So they got rid of starred tracks … then added Liked Tracks … which instead of including my years of starred tracks, includes every track from every album I have saved?
― but everybody calls me, (lukas), Monday, 24 June 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link
yeah real confused by this
― big city slam (Spottie), Monday, 24 June 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link
xxpost Yeah, I mainly listen on my phone...
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 24 June 2019 18:14 (four years ago) link
Although in good news, they've finally made it so you can save an album without saving every track in the album! Hurrah!
― closed beta (NotEnough), Monday, 24 June 2019 18:21 (four years ago) link
this garbage program now has so much bloatware and pointless code tacked onto it that it no longer runs on my Macbook Pro, it takes somewhere between "5 minutes" and "never" to do anything like search an artist, switch playlists, or click on an album. gonna be cancelling my paid sub after maybe 3 years because no, I am not buying a new fucking computer when I can stream Netflix as well or better than I could 3 years ago.
IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT
Spotify Version 1.1.10.540.gfcf0430f
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Mid 2012)2.5 GHz Intel Core i54 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
― Skip Spence None the Richer (sleeve), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 01:23 (four years ago) link
(I needed to hear a few Mekons songs I didn't know, I went to Youtube instead)
― Skip Spence None the Richer (sleeve), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 01:24 (four years ago) link
"You have forced Spotify to quit. Send a report to Apple"
― Skip Spence None the Richer (sleeve), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 01:25 (four years ago) link
i was able to roll back to an old version after they removed the search bar (lol thx dudes), iirc i just googled for it and found a page with a bunch of diff revisions & was back in business. you might need to change some permissions so it doesn't auto-update but it'll work fine.
― lumen (esby), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 01:37 (four years ago) link
it is definitely bloating to unpleasant proportions
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 03:14 (four years ago) link
I'm running the same version on a late 2013 2.4GHz Intel Core i5 and I have to say it's … completely fine, when God knows many things on this MacBook are really not any more. I do have 8GB of RAM so I guess that could be the difference but really, Chrome quite regularly seizes up on this machine (and the other day, Notes!) so I wonder if not about bloat and more something specific that gets fucked up with the installation or preferences on some machines.
― Alba, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 04:28 (four years ago) link
I use the browser version, no bloat (and no ads!)
― the last Berry La Croix in the work fridge (morrisp), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 04:34 (four years ago) link
On my 2013 iMac at work the application is useless, freezes all the time, doesn't do searches or anything really, same as Sleeve. Can only use the webplayer.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 07:04 (four years ago) link
The browser version has lower sound quality, though, no?
The app experience on my Windows PC is pretty dreadful, it drags and noticeably slows down after running for more than 15 minutes, and sometimes even freezes the whole fucking computer. The Android version was fine until fairly recently but lately it's been crashing a lot and I get the 'offline mode' error when I'm not. I'm thinking of cancelling my subscription as well, there's no point in paying for something that makes me want to pull my hair out in frustration.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 12:39 (four years ago) link
Not sure about the lower quality, I wouldn't notice that cause of the in-built imac speakers not being great obv. But yeah, it's frustrating as hell that the app is woeful.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 24 July 2019 12:54 (four years ago) link
Premium user here, using the Android app. I used to be able to download a whole album and then remove certain tracks from it. So if I downloaded a whole reissued album including bonus tracks, for example, I could remove those bonus tracks from the download which I didn't want, in order to save space. But now it seems to have changed so that it's all or nothing. Every track has the little green downward arrow next to it, indicating that it's been downloaded, but if I tap the three dots menu next to an individual track there is no option to remove that track, as there used to be. I can remove the whole album download and that's it. Am I missing something?
― van dyke parks generator (anagram), Wednesday, 24 July 2019 13:06 (four years ago) link
Can you make a playlist of just the tracks you want and download THAT instead? Works for me.
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Thursday, 25 July 2019 02:38 (four years ago) link
https://variety.com/2019/music/news/spotify-book-authors-interview-daniel-ek-steve-jobs-1203277715/
― the last Berry La Croix in the work fridge (morrisp), Thursday, 25 July 2019 03:27 (four years ago) link
I'm always a little disappointed when I open this thread and people are complaining about functionality rather than their effect on music /the music industry.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 25 July 2019 03:41 (four years ago) link
After reading all of these complaints about the various Spotify interfaces, I'm forced to wonder: Anybody else using Daphile's "Spotty" plug-in? It's not perfect, but it's all business compared to the app and browser versions.
