Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Thanks again for clear (and reassuring) replies, it is very much appreciated.

Want to not ever see podcasts again in the desktop app, or customize in other ways?

https://github.com/spicetify/

Hallelujah!

Was looking forward all day to listen to Hejira until I remembered :(

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=hejira+full+album

Well, you could always consider buying a download. Or listening on Youtube. There are many ways to hear that album online!

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It’s in print on CD too

in a way, you did listen to joni's hejira

What is fucking up with the new interface? Albums now buried several clicks deep and are in a list form with tracks instead of just the album art. You can reset the latter, but when you click back to the albums from an individual album, it resets back to the list form with tracks.

If this is the way it is supposed to be, I'm out.

The thing with the view switching back is just a bug, and should be fixed soonish...

Interface just keeps getting worse

Glenn, I appreciate all your patience dealing with our bullshit.

That said, feel free to pass along that burying basic content (like albums) to privilege dumb stuff like podcasts and whatever marginally related ephemera they are trying to cram near the top is enraging.

Interface just keeps getting worse

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ongoing-Issues/Now-Playing-bar-missing-on-Android/idi-p/5364978

anyone else bitten by this one?

I've had it happen briefly, restarting the app helped

same

the UX on the desktop app is rough with the new changes. having to constantly change the view options just to see 'albums'.

xps yeh, restarting does the job

yep, been happening a lot lately. just restart the app. it's annoying, but a ten second fix at most.

death by 1 thousand cuts

THis thing of albums bei9ng listed as a list with the tracklist between lp titles instead of thumbnails is more annoying than before since you used to be able to choose which one you used and now it seems to be doing th choosing and keeps reverting to the track by track thing. So I have to keep hitting the thumbnails option.
bloomin bloom

Every time I use this garbage app I have to learn new UI navigations

I could never quite make out the words...

https://i.imgur.com/NvzQ7ya.png

Lol.

But I came to post that I just got an interesting recommendation for a new release by “John Cale.”

Spotify leavesa lot of data on my phone or at least once my phone has played several podcasts it is taking up a lot of data storage. So I have up til now run ccleaner to get rid of it every day. So I don't run out of space which has happened before. For some reason when I went to check ccleaner to highlight the data storage there is no Spotify visible on the app. So whatever storage is being taken up is presumably just going to continue accumulating. Not sure how you get around that. Do I just reinstall both ccleaner and Spotify or is there anything else i can do.

You can just go into settings on the Spotify app and select 'Clear Cache'

I have many times found it necessary to uninstall and reinstall Spotify to get it to truly delete downloaded music. Hasn't been an issue yet with my current phone so maybe it's somewhat fixed or maybe I just haven't been using it as much.

unknown to google artist/track claiming to feature PJ Harvey and Bat for Lashes. Hmmmm. https://open.spotify.com/album/5xOAZ1sDrCZjfc320v8JV0?si=DpTyUMOjS3iR6xuktxlMHA

Minor quibble and I guess the algorithms aren't perfect but I listen to The Beths quite a lot yet only found out about their new track from the thread on ILX, rather than through my Release Radar playlist.

The new “Deerhunter” single in my new release playlist is interesting

There are a handful of things I miss from Spotify since I switched to Tidal, but not having (so far) any fake bands polluting my "new arrivals" playlist is reason enough to make me very happy with my decision to switch.

The new “Deerhunter” single in my new release playlist is interesting

This one popped up in my Release Radar:

I had to listen to it. Was surprised to find that it was not trap stuff, but kind of an unremarkable home studio produced shoegaze-y pop rock thing. I wonder how/why it got uploaded with these tags.

oops.. https://i.imgur.com/89qZSke.png

i hate that false tag shit. got a new release notification for david axelrod a while back and it turns out it was just some dunce who used a david axelrod sample in a song.

Disappointing it wasn’t a least a speech by the former Obama aide.

heardle doesn't work for me anymore, thanks Spotify

If you makes you guys feel any better, that false tag stuff also happens on Amazon Music – plus the UI totally sucks.

anyone tried https://earth.fm/

i use the queue feature very often and something that i would find extremely useful is a "play last in queue" option. i like to put on three or four albums in a row and sometimes add on to that in the middle, so a "play last" option would be ideal. the way the queue works now is functional, but kind of clunky. anyone have any insights?

I just use playlists for everything. I always have multiple listening plans going, so the one queue isn't useful.

I use playlists for organizing albums - feels kind of weird since... well, they're albums. But works fine.

It seems like there are a lot of multiple instances of the same album on Spotify as observed only when re-adding a track to a playlist that's already in it and the app failing to detect the duplication (despite only one instance of the album appearing in search results and being navigable to). I'm frequently adding tracks to large playlists, realising later they're already in (same version btw) and then removing them manually.

I've never head that tbh - always get the 'Already in playlist' message

You can drag songs to the top of your queue once they've been added (both on desktop and phone clients) xps

It seems like there are a lot of multiple instances of the same album on Spotify

Yeah, there are, see e.g. the albums list near the top of this page from Glenn's site. In most cases, however, it seems that various instances are simply used for different sets of countries, in which case a single given user would rarely add the same track from two different instances of an album.

Actually, I thought cross-instance same-track-ness was (supposed to be) caught by the mechanism – further down on the page, a given track is clearly associated with various releases and instances, so I thought this info might be used for duplicate warnings as well as e.g. for the (very useful) play count harmonization, but a simple test (adding a song from a single and an album) gives no warning, so I guess it isn't.

not important or interesting whatsoever but-

why does the #1 song have so many fewer plays than the ones below it?

https://i.imgur.com/aFyevwp_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

does it have to do with recent trends?

(hope that works. imgur seems to not want anyone to post photos off-site anymore. here's the link in case)

yeah, it has to be current popularity. Beyonce's entire top ten is from the new album, even though those songs have much lower play counts than her huge hits.

Yeah, Glenn's addressed this before - ranking is a secret algorithmic sauce, presumably meant to address both current and lifetime popularity. I imagine they want you to quickly see the songs that possibly led you towards that artist, which could be something trending recently as opposed to their biggest catalog classics.

I just wish there were a separate page that just shows you every single track ranked with play count, but I concede that this is a niche use which would used primarily by ILM posters.

I'm glad there isn't, Dr Casino. That would probably depress me.