8. You can no longer adjust the width of columns. So, for example, if you want to view a long song title, you have to click through onto the album name to read it in full.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:18 (nine years ago) link
9. Song now playing no longer appears when you hover over the icon in the taskbar.
― mike t-diva, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:25 (nine years ago) link
10. I can't star songs anymore.
Oh wait.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link
x doesn't close my app but i think i have the latest update
― Mordy, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:36 (nine years ago) link
re playlist privacy it turns out they were still public (and viewable on your profile page to others) but the setting when right-clicking on them in the playlist menu doesn't seem to reflect this
― nashwan, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:50 (nine years ago) link
The whole not seeing the contents of playlists when click on a folder sucks. Was a good way to get around the playlist limitations.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
I'm sad that Spotify apps are gone. Feel like someone should fill the void (maybe they already have)?
― schwantz, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 18:13 (nine years ago) link
i believe the plan for the post-app world is to make profile pages "richer", so that, say, Blue Note can have all their albums available via their profile page, presumably in some easily navigable way
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 18:41 (nine years ago) link
I liked the PFork app (yeah yeah) and the Playlists.net app.
― schwantz, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 19:25 (nine years ago) link
Unable to tweet a playlist - clicking icon just showed me connection settings in a new pop-up.
No content in new notifications box when clicked, just the spinner icon forever.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 20:41 (nine years ago) link
11. Spotify logo now a red hexagram
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 11 March 2015 21:21 (nine years ago) link
haha
― sleeve, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 21:32 (nine years ago) link
Clicked LYRICS but it just said
"Well this is embarrassing...It happens to everyone once in a while..."
but those are not quite the lyrics of what I was listening to
― nashwan, Wednesday, 11 March 2015 21:37 (nine years ago) link
each side of this album is marked wrong:
https://open.spotify.com/album/6xeVnukC5gmrTy3YrbwQ7w
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Gone_Wild/Chirpin_Hard
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 12 March 2015 14:10 (nine years ago) link
I'm having trouble adding tracks to playlists — restarting fixes this temporarily but the problem comes back within minutes. Also dragging+dropping and scrolling is extremely sluggish and buggy (as is nearly everything else).
This is the worst update I've experienced yet! Just appalling. Anyone know how to restore it back to an older version?
― example (crüt), Thursday, 12 March 2015 20:16 (nine years ago) link
I don't have problems adding individual tracks to playlist, but I can't seem to add a group of tracks.
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 March 2015 20:23 (nine years ago) link
This might work: http://www.oldversion.com/windows/spotify/
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 12 March 2015 20:27 (nine years ago) link
This seems to involve a few steps, but maybe try this as well: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Help-Desktop-Linux-Mac-and/TUT-3-11-2015-How-to-downgrade-and-block-auto-updates/td-p/1045170
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 12 March 2015 20:33 (nine years ago) link
my only complaint about the update is that the Local Files tab still exists but you can no longer search it (tho apparently searching in the main search bar is much better now at bringing up local albums). Local Files tab tho is now totally worthless - what are you going to do? scroll down until you find the album you're looking for?
― Mordy, Thursday, 12 March 2015 20:42 (nine years ago) link
I still miss being able to star songs. Every day. I cry myself to sleep at night just thinking about it.
― Jeff, Thursday, 12 March 2015 20:44 (nine years ago) link
The trick from the Spotify forum seems to be working. I've got the old version back and it's not forcing an update.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 12 March 2015 20:53 (nine years ago) link
this is also annoying because I tend to sort it by date added so that I can get the newest stuff into my lists, but I don't think you can sort it that way any more
― Free Me's Electric Trumpet (Moodles), Thursday, 12 March 2015 21:27 (nine years ago) link
I re-installed an old version today, with that little read-only filename trick. That latest update was the final straw - it should never have been released.
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 12 March 2015 23:10 (nine years ago) link
the new weird thing is that the whole window flashes when I delete a song. It feels like I'm physically hurting my playlist.
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Thursday, 12 March 2015 23:18 (nine years ago) link
got the old version working. happy again.
― example (crüt), Friday, 13 March 2015 16:29 (nine years ago) link
this new version is pr good for me. especially since I enabled 'no bugs mode' in the preferences.
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 13 March 2015 16:36 (nine years ago) link
man, if all the songs on an album aren't available, i'd rather just not see it at all
― brimstead, Friday, 13 March 2015 23:21 (nine years ago) link
have they messed about with the 'Queue' again? it used to be on the left and now it.. isn't there at all. or anywhere.
