COADF on Spotify

[Luiz Ribeiro 6,153]

 

Does anyone know the real reason for choosing the Unmixed version to be uploaded on the platform, since the commercial version was Non-Stop?

[Glassy24 992]

Probably because most people play select songs on shuffle (don't know for sure)

[supernatural 1]

Encouraged fans to buy both physical mixed release, and digital unmixed version?

[PlayPause 2,684]

50 minutes ago, Luiz Ribeiro said:

 

Does anyone know the real reason for choosing the Unmixed version to be uploaded on the platform, since the commercial version was Non-Stop?

CDs are bound to be listened to in order whereas tracks on Spotify are to be playlisted.

I can't remember what  you got when you bought the album on digital like iTunes originally, if you could chose between mixed and unmixed. But I'm sure there has never been a commercial CD of the unmixed version.

Question that remains unanswered is: which one of these 2 cuts is supposed to be the prime version?

[Bermu 5,065]

47 minutes ago, Luiz Ribeiro said:

 

Does anyone know the real reason for choosing the Unmixed version to be uploaded on the platform, since the commercial version was Non-Stop?

There's still a more annoying thing in Spotify:
Holiday in the first album is the Immaculate Collection version  (the original version can be heard on Celebration, at least!)

BTW, where's Gambler?????

And please, somebody leaks Warning Signs now... 

[deathproof 10,608]

It’s because when the album was released on iTunes, the standard 12-track album was the unmixed. The mixed album (which is the true standard original album) was available as 1 long song on iTunes.

When streaming became a thing, the Spotify library mimicked the iTunes library. Her team never bothered to correct it. Im not even sure if the mixed 1-song album was ever available on Spotify.

[eXtremeOccident 2,481]

It's really annoying, since part of the magic of that album is the transitions. If Renaissance can be on Spotify as a mixed album, I'm not sure why Confessions can't be...it's not like the CD didn't have separate tracks, even if it was the non-stop mix.

[PlayPause 2,684]

14 minutes ago, deathproof said:

The mixed album (which is the true standard original album) was available as 1 long song on iTunes.

Oh yes of course! I have that, but I'd stiil rather listen to the cd 😆

[PlayPause 2,684]

1 hour ago, Luiz Ribeiro said:

 

Does anyone know the real reason for choosing the Unmixed version to be uploaded on the platform, since the commercial version was Non-Stop?

This maybe?

 

[Prayer 14,372]

33 minutes ago, deathproof said:

It’s because when the album was released on iTunes, the standard 12-track album was the unmixed. The mixed album (which is the true standard original album) was available as 1 long song on iTunes.

When streaming became a thing, the Spotify library mimicked the iTunes library. Her team never bothered to correct it. Im not even sure if the mixed 1-song album was ever available on Spotify.

It was, the release @PlayPausementioned.

Actually, both editions were available originally digitally:

- Mixed: as a long, 1 track version. Originally on iTunes & Spotify. Now gone.

- Unmixed: the 12-track album. On every digital service too. Now the only edition.

When streaming became the norm, around 2015 or 2016, the mixed version was taken out of Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, etc. Reason is streaming platforms pay per stream and if you listened to the mixed version once that counted as 1 stream, instead of 12 streams for the unmixed version.

[Celebration 1,306]

1 hour ago, Luiz Ribeiro said:

 

Does anyone know the real reason for choosing the Unmixed version to be uploaded on the platform, since the commercial version was Non-Stop?

Well, the unmixed versions were on the vinyl edition.

[Alpha 1,180]

2 minutes ago, Prayer said:

It was, the release @PlayPausementioned.

Actually, both editions were available originally digitally:

- Mixed: as a long, 1 track version. Originally on iTunes & Spotify. Now gone.

- Unmixed: the 12-track album. On every digital service too. Now the only edition.

