yeah.
― markers, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 23:42 (ten years ago) link
No photos for my old ipod touch as far as I can tell. :'(
― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Wednesday, 2 April 2014 23:43 (ten years ago) link
couple years ago i signed up for a free spotify premium something or other and in the process somehow my previously deleted facebook account was reactivated. i don't like when technology makes me feel like an asshole.
― art, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 23:48 (ten years ago) link
really like the facelift. also they added a 'new releases' section which was missing for a long time.
― calstars, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 23:53 (ten years ago) link
It's rolling out to all users in stages, so if you don't have the new Your Music stuff yet, don't panic. You'll get it soon.
I think it's pretty nice, too. I'm nominally biased, since I now work for Spotify, but I had nothing to do with this set of changes.
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 3 April 2014 06:20 (ten years ago) link
I listen to the Spotify mobile app for hours every day, I think it's a great service overall. But the app drives me bazonkers. Slow start up time, and then once it starts up, it's unresponsive. I taptaptaptaptap but nothing registers. Then it finally plays but sometimes hangs up in between tracks. Just won't go to the next track unless I manually skip to it. Then it crashes out of the blue and I have to restart the whole process. Maybe it's the way I have my playlists organized, or the number of songs I have, or something specific to me, but it sucks. And I'm tired of being a beta tester for a buggy app.
― Jeff, Thursday, 3 April 2014 11:10 (ten years ago) link
Crashed 4 times in the last 20 minutes. Title and artwork sometimes stops updating when skipping tracks. Rage rising.
― Jeff, Thursday, 3 April 2014 12:49 (ten years ago) link
meanwhile..
http://davidbyrne.com/how-will-the-wolf-survive-can-musicians-make-a-living-in-the-streaming-era
― piscesx, Thursday, 3 April 2014 12:54 (ten years ago) link
Jeff what platform are you on?
― calstars, Thursday, 3 April 2014 13:31 (ten years ago) link
iOS
― Jeff, Thursday, 3 April 2014 13:40 (ten years ago) link
I'm a big spotify booster, but I'm feeling very frustrated with this new release. Album artwork is completely AWOL in offline mode. When a new track starts, it takes 20 seconds for the track name to refresh, this makes it impossible to flip through a bunch songs quickly. I'm also puzzled by the new symbols for offline tracks: some have green arrows, some have grey arrows, and some have no arrows. What does that mean?
― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Thursday, 3 April 2014 13:46 (ten years ago) link
YES
― Jeff, Thursday, 3 April 2014 14:00 (ten years ago) link
finally can add new playlists and delete playlists within folders so this update is clearly the best
― anonanon, Thursday, 3 April 2014 15:23 (ten years ago) link
Still hoping for multiple tabs/windows in the desktop app UI.
― WilliamC, Thursday, 3 April 2014 15:45 (ten years ago) link
Ugh that big shuffle play button at the top of the screen is going to get hit a lot by accident
― I got the glares, the mutterings, the snarls (President Keyes), Thursday, 3 April 2014 18:31 (ten years ago) link
the placement of buttons in general seems weird
― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Thursday, 3 April 2014 18:40 (ten years ago) link
What I rly rly want is an album browse option. Some of my playlists are arrangements of individual tracks but others (the really long playlists) are basically sets of a bunch of whole albums that fit a certain vibe and I wish I could see them as a list of albums if I wanted.
― Myth or it didn't happen (Jon Lewis), Thursday, 3 April 2014 23:30 (ten years ago) link
Yup
― Teenage Idol With the Golden Head (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 3 April 2014 23:39 (ten years ago) link
rdio has a nice "collection" folder that shows as albums, but "playlists" only show as a list of tracks. seems like a pretty easy thing to allow for different "collections" but none yet.
― ryan, Friday, 4 April 2014 00:06 (ten years ago) link
i would love a way to "star" albums separately from tracks.
― brimstead, Friday, 4 April 2014 00:08 (ten years ago) link
I liked all of the stars and hearts, it created a more musical experience.
I just realized that if I make a playlist that is descriptive enough, I can make a "radio station" out of it. Found lots of obscurities that way.
― I am Sporadicus! (I M Losted), Friday, 4 April 2014 01:35 (ten years ago) link
i don't like the new look :/
― Raptain Chillips (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 4 April 2014 01:43 (ten years ago) link
Seems slower to show new artwork when skipping a track.
