also I def. realize this isn't spotify support, but, uh, I don't have a lot of faith in my ability to affect change through official channels so I guess this was just about bitching to a familiar crowd
― Dan I., Monday, 26 February 2018 00:40 (six years ago) link
^^ solitary posts that sum up ILX
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Monday, 26 February 2018 01:44 (six years ago) link
I’ve always found the playlist shuffle function bizarre, to the point where last week I created a playlist with two albums and listened to it on shuffle and it played every single track from the 2nd album out of sequence before playing a single track from the first album. How is that even possible?
― President Keyes, Monday, 26 February 2018 02:38 (six years ago) link
If each album was ten tracks then there's just under a 1/1000 chance of that happening. Not too ludicrous.
― lana del boy (ledge), Monday, 26 February 2018 11:16 (six years ago) link
show your working
(isn't it 10/20 * 9/19 * 8/18 * ... * 1/11 or 1 in 184k)
― koogs, Monday, 26 February 2018 14:43 (six years ago) link
I mean, I could post the next 100 tracks that all follow the same pattern. Like I said, I definitely understand how randomness can appear non-random. This isn't that.
― Dan I., Monday, 26 February 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
No this is definitely a built in function. Just now I added an album to an existing playlist with about 10 albums on it, then hit shuffle. It played every song from the newly added album before moving on to the older tracks.
― President Keyes, Monday, 26 February 2018 16:09 (six years ago) link
That was my working which somehow achieved a different result.
― lana del boy (ledge), Monday, 26 February 2018 16:10 (six years ago) link
Which did seem suspiciously low.
― lana del boy (ledge), Monday, 26 February 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link
High.
Delete me.
I could never get Spotify shuffle function to work
what you can do though, silly as it may seem, is to copypaste the playlist into something like this http://textmechanic.com/text-tools/basic-text-tools/sort-text-lines/ and randomize the order of tracks
― niels, Monday, 26 February 2018 17:40 (six years ago) link
and then paste to a new, randomized playlist
So going public huh
― calstars, Wednesday, 28 February 2018 21:31 (six years ago) link
Hendrix gone from his top spot, replaced by The Breeders
― Whiney On The Moog (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 2 March 2018 10:53 (six years ago) link
Holy shit Moby at 1 followed by Jamiroquai at 2.
― stet, Friday, 2 March 2018 13:04 (six years ago) link
My wife is VERY unhappy that they’ve deleted the running feature....
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 2 March 2018 16:11 (six years ago) link
Actually, mad as hell is a way better description. They’re gonna be losing a lot of subscribers over this..
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 2 March 2018 17:20 (six years ago) link
Looks like they did remove search by year for some reason. Vote to put it back here.
― DJI, Thursday, 8 March 2018 21:47 (six years ago) link
search by year works fine for me. "year:2017 label:cascine" returns albums released in 2017 on Cascine. I wish they would just add this as something that you can select in the UI, but it works. one of the many things I miss from RDIO is being able to go to organized label pages and then sort those results by year.
― fffv, Friday, 9 March 2018 19:03 (six years ago) link
the year:XXXX search stopped working on my phone, but I haven't updated the Spotify app on there in a long time. It works on my desktop.
― President Keyes, Friday, 9 March 2018 19:09 (six years ago) link
Doesn't work in the desktop version for me.
― DJI, Friday, 9 March 2018 19:47 (six years ago) link
how many times do I have to read this same piece, as if spotify begins and ends with its popular playlists https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/our-access-to-music-is-unprecedented-why-does-it-stress-us-out-so-much/2018/03/07/a00686e6-174a-11e8-b681-2d4d462a1921_story.html?utm_term=.150c7d23fcb0
― algorithm is a dancer (katherine), Friday, 9 March 2018 19:55 (six years ago) link
I think a lot of people are confused about the functionality spotify actually provides. My complaints about it are well documented in this thread, there are many features I liked that were removed or downgraded. Yet despite all that spotify remains the most powerful and flexible streaming/offline music player and music library. As far as I know, none of the other music services really comes close to what I'm getting out of spotify. I know lots of people aren't power users in the same way or maybe just use playlists, but if suspect those are also not people who are looking to dig deep for new or unusual music.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 9 March 2018 20:07 (six years ago) link
yeah, after playing around with the year search, it doesn't seem to work right. for example, "artist:rihanna year:2008" gets me all kinds of noise that should be filtered out by the year.
― fffv, Friday, 9 March 2018 20:48 (six years ago) link
music metadata basically doesn't work
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 9 March 2018 20:51 (six years ago) link
it looks like they killed the entire metadata API in 2016. I was bouncing around the support forums and it seems like they will close any feature request that doesn't get at least 50 upvotes. the problem with this kind of thing is even though I'd really like some of this stuff to be implemented, I recognize that I'm a bit of a fringe case and that most of the users really don't care about browsing by label, sorting by release date, or metadata search.
