Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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

Each of you is frustrated by your own experience. I am frustrated by all of them.

Any chance of Spotify trying to fill in discographies? It almost seems a rule that the average-aized discography is missing exactly one studio album...this morning, for example, I found myself missing both Vic Chesnutt's About to Choke and Crooked Fingers' Dignity and Shame, although every other significant album by both artists were there. I'm not sure Spotify ever even pursues things beyond large deals with labels and distributors, but just curious.

I think in practical terms we go after missing labels more than missing albums. But the licensing situation is complicated, to put it mildly. The missing albums are likely to have hit an expiration date in some very specific deal that nobody is even really thinking about any more. And they may be missing in only some countries. This is an industry-wide problem that has to be solved with changes to the whole underlying model, probably...

Oh good, now Spotify Installer keeps hanging and never actually installing

I used to get annoyed that Spotify didn't exit when I pressed the big X. Now I'm annoyed that it does.

fp'd

It closing with the X is literally the single good thing about this update.

got another update for the desktop app a couple days ago and it appears to be working much better now for me.

okay often now spotify will just plain not play a track when i click on it, or sometimes it will start playing a track by the same artist but from a different album (???). not just me- friends have reported the same thing. weird.

you must have displeased the Spotify

try apologizing

2 things:

- there need to be arrows at each end of the scrollbar for scrolling massive playlists

- if anybody needs to delete their queue, the easiest way I've found is to make a playlist with one short song and then double click this new playlist's name on the sidebar. It seems to replace the whole queue with the newly created playlist so sit through your random napalm death or curd duca tune and enjoy your empty queue. hope this advice is intelligible.

interesting to see others are having the notifications issue, as someone who compulsively clears notifications wherever they may be this has been fun