― calstars, Friday, 4 April 2014 21:48 (ten years ago) link
I'm not sure how anyone who tested this can say, oh this is faster and less buggy! Ship it!
― Jeff, Friday, 4 April 2014 21:54 (ten years ago) link
Finding I have trouble hitting the little menu button on the lower right. Either that or there is a lag.
― Tompall Tudor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 April 2014 22:42 (ten years ago) link
I preferred just tapping the album cover.
― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Friday, 4 April 2014 22:55 (ten years ago) link
Zat still work?
― Tompall Tudor (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 4 April 2014 23:03 (ten years ago) link
has anyone gotten this on the mac?
― markers, Friday, 4 April 2014 23:13 (ten years ago) link
i got the new ios app on my iphone but my macbook version hasn't changed
― Mordy , Friday, 4 April 2014 23:14 (ten years ago) link
disappointing, but thanks!
― markers, Friday, 4 April 2014 23:19 (ten years ago) link
It's a gradual rollout over the course of a couple weeks or something. If you don't have it yet, you'll get it soon.
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 5 April 2014 15:16 (ten years ago) link
Are we Linux users getting the update too?
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 5 April 2014 15:20 (ten years ago) link
The Steely Dan poll results playlist has 17 followers. I'm one and I can see who three others are. Who are the other 13? Who are the 401 users following "Julian Cope's Japrocksampler Top 50 Albums"? I can go get fucked.
Update from a Spotiy developer: "We have currently no plans to restore that feature. It's being discussed though, as we know that some people find it useful. The problem with the feature as it used to work was that, although it made sense for a handful of followers, it didn't scale for playlists with many followers. It was sort of broken, and fixing it properly would have quite far reaching technical implications. I hope that answers your question."
IOW, "we don't wanna do this thing, because it's hard." *sticks out bottom lip*
― WilliamC, Saturday, 5 April 2014 15:32 (ten years ago) link
not seeing it myself
as for ios, my local music no longer has artwork >:-|
― original bgm, Sunday, 6 April 2014 04:03 (ten years ago) link
I'll concede that this update looks and works better on my wife's shiny new iPhone than on my old iPod touch
― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Sunday, 6 April 2014 04:05 (ten years ago) link
The iOS app is almost usable if you start it, and don't touch anything. Don't skip tracks, don't star them, don't move anywhere else in the app. But once you do any of those, it starts hanging up, unresponsive, crashing. This is one of the worst app updates I've ever seen.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 13:45 (ten years ago) link
The entire Spotify mobile app QA team needs to be fired. If they even exist.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 13:46 (ten years ago) link
What device are you guys using, I am having exactly zero problems with the app but maybe that's because it's on an iphone 5
― anonanon, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 14:02 (ten years ago) link
guys I accidentally paid for a month of beats music, see you on the other side
― have a nice blood/orange bitters cocktail (mh), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 14:04 (ten years ago) link
iPhone 5. I suspect it has something to do with the number of songs I have on my most played playlist. 2269, all available offline.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 14:13 (ten years ago) link
Maybe I need a 5s.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 14:14 (ten years ago) link
works fine on 5s
― Belgian Flanders Albums Chart (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 8 April 2014 14:29 (ten years ago) link
just got the new spotify on my mac
― Mordy , Tuesday, 8 April 2014 21:45 (ten years ago) link
hope i do too soon
― markers, Tuesday, 8 April 2014 22:15 (ten years ago) link
fuck, almost all of Underworld has vanished now
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 03:48 (ten years ago) link
starring stuff is now a huge PITA
― ugh (lukas), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 17:55 (ten years ago) link
I'm less worried about the technological stuff, and more about the fact that a huge chunk of their Kinks catalog seems to have vanished in a puff of smoke.
― dlp9001, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 17:58 (ten years ago) link
I logged out and logged back in on my iPod yesterday and now I have the Your Music stuff plus it's somewhat better about displaying album art in offline mode.
― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Thursday, 10 April 2014 13:11 (ten years ago) link
what's the difference between pressing the + button to add a song to your "Songs" list, vs starring a song to add it to your starred list?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 10 April 2014 14:47 (ten years ago) link
you can browse items on Your Music by album or artist, other than that it just seems like an additional "star" list as far as I can tell
― nitro-burning funny car (Moodles), Thursday, 10 April 2014 14:58 (ten years ago) link