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
Hours of fun. Thank you.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 19:07 (six years ago) link
Surprised nobody has mentioned Spotify's Line-In tool for allowing users to contribute to metadata:https://line-in.spotify.com/
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 19:30 (six years ago) link
I'm not going to live blog Simon's playlist but where the HELL have Augie March been hiding all my life?
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link
Hey Glenn - thanjs for the tip about the parsing bug. Looks like if you just put the year first and any other search term next, it works? Hopefully the bug gets squashed. Glad it wasn’t on purpose!
― DJI, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 21:12 (six years ago) link
today's discover weekly recommended St. Vincent's "Hang On Me," which is a) somewhat old at this point b) from an album I reviewed c) via listening to the album a lot... on spotify
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 16:25 (six years ago) link
(obviously the algorithm has no way of knowing that I reviewed the album -- although it was funny when they'd show review excerpts with albums a couple years ago and present me by way of recommendation with my own writing -- but surely having previously listened to a track many, many times months ago should keep it off any discovery-oriented playlists?)
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 16:26 (six years ago) link
also s/today's/Monday's
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 16:28 (six years ago) link
hmm Discover is not about new releases? I do believe there was chatter uphtread regarding why you can sometimes find a track on Discover which has previously been played on the same account, can't recall the outcome though
― niels, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 16:50 (six years ago) link
it's less about "have played before" than "have played before, often."
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 16:57 (six years ago) link
if there were not +8000 (!!) messages itt I would try and find glenn's response
― niels, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 17:02 (six years ago) link
this right here is a great idea, I feel like ILM should be able to pool together the required 25 kudos for such a feature https://community.spotify.com/t5/Closed-Ideas/One-click-to-follow-all-artists-in-Your-Music-gt-Artists/idi-p/877171
― niels, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 17:08 (six years ago) link
ooh, I see somebody came up with a solution http://www.nativenoise.co.za/spotify/follow-all-artists/
― niels, Wednesday, 14 March 2018 17:10 (six years ago) link
I'm not going to live blog Simon's playlist but where the HELL have Augie March been hiding all my life?Melbourne, probably
― just noticed tears shaped like florida. (sic), Wednesday, 14 March 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
OFFICIAL: SPOTIFY WILL GO PUBLIC ON APRIL 3
Spotify’s CEO and Chairman, Daniel Ek, is about to give a live presentation to investors and would-be investors in New York.
The company’s Head of Investor Relations, Paul Vogel, has just confirmed that Spotify will publicly list shares on the NYSE via an usual ‘direct listing’ on Tuesday, April 3.
Vogel said the company had taken the choice to float via a direct listing because it was “more transparent and more accessible to a wider range of investors”.
He also confirmed that Spotify will announce financial guidance for Q1 2018 on March 26, the week prior to trading.
The news brings to a close mounting speculation on the flotation D-Day for Spotify, following the company’s filing of a preparatory F-1 document with the US Securities and Exchange Commission last month.
Spotify’s current valuation is currently above $20bn, according to some recent private share trades between investors in the company.
At that valuation, it is believed that the three major music companies (Universal, Sony and Warner) plus Merlin currently own Spotify shares jointly worth somewhere between $2bn and $3bn – thanks to a cumulative ownership stake covering between 10% and 20% of the streaming company.
Sony is the biggest industry shareholder with a 5.7% holding in Spotify.
Spotify’s F-1 revealed that it finished 2017 with 71m paying subscribers and 159m monthly active users (MAUs).
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/official-spotify-will-go-public-on-april/
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Thursday, 15 March 2018 18:53 (six years ago) link
Fantastic band, Strange Bird in particular is essential
― Simon H., Thursday, 15 March 2018 18:58 (six years ago) link
Another day, another non-working, utterly useless mac app...
― Google Atheist (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 16 March 2018 10:08 (six years ago) link
Probably banal question: I've got a shit ton of playlists, only a handful of which I keep offline at any one time. Is there any way to isolate these so I don't have to scroll through everything to find the downloaded ones? 'Offline mode' bizarrely replicates online mode, as far as I can tell - it just takes away the possibility of data usage.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 16 March 2018 11:03 (six years ago) link
i have often wanted exactly this - just show me my offline playlists
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 16 March 2018 11:29 (six years ago) link