One thing really bugging me still is in the Friend Activity panel if you see they're listening to their 'Your Top Songs 2022' playlist if you click on that you get yours rather than theirs. I actually kinda hope that's a bug because surely people wanna see each others versions of this playlist?
― nashwan, Wednesday, 22 February 2023 23:08 (one year ago) link
I imagine that's a privacy thing
― Alba, Thursday, 23 February 2023 01:03 (one year ago) link
Alba's explanation of aggregation by recording is correct. Liked Songs ought to do the same thing, in principle, but didn't originally and it apparently hasn't been a high enough priority to fix yet.
The single magic link to everybody's own Your Top Songs playlist is partly a feature, partly a technical shortcut. It turns out to be way easier to have just one link than one for each person...
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 23 February 2023 02:08 (one year ago) link
Time for me to turn off auto app updates, I think
Spotify is redesigning its app to create a TikTok-like feed.Here’s why it will go down as one the biggest new product announcements this year:— Turner Novak 🍌🧢 (@TurnerNovak) February 24, 2023
― Alba, Monday, 27 February 2023 14:25 (one year ago) link
"Rudy Van Gelder Edition / 2007 DIGITAL REMASTER" appearing at the end of every song title: c/d?
― up and down. SO FAST! stay together.💙 (Austin), Tuesday, 28 February 2023 14:05 (one year ago) link
xp further evidence if it were needed that they are not a music company.
― ledge, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 15:19 (one year ago) link
Well this sounds like hell
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 00:28 (one year ago) link
Terrible, no thank you
― omar little, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 00:34 (one year ago) link
There better be some way to turn this shit off.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 00:57 (one year ago) link
Not sure it will make any difference to me. Don't think I've ever scrolled down my home page before and the top part looks like it'll be the same as it is now
This is my Home screen now: pic.twitter.com/MQvGiEApKg— Charles Osborne (@charlieosborne) February 26, 2023
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 07:24 (one year ago) link
And its spent the past few years expanding beyond music into podcasts, audiobooks, live streams, and even video on some podcasts.Spotify is now a full-on media platform.
Spotify is now a full-on media platform.
Yeah, they expanded into a shittier version of each of those things than previously existed, while making the app more of a hassle to use to listen to music.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 1 March 2023 07:38 (one year ago) link
― Alba, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 09:39 (one year ago) link
Been having a new problem during the past week. I'll be listening to a full album and then the app jumps to a song that's not in the album, but maybe Spotify thinks is similar.For instance, last night I was listening to Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia. After the song Pretty Please, it segued into Miley Cyrus (feat. Dua Lipa) song Prisoner. This song is featured on an expanded edition of Future Nostalgia (not the version I was listening to), but the one I got had the art for the Miley Cyrus album.Then this morning, I put on Pink Floyd's Animals. After Pigs on the Wing (Part One), Spotify shifted to Strange Brew by Cream, a song that I can guarantee I've never listened to on the app.This has happened one or two other times in the past week. Has anyone else experienced it? I'm wondering if there's a setting or something that I need to toggle.― peace, man, Thursday, January 19, 2023 7:30 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
For instance, last night I was listening to Dua Lipa's Future Nostalgia. After the song Pretty Please, it segued into Miley Cyrus (feat. Dua Lipa) song Prisoner. This song is featured on an expanded edition of Future Nostalgia (not the version I was listening to), but the one I got had the art for the Miley Cyrus album.
Then this morning, I put on Pink Floyd's Animals. After Pigs on the Wing (Part One), Spotify shifted to Strange Brew by Cream, a song that I can guarantee I've never listened to on the app.
This has happened one or two other times in the past week. Has anyone else experienced it? I'm wondering if there's a setting or something that I need to toggle.
― peace, man, Thursday, January 19, 2023 7:30 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink
Just turned on a Ladysmith Black Mambazo album and after the first song it took me to the Rolling Stones' You Gotta Move off Sticky Fingers!
― peace, man, Saturday, 4 March 2023 12:53 (one year ago) link
Autoplay is not on, but I did listen to about 50% of Sway a few hours ago. Still, not what I wantes at the moment, Spotify!
