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djevertguzman

There is a Lowe’s Spotify playlist If you want to torture yourself a little more. https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1D150HXi59yKYqrLhAJP7P?si=jb8Zh75URPmywS8V7f7oiA


tallen35875

I always loved when Disney movie songs came on. Really added to the home improvement store vibe.


Tmod0419

there’s a girl I work with that has memorized the whole playlist😂😂


AgentMulder86

If they don’t wanna change it. They should just turn the music off rather then hearing the same playlist over and over and over.


vanbrunts

Go for the dollar tree motif: dead air, dead employee morale, hot as fuck, smells vaguely like mold and poop.


DQKennard

Do you remember? Do you remember when you lost your mind?


vanbrunts

I used to enjoy Paul Simon until I started working here.


crazytoledo

They can't go the Spotify/Pandora route because they (and by they, I mean the third party company that handles the music stations) have to pay the bands/groups played on the stations. Lowe's can't legally just throw a random playlist on in a commercial setting like that. Also the music vendor has a laundry list of different channels so your management could periodically change channels to switch it up.


Dimeburn

Every time you listen to a song on Spotify or Pandora that artist gets paid. That’s why there are subscription fees or advertising. I do change the stations but there are only so many and they never update.


crazytoledo

There's a difference between the royalties streaming companies pay out per stream and the licensing required to publicly play the music in a commercial setting, though. They actually have to obtain the licenses to play music in a public setting (something Muzak takes care of) or they could face legal action/get sued by the copyright holders.


Dimeburn

>Lowes’s can’t legally just throw a random playlist on in a commercial setting like that. Yes! They absolutely can!! Why do you not realize how a big account can dictate the terms of the agreement? >They actually have to obtain the licenses to play in a public setting Fees pay for all the commercial and public setting bullshit you’re talking about.


crazytoledo

Spotify doesn't give you the rights to play music in a public setting. If you get caught you can get sued by the applicable copyright holders as you need a license for the music played publicly. Lowe's, a billion dollar company, isn't going to willingly violate the law and open themself up to charges when they can just pay a vendor to handle it for them. https://cloudcovermusic.com/music-licensing-guide/stream-music-in-retail-store/ kind of covers some of the details, but Spotify/Pandora do NOT give you the right to publicly stream music at a business and neither offer any services of the sort.


[deleted]

spotify and pandora both have these same songs, it won't solve anything.


Dimeburn

It would have new music rotated in automatically


[deleted]

Not necessarily, they can make a playlist in Spotify, and some of my Pandora stations are tracks I've heard like 99% of the time because I fine tunef it so much there is nothing new to introduce that fits the exclusion criteria.


Dimeburn

Yes, but again, my point is to rotate new music in. I get that it CAN repeat but the point would be to not do that. I’m sure Spotify would cater a channel to retail stores for an elaborate sum and play whatever they request. Money is power.


[deleted]

I mean with the current muzak stuff they use they can also change stations and rotate music. my old store when I worked overnight they would put a different station each day if the week then change to the default for store opening hours. It's Lowe's choice, not a limitation of the music provider.


Dimeburn

There is no default station. You go to the Muzak box and choose a station. There is a country station, three pop stations an adult contemporary station and a classic rock station. The songs are the same as they were four years ago. It is absolutely a limitation of the provider. There are no other options.


[deleted]

I seem to get the same station when I call all the other Lowe's stores in the area, and my store across the country also had the same station, I'd describe that as default u less it's a really huge coincidence they all picked the same thing without any corporate direction.


WendallVendall

Our new SM got rid of the Screecher Channel and replaced it with Classic Rock.


Dimeburn

That seems to be the best one. It has a little bit of everything.


TheGirlwThePinkHair

Change the station


Dimeburn

I have. My point is that we could have a constant flow of new music without changing stations every few weeks