When streaming became the norm, around 2015 or 2016, the mixed version was taken out of Spotify, iTunes, Apple Music, etc. Reason is streaming platforms pay per stream and if you listened to the mixed version once that counted as 1 stream, instead of 12 streams for the unmixed version.

Yup...and if memory serves me right it was under the Singles section

[deathproof 10,608]

21 minutes ago, PlayPause said:

Oh yes of course! I have that, but I'd stiil rather listen to the cd 😆

So weird that it was 1 song!  I never bought it for that reason! I always played the version ripped from my CD!

[Aiwa08 16,217]

1 hour ago, deathproof said:

It’s because when the album was released on iTunes, the standard 12-track album was the unmixed. The mixed album (which is the true standard original album) was available as 1 long song on iTunes.

The vinyl version is the unmixed version, so It can be considered also the true standard original album. 

[Prayer 14,372]

1 minute ago, Aiwa08 said:

The vinyl version is the unmixed version, so It can be considered also the true standard original album. 

Well it was, obviously. The mixed/CD version is like a DJ session by Stuart Price using all the songs. 

[deathproof 10,608]

Are you trying to say that vinyl was the go-to music format back in 2005?

[Ziploc 2,566]

Yeah, seeing how the vinyl wasn't released until 4 months later in March 2006 seems a bit of a stretch. 

[Prayer 14,372]

I think what @Aiwa08was saying is that the unmixed version (vinyl and digital) is the true original standard album before being mixed for the continuous mix CD version! Which it obviously is.

[Aiwa08 16,217]

26 minutes ago, deathproof said:

Are you trying to say that vinyl was the go-to music format back in 2005?

Are you trying to say that the vinyl is not official or it's less legit than the CD? 

[Luiz Ribeiro 6,153]

2 hours ago, PlayPause said:

This maybe?

 

Isn't avaible here.... and here in Brazil we had the mixed one in the stores 

[Roy 7,613]

It was indeed up for streaming but now gone. :(

I was hoping that they would bring it back but not as one track but as separate tracks like how the CD version presents it and just let one track flow onto each other. 

[Aiwa08 16,217]

1 minute ago, Roy said:

It was indeed up for streaming but now gone. :(

I was hoping that they would bring it back but not as one track but as separate tracks like how the CD version presents it and just let one track flow onto each other. 

I don't understand this. "You Can Dance" is a mixed album and it's available like the CD, separated by tracks. And if you play the full album you don't notice the transition between tracks (except for Physical Attraction because they replace the mixed version with the album version, at least in TIDAL).

 

[Roy 7,613]

4 minutes ago, Aiwa08 said:

I don't understand this. "You Can Dance" is a mixed album and it's available like the CD, separated by tracks. And if you play the full album you don't notice the transition between tracks (except for Physical Attraction because they replace the mixed version with the album version, at least in TIDAL).

 

Yeah so I was hoping they would do the same for COADF.

Also, Physical Attraction is in its original album version in You Can Dance on Spotify too so the beginning transition from Everybody is gone.

[deathproof 10,608]

4 hours ago, Aiwa08 said:

Are you trying to say that the vinyl is not official or it's less legit than the CD? 

Lol huh

[deathproof 10,608]

4 hours ago, Prayer said:

I think what @Aiwa08was saying is that the unmixed version (vinyl and digital) is the true original standard album before being mixed for the continuous mix CD version! Which it obviously is.

but what was being promoted at the time, and talked about in interviews, was the non-stop mixed version.

MADONNA IN THE MIX ON NEW DANCE ALBUM

September 26, 2005

By Michael Paoletta and Jonathan Cohen, N.Y.

https://www.madonna.com/news/title/madonna-in-the-mix-on-new-dance-album

Madonna has finalized the track list for her new album, "Confessions on a Dance Floor." Producer Stuart Price tells Billboard the 12 - track set, due Nov. 15 via Warner Bros., is continuously mixed and that closer "Like It or Not" was the perfect choice to conclude the album.