― fffv, Friday, 9 March 2018 20:57 (six years ago) link
metadata is important for recommendations and sensible automated aggregation though, i imagine the crazypants nature of it drives glenn a bit nuts
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 9 March 2018 21:08 (six years ago) link
yeah, I mean I'm positive that the metadata is present and there may even be be an existing external API that replaces the old metadata API. but I can also see why it's not a priority to expose that to endusers (even though it annoys the hell out of me).
― fffv, Friday, 9 March 2018 21:21 (six years ago) link
They removed some late period Blue Oyster Cult albums, thereby removing crucial deep cuts from my career spanning BOC playlist
yet...the Congress and the President remain silent.
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 9 March 2018 21:23 (six years ago) link
WHAT
tell me I can still listen to Fire Of Unknown Origin!
― sleeve, Friday, 9 March 2018 21:24 (six years ago) link
oh no you're safe, i mean like LATE like Heaven Forbid and Curse of the Hidden Mirror and like the Bad Channels soundtrack...I think Club Ninja might be gone too?
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 9 March 2018 21:31 (six years ago) link
FWIW, we don't remove stuff, the labels do. And one common reason is changes in licensing, in which case the missing stuff usually comes back again before long...
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 10 March 2018 14:14 (six years ago) link
Year search is probably my single most-used feature of Spotify. Is it really gone?
― Melissa W, Saturday, 10 March 2018 16:44 (six years ago) link
haha ums that BOC list sounds interesting
― niels, Saturday, 10 March 2018 19:42 (six years ago) link
It's called the Playlist of 1000 Psychic Wars
It's still pretty good even without "Pocket"
Glen I figured that was it
― It's not delivery, it's Adorno! (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 10 March 2018 22:12 (six years ago) link
search in general and search by year are working fine for me in the web client
― Brad C., Saturday, 10 March 2018 22:22 (six years ago) link
My Release Radar this week seems to have set a record for song carryovers from the previous week
― Whiney On The Moog (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 March 2018 22:28 (six years ago) link
year doesn't work for me at all on either web or mobile (year:2002 should pull up albums and songs from 2002, right?)
― and in my opinionation, the sun is gonna surely shine♪♫ (Karl Malone), Saturday, 10 March 2018 22:31 (six years ago) link
Those being:Le Large - Françoise HardyLet’s Stay Together - LowI Did It! - KittenBox of Noise - Chris ButlerLeslie -Amy RigbyBodys - Car Seat HeadrestThe Dixon D90s Series - CornershopAscending - Lost on Purpose
― Whiney On The Moog (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 March 2018 22:34 (six years ago) link
Should be The Dixons D90 Series - Cornershop
― Whiney On The Moog (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 March 2018 22:39 (six years ago) link
I was wrong -- year search is not working for me either on Chrome or iPad
― Brad C., Sunday, 11 March 2018 01:03 (six years ago) link
glenn, is there any chance that the running-by-bpm-function will return soon? My marriage is at stake. And no, those other workout playlists don't work just as well, she informs me.I'm guessing there must be some big business squeeze behind the decision to phase out such a popular feature based on the timing of the announcement coinciding with Spotify going public but it still seems weird.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Sunday, 11 March 2018 01:36 (six years ago) link
My daily mixes are getting too samey, to a point where I'm not convinced they change daily.
Track selection seems to come from a very narrow pool for each artist - e.g. the magic data cruncher knows I like the Damned and have a couple of poppier Damned songs in playlists so I only ever get 'Eloise', 'Alone Again, Or' and 'Shadow of Love' in a daily mix despite me listening to earlier (better) Damned stuff regularly.
I always get mid-80s poppy Cure too.
― Chunky Backgammon (onimo), Monday, 12 March 2018 22:09 (six years ago) link
seems possible that the daily mixes only personalize at the artist level
― the poster's anxiety at the suggested ban (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 12 March 2018 22:11 (six years ago) link
Daily Mix looks at both artists and songs, and doesn't care what you have in playlists.
The year search wasn't removed, there's just a parsing bug. Looks like it still works if you follow it with a genre, like:
year:2018 genre:pixie
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 13:20 (six years ago) link
i mainly listen to my variously mooded daily mixes these days which i worry is creating a feedback loop
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 18:37 (six years ago) link
oh man same here, my go-to lately has been a 19-hr mix called Downers lol
― Simon H., Tuesday, 13 March 2018 18:37 (six years ago) link
Ahem, link plz?
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 18:54 (six years ago) link
https://open.spotify.com/user/suckerblues/playlist/4QvqISunilUQiyXzFLyH75?si=PXaongmqRJehCtXVsKpO3w
― Simon H., Tuesday, 13 March 2018 18:59 (six years ago) link