I noticed that the tracks that Spotify's algorithm provides when you're listening to an album have gotten better. Maybe it's just my imagination.
Also, I've found that I get a good shuffle mix when I make a private playlist of 1200 or so tracks - I make a different one each month, depending on what I feel like listening to.
― NO CLOO (I M Losted), Saturday, 14 March 2015 15:07 (nine years ago) link
Search-by-label function sucks so bad
― WilliamC, Sunday, 15 March 2015 00:57 (nine years ago) link
If you mean the label:Name trick in the search box, you have to remember to quote multi-word labels. E.g.:
label:"Profound Lore"
Was that your problem?
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 15 March 2015 01:02 (nine years ago) link
ok, I take it back (thx glenn)
― WilliamC, Sunday, 15 March 2015 01:13 (nine years ago) link
Actually I don't take it back entirely. Take this album for example, Vox Balaenae. https://open.spotify.com/album/7szdsl6y7PSDtpz6kE8LIv
It's on Hat Hut. But searching label:"Hat Hut" doesn't produce it in the results. "Hat Hut" and Hathut generate the same results for artist Russ Lossing, but almost nothing else.
Found another on Hat Hut that search isn't getting: Luciano Berio, Voice and Chamber Ensemble: https://open.spotify.com/album/2KTHNMFcNdfCIDEccpINjH
― WilliamC, Sunday, 15 March 2015 01:21 (nine years ago) link
OK, so the confusing thing about the label search is that the data we get has three separate fields for publisher credits, copyright and label. We show publisher and copyright credits when we have them. You might reasonably expect the copyright to correspond to the label, and you would often be right. But not always. In the case of Vox Balaenae, the label is actually not "Hat Hut" but "hat
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label:"hat
Why the data was given to us this way, I don't know. I do know that reconciling it is a huge ugly problem, and this is almost certainly why the label search remains a semi-secret feature.
PS: If you didn't already know, you can also search for genres in the same way:
genre:"gothic symphonic metal"
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 15 March 2015 01:40 (nine years ago) link
Oh, boy, did I not figure out how to escape square brackets. That label name is "hat(now)ART", but with square brackets instead of parentheses.
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 15 March 2015 01:42 (nine years ago) link
Huh. Okay. *jumps in wood chipper*
― WilliamC, Sunday, 15 March 2015 01:46 (nine years ago) link
drag Musixmatch in with you
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:13 (nine years ago) link
get the mobile woodchipper app first. synergy. here's a funny quip because we don't have the lyrics.
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:15 (nine years ago) link
Is there a song titled "Improving Musixmatch" that I may flag as instrumental?
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:19 (nine years ago) link
If one initially created an account thru' facebk but now want to sign in via a username how does one find ones username (a 6 digit code I think)?
― pandemic, Sunday, 15 March 2015 10:51 (nine years ago) link
Support can help you with that...
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 15 March 2015 12:06 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I once created an (otherwise unused) FB account to use Spotify, now deleted the FB account and I can't log on to Spotify anymore (not even to contact support). So I created a new user, no problem there. Not as if I had a million followers anyway.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 15 March 2015 12:20 (nine years ago) link
Music recommendation engine under Discover has improved leaps and bounds.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 16 March 2015 12:15 (nine years ago) link
Spotify seems to have updated itself on my MacBook without my say so. Current list of irritations:
- scrolling up/down artist pages with the arrow key now much clunkier than before (and can't scroll through saved albums page this way at all)- names of people who created playlists I'm following have vanished(?)- can't seem to add tracks unavailable in UK to my playlists; have to follow someone else's playlists that contain the track - track now playing no longer appears when you minimise player & hover over the icon in the taskbar
― Jeff W, Monday, 16 March 2015 19:25 (nine years ago) link
thanks for the tip brimstead! would never have spotted that.
― piscesx, Monday, 16 March 2015 22:29 (nine years ago) link
they fucked up the new update big time
― Arctic Noon Auk, Monday, 16 March 2015 22:43 (nine years ago) link
what a disaster for spotify
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 16 March 2015 22:50 (nine years ago) link
everyone went back to itunes
― Is It Any Wonder I'm Not the (President Keyes), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 01:06 (nine years ago) link
they'll continue to get songs, sure, but the good songs? i'm not so sure anymore.
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 17 March 2015 01:16 (nine years ago) link
omg these huge line breaks between everything in the left-hand pane
i'm going to get carpal tunnel just mouse-wheeling down to the playlists i want
― Doctor Casino, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 16:40 (nine years ago) link
I'd like it if there was a "Top Recommendations For You" radio station.
― schwantz, Tuesday, 17 March 2015 21:26 (nine years ago) link
my news feed now compltely gone since update, turned into a blank black panel that simply says "find friends". i used to like the updates on followed artists. gone, all gone.
― Arctic Noon Auk, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 08:05 (nine years ago) link
update gives one the impression spotify are indeed a greedy lazy company, who employ the absolute bare minimum of programmers and design staff to save on costs.
― Arctic Noon Auk, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 08:53 (nine years ago) link
It makes no sense. They've done the same thing with mobile. What group of beta testers have they found that said, "oh yeah, this version is much better than the last, proceed!"
