Thanks for that replacement mini crossword recommendation, I’ve only done today’s but I really like it already!

It seems that Spotify doesn’t accurately count plays for tracks under 30 seconds. I had a look through some of the albums I know of with short tracks and here’s what I found:

• Humanz - Gorillaz / Most popular track: 214m plays vs 11 second interlude: 1,185 plays
• Absolution - Muse / Most popular track: 259m plays vs 22 second intro: 32,174 plays
• California - Blink 182 / Most popular track: 158m plays vs 16 second track: 42,616 plays
• 3 Feet High and Rising - De La Soul / Most popular track: 12m plays vs 17 second track: 1,117 plays
• The Eminem Show - Eminem / Most popular track: 1.9b plays vs 22 second track: 42,050 plays

In fact I found the MGMT album 11​•​11​•​11 has a 26 second long track with no reported plays.

So while it’s probably true that people are listening to fewer full albums than they used to in the days of vinyl or CD, it seems more likely to do with Spotify only paying royalties on tracks over 30 seconds and the discussion surrounding that.

Yay, looking forward to this!

I believe that’s the fediverse logo in the middle!

This seems really powerful; I’m curious, how helpful were its suggestions?

These summaries are usually decent from what I’ve seen but this one misses out some important information. The fourth and fifth paragraphs of the summary make no sense without the context that the athlete was disqualified for a false start and then still allowed to run.

Thanks for sharing, very interesting to see it from this perspective! When I first saw the title I thought I’d seen another video on the same story but it turns out it was just another equally horrific case: https://youtu.be/J5NHd348AFE

Mlem on iOS seems to have that feature under Settings > Filters at least!

I would say definitely not intended considering the linked page mentions very specific slicing but it’s cool nonetheless!