12 days since I got my last one. I contacted Spotify about it and they were very helpful, advising me to reinstall via several emails. After I reinstalled and told them that it still wasn't working I haven't heard from them though. At least the bell is still present, I guess.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 16 April 2016 07:41 (eight years ago) link
I haven't gotten any in a while, either. I'll see if I can find out what's going on.
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 16 April 2016 08:44 (eight years ago) link
Hey glenn I'm finding you can no longer drag a track from in-browser spotify straight into a playlist on your desktop version - now it just diverts you to the record the track you've dragged is from. Do you know if this is an intentional change or temporary bug or wha?
― nashwan, Saturday, 16 April 2016 13:37 (eight years ago) link
i do miss being able to see who was following a playlist
― balls, Saturday, 16 April 2016 14:26 (eight years ago) link
this new 'songs based on the playlist you made' feature is blowing my actual mind. the best feature they've ever done, a freaking brilliant idea.
― piscesx, Monday, 18 April 2016 23:27 (eight years ago) link
omg I was just thinking the other day what a great feature that would be.
― Just can't get Eno, ugh (ledge), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 04:53 (eight years ago) link
It was in rdio 2 years ago iirc
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 14:03 (eight years ago) link
is this the list you get if you select Radio for a playlist or is something different?
― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 14:09 (eight years ago) link
App is slower than dripping molasses on iOS 7. Wish they still provided an older version.
― calstars, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 14:16 (eight years ago) link
A fellow iOS 7 user! *waves*. It does take an age to start up and sometimes can take a frustratingly log time to start playing a track from a new album or playlist - generally it works ok for me though.
― Just can't get Eno, ugh (ledge), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 15:34 (eight years ago) link
maybe spotify on ios is some kind of revenge for itunes on windows...
― koogs, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 15:42 (eight years ago) link
The "radio" is cool; so far it's mainly helping me remember obvious things that should have been in a playlist, rather than revealing totally unknown things to me. I imagine the algorithm works off of "other people who listened to x..." logic, so that's not so surprising - my playlist full of familiar classic rock radio cuts is logically going to turn up other classic rock radio staples. No worries there.
I do wish it were at least programmed to leave out songs that are already in that playlist, though! Maybe there's some other use for it that I'm overlooking, but it seems like the main value would be to give you new ideas to supplement a playlist, not stuff you're obviously already listening to. Other than that, the only problem is the same as Discover Weekly - the majority of the 'radio' is stuff that I'm very well aware of and have left out of the playlist on purpose, either because I own the album and don't want it to lose its freshness, or because I don't like the song. But I can't imagine how that would be avoided. It's a decent feature. What's the window on it being willing to refresh and give you a new 'radio' lineup for a given playlist, though?
― never ending bath infusion (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 15:58 (eight years ago) link
Does the Spotify Discovery playlist take into account everything you've listened to, or only most recent listening activity? Or both, but with a stronger bias towards the most recent?
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 16:03 (eight years ago) link
out of curiosity - does spotify take account of you adding stuff to your own playlist from your discover weekly one?
― i;m thinking about thos Beans (Michael B), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 16:08 (eight years ago) link
Does Spotify consider your personal affection for Big Country and Julianna Hatfield, and then factor that into an algorithm that decides how helpful the discover playlist will be?
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 16:45 (eight years ago) link
Uh oh.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 19:38 (eight years ago) link
I'm slightly disappointed to learn that some of the more interesting/esoteric song choices that pop up in my Discovery playlist seem like they might be a result of said song showing up in an episode of Girls. Or at least that probably explains things like the Oggum Boogum song and Girl by FLiP. It probably doesn't explain the Laurie Anderson track about her giving birth to a dog that she had sewn into her stomach.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 20:18 (eight years ago) link
my playlist was particularly good this week. a lot of my old faves (not obvious ones either) with some good new picks
― i;m thinking about thos Beans (Michael B), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 20:21 (eight years ago) link
xp haha I got that Laurie Anderson track, too!
― We quickly ate the feast as to leave ASAP (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 20:22 (eight years ago) link
the email and desktop notifications are both still not working. Now 15 days and counting.
found this via twiiterhttps://twitter.com/search?q=spotify%20notifications%20&src=typd
The reason for no spotify notifications, this job vacancy exists?
Product Owner, Notifications and Marketing Automation
SpotifyNew York, NY, United StatesFull-Timehttps://app.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?b=neaRWvwb&j=oLy41fw8
― djmartian, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 21:04 (eight years ago) link
Mine have been gone for 15 days now too. :(
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 19 April 2016 21:11 (eight years ago) link
Tips on keeping up to date with mew releases in the meantime
updated regularly:
Brian Askrud: April 2016https://open.spotify.com/user/baskrud/playlist/3bWf4lNH4tZ5jSopp9ZGvj
Tune New Music streamhttps://open.spotify.com/user/tunenewmusic/playlist/7dWUYZIWyt3lE1GlMOsraO
Johan Carlo Olsson: 2016 Best New Musichttps://open.spotify.com/user/jagheterjohanheterjag/playlist/62qt00xDiCgp7a42wVL0uf
All Things Go: Emerginghttps://open.spotify.com/user/allthingsgomusic/playlist/2VlzkJvSAd3PnLzo6llbL8
Updated Fridays
This Week's Releaseshttps://open.spotify.com/user/jlarome/playlist/6KErOvRQFEAnY5SdrrBDOD
connected with this website: http://www.spotifynewmusic.com/index.php
Boomkat - April 2016https://open.spotify.com/user/williemiller/playlist/26ExMZ5XTAgZreiVFJyhoOby spotify user Willie Miller
― djmartian, Tuesday, 19 April 2016 21:36 (eight years ago) link
Spotify's notifications feature is basically what won me over and made me scrap both apple music and google play. So I'm HOPING it will return soon.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 07:49 (eight years ago) link
this might have been asked a few times but I'm new to spotify. is there a fast way to create a playlist from a list of artists and tracks in text format?