Daphile is a bit of a pain to massage into compliance, but once it works . . .
― Got the Human League in to Advise Me (FlappyPants), Friday, 26 July 2019 13:02 (four years ago) link
And, Jordan, I buy expensive vinyl and cheap CD box sets. So fuck off.
― Got the Human League in to Advise Me (FlappyPants), Friday, 26 July 2019 13:03 (four years ago) link
Hey I use it too, I'm as guilty as anybody.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 26 July 2019 13:22 (four years ago) link
I use Spotty on Logitech Media Server... in addition to desktop and Android Spotify, which I've been lucky enough with. This is the first I'm hearing of "daphile".. what's the advantage over LMS?There are plenty of discussions on ilx about the state of the business/streaming. Do we need one specific to Spotify in that regard?
― maffew12, Friday, 26 July 2019 13:23 (four years ago) link
Nevermind.. just looked up Daphile, another repackaging of LMS. Cool. I've used piCorePlayer similarly. Right now since I've got a Windows server always on, it's just LMS on that.Definitely recommend some flavour of LMS to anyone who listens to much of anything at home, in more than one room and/or one computer.If anyone previously checked out the Spotify integration, it's slicker these days with Spotify Connect integration and all that.
― maffew12, Friday, 26 July 2019 13:28 (four years ago) link
I guess people use Tidal/Apple Music, but Spotify feels close to becoming a genericized trademark for streaming. Happy to move my complaints to another thread and leave this for Spotify minutiae though.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 26 July 2019 15:09 (four years ago) link
I will fight proprietary eponyms until I fall over
― maffew12, Friday, 26 July 2019 15:40 (four years ago) link
I'd just like to randomly drop a complaint about how Spotify won't allow you to follow labels, and in some clients (iOS for sure) won't even search by label. I've always discovered new music by exploring catalogs of smaller curated labels. Maybe Spotify has some interest in diminishing the importance of the label? I'd much rather quickly build a playlist based on a label than what an algorithm things fits a mood. </old man rant>
― beard papa, Friday, 26 July 2019 17:02 (four years ago) link
Some labels have accounts that are worth following. Numero Group, notably.
― bendy, Friday, 26 July 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, July 24, 2019 11:41 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
otm
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 26 July 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
i was able to roll back to an old version after they removed the search bar (lol thx dudes)
Search bar is back! back!! back!!! Bad idea was bad.
My Windows and Android clients both run very smoothly atm. But I do pretty much loathe the "always be tinkering" ethos they and seemingly everyone else have bought into the last decade or so.
― anatol_merklich, Friday, 26 July 2019 20:39 (four years ago) link
Maybe this is why you outsource GUI design? So you don't have to find things for the designers on staff to do all the time.
― DJI, Friday, 26 July 2019 21:42 (four years ago) link
Man, the new Frankie Rose single, "Back", that showed up in Release Radar is a big surprise. Wasn't expecting her to go in that direction.
― beard papa, Friday, 26 July 2019 23:04 (four years ago) link
I saw that too, was sure it was a new song by Beck called Frankie Rose
― calstars, Friday, 26 July 2019 23:06 (four years ago) link
ugh, very annoying, was excited for a second there
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 26 July 2019 23:10 (four years ago) link
Lol I got that too. I was hoping she’d go trap!
― DJI, Saturday, 27 July 2019 00:54 (four years ago) link
Label data, unfortunately, is extremely messy. It's just label names entered as text by the licensors, at the moment. So although we (Spotify) would like to be able to have label pages like we have artist pages, we're a long way from being able to do that coherently...
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 27 July 2019 02:58 (four years ago) link
I'd just like to randomly drop a complaint about how Spotify won't allow you to follow labels, and in some clients (iOS for sure) won't even search by label.
I agree that label related features are generally bad, and would very much like label specific pages etc., but as far as I can tell, searches still work. for example, label:"posh isolation" year:2019 gets me what I would expect across all clients that I've tried.
― fffv, Saturday, 27 July 2019 03:01 (four years ago) link
I agree that label related features are generally bad, and would very much like label specific pages etc., but as far as I can tell, searches still work. for example, /label:"posh isolation" year:2019/ gets me what I would expect across all clients that I've tried.
― beard papa, Saturday, 27 July 2019 15:54 (four years ago) link
Am noticing a fair bit of playlist degradation, with tracks no longer available to play, even though the albums are. Do albums get removed and re-added, and if so is any effort made to re-synch with tracks that were previously added to playlists?
