Does anyone know why the queueing tracks vanish when you shut your iPhone down? Even just closing the app itself makes it disappear too i think. Any trick ways of getting the queue to 'stay' so that when you close Spotify it's still there later?
― piscesx, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 10:16 (five years ago) link
This has been happening with increasing regularity on my iPhone as well, over the past couple of months. It doesn’t happen every time you close the app (or when the app closes itself, which happens a lot too), but more often than not it does. Extremely annoying, and something that was never a problem before.
― breastcrawl, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 10:38 (five years ago) link
Yeah it's definitely a new thing innit? I thought it was just me!
― piscesx, Tuesday, 16 October 2018 11:00 (five years ago) link
Huh, I did not realize I had "Keep on listening to similar tracks when your music ends" until just now, when my La Monte Young playlist auto-segued itself to Cutting Crew.
― mick signals, Friday, 19 October 2018 15:32 (five years ago) link
wait, there are La Monte Young records on Spotify?
― sleeve, Friday, 19 October 2018 15:33 (five years ago) link
heh, even when they change their Spotify handle there's no escape from the imposters:
https://open.spotify.com/track/5gJB7T4UtlnJ4YSuu3E34c?si=by0JiJekTmGbPWLJDgLZSg
― Jeff W, Friday, 19 October 2018 18:18 (five years ago) link
2 songs in this week's DW that I absolutely certainly have streamed on numerous occasions on this very account:Mulatu Astatke - Tezeta Ramsey Lewis - Rocky Raccoon
What might be the explanation?
― niels, Monday, 22 October 2018 06:37 (five years ago) link
Not able to access the web browser version at work this morning because Spotify is "making a few little improvements." No access, no explanations, and no estimated time to return. This a good reminder of why I don't rely solely on streaming services.
― doug watson, Monday, 22 October 2018 13:46 (five years ago) link
xp It's fairly common for me to see tracks in DW I have streamed before ... I have 4-5 today, I think
the web client is loading normally for me this morning
― Brad C., Monday, 22 October 2018 13:56 (five years ago) link
It's weird how certain songs keep coming back to my discover weekly. I think this is the fourth time I got Films by Gary Numan.
― silverfish, Monday, 22 October 2018 14:05 (five years ago) link
but... that's not supposed to happen?!
― niels, Monday, 22 October 2018 15:49 (five years ago) link
https://onegiantread.literatureworks.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2016/04/i-robot-feature-450x296.jpg
anyone finding the shuffle button is behaving strangely? if I've added new songs to a playlist I'm finding the shuffle concentrates almost wholly on those songs.
― Scritti Vanilli - The Word Girl You Know It's True (dog latin), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 08:50 (five years ago) link
https://cdn.quotesgram.com/img/9/79/398467957-HALquotes_006-e1363869879703.jpg
― niels, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 09:08 (five years ago) link
xp
That's the opposite of what happens to me. Shuffle never wants to play the stuff that was added recently.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 23 October 2018 12:36 (five years ago) link
Seems like Discover Weekly has had some sort of reset or algorithmic shift - getting lots of tracks I've played a lot already and more familiar artists than usual.
Also seems like the mini artwork avatar display has gone but I liked using this to go the track in playlist situ (tho this was never an obvious way of doing that) - is there no way of doing that now?
Buggy playlists view now too - width keeps adjusting as I scroll within that frame.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 23 October 2018 18:37 (five years ago) link
The "character" of DW noticeably changed for me this week, I agree. For the better, though! I got some tracks that were a little more mainstream than usual, but which in being reminded of I realized I did like more than I had previously realized. Kind of an "oh yeah, I forgot about that good track!" week. Foremost among these rediscoveries was NRBQ's Magnet, which I've loved but just forgotten about for years.
― Dan I., Wednesday, 24 October 2018 17:30 (five years ago) link
(n.b. I had never, to my knowledge played or liked any of the tracks that appeared--I'd just listened to them in the past pre-spotify)
― Dan I., Wednesday, 24 October 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link
Two Wings songs, though. :(
― Dan I., Wednesday, 24 October 2018 17:32 (five years ago) link
minor gripe: the date given for albums is the date they were added to spotify and there's no way of seeing the original release date.
― Toss another shrimpl air on the bbqbbq (ledge), Thursday, 25 October 2018 09:21 (five years ago) link
p sure Revolver wasn't added to spotify in 1966?
― niels, Thursday, 25 October 2018 10:09 (five years ago) link
Imagine there's not much commercial impetus for accurate metadata around original release date. Some old albums do have it correctly on there, though – I've had fun with using dates in the search (still seems to work for the web player)
eg: https://open.spotify.com/search/results/year%3A1974%20genre%3Areggae
― Alba, Thursday, 25 October 2018 10:12 (five years ago) link
(xpost)
― Alba, Thursday, 25 October 2018 10:13 (five years ago) link
i concede this is correct for some, many, perhaps even most albums, i must have just hit a bad patch. please mentally insert a 'when' after the colon in my previous post.
