Monday, October 18, 2010

A Better Way to Browse Coltrane Albums on Spotify

Imagine one day, some boy in his early adolescence wants to express his individuality by listening to some music of that wild-eyed guy, whose poster was on the wall of Alex DeLarge's room in the Clockwork Orange, what would he do? Maybe he would type Beethoven into the Spotify search box, then click the first result: Ludwig van Beethoven. Then, if he had the patience to wait for over one minute for the artist page to load, he would be totally bemused by the hundreds of albums under Beethoven's name. The same thing could happen to a Jazz fan too, almost every famous artist's page is a jumble of studio albums, re-issues, re-packaged box-sets, live albums and all sorts of compilations. Try John Coltrane yourself.

For pop artists this is not a problem, most of the time. As their catalog are normally not as formidable as jazz or classical composers, and sometime it's nice to find an obscure cover song for some unknown soundtrack or tribute album in the compilations sections. But for jazz and classical artists, the artist page are pretty much useless. You have to know what you want exactly, otherwise you'll get lost. Therefore I suggest Spotify to modify the way the artist page was presented: do not load the compilation albums by default, but put them into a drop-down menu under the main studio releases. And only load the highlight albums for the artists that have too many albums under their name, at the first click. Then give the users options to explore their whole catalog. It would save the users more time, and also help Spotify to reduce server load and to save bandwidth, IMHO.

I compiled some Coltrane playlists for my own pleasure, grab them if they can save you some time as well:

Coltrane: Prestige Albums (99 track 13 hours)
Coltrane: Atlantic Albums (181 tracks, 17 hours)
Coltrane: Impulse! Albums (182 tracks 1 day)
Coltrane: Live Albums(152 tracks, 1 day)

Albums are filed in chronological order. Press Ctrl (Command on Macs) + G to browse in album view. You may subscribe to these playlists and then put them into a Coltrane folder.








19 comments:

  1. don't know why, but three of those lists are empty for me...

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  2. For me as well, the Prestige and Impulse! lists are empty. And the live albums one only shows the "One Down, One Up: Live at the Half Note" album. I am in the UK, maybe it's a matter of licensing?

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  3. No I have tried them with a UK account and they all work well, please check out this comment, it may help...

    http://www.spotifyclassical.com/2010/10/argo-collection-on-spotify.html?showComment=1286625649062#c1121125017733242296

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  4. Thanks for the playlists, working great and Im getting more to Coltrane. Awesome!

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  5. Hello ulyssestone,

    I'm returning your visit to my blog to let you know that I've just compiled my own Complete Coltrane playlist on Spotify, by sessions, not albums, in chronological order. The details can be read here.

    Best,

    F

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  6. Thanks, the link your posted doesn't work, the right one:

    http://jazzontherecord.blogspot.com/2012/07/complete-john-coltrane-on-spotify.html

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