― The Pingularity (ledge), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 10:09 (four years ago) link
In fact it looks like 90% of the songs on playlists I transferred from itunes a few years ago, using an automated service on the web, are no longer available :(
― The Pingularity (ledge), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 10:58 (four years ago) link
Noticed this as well, older lists built with a lot of Local Files of music that is clearly available in the spotify library are mostly not recognized anymore.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Wednesday, 31 July 2019 11:51 (four years ago) link
WHY THE FUCK DO THE CONSTANTLY CHANGE THIS APP FOR NO GOOD FUCKING REASON ?
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 1 August 2019 15:49 (four years ago) link
local files wish ye was heyah
― calstars, Friday, 2 August 2019 01:20 (four years ago) link
Local Files is pretty decent these days all in all (finding stuff you add there instantly) as long as you don't care about wanting to update track metadata within the app (which I still do in MediaMonkey now and then as that had the best approach for this I've ever encountered).
Going between phone and desktop apps though and I keep having to manually clear the playlist queue on the phone only for it to keep coming back - this seems worse than ever lately and keeps catching me out as I forget there had previously been a queue (rightly, having removed each track from it manually on the phone app already) so really jarring when you expect the next track in a playlist or on an album instead. There isn't even a 'Clear entire Queue' option to at least do this with one click or touch.
― nashwan, Wednesday, 14 August 2019 09:23 (four years ago) link
(finding stuff you add there instantly)
if only
― And according to some websites, there were “sexcapades.” (James Morrison), Thursday, 15 August 2019 00:21 (four years ago) link
One very annoying thing about Spotify is the way it treats EPs. They are listed with the artist’s singles - which is fine in itself if you’re not going to make a separate section for them. The problem is that instead of being listed chronologically along with those singles EPs are relegated all the way to the bottom of the singles listing. So if someone has released, say, 25 singles since 2012, you’d have to remind yourself to look below all of those for that new EP they might have released this year. It’s completely counterintuitive.(I’m talking mobile here, the desktop version is pretty much unusable anyway, as others have mentioned)
― breastcrawl, Sunday, 18 August 2019 14:35 (four years ago) link
I should've added 'once you search for it' there true
― nashwan, Sunday, 18 August 2019 14:42 (four years ago) link
One very annoying thing about Spotify is the way it treats EPs. They are listed with the artist’s singles - which is fine in itself if you’re not going to make a separate section for them. The problem is that instead of being listed chronologically along with those singles EPs are relegated all the way to the bottom of the singles listing. So if someone has released, say, 25 singles since 2012, you’d have to remind yourself to look below all of those for that new EP they might have released this year. It’s completely counterintuitive.
do you have an example of this? everything I've seen has all of the singles and EPs grouped together in descending release date order. for example, here what I got from the Carla Dal Forno artist page:
Name: Took A Long TimeRelease Date: 2019-07-24Number of Tracks: 1Name: So Much BetterRelease Date: 2019-04-16Number of Tracks: 2Name: Top Of The PopsRelease Date: 2018-10-12Number of Tracks: 6Name: The GardenRelease Date: 2017-10-06Number of Tracks: 4Name: What You Gonna Do Now?Release Date: 2016-08-03Number of Tracks: 1Name: Fast Moving CarsRelease Date: 2016-04-29Number of Tracks: 2
Name: So Much BetterRelease Date: 2019-04-16Number of Tracks: 2
Name: Top Of The PopsRelease Date: 2018-10-12Number of Tracks: 6
Name: The GardenRelease Date: 2017-10-06Number of Tracks: 4
Name: What You Gonna Do Now?Release Date: 2016-08-03Number of Tracks: 1
Name: Fast Moving CarsRelease Date: 2016-04-29Number of Tracks: 2
― fffv, Monday, 19 August 2019 15:11 (four years ago) link
this is also the way they come back from the API. as a heavy Spotify user, I'm not saying that there aren't things that drive me crazy about the UI, but I also see stuff in this thread that doesn't make sense.
― fffv, Monday, 19 August 2019 15:15 (four years ago) link
See, with me it’s different.In descending order:Took A Long Time (2019) (isolated above the Albums section, as Latest Release)So Much Better (2019)What You Gonna Do Now (2016)Fast Moving Cars (2016)Top Of The Pops (2018)The Garden (2017)(with the last two being EPs)You are talking about the mobile version, right?
― breastcrawl, Monday, 19 August 2019 16:43 (four years ago) link