Too many new releases, they broke Spotify!I'm in Canada, seeing the same
― maffew12, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link
In UK and all the studio albums between Second Toughest and Barking have gone.
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 8 October 2019 16:29 (four years ago) link
weird inconsistency
given the Drift releasing non-patterns it wld be really cool of them to pull six of their old albums for a few months to drive ppl toward the six new albums they're releasing in November, but this looks more like a fluke of licensing deals expiring?
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link
back nowcan't imagine that was intentional... but who knows, given how there's something technically different with seemingly every week of the Drift releases
― maffew12, Thursday, 10 October 2019 12:38 (four years ago) link
yeah I'm seeing everything (everything), abysmal deluxe version track titling and all
― nashwan, Thursday, 10 October 2019 12:49 (four years ago) link
oh wait yes it's all unplayable
Despicable. TREASON?
― nashwan, Thursday, 10 October 2019 12:55 (four years ago) link
working for me. Listening to Beaucoup Fish as I type this.
― silverfish, Thursday, 10 October 2019 13:30 (four years ago) link
"New" Scott Walker and The The tracks very much not by who you'd expect
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Thursday, 10 October 2019 22:09 (four years ago) link
and a new track by The Smiths (but not by The Smiths) came up in my Release Radar today. I thought there used to be a way to report mislabelled tracks?
― nate woolls, Thursday, 10 October 2019 23:51 (four years ago) link
indeed, about bullfighting; i'm sure Morrissey's delighted.
― fetter, Friday, 11 October 2019 09:21 (four years ago) link
The option to add an album to a playlist has returned on the android app
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 11 October 2019 09:29 (four years ago) link
it wld be really cool of them to pull six of their old albums for a few months to drive ppl toward the six new albums they're releasing in November
surprised that labels haven't pulled this shit before tbh
― groovemaaan, Friday, 11 October 2019 09:38 (four years ago) link
eheh yeah that Smiths "new release" is fun : but do artists get paid if everybody stops listening after 5secs ?
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 11 October 2019 11:47 (four years ago) link
artists don't get paid regardless, it's Spotify
― Paul Ponzi, Friday, 11 October 2019 12:43 (four years ago) link
touché !
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 11 October 2019 13:00 (four years ago) link
Reluctant as I am to add to the litany of complaints on this thread, why are all the tracks I play pausing briefly after the first nine seconds?
― The Pingularity (ledge), Friday, 11 October 2019 14:00 (four years ago) link
It was actually completely down for me yesterday, I found this page https://downdetector.com/status/spotify/ which had other commenters complaining about the nine second thing.
― The Pingularity (ledge), Friday, 11 October 2019 14:02 (four years ago) link
There was a giant delivery of old 45s this week that had a bunch of artists with the same names as much newer ones, The Smiths among them. We're on it.
Snarkiness notwithstanding, you don't get paid unless the listener plays at least 30 seconds of the song.
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 13 October 2019 01:25 (four years ago) link
Wait, Spotify rips vinyl themselves?
― brimstead, Sunday, 13 October 2019 01:29 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFkGEi0Et08
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 13 October 2019 05:23 (four years ago) link
Ha, no, "delivery" meaning "upload of music". Although I wouldn't bet that nobody has ever mailed a box of vinyl to our offices, I can say with pretty high confidence that we do no ripping of anything ever.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 15 October 2019 15:35 (four years ago) link
Anyone got an idea why most of the DM catalog is displayed in greyscale right now?
https://i.imgur.com/mpZ5Vev.jpg
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 05:00 (four years ago) link
^ browser version, btw.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 05:01 (four years ago) link
Doesn't that mean not available, but it's showing because you've told it to display non-available tracks?
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 29 October 2019 07:18 (four years ago) link
No, they play as normal.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 11:35 (four years ago) link
That's weird. I'll see if I can find out why it is...
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link
Seems to be the work of the band (or label), not a bug, but I don't know why. A little searching turned up a bunch of reddit threads of speculation about it, but no answers.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 17:17 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I was informed it was like this on all platforms.
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 20:13 (four years ago) link
There is a problem on the spotify android app with many artists pages displaying just a shuffle button. This has been mentioned by other premium users on twitter.
