

Beatles '65 (1965)

https://open.spotify.com/user/ulyssestone/playlist/0R5F7OZVqUgLtbK8YL3jvy

The Early Beatles (1965)

https://open.spotify.com/user/ulyssestone/playlist/6DWdROtMm0tKHJ4BxTxtU7

Beatles VI (1965)

https://open.spotify.com/user/ulyssestone/playlist/0wJV1svsndXx5PVHwYDtKQ

Yesterday and Today (1966)

https://open.spotify.com/user/ulyssestone/playlist/1Tq51PcnruMFzXKvCWCq7j

Hey Jude (1970)

https://open.spotify.com/user/ulyssestone/playlist/36Wqc8CHgMY8DyO6atxYGA

Love Songs (1977)

https://open.spotify.com/user/ulyssestone/playlist/0xLMAroue6F2VjoblTQklF

Rock 'n' Roll Music (1977)

https://open.spotify.com/user/ulyssestone/playlist/4qq2rNy6jErLX3JWvS67Jp

The Beatles Ballads (1980)

https://open.spotify.com/user/ulyssestone/playlist/2lIbAaZKDRe4UjDWGkU5YE

Yellow Submarine Songtrack 1999

https://open.spotify.com/user/ulyssestone/playlist/6NZwFEoioFOO6lF22tbiv9

Cover art from Wikipedia.

Spotify Composer Weekly

Updated every Monday. 30 tracks from 30 works.

https://open.spotify.com/user/spotify/playlist/024GOC1aaJzcF0YrTGdeSu

Browse all previous playlists on this user profile:

https://open.spotify.com/user/composerweekly

Friday, September 4, 2015

Peaceful Choral Music: 50 tracks from 50 living composers

The playlists are coming back, for real this time.

In the past 2.5 years I've spent most of my time on fundamental metadata issues that made the streaming experience (for classical and other music) often not as pleasant as it should be. We are still not there yet, and I'm aware of the issues that still bother classical fans: long track title readability, especially on mobile; no composer column (though composer is displayed as first artist at track level for classical content); search could be lacking for aficionados and overwhelming for classical newbies. They are not forgotten. It just takes more time to fix 30m tracks delivered by tens of thousands of labels in different formats (and constantly updated), than fixing a personal music library.

From now on I will also spend some spare time on playlisting. Hope you enjoy the first effort. Suggestions and comments are welcome.