Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Fired up spotify's web player tonight (my primary spotify source) and all of a sudden it welcomes me by saying 'To enjoy Spotify, please install Adobe Flash. It's free.'

Why yes, let me install the FREE and WONDERFUL and not remotely awful FLASH ~software~, as if it were the early 00's. This is the way forward, surely.

In other news, my discover weekly playlist updated at the stroke of midnight.

new web player design makes it impossible to drag tracks from browser to desktop app playlists :[

i just finally hit whatever the limit is on tracks/albums you can save to your library, this sucks. just give me 50% more and i'd be good for several more years

how many 2 year olds must have email addresses before this implementation of a "family plan" is fixed?

hey if you can open lines of credit in kids names, they can have their own email addresses as well....

on the bright side, Hounds of Love is finally on US spotify

sufjan otm, apple music requires this too

does anyone actually get push notifications on ios (or any notification) when an artist they follow has something added? I follow lana del rey and didn't hear a damn thing from spotify when her new track dropped a few days ago. I follow a lot of artists and when I went into my inbox (for the first time in months) to see if I missed the notification, it was empty. I checked and my iphone allows notifications from spotify, but even if it didn't there should notifications wi th in thr app, right? Just me or anyone else have this issue?

I follow lana del rey and didn't hear a damn thing from spotify when her new track dropped a few days ago.

they were probably trying to spare u

New stuff from people i follow tends to crop up in the friday finds. Occasionally i still get random emails for SOME of the artists I follow.

Thanks for getting the multiple Paul Williamses fixed, glenn.

The new Babaganouj EP that just went up has mismatched titles to tracks, for example track 1 ("Star") is actually track 2 and so on until you get to track 5, which is actually track 1. Not sure if that's fixable on your end or if it comes that way from the supplier.

https://open.spotify.com/album/227WPUs6WSvKGUY0UoRUY2

Thanks, I'll pass the word along on that one. (As you kinda guessed, the distributor has to fix that and resend it.)

Don't autoplay some third rate shit you sons of bitches.

Anyway, turned it off.

Tweeted Spotify Cares yesterday to see if I could exclude my daughters playlist (Katy Perry and other horrible shit like Katy Perry) from influencing my Daily Mixes and they said no. Also can't turn on incognito mode on Mobile. So frustrating.

Think its time to have a talk with your daughter

Yeah, I'd love a way to turn off the algorithms temporarily. Since I listen to mellow stuff to go to sleep, my DW playlist has turned into all of this ambient stuff.

Don't autoplay some third rate shit you sons of bitches.

― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, March 1, 2017 10:38 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Anyway, turned it off.

― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, March 1, 2017 10:38 AM

yeah in the settings on mobile i know there is

DJI there is an "incognito mode" iirc?

don't understand why spotify leans so hard into making everything you listen to public. I guess it came about during that period where every new app had to have a big social media element but it pretty clearly isn't used like that? I just wanna listen to podcasts without necessarily broadcasting that information to everyone who follows me for some reason

Tracer - not sure if that means private from the suggestion algorithms, or just from other Spotify users.

I like the social aspect of it... if anything I think it should be exploited more. One feature which I'd love is to invite people to do a collaborative playlist... right now anyone can get into collaborative playlists and delete and add anything regardless if you're friends with them or not. I want an invite only collab playlist option so playlists are curated by say, two or three users not every user out there.

You can turn off in settings the 'currently listening' option btw, leave it in private session. I like when my frienfs hace it in public tho, I have found many cool playlists thru it.

issue is that you have to start a new private session every time, like spotify is telling you you're doing it wrong but they'll let it slide THIS time. just let me turn it on permanently

also is it even available on mobile?

it's hard to tell if the android app is becoming terrible or if my own hardware/network are becoming terrible

I guess I'm asking: does anyone else's music stop at random times throughout the day?

haven't had any issues with music randomly stopping. I've definitely had issues with searching. It's often either really slow or not working at all. I have to exit the app and open it again to get it working.

You can't enable the private session mode from mobile though. At least I can't find the option. Almost all my listening is mobile or via Sonos.

it is in settings on android

"Your Library" -> gear icon in top right corner -> Private Session (under "Social")

I get randomly stopping music (on my phone) when my family tries to play music with Alexa (at home).

yes, that happens to me as well, which is annoying because we have a family plan. the family plan is handled very strictly w/ one concurrent player per account. But there's always a warning about playback being paused in that case. I've been getting an uptick in music stops without any message, though, which appears to be a separate issue.

waht, am i understand this right? with your family plan you cant listen at the same time ? not true ime

It seems like a family plan should allow you to turn raffi on in the upstairs room with sonos while you listen to a different, more sophisticated raffi album downstairs, but I guess that idea doesn't increase the number of "users" with associated data, which is the goal spotify is likely chasing at the cost of 1 year olds with gmail addresses. I realize that I am getting to Jeff and stars level w/ this point.

I have a family plan with 4 accounts, but have not figured out a way to make each Alexa use a different Spotify account. I think there is a way to do it for my wife (since she has her own Amazon account ID), but not for the kids (yet).

yeah, it is currently easier to switch to offline mode and save $5/month

I think it might ultimately be an issue with different companies making the hardware and software. Perhaps Spotify doesn't realize that a Sonos speaker (or I imagine Alexa) has an account queued up from the last user. People are going to press play (or the equivalent) on that hardware and interrupt the person using the account elsewhere.

this will probably drive more people toward amazon prime

(if multiple accounts are handled any better. I don't actually know.)

powerful ads depict proud new amazon users telling spotify they can take a hike: "leave me alone - i've a family plan!"

upon first holding my newborn son, I turned to my exhausted wife and said "what a disaster for spotify"

^ gets it

Wonder why the DW icon changed

did you change your facebook profile photo?

Uh, no

This, basically, on the terribleness of the new web player

Not being able to sort by recently added is a dire choice. Can't believe why they went ahead with this design, crappy and a step back in every way.

on a similar note, the roku app has been unable to load my playlists for the last couple weeks and it looks like lots of other people are having the same issue

so turns out there's another drawback to the obnoxious process for adding local music to spotify...i just bought my second sonos speaker before realizing this (oops), but sonos can't play your spotify local files at all; not via the sonos app, not via the spotify app. i guess the way that spotify puts your personal music files on lockdown (not the technical term but whatever) in the app means that 3rd party apps, even ones integrated w spotify, can't access them. i'm guessing apple music doesn't have this issue since you just upload your mp3s to your phone when you add local files? ugh spotify, i want to stay w you but you're making it tough...:(

Roku app has the same drawback