Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Very weird, I'm stumped

Turning off Spotify Connect fixes it, so I guess it's a Spotify Connect issue.

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

^^ solitary posts that sum up ILX

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?

If each album was ten tracks then there's just under a 1/1000 chance of that happening. Not too ludicrous.

show your working

(isn't it 10/20 * 9/19 * 8/18 * ... * 1/11 or 1 in 184k)

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.

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.

(isn't it 10/20 * 9/19 * 8/18 * ... * 1/11 or 1 in 184k)

That was my working which somehow achieved a different result.

Which did seem suspiciously low.

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

and then paste to a new, randomized playlist

So going public huh

Hendrix gone from his top spot, replaced by The Breeders

Holy shit Moby at 1 followed by Jamiroquai at 2.

My wife is VERY unhappy that they’ve deleted the running feature....

Actually, mad as hell is a way better description. They’re gonna be losing a lot of subscribers over this..

Looks like they did remove search by year for some reason. Vote to put it back here.

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.

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.

Doesn't work in the desktop version for me.

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

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.

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.

music metadata basically doesn't work

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.

metadata is important for recommendations and sensible automated aggregation though, i imagine the crazypants nature of it drives glenn a bit nuts

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).

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.

WHAT

tell me I can still listen to Fire Of Unknown Origin!

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?

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...

Year search is probably my single most-used feature of Spotify. Is it really gone?

haha ums that BOC list sounds interesting

It's called the Playlist of 1000 Psychic Wars

It's still pretty good even without "Pocket"

Glen I figured that was it

search in general and search by year are working fine for me in the web client

My Release Radar this week seems to have set a record for song carryovers from the previous week

year doesn't work for me at all on either web or mobile (year:2002 should pull up albums and songs from 2002, right?)

Those being:
Le Large - Françoise Hardy
Let’s Stay Together - Low
I Did It! - Kitten
Box of Noise - Chris Butler
Leslie -Amy Rigby
Bodys - Car Seat Headrest
The Dixon D90s Series - Cornershop
Ascending - Lost on Purpose

Should be
The Dixons D90 Series - Cornershop

I was wrong -- year search is not working for me either on Chrome or iPad

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.

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.

seems possible that the daily mixes only personalize at the artist level

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

i mainly listen to my variously mooded daily mixes these days which i worry is creating a feedback loop

oh man same here, my go-to lately has been a 19-hr mix called Downers lol