― Jeff, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 12:38 (nine years ago) link
I'm back with a permanent version 0.8.5.133, and couldn't be happier; there's almost nothing from later releases that I miss, and many lost features that I'm very glad to have back: dragging and dropping from iTunes, searching within playlists, sorting search results by columns, resizing column widths, starring, playlist displays at folder level, vastly more text on the screen etc etc. Instructions here: http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4430815
https://troubleddiva.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/spotifyold.jpg
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 13:32 (nine years ago) link
you were right - this is wonderful!
― Mordy, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 14:17 (nine years ago) link
Yeah did the same. If I need a shit player that has the latest Spotify "features" I'll just use the web player, at least the application is now useful again.
I guess they changed the layout and removed features because of fears of Apple/Microsoft litigation?
― Siegbran, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 14:19 (nine years ago) link
Does that refix work with a mac?
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 14:58 (nine years ago) link
Like has anyone on here tried it?
― Maybe in 100 years someone will say damn Dawn was dope. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link
I did and it works
― Mordy, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link
You mean like typical spreadsheet sorting features? Ask Open Office if they've ever been scared (they haven't).
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 15:03 (nine years ago) link
what's Open Office's revenue these days?
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 15:29 (nine years ago) link
Made the downgrade, and I love it. Looks like the apps are disappearing either way, though.
― schwantz, Wednesday, 18 March 2015 19:28 (nine years ago) link
in nu-spotify, the taskbar icon now has a big red "1" on it to indicate i have some kind of message or something, but if you click on the tiny, well-hidden "bell with a 1 next to it" icon in the program, it just brings up a gray box with an endlessly spinning light-up dot icon, and the red "1" never goes away.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 March 2015 00:58 (nine years ago) link
Yeah notifications are completely botched on my Mac client.
― kriss akabusi cleaner (seandalai), Thursday, 19 March 2015 01:14 (nine years ago) link
that went away after I closed and reopened one time. it hasn't come back for me yet.
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 19 March 2015 01:24 (nine years ago) link
thanks, that worked for me too!
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 19 March 2015 02:42 (nine years ago) link
Got a new update for Mac client today, installed in hope that maybe the sluggishness of the new queue display & reordering tracks on it may have been fixed. Got way worse instead, whole app seems to freeze on manual track changes and takes about 10 seconds to actually update the list to the right track that's currently playing, this is not even funny anymore...
― the european nikon is here (grauschleier), Thursday, 19 March 2015 18:26 (nine years ago) link
It's as if they're trying very hard to make the client slower than the web version.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 19 March 2015 23:18 (nine years ago) link
did anyone else notice that you can no longer sort your search results by artist, album, song title, track length, etc.? for now the only workaround is to enter spotify:search:yoursearchterm into the search field. hopefully the next update will restore full search functionality.― macklemore looks something like you (unregistered), Monday, June 30, 2014 10:17 PM (8 months ago)The sorting turns out to be a temporary casualty of some internal reworking to prepare for bigger improvements...― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, July 2, 2014 9:15 AM (8 months ago)
― macklemore looks something like you (unregistered), Monday, June 30, 2014 10:17 PM (8 months ago)
The sorting turns out to be a temporary casualty of some internal reworking to prepare for bigger improvements...
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, July 2, 2014 9:15 AM (8 months ago)
with the latest update, you still can't sort your search results by column heading, and the 'spotify:search:' workaround no longer works. as for the bigger improvements, uh...
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Friday, 20 March 2015 04:52 (nine years ago) link
(I'm not implying that any of this is glenn's fault, mind you...)
― the geographibebebe (unregistered), Friday, 20 March 2015 04:56 (nine years ago) link
wonder if complaining to glenn is more efficient than the 'send feedback' button on the gui
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 20 March 2015 05:21 (nine years ago) link
or perhaps the 'send feedback' button just sends an ilx mail to glenn and tithes his pay, and so he prefers this thread
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 20 March 2015 05:22 (nine years ago) link
Each of you is frustrated by your own experience. I am frustrated by all of them.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 20 March 2015 07:12 (nine years ago) link
Any chance of Spotify trying to fill in discographies? It almost seems a rule that the average-aized discography is missing exactly one studio album...this morning, for example, I found myself missing both Vic Chesnutt's About to Choke and Crooked Fingers' Dignity and Shame, although every other significant album by both artists were there. I'm not sure Spotify ever even pursues things beyond large deals with labels and distributors, but just curious.
― westofrome, Friday, 20 March 2015 14:37 (nine years ago) link
I think in practical terms we go after missing labels more than missing albums. But the licensing situation is complicated, to put it mildly. The missing albums are likely to have hit an expiration date in some very specific deal that nobody is even really thinking about any more. And they may be missing in only some countries. This is an industry-wide problem that has to be solved with changes to the whole underlying model, probably...
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 20 March 2015 15:21 (nine years ago) link
Oh good, now Spotify Installer keeps hanging and never actually installing
― as verbose and purple as a Peter Ustinov made of plums (James Morrison), Tuesday, 24 March 2015 23:38 (nine years ago) link
I used to get annoyed that Spotify didn't exit when I pressed the big X. Now I'm annoyed that it does.
― there can be only (onimo), Wednesday, 25 March 2015 00:15 (nine years ago) link