Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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.

It also indicates that the hardware would be "a category defining product akin to Pebble Watch, Amazon Echo, and Snap Spectacles."

should i have heard of any of those?

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.

― musically, Tuesday, April 18, 2017 9:39 AM (six days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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

― Moodles, Tuesday, April 18, 2017 11:57 AM (six days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Just came here to post this W T F for real. This was a super basic functionality that I used daily and built my folder structure around....

wow terrible idea going into hardware they kinda have no idea what they're doing over there do they?

Roku app dropped playlists completely about a month ago. Since then, I was only using it too search up specific artists or albums. Now any remaining functionality has also stopped working. So at this point, the Roku app just doesn't work at all.

instead of their own hardware, spotify should follow through on the $15 a month hi-rez audio subscription tier and do a big partnership with Sonos to have it baked in w/Sonos

I don't necessarily expect spotify to get hardware right, but I'm intrigued nonetheless

If you want to do your own corporate mindreading, all these jobs are posted on our site. The Voice and NLU ones are even in my office in Boston.

https://www.spotify.com/us/jobs/opportunities/product/all/boston-ma-united-states/

I use the web app when I use it on my laptop (mostly an iOS app user). Is there a trick, on this new minimal UI, to finding where I can sort albums and playlists? I usually sort by recently added, but now it's just alphabetical. Kind of annoying. I haven't used the desktop app in forever, but as a Mac OS user I remember having to reinstall it constantly after updates, because of various bugs.

The desktop app has been improved quite a bit since forever ago, and I think it's safe to say it's better than the web UI. Maybe give it another try?

My main frustration with the web player is not being able to access playlist folders. For whatever reason it ignores them and just displays the contents as a dirty great list. Makes shuffling folders impossible and adding to playlists a giant ballache. (My school won't let me download the desktop app and force me to use IE, the massive spanners.)

So for the past 24 hours or so any song i try to play in Spotify on my iPhone just stops a few seconds (sometimes up to a minute) in. Then if I'm lucky it starts again after a few seconds of silence. Or not. Anyone else having this issue? And is there a quick fix? I've tried restarting the phone but I'd prefer to not have to reinstall the app since I have a lot of offline stuff on it.

iPad app change is weird - if it's slightly broke, break it some more

Am I correct that one can make playlists available online in the 'my music' section if it's for iphone/ipad, but for the desktop app you need to make a playlist of the album and then make said playlist available offline? :-/

If notifications of artists I follow worked, I would never have to check stereogum again