― piscesx, Friday, 13 March 2015 23:56 (nine years ago) link
at at the bottom, to the right of the seekbar, the thing that looks like venetian blinds
― brimstead, Friday, 13 March 2015 23:57 (nine years ago) link
(the queue button is there, i mean)
yeah, next to the lyrics button that only has lyrics for 5 songs for now
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 14 March 2015 05:22 (nine years ago) link
the default way that they display those lyrics is o_O. I guess it's cool that they sync with the song, but a kind of doc view that highlighted the current line would be much easier to follow. also, one sometimes just wants to read the lyrics while listening. lyrics are interesting for more than karaoke.
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 14 March 2015 05:25 (nine years ago) link
it'd be thrilling to never have to google for lyrics again, but I'll probably keep googling if I can't just read the lyrics in a sane format.
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 14 March 2015 05:27 (nine years ago) link
I noticed that the tracks that Spotify's algorithm provides when you're listening to an album have gotten better. Maybe it's just my imagination.
Also, I've found that I get a good shuffle mix when I make a private playlist of 1200 or so tracks - I make a different one each month, depending on what I feel like listening to.
― NO CLOO (I M Losted), Saturday, 14 March 2015 15:07 (nine years ago) link
Search-by-label function sucks so bad
― WilliamC, Sunday, 15 March 2015 00:57 (nine years ago) link
If you mean the label:Name trick in the search box, you have to remember to quote multi-word labels. E.g.:
label:"Profound Lore"
Was that your problem?
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 15 March 2015 01:02 (nine years ago) link
ok, I take it back (thx glenn)
― WilliamC, Sunday, 15 March 2015 01:13 (nine years ago) link
Actually I don't take it back entirely. Take this album for example, Vox Balaenae. https://open.spotify.com/album/7szdsl6y7PSDtpz6kE8LIv
It's on Hat Hut. But searching label:"Hat Hut" doesn't produce it in the results. "Hat Hut" and Hathut generate the same results for artist Russ Lossing, but almost nothing else.
Found another on Hat Hut that search isn't getting: Luciano Berio, Voice and Chamber Ensemble: https://open.spotify.com/album/2KTHNMFcNdfCIDEccpINjH
― WilliamC, Sunday, 15 March 2015 01:21 (nine years ago) link
OK, so the confusing thing about the label search is that the data we get has three separate fields for publisher credits, copyright and label. We show publisher and copyright credits when we have them. You might reasonably expect the copyright to correspond to the label, and you would often be right. But not always. In the case of Vox Balaenae, the label is actually not "Hat Hut" but "hat
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label:"hat
Why the data was given to us this way, I don't know. I do know that reconciling it is a huge ugly problem, and this is almost certainly why the label search remains a semi-secret feature.
PS: If you didn't already know, you can also search for genres in the same way:
genre:"gothic symphonic metal"
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 15 March 2015 01:40 (nine years ago) link
Oh, boy, did I not figure out how to escape square brackets. That label name is "hat(now)ART", but with square brackets instead of parentheses.
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 15 March 2015 01:42 (nine years ago) link
Huh. Okay. *jumps in wood chipper*
― WilliamC, Sunday, 15 March 2015 01:46 (nine years ago) link
drag Musixmatch in with you
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:13 (nine years ago) link
get the mobile woodchipper app first. synergy. here's a funny quip because we don't have the lyrics.
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:15 (nine years ago) link
Is there a song titled "Improving Musixmatch" that I may flag as instrumental?
― Team Foxcatcherwatcher (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 15 March 2015 05:19 (nine years ago) link
If one initially created an account thru' facebk but now want to sign in via a username how does one find ones username (a 6 digit code I think)?
― pandemic, Sunday, 15 March 2015 10:51 (nine years ago) link
Support can help you with that...
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 15 March 2015 12:06 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I once created an (otherwise unused) FB account to use Spotify, now deleted the FB account and I can't log on to Spotify anymore (not even to contact support). So I created a new user, no problem there. Not as if I had a million followers anyway.
― Siegbran, Sunday, 15 March 2015 12:20 (nine years ago) link
Music recommendation engine under Discover has improved leaps and bounds.
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 16 March 2015 12:15 (nine years ago) link
Spotify seems to have updated itself on my MacBook without my say so. Current list of irritations:
- scrolling up/down artist pages with the arrow key now much clunkier than before (and can't scroll through saved albums page this way at all)- names of people who created playlists I'm following have vanished(?)- can't seem to add tracks unavailable in UK to my playlists; have to follow someone else's playlists that contain the track - track now playing no longer appears when you minimise player & hover over the icon in the taskbar
― Jeff W, Monday, 16 March 2015 19:25 (nine years ago) link
thanks for the tip brimstead! would never have spotted that.
― piscesx, Monday, 16 March 2015 22:29 (nine years ago) link