Spotify - anyone heard of it?

I tried label:"paper recordings" year:2017 and it seemed to work in the app.

Yeah, I don't know recall what I had trouble with. Glad to see it still works. This developer site is still very interesting. I don't know what I would use it for, but I definitely want to play with this.

discover weekly has been really useless lately :( too much old stuff! why would i want to listen to the police

I've been ruthlessly clicking on "I Don't Like This Artist" and my Discover has split into two versions, one that's pretty dialed in to my ambient/electronic preferences, and one that's still desperately trying to make sense of the time I played a bunch of Tom Petty songs.

seems like every week for the last 3 or 4 months that release radar has been giving me a new Fleetwood Mac demo. I guess that these are technically new releases, but this is not what I want from that playlist.

After months of training I've found Discovery to be reasonable at giving me disco-y electronica and krautrocky techno. Release Radar giving me Rolling Stones demos is egregious though.

Thanks to Discover I now know that there is more of The "classical" music you buy from Boomkat (2010): a thread to discuss Sylvain Chauveau, Johann Johannsson, Peter Broderick, Olafur Arnalds and others than one could ever possibly hope to listen to in a lifetime.

I've been ruthlessly clicking on "I Don't Like This Artist"

pretty sure it's a right click or a button on the individual song that gives you choices? I'll report back when I get a chance to look at home.

yeah, please do; it doesn't work that way for me.

I'm also using some older version fwiw

OK I'm using Version 1.0.73.345.g6c9971ef

When I open Discover Weekly on a MacBook, and hover my cursor over a track, it shows a "heart" and a "null sign" icon on the right side of the row with the song details. If you click on the null icon (really a circle w/a slash through it) you can choose either "I don't like this song" or "I don't like this artist"

huh, i'm actually on an older version. Will check it out.

Same version and I don't get that option.

beta testing it - https://mashable.com/2017/12/04/spotify-discover-weekly-like-dislike-test/#8ykY4l00gsq8

Ugh. Spotify on my mac has become completely useless. It takes about 5 minutes for it to start up. I've already disabled the "social" right sidebar, which I thought was the problem. No dice. Latest version and everything else runs smoothly. Spotify can't seem to wake up. Resorting to the webplayer but that's a very limited experience.

did you try reinstalling? find it unlikely that one of the world's most popular apps would be universally slow on a major OS

xps milo that's very interesting, thanks! now I feel special, like a Nielsen family or something.

I have the same takes-forever start up experience running on Ubuntu.

Just checked on my MB Air. 10 seconds from clicking the icon to music playing.

Updated phone and Spotify won't read my SD card who do I kill

yeah the desktop version on my mac is so awful.

did you try reinstalling? find it unlikely that one of the world's most popular apps would be universally slow on a major OS

It's universally slow on ALL major OSes: the PC desktop version takes forever to get going properly, too

Nothing unlikely about world's most popular things being slow/stupid/inept tbh, it's the norm rather than the exception iirc. We put up with it, that's the real problem here.

Yes, I tried reinstalling -_- Tried everything. It's just so fucking slow (and indeed, on Windows as well).

My Windows 10 laptop often can't cope with Spotify auto-starting when powering up; it's already got quite enough to do. Disabling the auto-start and opening Spotify when things have settled down a bit helps. But yes, it's still slow to start.

I will never complain about spotify again
I will never complain about spotify again
I will never complain about spotify again

Pox on me: Last night, *while listening*, everything suddenly stopped: I'd been thrown out of my account. Someone broke in and changed the e-mail address, just like Niels experienced (up in this thread somewhere). Nothing but love for Spotify support for being on the case and swiftly giving me my account back. And most importantly, no playlists were deleted, and no Ed Sheeran was played in my brief absence.

the desktop experience in Spotify is lacking, but when I consider that the most viable alternative would require me to use iTunes, it's hard to complain too much.

I'm thinking about switching back to spotify from apple music, since I can get a student discount and pay $5/mo for spotify AND hulu. Any interesting new features from spotify? Is adding local music any less painful?

$5/mo for spotify AND hulu

Holy good deal, Batman!

so it seems like it won't let me sync my local files to my phone anymore. Is this an issue or is this simply not supported now?

also, a couple of annoying changes I noticed on the desktop app:

1. You no longer can import playlists.
2. No way to sort local files by date added.

I synced some local files to my phone last night with no problem at all. Importing playlists also still works for me, as long as it's MP3s in the playlists - I was flummoxed by this for a while recently, until I realised I was trying to synch WAVs.

I figured out the local file sync problem. Had to dig into the advanced settings on Windows Defender. I found that somehow there were inbound connection rules set that blocked spotify. Don't know how that happened, spotify was the only app that had a block rule on it.

it would be great if discover weekly had an 'i know this band already' option because i by no means *dislike* tom petty and the heartbreakers and lindsey buckingham, but i don't need to be made aware of their existence

agreed, that would be great

Ha, likewise wish I could tell Release Radar that, while I might love the music that a band made in their prime decades ago, I have no interest in their geriatric reunion album

This is the third week running where Release Radar has given me pretty much the same artists in pretty much the same order, just different tracks from the album. Also opens with Jimi Hendrix each week for mysterious reasons

Now that I've fixed the problem on my pc with the firewall blocking Spotify on my phone, it seems like local files and offline playlists are working a lot better than they had been before I had this issue.

xp hendrix, hmm. if it were full of phish and umphrey's mcgee, I'd guess that someone is jammin your release radar.

mine also starts with Hendrix

Mine starts with Hendrix too!

As does mine, Lover Man to be precise. On the upside new stuff from Janelle Monae, Aidan Moffatt, DJ Q, Alexis Taylor and Wye Oak. Amazingly something 'new' from Mel & Kim too,

When I type "future" into the search bar, the top suggestion is Future Islands, not Future, even though Future (obviously) gets way more streams (including by me specifically). What's up with that?

Spotify thinks that because I like Jonas Reinhardt, I will also like the Jonas Brothers.

As does mine, Lover Man to be precise.

same here

Oh yep, Lover Man it is for me too

Yes, this morning “Lover Man” replaced last week’s number one RR track by the same artist, “Hear My Train a Comin’”

how much did the Hendrix estate pay for this, I wonder

Apologies for noob question, but I thought the kind posters on here might be able to help me out. I have many playlists, including many fine ilx top 77 playlists etc. I want to shuffle all playlists (ie whole library). Is there a way of doing that?

It used to be seamlessly possible in earlier versions (although, having tried it a few times, I stopped doing it, as it didn't make for a very satisfying listening experience). You can still do it now, by creating a playlist folder, moving all playlists into it, then playing the folder on shuffle.