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Wednesday, 20 April 2016 21:09 (eight years ago) link
There's something weird going on in Spotify's listening data. I did some silly Game of Thrones Spotify thing and Spotify told me I listen to 50% EDM, 35% Experimental Electronic and 14% Rock, which isn't even close to true (no Hip-Hop or R&B??). Probably explains why my Discover playlists are all over the map.
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Saturday, 23 April 2016 16:07 (eight years ago) link
I don't actually know what that Game of Thrones thing does, but it probably looks at only a tiny bit of your listening, because it works through an external API. Recent plays, or recent saves or something.
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 24 April 2016 14:12 (eight years ago) link
This feels extremely "late period" and I don't know if that's a good thing at this point.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Sunday, 24 April 2016 14:24 (eight years ago) link
Sorry, wrong thread. Lol.
xps to glenn -- makes sense, sort of like an auditory buzzfeed quiz i guess.
― thom yorke state of mind (voodoo chili), Sunday, 24 April 2016 14:36 (eight years ago) link
does anyone know how to make the big blue bar across the top begging me to connect to facebook go away? it showed up a few weeeks ago and will not go away.
― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 24 April 2016 16:40 (eight years ago) link
It's nice to be able to have local file playlists from more than one computer - i.e., not to have to tether the phone to just one device at a time.
― calstars, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 01:27 (eight years ago) link
Oh, and these location specifics are kind of awesome:
http://i.imgur.com/GgLhJrk.jpg
― calstars, Tuesday, 26 April 2016 01:28 (eight years ago) link
is there a fast way to create a playlist from a list of artists and tracks in text format?
http://www.playlist-converter.net
Only problem is when it finds the wrong version of a track (e.g. a live recording) as it's no longer as quick to add tracks to playlists by dragging them from browser to app - still gutted about this.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 11:23 (eight years ago) link
Notifications, please come back
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 11:41 (eight years ago) link
Co-sign
― calstars, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 11:51 (eight years ago) link
i never understand how they can continually get stuff right and then fuck it up ...Stars, notification and so forth
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 12:21 (eight years ago) link
It's mind boggling.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 12:22 (eight years ago) link
This is kinda cool: http://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/how-to-add-your-old-cds-to-spotify-1772337116
― schwantz, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 15:46 (eight years ago) link
Hey I just got some notifications, everyone. That's one gremlin down.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 27 April 2016 17:43 (eight years ago) link
Me too! I'm on iOS.
― calstars, Wednesday, 27 April 2016 18:23 (eight years ago) link
Goodbye hamburger menu! Celebratory hamburgers all round.
― I've had Eno, ugh (ledge), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 13:08 (eight years ago) link
good, the burger menu was shithouse. the new one seems to be rolling out slowly, nothing here as yet.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 13:10 (eight years ago) link
Actually it was the six, seven, or eight presses on the back button before unlocking the hamburger menu that really rankled. I think, I'm already suppressing the horror. Either way three cheers for the new bottom menu bar.
― I've had Eno, ugh (ledge), Wednesday, 4 May 2016 13:13 (eight years ago) link
yeah, just toggling mobile downloads or changing equaliser takes aaaaages with this bloody burger thing, and dragging from the left only triggers some of the time (on ios at least). won't miss it.
― Autumn Almanac, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 13:37 (eight years ago) link
This is the way the navigation was back in the iOS 4 days. Happy to see it return !
― calstars, Wednesday, 4 May 2016 14:39 (eight years ago) link
Hey Glenn - is there any way to pull up older auto-generated playlists? I think we were on one of the Fresh Finds playlists, but we're not any more.
― schwantz, Thursday, 5 May 2016 18:10 (eight years ago) link
No, but I can probably track it down. Which "we"?
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 5 May 2016 20:14 (eight years ago) link
Society of Rockets. I was looking at the stats, and it looked like being on one of the fresh finds playlists sent our listener count way up. Wonder if that will last at all. Pretty cool to get all of these real-time statistics.
How long until promoters get savvy and start getting you Nets tickets in exchange for algorithm tweaks?
― schwantz, Thursday, 5 May 2016 20:56 (eight years ago) link
Yes, looks like "Country Dealer" was on SIX STRINGS 3 weeks ago.
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 5 May 2016 21:19 (eight years ago) link
Thanks!
― schwantz, Thursday, 5 May 2016 21:21 (eight years ago) link