Spotify - anyone heard of it?

at at the bottom, to the right of the seekbar, the thing that looks like venetian blinds

(the queue button is there, i mean)

yeah, next to the lyrics button that only has lyrics for 5 songs for now

the default way that they display those lyrics is o_O. I guess it's cool that they sync with the song, but a kind of doc view that highlighted the current line would be much easier to follow. also, one sometimes just wants to read the lyrics while listening. lyrics are interesting for more than karaoke.

it'd be thrilling to never have to google for lyrics again, but I'll probably keep googling if I can't just read the lyrics in a sane format.

I noticed that the tracks that Spotify's algorithm provides when you're listening to an album have gotten better. Maybe it's just my imagination.

Also, I've found that I get a good shuffle mix when I make a private playlist of 1200 or so tracks - I make a different one each month, depending on what I feel like listening to.

Search-by-label function sucks so bad

If you mean the label:Name trick in the search box, you have to remember to quote multi-word labels. E.g.:

label:"Profound Lore"

Was that your problem?

ok, I take it back (thx glenn)

Actually I don't take it back entirely. Take this album for example, Vox Balaenae.
https://open.spotify.com/album/7szdsl6y7PSDtpz6kE8LIv

It's on Hat Hut. But searching label:"Hat Hut" doesn't produce it in the results. "Hat Hut" and Hathut generate the same results for artist Russ Lossing, but almost nothing else.

Found another on Hat Hut that search isn't getting: Luciano Berio, Voice and Chamber Ensemble: https://open.spotify.com/album/2KTHNMFcNdfCIDEccpINjH

OK, so the confusing thing about the label search is that the data we get has three separate fields for publisher credits, copyright and label. We show publisher and copyright credits when we have them. You might reasonably expect the copyright to correspond to the label, and you would often be right. But not always. In the case of Vox Balaenae, the label is actually not "Hat Hut" but "hat

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Why the data was given to us this way, I don't know. I do know that reconciling it is a huge ugly problem, and this is almost certainly why the label search remains a semi-secret feature.

PS: If you didn't already know, you can also search for genres in the same way:

genre:"gothic symphonic metal"

Oh, boy, did I not figure out how to escape square brackets. That label name is "hat(now)ART", but with square brackets instead of parentheses.

Huh. Okay. *jumps in wood chipper*

drag Musixmatch in with you

get the mobile woodchipper app first. synergy. here's a funny quip because we don't have the lyrics.

Is there a song titled "Improving Musixmatch" that I may flag as instrumental?

If one initially created an account thru' facebk but now want to sign in via a username how does one find ones username (a 6 digit code I think)?

Support can help you with that...

Yeah I once created an (otherwise unused) FB account to use Spotify, now deleted the FB account and I can't log on to Spotify anymore (not even to contact support). So I created a new user, no problem there. Not as if I had a million followers anyway.

Music recommendation engine under Discover has improved leaps and bounds.

Spotify seems to have updated itself on my MacBook without my say so. Current list of irritations:

- scrolling up/down artist pages with the arrow key now much clunkier than before (and can't scroll through saved albums page this way at all)
- names of people who created playlists I'm following have vanished(?)
- can't seem to add tracks unavailable in UK to my playlists; have to follow someone else's playlists that contain the track
- track now playing no longer appears when you minimise player & hover over the icon in the taskbar

thanks for the tip brimstead! would never have spotted that.

they fucked up the new update big time

what a disaster for spotify

everyone went back to itunes

they'll continue to get songs, sure, but the good songs? i'm not so sure anymore.

omg these huge line breaks between everything in the left-hand pane

i'm going to get carpal tunnel just mouse-wheeling down to the playlists i want

I'd like it if there was a "Top Recommendations For You" radio station.

my news feed now compltely gone since update, turned into a blank black panel that simply says "find friends". i used to like the updates on followed artists. gone, all gone.

update gives one the impression spotify are indeed a greedy lazy company, who employ the absolute bare minimum of programmers and design staff to save on costs.

It makes no sense. They've done the same thing with mobile. What group of beta testers have they found that said, "oh yeah, this version is much better than the last, proceed!"

I'm back with a permanent version 0.8.5.133, and couldn't be happier; there's almost nothing from later releases that I miss, and many lost features that I'm very glad to have back: dragging and dropping from iTunes, searching within playlists, sorting search results by columns, resizing column widths, starring, playlist displays at folder level, vastly more text on the screen etc etc. Instructions here: http://drownedinsound.com/community/boards/music/4430815

https://troubleddiva.files.wordpress.com/2015/03/spotifyold.jpg

you were right - this is wonderful!

Yeah did the same. If I need a shit player that has the latest Spotify "features" I'll just use the web player, at least the application is now useful again.

I guess they changed the layout and removed features because of fears of Apple/Microsoft litigation?

Does that refix work with a mac?

Like has anyone on here tried it?

I did and it works

I guess they changed the layout and removed features because of fears of Apple/Microsoft litigation?

You mean like typical spreadsheet sorting features? Ask Open Office if they've ever been scared (they haven't).

what's Open Office's revenue these days?

Made the downgrade, and I love it. Looks like the apps are disappearing either way, though.

in nu-spotify, the taskbar icon now has a big red "1" on it to indicate i have some kind of message or something, but if you click on the tiny, well-hidden "bell with a 1 next to it" icon in the program, it just brings up a gray box with an endlessly spinning light-up dot icon, and the red "1" never goes away.

Yeah notifications are completely botched on my Mac client.

that went away after I closed and reopened one time. it hasn't come back for me yet.

thanks, that worked for me too!

Got a new update for Mac client today, installed in hope that maybe the sluggishness of the new queue display & reordering tracks on it may have been fixed. Got way worse instead, whole app seems to freeze on manual track changes and takes about 10 seconds to actually update the list to the right track that's currently playing, this is not even funny anymore...

It's as if they're trying very hard to make the client slower than the web version.

did anyone else notice that you can no longer sort your search results by artist, album, song title, track length, etc.? for now the only workaround is to enter spotify:search:yoursearchterm into the search field. hopefully the next update will restore full search functionality.

― macklemore looks something like you (unregistered), Monday, June 30, 2014 10:17 PM (8 months ago)

The sorting turns out to be a temporary casualty of some internal reworking to prepare for bigger improvements...

― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, July 2, 2014 9:15 AM (8 months ago)

with the latest update, you still can't sort your search results by column heading, and the 'spotify:search:' workaround no longer works. as for the bigger improvements, uh...

(I'm not implying that any of this is glenn's fault, mind you...)

wonder if complaining to glenn is more efficient than the 'send feedback' button on the gui

or perhaps the 'send feedback' button just sends an ilx mail to glenn and tithes his pay, and so he prefers this thread