― peace, man, Saturday, 4 March 2023 12:57 (one year ago) link
algorithm pea brain probably went Ladysmith Black whatever >> Brown Sugar >> other Sticky Fingers track
― let us now celebrate ama ‘piano’ smith & the clowns (breastcrawl), Saturday, 4 March 2023 13:17 (one year ago) link
Could you maybe have stuff in your queue?
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 4 March 2023 13:19 (one year ago) link
^^
I haven't ever had that happen to me unless I had tracks queued
― c u (crüt), Saturday, 4 March 2023 13:22 (one year ago) link
I don't even know what a queue is, in spotify terms.
― peace, man, Saturday, 4 March 2023 14:04 (one year ago) link
Like, I get the concept, but I've never used it before. Maybe if I managed to somehow pocket-queue the song? Seems like a reach though, because I've never pocket-activated any of the other features on that menu "i.e. Hide This Song, Add to Playlist, Sleep Timer, etc"
― peace, man, Saturday, 4 March 2023 14:09 (one year ago) link
the "random song playing" glitch happened to me a few times several weeks back, but only when listening on my smartphone. seems like whatever was in the next update a few days later fixed it.
i otoh am a queue obsessive and have many suggestions on how to make it a lot better☺
(seriously, you guys don't use it?! it's rad! you drop in whatever you want then you're good for a few hours.)
― .here to stay like racism. (Austin), Saturday, 4 March 2023 15:11 (one year ago) link
Use queue all the time. Definitely one of the features I couldn't live without.
― groovypanda, Saturday, 4 March 2023 15:31 (one year ago) link
well, yeah
― let us now celebrate ama ‘piano’ smith & the clowns (breastcrawl), Saturday, 4 March 2023 15:54 (one year ago) link
I don’t know how you could not use the queue.
― Wile E. Galore (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 4 March 2023 20:00 (one year ago) link
I basically use playlists instead of the queue...
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 4 March 2023 20:40 (one year ago) link
me too, use the queue mostly when hanging out with people who all want to play songs
― corrs unplugged, Saturday, 4 March 2023 20:42 (one year ago) link
I often will put a huge playlist on shuffle then scroll through the queue and bump up anything I'm particularly excited about to next up.
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Saturday, 4 March 2023 20:44 (one year ago) link
Hey hey hey you're listening to HITLER RADIO [sound effect of a sieg heil, stuka dive, air raid siren, and explosion] where we're playing ALL the Reich's favorite hits ALL DAY LOOOOOOONG[Imagine Dragons - Radioactive starts playing] https://t.co/wExe0JTQ2Y— the prince with a thousand enemies ♂️ (@jaketropolis) March 2, 2023
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 4 March 2023 21:13 (one year ago) link
(It wasn't actually a playlist, it was just the automatic artist-radio for an "artist" that was some historical albums of WWII music...)
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 4 March 2023 21:19 (one year ago) link
Das Führer Weekly
― Alba, Saturday, 4 March 2023 22:36 (one year ago) link
Finally, a change I can get behind: the new improved Add to Playlist.
― Gene Markey’s Goin’ Off (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 March 2023 07:25 (one year ago) link
Ooh, what's this?
― corrs unplugged, Thursday, 9 March 2023 08:33 (one year ago) link
update on discovery mode, which lets artists accept a lower royalty rate for an algorithmic push. joe says in the first month, listeners save songs 50% more often and follow an artist 37% more often when the mode is used— Ashley Carman (@ashleyrcarman) March 8, 2023
excellent news for consumers
― z_tbd, Thursday, 9 March 2023 16:39 (one year ago) link
Sad lol. Maybe I'll actually try it, since Spotify royalties are effectively $0 anyway.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 9 March 2023 16:40 (one year ago) link
can you switch back once you get those listeners locked in?
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Thursday, 9 March 2023 16:49 (one year ago) link
I don't like or defend Discovery Mode, but yes, as an artist you can opt into and out of it.
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 9 March 2023 16:53 (one year ago) link
― Gene Markey’s Goin’ Off (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 10 March 2023 12:31 (one year ago) link
Last night the app offered an alternative shuffle mode that I guess throws in suggested tracks as well, no thanks
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 10 March 2023 13:10 (one year ago) link
There's an 'enhanced' button that does that. I use it on some of my genre playlists and it'll throw up some cool tracks I may not have heard.
