Spotify - anyone heard of it?

I'm sad that Spotify apps are gone. Feel like someone should fill the void (maybe they already have)?

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

I liked the PFork app (yeah yeah) and the Playlists.net app.

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.

11. Spotify logo now a red hexagram

haha

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

each side of this album is marked wrong:

https://open.spotify.com/album/6xeVnukC5gmrTy3YrbwQ7w

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_Gone_Wild/Chirpin_Hard

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?

I don't have problems adding individual tracks to playlist, but I can't seem to add a group of tracks.

This might work: http://www.oldversion.com/windows/spotify/

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

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?

I still miss being able to star songs. Every day. I cry myself to sleep at night just thinking about it.

The trick from the Spotify forum seems to be working. I've got the old version back and it's not forcing an update.

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?

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

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.

the new weird thing is that the whole window flashes when I delete a song. It feels like I'm physically hurting my playlist.

got the old version working. happy again.

this new version is pr good for me. especially since I enabled 'no bugs mode' in the preferences.

man, if all the songs on an album aren't available, i'd rather just not see it at all

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.

at at the bottom, to the right of the seekbar, the thing that looks like venetian blinds

(the queue button is there, i mean)

yeah, next to the lyrics button that only has lyrics for 5 songs for now

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.

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.

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.

Search-by-label function sucks so bad

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?

ok, I take it back (thx glenn)

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

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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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"

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.

Huh. Okay. *jumps in wood chipper*

drag Musixmatch in with you

get the mobile woodchipper app first. synergy. here's a funny quip because we don't have the lyrics.

Is there a song titled "Improving Musixmatch" that I may flag as instrumental?

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)?

Support can help you with that...

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.

Music recommendation engine under Discover has improved leaps and bounds.

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

thanks for the tip brimstead! would never have spotted that.

they fucked up the new update big time

what a disaster for spotify

everyone went back to itunes

they'll continue to get songs, sure, but the good songs? i'm not so sure anymore.

omg these huge line breaks between everything in the left-hand pane

i'm going to get carpal tunnel just mouse-wheeling down to the playlists i want

I'd like it if there was a "Top Recommendations For You" radio station.