Spotify - anyone heard of it?

A chat function within Spotify where you could share links to songs, playlists, etc with friends would be fucking awesome. Did it used to have that?

I think they want that to be called "Facebook"

how, though? i recall it used to post to FB now and then with what you were listening to but the integration has diminished a lot

and i think sharing songs used to be in the FB messaging feature

I liked that feature, but I'm guessing FB users didn't like their news feeds getting spammed with friends' listening details.

A chat function within Spotify where you could share links to songs, playlists, etc with friends would be fucking awesome. Did it used to have that?

― Position Position, Tuesday, March 28, 2017 4:38 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yes. i didn't use it too often but it ruled in the moments i did

c'mon who would want to share music with their friends

why would you listen to music other than to broadcast your taste to everyone xxp

in reality i know 0 people who broadcast their taste, I only know a few ppl who even discuss/mention things theyve been listening to, so self-consciousness about this is p alien to my real life

It would be good if there was a tab that would let you go directly to singles, albums or Appears On right at the top. Some artists I follow, like Vybz Kartel, release an insane amount of music and just scrolling down to see if there's a new riddim he's on (which would go under «appears on») takes me minutes, lol.

You can get a little closer to that effect if you switch the Albums and Singles displays to the grid style.

I've already done that, lol. Just go to the Vybz Kartel Spotify page to see for yourself. There are others, but his is the worst.

Oh. Yeah, pretend I didn't say anything.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/apr/04/spotify-universal-albums-premium-subscribers-only

That short Guardian piece leaves out the detail that this only covers the non-single tracks. No windowing for singles, and (I think) no windowing of albums unless they have singles.

[I have no involvement in deal-making at Spotify.]

it would be nice if this means we get an agreed standard of what a "single" is again, and tell Billboard/OCC what it is.

Was Time Fades Away included when Neil Young's catalog showed back up a few months ago, or is this a recent development?

glenn - legendary ukg don DJ Q has a bunch of unrelated stuff from techno guy Paul Flynn in his profile.

For instance these:

https://open.spotify.com/album/5RlyYKGWnlnnb5aZsCOPEO
https://open.spotify.com/album/1YirBj0TgKtcl7GBmklwnM
https://open.spotify.com/album/201xel0UP61Bn7gCmMMAAl
https://open.spotify.com/album/7xBaTmApqevxKxgEQi7RN0
https://open.spotify.com/album/6VemqswE6DThVVkqhZGO7Y
https://open.spotify.com/album/4c3iXxxYUbcApDneBnKzQT

There's also these, don't really know who these ppl are:
https://open.spotify.com/album/0BNzyPPi98WQ44viXP51vx
https://open.spotify.com/album/4Yfi7gOjObRpIhhlCwqkML

Passed this along to get it fixed, thanks.

:D

I imagine that sort of incorrect cross-pollination can play a bit of havoc with recommendations

A constant source of irritation, yes.

You'd think artists/labels would be pretty eager to fix this, otherwise their namesake gets all the money.

xpost like, not even insofar as the wrong DJ Q getting recommended (but that too), but the wrong genre being associated with a user's habits

glenn, i'm finding a replicable issue on spotify's version of Talking Heads "Seen and Not Seen" at 1:40

as long as we're using you as a helpdesk

Thought this thread was bumped because of the guy killed in Sweden. Did you know him, Glenn? Sorry if this is a horrible question.

ulysses, what issue do you mean? I don't hear anything at 1:40 in either the regular or 2005 remastered versions of that song, but there are more versions in other regions, so maybe you're getting a different one. Which country are you in, and what's the URL of the track you're playing?

I didn't know Chris personally, no.

Glen: USA and https://open.spotify.com/track/7dq6icAlynpBD6MSrXKh3A

I don't hear anything weird at 1:40 in that. What do you hear?

popping and skipping on the track. dunno why it's only me. disregard if it's a glitch just on my end.

Glenn, still hearing those voices in my left speaker while listening to Stained Class -- the dog next door told me it's bothering him too. Fix in the works?

is it the musician's commentary?

pplains: weird, it's supposed to be the right channel. Which hemisphere is your ISP's DNS entry served from?

You mean before or after Obama changed the global polarities?

if the aluminum hat fits, wear it i suppose

Any chance Spotify could add a "play backwards" function? I really want to find out what Led Zeppelin has to say about Satan.

they think he cool

I'm a big Spotify fan, but the new ipad layout is so, so bad (it seems to just be a clone of the iphone UI), and so much worse than the previous version. I'm sure there's some logical explanation, but it's hard to imagine anyone thinking it's an improvement.

Ugh ugh ugh - downloaded the latest version of the app and Spotify no longer allows you to shuffle all contents of a folder, which RUINS the way I've painstakingly organized my library. I've spent over a year organizing playlists by artist, methodically removing all bad songs, then nesting those folders inside genre folders which are placed inside folders organized by decade. Up until yesterday that yielded a lot of flexibility in what kind of shuffle mixes I could make. It all depended on the ability to shuffle within folders... so the usability of Spotify just took a severe nosedive.

I dunno about iOS apps but for desktop and android it shouldn't be too difficult downgrading to older versions

You can downgrade on desktop to the really great native client, but it's a pain in the ass (you have to try and stop it updating itself) and more and more non-core functionality is breaking.

I don't understand why the nest folder/playlist "play all" function went away either. I can understand not adding new features but taking away something that was established and that people liked and used *coughstarredplaylistcough* is such a strange thing to do.

My conspiracy theory is that spotify is degrading their service to drive down the overall number of tracks played so that they can pay less royalties.

xp, just "play' when on a folder works for me? maybe i have an outdated version.

It should still work on the desktop app, but is no longer available on mobile devices.

Boot up PC. Start Spotify. Spotify installs updates. Spotify allegedly loads. Endless spinning circle of dots. Can't close Spotify. Kill off the 4 mysterious Spotify processes in Task Manager. One won't stop. Try starting Spotify again. Spotify won't start because it is already running. try killing process again. Fail. Start up web player instead. Web player won't start because it thinks the desktop app is running. Reboot PC. Go back to step 1.

You left out "contact Spotify support so they can fix your problem". Might be less frustrating with that extra step!

Is anyone having issues with Spotify crashing while using the Amazon Fire Stick? It could be my internet connection too, perhaps

Bad idea: https://www.engadget.com/2017/04/24/spotify-building-its-own-hardware/

I hope someone there realizes how much money this will cost.