― groovypanda, Friday, 10 March 2023 13:15 (one year ago) link
So instead of one swipe it’s now multiple actions to ‘add a song to the liked playlist.’
Gotta get those app engagement numbers up?
― papal hotwife (milo z), Saturday, 11 March 2023 19:55 (one year ago) link
pro: you can add a track to several playlists simultaneously (which comes in handy for me, I do a lot of that)con (and it’s a big one): you can longer add duplicates to a playlist (this really fucks with my playlisting methods, because I do a lot of that)
― at bottom, wrapping my arms around some tripe called "Quest" (breastcrawl), Saturday, 11 March 2023 20:18 (one year ago) link
It’s only one action to add to the liked playlist. Then once it’s in the liked playlist, or any playlist, then you can click again to add to or remove from others.
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 March 2023 20:54 (one year ago) link
That’s if you use the plus, otherwise you can use the three dots and then add to playlist.
― Think Fast, Mr. Mojo Risin’ (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 11 March 2023 20:55 (one year ago) link
how many slurp juices to convert your heart into a plus
― least said, sergio mendes (sic), Saturday, 11 March 2023 21:06 (one year ago) link
but please remember to never leave the house without your laptop if you’re thinking of adding duplicates, kids!
― at bottom, wrapping my arms around some tripe called "Quest" (breastcrawl), Saturday, 11 March 2023 21:09 (one year ago) link
I just created a playlist in Spotify (for sharing / to duplicate one I made in the service I actually use), and was impressed at how easy it is... you can type directly in a dedicated search box to add songs, etc.
― reluctant antonoff appreciator (morrisp), Saturday, 11 March 2023 21:18 (one year ago) link
Used to be that in the list of songs in Release Radar or something I'd swipe left and it would have a green heart and the song is saved to my likes.
Now I swipe and it pops up with another menu asking me to add it to a playlist (or multiple) and I have to tap done to make that screen go away. There also isn't a visible heart on the list of songs in a mix so I don't know if I've already liked it or not.
This seems designed entirely to make you look at the full screen view of a song (where there's the plus sign) so you can get the full Spotify-becomes-TikTok experience. I'm not looking at my stupid phone when I listen to music, I'm walking or riding in a car or working on a computer.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 12 March 2023 02:35 (one year ago) link
The visible indicator should be back shortly, at least.
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 12 March 2023 14:56 (one year ago) link
is there a way to look at longer song titles immediately?
so many things these days have such long titles and then you factor in bonus tracks/remixes with "extra info" that gets added to the title. so sometimes i won't know what i'm listening to and i want to see the song title because that's where the pertinent info is. i just want to see who the remixer was or who the featured guest vocalist is and it's at a point where that info is only in the song title. i look at my phone (or ipod, whatever i'm using atm) and it will sometimes take a full 15 or 20 seconds for the proper song information to display, as it's on a "scrolling marquee" for those longer titles. it's reached a point for some deluxe editions and singles with multiple remixes of the same song where i just give up and go look at the full info on discogs. it wouldn't be such a discrepancy if i could just click on song credits and have it all be there, but that info is notoriously incomplete on spotify.
― ''can be prusuaded to show gayness'' (Austin), Sunday, 12 March 2023 15:46 (one year ago) link
holy hell, that post makes no sense. the crux is: i want more easily accessible and fully detailed credits, dammit.
― ''can be prusuaded to show gayness'' (Austin), Sunday, 12 March 2023 15:47 (one year ago) link
one more sunday morning gripe—the new "add to playlist" implementation has broken the ability to add offline or local files to playlists. as of now, i have to "like" the song, "add it to my library", go to the playlist i want to add it to, click the add songs button, and then browse to the local file. i used to be able to just click the three dots next to the song and "add to playlist." i know spotify doesn't give a fuck about offline files, but c'mon. it's objectively worse and a frustrating downgrade.
― ''can be prusuaded to show gayness'' (Austin), Sunday, 12 March 2023 17:02 (one year ago) link