― Toss another shrimpl air on the bbqbbq (ledge), Thursday, 25 October 2018 10:30 (five years ago) link
Nah, I think most of the time it's the reissue date - you're not just in a bad patch.
― Alba, Thursday, 25 October 2018 10:45 (five years ago) link
The dates come from the licensors, and it's true that they are sometimes not correct in a real-world sense, particularly on reissues. We (Spotify) can override and fix individual ones, but there are far too many to do this at any kind of scale...
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 25 October 2018 11:57 (five years ago) link
Fairly simple, just run a script periodically with an artist + album query against the discogs db (you can download the db offline for added speed), that’s how I cleaned up my iTunes library. I’m willing to bet that this takes an intern about two days.
― Siegbran, Thursday, 25 October 2018 12:41 (five years ago) link
release dates for everything would be so nice
I will settle for please please restoring the cover art display next to track title and artist...or just a more obvious 'go to this song in playlist' prompt
― nashwan, Thursday, 25 October 2018 12:58 (five years ago) link
I still see the cover art and it still works to take me to the playlist. What platform are you on?
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 25 October 2018 13:42 (five years ago) link
I wish all clients had the same sorting and search functionality.I wish you could advanced filter your own collection of saved music. (genre, year, label, etc.)I wish I could find an album on the macOS client that I’d saved on my iOS device.
― beard papa, Thursday, 25 October 2018 14:45 (five years ago) link
I wish I was a little bit taller
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Thursday, 25 October 2018 14:59 (five years ago) link
Hey Glenn I am on Win 10 desktop but the Microsoft store version (reluctantly), thanks!Also a lot of tracks 10 minutes or longer are now disabled. Saw something about this being UMG trying to encourage purchases of them on iTunes? Infuriating.
― nashwan, Thursday, 25 October 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link
https://artists.spotify.com/blog/learn-how-to-get-playlisted-with-two-new-game-plan-episodes
― DJI, Thursday, 25 October 2018 22:16 (five years ago) link
oh great, now "playlisted" is a verb
― portugal. the bland (sleeve), Thursday, 25 October 2018 22:20 (five years ago) link
it predates Spotify tbf
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 25 October 2018 22:42 (five years ago) link
Oh, Windows. I don't know anything about that, but I'll ask somebody...
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 25 October 2018 22:51 (five years ago) link
No, nashwan, it wasn't removed. Get @SpotifyCares to help you figure out what's going wrong for you...
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 26 October 2018 06:12 (five years ago) link
metadata issue for the new boygenius EP - "boygenius" is an artist, but it only shows their three singles - not the EP. in order to find the EP, you have to type in one of the 3 member's names (julien baker, phoebe bridger, or lucy dacus), where it's then displayed as an album.
― Karl Malone, Friday, 26 October 2018 19:30 (five years ago) link
That case/lang/viers album from a couple years back was the same way.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 26 October 2018 21:12 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I saw some discussion of that boygenius credit go by already. People are on it.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 26 October 2018 21:21 (five years ago) link
all but one of my multi-room speaker groups (amazon echo) won’t show up in spotify. nothing anywhere on the internet. i have no fucking idea what is going on.
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 27 October 2018 10:02 (five years ago) link
now my stereo pair won't work. it's just deciding to hide random speakers for no reason. i have wasted hours on this flaky dumb shit.
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 27 October 2018 11:21 (five years ago) link
Now I’ve got Spotify reminding me to vote when I open the app. The more they move away from just playing the music the closer I come to canceling
― calstars, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 23:40 (five years ago) link
Cut 'em some slack, Jack
― greta van vliet (morrisp), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 23:45 (five years ago) link
“Workout Twerkout” playlist is the closest I’ve come to cancellation.
― beard papa, Wednesday, 31 October 2018 00:48 (five years ago) link
They're feeding me Cat Power's "Woman" into Jackson Browne's "The Load Out" on my daily playlist, and they've got me figured out.
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 13:51 (five years ago) link
Caviar the Vote!
― saddest kamancheh (bendy), Wednesday, 31 October 2018 15:07 (five years ago) link
Also a lot of tracks 10 minutes or longer are now disabled.]
Re-enabled now. That was a scary week.
― nashwan, Thursday, 1 November 2018 20:31 (five years ago) link
Spotify stock closed today at an all-time low. The company's market value has declined by a whopping 0 billion since July 26. https://t.co/k20rCCfxLU Here's what I wrote back then, and it's all coming true. https://t.co/XbZuCj0lCk— Ted Gioia (@tedgioia) November 1, 2018
― jaymc, Thursday, 1 November 2018 21:34 (five years ago) link
probably not related, but i’ve just signed back up after years away, and the (ios at least) interface is so much clunkier than everything else i’ve been using (apple music, google play music, amazon music). along with the weird spotify connect issues i’ve been having, there’s no compelling reason for me to keep subscribing.
― calamity gammon (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 1 November 2018 22:28 (five years ago) link