"Your Library" -> gear icon in top right corner -> Private Session (under "Social")
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 3 March 2017 21:01 (seven years ago) link
I get randomly stopping music (on my phone) when my family tries to play music with Alexa (at home).
― DJI, Friday, 3 March 2017 21:06 (seven years ago) link
yes, that happens to me as well, which is annoying because we have a family plan. the family plan is handled very strictly w/ one concurrent player per account. But there's always a warning about playback being paused in that case. I've been getting an uptick in music stops without any message, though, which appears to be a separate issue.
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 3 March 2017 21:24 (seven years ago) link
waht, am i understand this right? with your family plan you cant listen at the same time ? not true ime
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 3 March 2017 21:28 (seven years ago) link
It seems like a family plan should allow you to turn raffi on in the upstairs room with sonos while you listen to a different, more sophisticated raffi album downstairs, but I guess that idea doesn't increase the number of "users" with associated data, which is the goal spotify is likely chasing at the cost of 1 year olds with gmail addresses. I realize that I am getting to Jeff and stars level w/ this point.
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 3 March 2017 21:29 (seven years ago) link
I have a family plan with 4 accounts, but have not figured out a way to make each Alexa use a different Spotify account. I think there is a way to do it for my wife (since she has her own Amazon account ID), but not for the kids (yet).
― DJI, Friday, 3 March 2017 21:36 (seven years ago) link
yeah, it is currently easier to switch to offline mode and save $5/month
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 3 March 2017 21:39 (seven years ago) link
I think it might ultimately be an issue with different companies making the hardware and software. Perhaps Spotify doesn't realize that a Sonos speaker (or I imagine Alexa) has an account queued up from the last user. People are going to press play (or the equivalent) on that hardware and interrupt the person using the account elsewhere.
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 3 March 2017 21:44 (seven years ago) link
this will probably drive more people toward amazon prime
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 3 March 2017 21:45 (seven years ago) link
(if multiple accounts are handled any better. I don't actually know.)
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 3 March 2017 21:46 (seven years ago) link
powerful ads depict proud new amazon users telling spotify they can take a hike: "leave me alone - i've a family plan!"
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Friday, 3 March 2017 21:55 (seven years ago) link
upon first holding my newborn son, I turned to my exhausted wife and said "what a disaster for spotify"
― Sufjan Grafton, Friday, 3 March 2017 21:57 (seven years ago) link
^ gets it
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 3 March 2017 22:38 (seven years ago) link
Wonder why the DW icon changed
― Nesta Leaps In (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 00:45 (seven years ago) link
did you change your facebook profile photo?
― Sufjan Grafton, Tuesday, 7 March 2017 01:09 (seven years ago) link
Uh, no
― Nesta Leaps In (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 01:18 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 09:02 (seven years ago) link
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
― Moodles, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 17:05 (seven years ago) link
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...:(
― musically, Sunday, 12 March 2017 21:00 (seven years ago) link
Roku app has the same drawback
― Moodles, Sunday, 12 March 2017 21:27 (seven years ago) link
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.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 12 March 2017 21:35 (seven years ago) link
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.
― musically, Sunday, 12 March 2017 22:05 (seven years ago) link
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.
― early rejecter, Monday, 13 March 2017 00:03 (seven years ago) link
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
― a self-reinforcing downward spiral of male-centric indie (katherine), Monday, 13 March 2017 01:02 (seven years ago) link
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...
― tales of a scorched-earth nothing (Doctor Casino), Monday, 13 March 2017 04:30 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Moodles, Monday, 13 March 2017 04:34 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Moodles, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 06:40 (seven years ago) link
maybe you could just find an old apk?
― niels, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 06:48 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Moodles, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 06:54 (seven years ago) link
something like this might work http://www.apkmirror.com/uploads/?q=spotify-ltd (if you're on Android that is)
― niels, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 07:48 (seven years ago) link
yikes, I use that feature all the time, still available for the iphone thankfully
― musically, Wednesday, 15 March 2017 16:01 (seven years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/17/spotify-to-restrict-some-music-to-paying-subscribers-only
― heaven parker (anagram), Friday, 17 March 2017 09:40 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Dan Worsley, Friday, 17 March 2017 10:20 (seven years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mOPkCwWrwvo/VZhgY6mMhiI/AAAAAAAAJPw/jn6zGHSDF7g/s1600/anigif.gif
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 March 2017 10:35 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Friday, 17 March 2017 12:05 (seven years ago) link
thanks for new dn
― fucking pop records (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 17 March 2017 12:15 (seven years ago) link
fucking pop records
― qualx, Saturday, 18 March 2017 04:08 (seven years ago) link
to balance my earlier gripes I want to note my discover weekly has been excellent lately
― ogmor, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 13:54 (seven years ago) link
No idea why but the web player is back to it's old good self today.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 17:20 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 17:26 (seven years ago) link
hmm... I get 20 related artists for the Jam
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 17:30 (seven years ago) link
I guess you mean the "overview" page?
― duped and used by my worst Miss U (President Keyes), Tuesday, 21 March 2017 17:31 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, if I click on the related artists link then I get the full whack.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 17:35 (seven years ago) link
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.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 19:34 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 20:05 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Moodles, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 20:58 (seven years ago) link
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
― sleeve, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 20:58 (seven years ago) link
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?
― Moodles, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 21:01 (seven years ago) link
wait is that for real? new versions of Spotify no longer have playlists? holy shit.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 21:02 (seven years ago) link
new version of the spotify roku app
― Moodles, Tuesday, 21 March 2017 21:05 (seven years ago) link