Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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

I wonder if this is where Google Play Music might come into its own? The ability to upload files is (fairly) seamless from what I can make out.

I've heard google play integration w sonos is pretty good too - i have an iphone so apple music is probably easier to manage but it seems like adding your own music is a lot more straightforward with apps that use your phone's music library by default.

Sonos + a free Google Play account is fantastic for the most part. Everything I bring into iTunes is uploaded automatically to Google Play and accessible through Sonos within a few minutes.

Not being able to sort by recently added is a dire choice.

another data point: the only times I have ever sorted by recently added were misclicks (easy to do on a phone) and whenever it happens I freak out and try to remember how to un-sort by recently added because it fucks up my playlist order, so good riddance

I've never been able to sort playlists by anything except on desktop, which is really annoying when you know a certain song is in a given playlist but it's got 500 songs and it's locked into sorting by date added...

You can sort playlists and also search them in the mobile app. When you open a Playlist, scroll up and you'll find those options.

so on the android app, spotify got rid of the Play All feature that allowed you to shuffle all the playlists grouped under a folder. This is seriously messing up my whole system that I've had for years. I'm at the point where I need to start thinking about some other music app because this has gotten steadily worse and worse, stripping away valuable features over time.

maybe you could just find an old apk?

maybe, I'll need to figure out how to do that. I'd really like to find a music streaming app that doesn't keep hosing the features I use the most.

something like this might work http://www.apkmirror.com/uploads/?q=spotify-ltd (if you're on Android that is)

yikes, I use that feature all the time, still available for the iphone thankfully

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/17/spotify-to-restrict-some-music-to-paying-subscribers-only

Surprised they didn't do this a long time ago. I guess now they've got a lot of people into it, the gamble is that many of them will pony up the cash for premium.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mOPkCwWrwvo/VZhgY6mMhiI/AAAAAAAAJPw/jn6zGHSDF7g/s1600/anigif.gif

Ha. I just went for premium yesterday, but it sure wasn't so I could listen to fucking pop records - it was just that the commercials, which were uniformly for products and services I would never buy or use, got so annoying, I decided the $10 was worth it to avoid them.

thanks for new dn

fucking pop records

to balance my earlier gripes I want to note my discover weekly has been excellent lately

No idea why but the web player is back to it's old good self today.

Glenn, on the artists page, why do some acts have only 4 related artists and others 6 or 7? Seems totally random as some super obscure acts have 7 links, when mainstream acts have 4 and even similar acts (The Jam - 4:Paul Weller - 7) have this disparity.

hmm... I get 20 related artists for the Jam

I guess you mean the "overview" page?

Yeah, if I click on the related artists link then I get the full whack.

Just a layout thing: If the artist has a Latest Release, the Related Artists section expands to match the combined height of the Latest Release and Popular sections.

Oh yeah, obvious in hindsight. As a listening strategy I like to pick a couple of artists and try to get to them using only the relate artist link and found it frustrating that a lot only had 4 choices.

so after several weeks of my playlists not loading on the Roku App, Spotify "fixed" this by just removing playlists from the app altogether. What the hell is even the point anymore? Each new change has been a progressively worse product. I jumped into a premium subscription as soon as it was available and have been a power user since then, and it's been sad and frustrating to watch it slide downhill.

What the hell is even the point anymore? Each new change has been a progressively worse product.

see also: every computer program or app ever made, it seems

that may be true, but this seems like a particularly egregious case. When it was first released in the US, it worked like a dream. It seems that the changes they've put in place were designed specifically to undermine or remove all of the coolest features. I don't get why they'd do that, is there some kind of money to be saved?

wait is that for real? new versions of Spotify no longer have playlists? holy shit.

new version of the spotify roku app

*slowly puts down gun*

still that's shitty as hell

i'm still sore that they haven't restored good local files functionality to the program. my osx client spotify version is from 2014! that's the last time it worked the way i want it to.

Yes, the local files situation is pretty bad. Also pissed that the Android app removed Play All button from folders. It was the only way to group together playlists in cool configurations or get >10,000 tracks in a list.

new version of the spotify roku app

― Moodles, Tuesday, March 21, 2017 2:05 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the roku app has always sucked

this goes for most roku apps afaict

It's never been great, but I used it a lot. It's pretty much worthless without playlists.

Other roku apps I use, Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, HBO, YouTube, Twitch, all do pretty much what I'd expect them to. They certainly aren't hopelessly hosed.

Well, I tried to put Spotify on my Roku to see what you were talking about, but I can't even find it in the Channel Store...