please mark, you can’t reasonably expect your whole life to be one big birthday
― Regard the timeless piano balladeeress! (breastcrawl), Monday, 28 September 2020 13:08 (three years ago) link
*throws embarrassing tantrum*
― mark s, Monday, 28 September 2020 13:12 (three years ago) link
why is the web app so much worse now, releases on artist pages are now automatically sorted by popularity mixing singles and albums and EPs all together. you can click on the "popular releases" heading to get through to a better organised discography like before but only if they have enough releases and the text space for release titles is limited enough to be annoying which it wasn't before
― ufo, Thursday, 1 October 2020 05:06 (three years ago) link
my desktop version has been being pretty erratic over the last couple of weeks. I'm getting duplicate podcasts turning up in my queue.& they don't delete. NOt sure what is going on . Pretty annoying having to correct it.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 1 October 2020 09:34 (three years ago) link
― ufo, Thursday, October 1, 2020 7:06 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
This is the case - and indeed highly annoying. They did, yesterday, at least change one thing back, which is putting the latest release on the left again (that had also disappeared, so you had to scroll through popular to find the latest one yourself). It's a mess.
― Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 1 October 2020 09:39 (three years ago) link
So a lot of artists "popular releases" now list the same (the newest) album twice, on the left side. Prob because it's both most popular (because it's new) and the newest. It looks like this, and it's ridiculous imo:
https://i.imgur.com/irSt4ee.png
https://i.imgur.com/CVBF62B.png
― Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 1 October 2020 09:42 (three years ago) link
i expect that those pages are used only a tiny fraction of the amount that the big playlists are, so they become an afterthought. anything considered 'niche' functionality - even something as basic as an artist page - will get deprioritized
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 1 October 2020 10:13 (three years ago) link
You're probably right, but it was good the way it was? Sorted by release year, descending in order from left to right. If it doesn't have a big priority, just leave it be, it was ok the way it was.
― Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 1 October 2020 10:15 (three years ago) link
wtf Loveless has gone
― closed beta (NotEnough), Thursday, 1 October 2020 15:21 (three years ago) link
Don't worry, it'll probably be back soon in fifteen years time.
― Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 1 October 2020 15:41 (three years ago) link
Wha? I can still see it, here in the US at least.
― Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 1 October 2020 15:42 (three years ago) link
nope, not here in the UK. guess the thought of someone listening to it at 320kbps finally got to him.
― closed beta (NotEnough), Thursday, 1 October 2020 18:39 (three years ago) link
All the MBV albums have been gone from Spotify since spring 2019 for me.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Thursday, 1 October 2020 19:00 (three years ago) link
if you ever want to check which regions an album is available on Spotify, for making a playlist for people overseas etc, there's this tool:
http://kaaes.github.io/albums-availability/
These are the current limits of Kevin Shields' empire:
https://i.imgur.com/AQsT4Bl.png
― Alba, Thursday, 1 October 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
I think the tool needs to be updated, as the grey seems to indicate countries where Spotify itself is unavailable, but Ireland and North African countries have been added since then, I think. But good for checking US/UK etc.
― Alba, Thursday, 1 October 2020 19:10 (three years ago) link
Can a VPN get around that or is it based on verified billing address?
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Thursday, 1 October 2020 20:27 (three years ago) link
The latest MBV is not on US Spotify.
― Boring, Maryland, Thursday, 1 October 2020 21:01 (three years ago) link
Onimo - I think it's based on IP address not billing country so yes I guess a VPN woild work in theory
― Alba, Thursday, 1 October 2020 21:31 (three years ago) link
No, it's based on where you pay.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 2 October 2020 01:17 (three years ago) link
Should have just waited for Glenn – apologies for bad information.
― Alba, Friday, 2 October 2020 01:25 (three years ago) link
What the ....? https://open.spotify.com/show/2Zy2XZMKHDGBSv8ouqwZ0R
― Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 October 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
get that starred
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Monday, 5 October 2020 19:14 (three years ago) link
android app having many issues with the playbar freezing
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 20:38 (three years ago) link
or maybe not freezing. just displaying the wrong songs and showing |> instead of || while playing. seems to be a real bug related to recent android update. it eventually happens after every reboot. anyone else notice this?
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 20:42 (three years ago) link
I've had this happen a few times recently
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 21:03 (three years ago) link
I usually have to exit and then force stop the app to clear it up
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 21:04 (three years ago) link
yes, me too
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 21:10 (three years ago) link
Oh, me too! I just assumed it was my shitty phone being shitty, glad it's just the Spotify app being vmic.
― closed beta (NotEnough), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 21:38 (three years ago) link
this happens to me constantly
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 21:43 (three years ago) link
app is borderline unusable now
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 October 2020 02:04 (three years ago) link
Is this the latest Android update?
