Spotify - anyone heard of it?

the spotify apps (mac & iOS) are hot garbage. I thought this was taken as read. that being said, they are functional at least in a way that itunes isn't any more

Yeah the spotify app was such a crashy POS, getting worse with each update, that like so many itt I used that link to lock it to an old version, which runs fine and has a far better UI. Unfortunately I don't think there's a way to do that on iphone so I'm stuck with the one that takes forever to load when I'm out & about. The trade-off is that the newer versions have stuff like discover which has been pretty cool ime

There's only so much I can complain though. I pay £5 a month for this!

Can too much choice be a bad thing?
I left my Spotify device at home this afternoon and went for a walk with my old iPod. I listened to a couple albums I discovered a couple years ago and had more enjoyable time than with Spotify recently.

is the spotify social feed on anyone else's desktop broken for anyone else right now?

one of the reasons the spotify phone app is slow and isn't that great is bc of apple not wanting it to outshine their native music app

my social feed is regularly like 3 or 4 days out of date, pretty sure that's 'normal'

ios and mac apps solid apart from minor niggles and the ios app smashing data when playing saved music. not a bug, but i also want it to let me save more music to my phone. eh.

my discover weekly has suddenly become 50% western music that broadly matches my taste and 50% awful taiwanese ballads. i assume spotify taiwan has been drawn into discover weekly, but not in a way that identifies what genres people listen to so much as just chucking random taiwanese anything into the mix.

http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4430815

compared to Rdio, Spotify is very bad. people who don't feel this way never used Rdio. unfortunately, Spotify seems to be the best available option now. RIP Rdio.

have to remember dumb search syntax when I want to do normal things like search by label or year. can't easily clear my queue when I accidentally click on an album. can't sort things by release date. awful web app. mobile interface that can be described as weird at best. just bad. and yet the best of all available (and really bad) options, so I will give them my $10.

I only use the android and connect (amazon fire tv) apps, and they are generally good.

spotify support asked me to delete my week old account and recreate it to fix the spotify connect problem

maybe that's why community support is the better option

if only there were a third option

can't easily clear my queue when I accidentally click on an album

^^^^ this is maddening!

can't easily clear my queue when I accidentally click on an album

Just click on a different one...

but it always loops over and over again forever! i want it to reach the end of a playlist and fall silent. i have to create a new playlist, click 'choose as current playlist', and then delete that playlist to clear the queue out

I have a playlist called "clear queue" that consists of one 30-second kid606 track

Have never encountered this problem. Some things don't work so well (I have two machines and I usually have to restart Spotify to play on the one I didn't use last) but the simple task of playing music works fine. Much better than 6-12 months ago in any case.

I'm not familiar with this queue-looping-forever problem you're describing. Which platform is this on? And I assume you don't have looping turned on (the 🔁 icon; two arrows forming a circle if the emoji doesn't come through).

regarding the queue clearing issue, the fact this has been around for years and all you ever get is people suggesting a dumb workaround is exactly why Spotify is bad.

but it's good, though

Can too much choice be a bad thing?
I left my Spotify device at home this afternoon and went for a walk with my old iPod. I listened to a couple albums I discovered a couple years ago and had more enjoyable time than with Spotify recently.

― calstars, Sunday, November 29, 2015 6:47 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

TBH I have a very very hard time just settling in and being with a piece of music when I listen on Spotify or Apple Music. I'm just thinking about the next thing I want to jump to. I pretty much have to listen on a nonconnective media player to enjoy music. The streaming services are for seeing whether I want to get something for my 'permanent collection'.

i'm sort of like that with your mom

that was probably unnecessary

Spotify, you think I'm so corny I would feel like hearing "Put The Message In The Box" today, and the tragedy, Spotify, is that you're right.

Someone got into my account again today. I don't know why this keeps happening. They deleted all my playlists. I know how to recover etc and to sit out everywhere, but still. Wtf

But yeah local unconnected files 4 life

Scary, I'd run a virus scan for keyloggers.

https://yearinmusic.spotify.com/

provides a look at your listening habits/trends over 2015

ofc if you use last.fm it's probably nothing you haven't seen already but it does bring up the question - why doesn't spotify provide listening habits/trend info on a regular basis? i link my spotify account to last.fm because i like having that information available and spotify doesn't provide it, but if spotify is tracking it then why should users need to use separate services?

i presume it has something to do with their payment transparency?

I'm a sucker for this kind of stuff.