― djmartian, Tuesday, 29 October 2019 21:04 (four years ago) link
Someone probably mentioned this already but it would be really great if when adding a song to a playlist it brought up the last playlist you added to? Sort of like saving a file on a pc .
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:54 (four years ago) link
lol my bad there is an option. don’t know if it was always there but cool
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
actually no it just filters the last playlist added not the last playlist you added something to
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:59 (four years ago) link
Did you try the Relevance filter?
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 21:21 (four years ago) link
I've been waiting for this for years: https://gizmodo.com/spotify-is-testing-a-new-social-feature-that-could-add-1840533060
― DJI, Thursday, 19 December 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
Here's a legit non-existential issue I have with Spotify -- my artwork for my most recent album disappeared. It's bizarre. Still there on other services, so presumably doesn't have anything to do with distro.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 19 December 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link
i have been screaming for user tastemakers since spotify started; where's my check
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 19 December 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
I've hung on to my $5/month Spotify Unlimited acct for years, never "upgraded" to Premium. At some point I put the Spotify app on my phone; I don't remember why, since Unlimited is supposed to be desktop-only. But I used the app yesterday to see if I could look stuff up on it even if I couldn't play it, and discovered that I can now use the phone app for playback! I don't know if it's an app bug, account bug or account upgrade, but it's pretty nice. (Glenn, if it's an account bug, don't rat me out.)
― Miami weisse (WmC), Saturday, 25 January 2020 02:35 (four years ago) link
Ha, I see the codes for those old accounts in queries sometimes. You've probably outlived the special-cases in the code that were intended to restrict them...
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 25 January 2020 02:42 (four years ago) link
victory through attrition
― Miami weisse (WmC), Saturday, 25 January 2020 02:55 (four years ago) link
The only thing I'm OCD about in the world is music metadata, so it's a bummer when a reissue gets the year of the reissue rather than then original year. It's sorta understandable if it's remaster, but this is the same Recloose LP that was released in 2002.
― lukas, Thursday, 30 January 2020 23:26 (four years ago) link
drives me crazy when it's the reissue year and not the original.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 31 January 2020 00:24 (four years ago) link
This morning we announced that @spotify is acquiring The Ringer. Couldn’t be more excited to work with @eldsjal and his phenomenal team.More details to come down the road... but @ringer will remain @ringer in every respect. They appreciate what we do and they want us to be us.— Bill Simmons (@BillSimmons) February 5, 2020
― Mordy, Wednesday, 5 February 2020 17:56 (four years ago) link
glenn, can you make the track titles on Selected Ambient Works II show up as the little pie charts? thanks
― lukas, Wednesday, 19 February 2020 00:02 (four years ago) link
I have a collaborative playlist with a couple of friends but I can't add to it from the browser version, and it's quite difficult to add even on the phone app, though doable, in a reeeeal make shift way. I know it's because it's someone else's playlist but given he's made it editable, and I follow it, it would be very cool if I could add things to it easier.
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Wednesday, 19 February 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
I'm not kvetching 'cause I love this thing really but I don't really get how after two or three weeks of listening to Vangelis, Jarre, TD etc, Discovery can recommend me Emmylou Harris and Buffy Sainte-Marie.
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:25 (four years ago) link
Discover Weekly uses six months of your listening history...
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:34 (four years ago) link
Ok, that's good to know, though I've definitely had it respond faster than that before. Still not sure who's been listening to country on my account!
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 15:37 (four years ago) link
Ah, maybe the 6 months thing explains why DW sometimes gives me tracks I've listened to many times before (a while ago).
― Alba, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 18:30 (four years ago) link
I do feel that it's often surprisingly cohesive as a playlist: eg one week it'll be very heavy on a particular genre. Which would make sense, but it may be an artifact of my pattern-sensing brain.
― Alba, Tuesday, 25 February 2020 18:31 (four years ago) link
i've basically stopped listening to DW because it's been like >50% repeats for over a year now
― ℺ ☽ ⋠ ⏎ (✖), Tuesday, 25 February 2020 18:38 (four years ago) link