Spotify - anyone heard of it?

that went away after I closed and reopened one time. it hasn't come back for me yet.

thanks, that worked for me too!

Got a new update for Mac client today, installed in hope that maybe the sluggishness of the new queue display & reordering tracks on it may have been fixed. Got way worse instead, whole app seems to freeze on manual track changes and takes about 10 seconds to actually update the list to the right track that's currently playing, this is not even funny anymore...

It's as if they're trying very hard to make the client slower than the web version.

did anyone else notice that you can no longer sort your search results by artist, album, song title, track length, etc.? for now the only workaround is to enter spotify:search:yoursearchterm into the search field. hopefully the next update will restore full search functionality.

― macklemore looks something like you (unregistered), Monday, June 30, 2014 10:17 PM (8 months ago)

The sorting turns out to be a temporary casualty of some internal reworking to prepare for bigger improvements...

― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, July 2, 2014 9:15 AM (8 months ago)

with the latest update, you still can't sort your search results by column heading, and the 'spotify:search:' workaround no longer works. as for the bigger improvements, uh...

(I'm not implying that any of this is glenn's fault, mind you...)

wonder if complaining to glenn is more efficient than the 'send feedback' button on the gui

or perhaps the 'send feedback' button just sends an ilx mail to glenn and tithes his pay, and so he prefers this thread

Each of you is frustrated by your own experience. I am frustrated by all of them.

Any chance of Spotify trying to fill in discographies? It almost seems a rule that the average-aized discography is missing exactly one studio album...this morning, for example, I found myself missing both Vic Chesnutt's About to Choke and Crooked Fingers' Dignity and Shame, although every other significant album by both artists were there. I'm not sure Spotify ever even pursues things beyond large deals with labels and distributors, but just curious.

I think in practical terms we go after missing labels more than missing albums. But the licensing situation is complicated, to put it mildly. The missing albums are likely to have hit an expiration date in some very specific deal that nobody is even really thinking about any more. And they may be missing in only some countries. This is an industry-wide problem that has to be solved with changes to the whole underlying model, probably...

Oh good, now Spotify Installer keeps hanging and never actually installing

I used to get annoyed that Spotify didn't exit when I pressed the big X. Now I'm annoyed that it does.

fp'd

It closing with the X is literally the single good thing about this update.

got another update for the desktop app a couple days ago and it appears to be working much better now for me.

okay often now spotify will just plain not play a track when i click on it, or sometimes it will start playing a track by the same artist but from a different album (???). not just me- friends have reported the same thing. weird.

you must have displeased the Spotify

try apologizing

2 things:

- there need to be arrows at each end of the scrollbar for scrolling massive playlists

- if anybody needs to delete their queue, the easiest way I've found is to make a playlist with one short song and then double click this new playlist's name on the sidebar. It seems to replace the whole queue with the newly created playlist so sit through your random napalm death or curd duca tune and enjoy your empty queue. hope this advice is intelligible.

interesting to see others are having the notifications issue, as someone who compulsively clears notifications wherever they may be this has been fun

yeah hanging notifications has always been a problem for me - as for previous poster it irritates my digital OCDs

i've been getting around the notifications problem by viewing them on the web player

as a power user (maybe 8 to 10 hours a day every day?) i've been much pleased by moving back to retro spotify; it loads faster and is more controllable. I miss subscriptions and play counts but those are fair tradeoffs.

on the plus side the recommendations (under the Discover tab) have gotten a lot more interesting. a year ago it would have been "like Miles Davis? try Wynton Marsalis!" but now it's throwing out apposite obscurities like Randy Weston and Terence Blanchard. thanks, Glen!

Much work still to be done, by a lot of people, but I do think we're making progress...

By people do you mean monkeys, and by a lot do you mean a couple

you're still here?

http://themintyplum.com/wordpress2/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/torches_pitchforks.jpg

If I left, you'd have to turn on each other.

Assume that whatever you hate, I don't work on that part, and so can cheerfully take your feedback without being personally offended.

i feel like a lot of paying customers like myself feel really poorly done by here. almost non of the masses of feedback and requests from users have been implemented, just instead loads of things taken away. £120 a year is a lot to be giving for a service that doesn't pay any attention to its users and downgrades a lot. Nevermind all the stripped features and poor usablity, but how on earth you managed to release a piece of software so buggy and crashy and slow is unbelievable.

Buy some fuckin mp3s on iTunes then

I have 12 notifications but I don't know what they are :(

did you try closing and reopening?

yeah sometimes that fixes it but more often than not it doesn't

I see. I only had that happen the first time run after install :-/

after the program has been open for a while, i can no longer add new songs to my playlists

i have to relaunch. this is irritating.

I found that dragging songs from the search drop-down into the big playlist window will stop working, but you can still drag the song onto the name of the playlist over in the left-hand panel. Baffling.

have you tried turning it off and back on again?

£120 a year is a lot to be giving

no it fucking isn't lol

I mean I agree with everyone that the spotify application is a garbage application and gets worse with each update but the *service* is absurdly good value even if I do have to log out and log back in every single time to get the mobile version to work

Agreed

I prefer to think of it as 'brushing spotify's teeth'

since u can just install an older superior version in about a minute it doesn't make a lot of sense to complain. idk what spotify as a corp gains from making newer versions of their app progressively worse but at least we have a choice.

the program is bad and the programmers should feel bad

maybe the idea is that the UI gets simpler and therefore more aesthetically pleasing and easier for new users? i guess apple has had some success w/ that design theory but itunes, even tho a terrible program itself, still has way better functionality in almost every important area for a music app (playlists, sorting, searching, etc)

Can I install an old version that has stars? I know I can't in mobile, which is where I really need it.

That fix upthread is the best btw, would never have occurred to me to try so thx!

the only problem to the retroactive version fix is that it synchs up somewhat sloppily with mobile... though to be fair, so did the up to date model so