Not had any problems with it at all myself (on Moto G7)
― groovypanda, Thursday, 8 October 2020 07:07 (three years ago) link
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Spotify-displaying-incorrect-track/td-p/4632956
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 October 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link
a master class in shit support
i'm not anyone in that thread. i just hate when the response is restart your app/phone/reinstall, when clearly everyone has already done that.
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 October 2020 18:31 (three years ago) link
Yup. Check your power supply!
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 October 2020 18:35 (three years ago) link
I never used playlists on shuffle until recently and have had the pleasure of discovering how shit the shuffle algorithm (or whatever) is. 207 song playlist, same ~40 songs play. It does a great job of shuffling those 40, though. #FFS
― (show hidden tics) (WmC), Thursday, 8 October 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link
#GREATREVIVE
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 October 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
I find that shuffle works better or worse depending on the device.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 9 October 2020 01:59 (three years ago) link
If Spotify follow the standard tech company playbook for bugs, they'll do this "restart your phone/clean install/probably another app on your phone/manufacturer fault" gaslighting bullshit for a month or so then a new version will drop that fixes the bug and they'll act dumb about it. Their inability to just say"yes, there's a bug, we're working on it" is maddening.
― closed beta (NotEnough), Friday, 9 October 2020 06:09 (three years ago) link
That example was one of the worst though- user shares screenshot showing full bar wifi and 4G- "I see you are using 4G try using it with a strong wifi"- user explains what wifi symbol means- "try using it with 4G!"
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Friday, 9 October 2020 15:57 (three years ago) link
In the absence of comprehensive year of release data on Spotify, I've started the epic task of putting every one of my Liked Songs into a playlist for its respective year. Am I crazy? I'll just do a few a day. It's then relatively portable, given the tools available for exporting playlists.
― Alba, Friday, 9 October 2020 19:34 (three years ago) link
both the web player and the android app are a bit shit for me, constantly
― here comes the hotstamper (jim in vancouver), Friday, 9 October 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
specifically the android app just pauses playing for a few seconds every x minutes and on the web player I get "something went wrong, try reloading the page" if I try to look at an artist, album etc.
I most often listen to Spotify on my Roku, which has all sorts of limitations - can't make playlists or adjust queues, etc. You have to use the (very simple) Roku remote for everything.
Anyway, was thrilled to find Brooks' Red Tape is back on Spotify (one of my fav albums from the 2000s)...if only they would add the ep's and You, Me and Us as well. Brooks should not be forgotten.
― Alpha 666, The Number of the Beast (I M Losted), Sunday, 11 October 2020 11:22 (three years ago) link
What is this Time Capsule you speak of, my Spotify Hipster Friend?
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 October 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link
Today I was offered a daily drive/daily commute playlist - your favourite songs interspersed with news and sports updates. Turns out you get to hear adverts you've paid to avoid as they're embedded in the bulletins. Ads aside though, I kind of like the idea for early morning listening.
(my daily commute is from my bedroom to my bathroom to the kitchen to the dining table)
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Monday, 12 October 2020 23:36 (three years ago) link
I'm very confused by this song that showed up on my Release Radar today, mostly for the third artist listed on the track. https://open.spotify.com/track/2DztFyWY3hyCArDb9VINk2?si=5iQU6VydSoiSIyl8nR8Hjg
That's gotta be some sort of glitch, right? It seems highly unlikely that there is another group with that name...
― MarkoP, Friday, 16 October 2020 04:23 (three years ago) link
I don’t even need to click on that link to know that I was served the same track.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 16 October 2020 06:57 (three years ago) link
^^ thirded.
― Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 16 October 2020 09:03 (three years ago) link
Ah Moveek! I’m familiar with Moveek. He’s a Nigerian artist who sometimes tries to boost his streaming numbers by tagging a famous Afropop artist’s name (like Starboy/Wizkid, Tiwa Savage or Tekno) to his songs, without them actually being on the track (but he’s also done this with Major Lazer, for instance). In the years I’ve been following Nigerian pop there’s always been a few of these types around. Many of these tracks are taken down from Spotify eventually, but some of them remain.So why have he and this “Caravan” type now gone for Stars of the Lid, an act in a totally different genre, not particularly well-known or popular, and also not a name with other connotations that I’m aware of? I’m guessing for the same reason he’s also been tagging artist names like “Feist”, “The Cab” and “Regard” (and of course “Caravan” is an established artist name in its own right as well).Maybe picking artists outside of his own genre that have a popularity of some significance, but not so much that they might have people actively looking out for activity like this (like I imagine a Major Lazer might), is his way of laying low while still picking up the extra streams he wants from fans of those acts that make it 30 seconds into his track.Gotta respect the hustle!
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Friday, 16 October 2020 10:12 (three years ago) link