#1 artist - Dawn Richard - 224 streams
then Jazmine, Kendrick, D'Angelo, Miguel

#1 Album - Reality Show - Jazmine Sullivan - 181 streams
then Dawn's Blackheart, D'Angelo's Black Messiah, Kendrick's To Pimp a Butterfly, Janet's Unbreakable

#1 Track - Thunderstorm ambience (lol, this got put on repeat when i go to sleep for the past few months)
then Jazmine's Mascara, Fetty's Trap Queen, Jazmine's Brand New and another ambient sleeping track

First track of the new year was Africa Express' Terry Riley in C Mali

Winter: D'Angelo, Dawn, Jazmine
Spring: Kendrick, Jazmine, Eno/Hyde
Summer: Kacey Musgraves, Miguel, Melanie DeBiasio (yeah i guess i did like that album a lot)
Fall: Janet, Fetty, Todd Terje

61 thousand minutes logged, 2800 artists listened to, 5400 tracks played.

i guess that's 5400 individual different tracks not 5400 total as the math doesn't work the other way round.

provides a look at your listening habits/trends over 2015

I checked this out in 2013, and it showed that my most-listened artist was Rupert Holmes.

Chilling, and I haven't checked since.

the pedant in me wonders whether this only counts complete, start-to-finish listening or just anytime you start a song. Because if it's the former, I've got to have half again as many unfinished listens this year... i tend to hit rewind before i get to the end of a song i'm enjoying or restart if i get distracted by business.

Glenn? Confirm/deny?

Top genres: Indie R&B, Chillwave, Neo Soul, Indietronica, Future Garage

sorry guys :(

lol pplains

this is neat, but I'm pretty sure it is missing streams from the Roku app, which is one of the main ways I use Spotify.

I think any play of :30 or more counts, and Roku should also count as long as you're logged in with the same Spotify account.

It's the same account, but there's definitely a big chunk of activity that doesn't seem to be reflected. I know that Facebook tracks my spotify activity but never shows anything I played on the roku, which is why I thought it wasn't tracked here either

Limit of 50 tracks in the play queue is my new thing to be annoyed by.

It seems like a significant part of Spotify's feature prioritization is handled through the community forums and upvoting. If this is the case, it's unlikely that anything that bugs me will get implemented. Since I can't find a better alternative, I guess I just need to learn how to live with it.

the cut off date for this year in spotify thing is clearly before the grimes album came out bc it wld easily top my list otherwise

I listened to a lot of blake mills and hop along this year, which were both ilm recommendations. I tend to obsessively listen to the same album for extended periods of time at work before forgetting it exists. So the end of year roundups is good for remembering what I liked.

Limit of 50 tracks in the play queue is my new thing to be annoyed by.

It seems like a significant part of Spotify's feature prioritization is handled through the community forums and upvoting. If this is the case, it's unlikely that anything that bugs me will get implemented. Since I can't find a better alternative, I guess I just need to learn how to live with it.

I've never used the play queue. I just make a playlist called "new" and dump everything I want to hear in there. If I don't need to hear it again, delete. If I really like it, I move it into other playlists. If I'm unsure/ambivalent I just leave it there until I've figured it out.

It's the same account, but there's definitely a big chunk of activity that doesn't seem to be reflected. I know that Facebook tracks my spotify activity but never shows anything I played on the roku, which is why I thought it wasn't tracked here either

― Check Yr Scrobbles (Moodles), Tuesday, December 8, 2015 2:27 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah I just set up spotify on my amazon fire tv and was able to start music on my iphone and change playback device to my tv, but it didn't scrobble. When I went to my app settings on my phone to see if I had logged out accidentally or something, the playback, social and streaming quality options are greyed out and it says "these options are not available when listening on another device". I'm pretty bummed, I am pretty obsessed w scrobbling everything I listen to, I don't want to give that up when listening on the tv :(

maybe of interest to ex Rdio users

This tool transfers your Rdio playlists and collections to Spotify
http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/11/this-tool-transfers-your-rdio-playlists-and-collections-to-spotify/

Rdio2Spotify
http://www.r2s.co/

What if Spotify allowed subscribers a specific number of streams of a song before they required you to either (a) pay for it ($0.99 for song, $9.99 for album), or (b) lose the ability to stream it again. Would this benefit the artist more?

Yah but then people would stop using it.

I would not see the point of subscribing if they did that

Subscribers don't buy albums or download songs?

Are there any Adele or Joanna Newsom fans who are also subscribers to Spotify or Apple Music?

i assume lots of both