Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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.

I haven't gotten any in a while, either. I'll see if I can find out what's going on.

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?

i do miss being able to see who was following a playlist

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.

omg I was just thinking the other day what a great feature that would be.

It was in rdio 2 years ago iirc

is this the list you get if you select Radio for a playlist or is something different?

App is slower than dripping molasses on iOS 7. Wish they still provided an older version.

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.

maybe spotify on ios is some kind of revenge for itunes on windows...

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?

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?

out of curiosity - does spotify take account of you adding stuff to your own playlist from your discover weekly one?

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?

Uh oh.

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.

my playlist was particularly good this week. a lot of my old faves (not obvious ones either) with some good new picks

xp haha I got that Laurie Anderson track, too!

the email and desktop notifications are both still not working. Now 15 days and counting.

found this via twiiter
https://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

Spotify
New York, NY, United States
Full-Time
https://app.jobvite.com/Jobvite/Job.aspx?b=neaRWvwb&j=oLy41fw8

Mine have been gone for 15 days now too. :(

Tips on keeping up to date with mew releases in the meantime

updated regularly:

Brian Askrud: April 2016
https://open.spotify.com/user/baskrud/playlist/3bWf4lNH4tZ5jSopp9ZGvj

Tune New Music stream
https://open.spotify.com/user/tunenewmusic/playlist/7dWUYZIWyt3lE1GlMOsraO

Johan Carlo Olsson: 2016 Best New Music
https://open.spotify.com/user/jagheterjohanheterjag/playlist/62qt00xDiCgp7a42wVL0uf

All Things Go: Emerging
https://open.spotify.com/user/allthingsgomusic/playlist/2VlzkJvSAd3PnLzo6llbL8

Updated Fridays

This Week's Releases
https://open.spotify.com/user/jlarome/playlist/6KErOvRQFEAnY5SdrrBDOD

connected with this website: http://www.spotifynewmusic.com/index.php

Boomkat - April 2016
https://open.spotify.com/user/williemiller/playlist/26ExMZ5XTAgZreiVFJyhoO
by spotify user Willie Miller

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.

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?

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.

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.

This feels extremely "late period" and I don't know if that's a good thing at this point.

Sorry, wrong thread. Lol.

xps to glenn -- makes sense, sort of like an auditory buzzfeed quiz i guess.

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.

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.

Oh, and these location specifics are kind of awesome:

http://i.imgur.com/GgLhJrk.jpg

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.

Notifications, please come back

Co-sign

i never understand how they can continually get stuff right and then fuck it up ...Stars, notification and so forth

It's mind boggling.

This is kinda cool: http://fieldguide.gizmodo.com/how-to-add-your-old-cds-to-spotify-1772337116

Hey I just got some notifications, everyone. That's one gremlin down.

Me too! I'm on iOS.

Goodbye hamburger menu! Celebratory hamburgers all round.

good, the burger menu was shithouse. the new one seems to be rolling out slowly, nothing here as yet.

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.

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.

This is the way the navigation was back in the iOS 4 days. Happy to see it return !

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.

No, but I can probably track it down. Which "we"?

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?

Yes, looks like "Country Dealer" was on SIX STRINGS 3 weeks ago.

Thanks!