I think the old trick of attempting to rent a movie (on iTunes Store) that is larger than the amount of space you have left on your device still works to free up room from space hoggers like Spotify. You can do it multiple times in a row to free up more space. Just be careful because after a few attempts they switch up the rental dialogue on you, apparently to trick you into letting the rental fully go through
― Dan I., Monday, 24 July 2017 12:06 (six years ago) link
People online saying it doesn't work anymore, but it do, I think
― Dan I., Monday, 24 July 2017 12:09 (six years ago) link
such an idiosyncratic Apple thing to not allow users/apps access to cache cleaning
― niels, Monday, 24 July 2017 12:20 (six years ago) link
(I know Spotify and every other app could/should just include it in their programming but since they don't it would be nice to be able to use 3rd party apps for this purpose)
― niels, Monday, 24 July 2017 12:21 (six years ago) link
Google play music on iOS has an option to clear the cache of temporarily stored music. Why not Spotify?
― calstars, Monday, 24 July 2017 12:56 (six years ago) link
I usually complain about issues with Spotify functionality, but there is one semi-recent change that I'm truly glad about. In the past, I could only load files for offline playlists onto the Android app if my phone was unlocked and the screen was on. This was a major pain because Android does not provide a straightforward way to stop the phone from locking after 10 minutes of non-use, so I would have to monitor it while it was loading files, which could take hours. On newer versions of the app, it loads just fine while the phone is locked, and I am very grateful for this.
― Moodles, Monday, 24 July 2017 13:45 (six years ago) link
another thing that is so annoying with spotify is that most of the times it takes sooo long to connect when you open it, whether I'm outside on 4g our inside on wifi...they could definitely use some rework on their program.
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 08:23 (six years ago) link
Related: takes long to start + navigate playlist tree even when the phone is in flight mode (eg when on a plane wanting to listen to a downloaded playlist). I don't know why of course, but it almost seems like it is trying to connect to Spotify server in this case as well, only falling back on the last stored playlist tree when connection obviously fails.
― anatol_merklich, Tuesday, 25 July 2017 09:30 (six years ago) link
Spotify helps me know what opinions I should have on the issues of the day.
#resistance
― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, 27 July 2017 02:31 (six years ago) link
more on the space issue : I'm not sure but it seems like deleting the app makes it angry !initially, it took like 1G instead of the 100M (without anything downloaded).now after only a couple days after deleting/reloading the app, it's up to 2G !
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 27 July 2017 08:38 (six years ago) link
how come alexa can understand voice commands when i ask it to play music on spotify but siri can't
― Mordy, Thursday, 27 July 2017 16:59 (six years ago) link
DW much better of late until tonight when I got to the last three tracks of this week's playlist - and two of them were John Cage's In A Landscape! But - this has a happy ending - one of them is the one I know, the other was some crazy prepared harp version. Which is great. Thanks, Spotify. Thotify.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 28 July 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
hey Glenn, could you have one of your algorithms do a 150 most important female albums/singles list?
― niels, Saturday, 29 July 2017 10:03 (six years ago) link
i imagine glenn clapping his hands twice and the little bits of code all perking up to attention
"now listen up!"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 29 July 2017 10:06 (six years ago) link
haha, that's also how I see it
this is kinda interesting btwhttps://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywgeek/why-spotify-lowered-the-volume-of-songs-and-ended-hegemonic-loudness
― niels, Sunday, 30 July 2017 09:55 (six years ago) link
Artist gender (or even apparent non-binary vocal gender) is one of those things we don't really have in data yet, so even if I replace "important" with "popular" or "central" or something else computable, I can't currently produce a gender-filtered list in any automated way...
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 31 July 2017 14:03 (six years ago) link
(But -- don't tell the robots -- here's a personal list I've been making of a certain kind of thing from just this year: https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/1CmsHI9rh0ImWu2iQyObiA)
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 31 July 2017 14:06 (six years ago) link
Glenn, re my question upthread. Is there anyway to highlight albums only on a playlist i.e. so the NPR playlist https://open.spotify.com/user/openculturedotcom/playlist/54bpprOSA0Gkflr3oPOBkg displays 150 albums rather than the 1500+ tracks?
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 31 July 2017 14:38 (six years ago) link
No, but I made a one-track-per-album version of that here: https://open.spotify.com/user/glennpmcdonald/playlist/2iSlRdLpIoAPbj6tJ43Xtk
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 31 July 2017 14:45 (six years ago) link
xp ok thx glenn
― niels, Monday, 31 July 2017 15:51 (six years ago) link
xpAh, shame. Would love a gallery view of an album only playlist. More inclined to use it to pick something from it rather than just a line of text.
― Dan Worsley, Monday, 31 July 2017 15:53 (six years ago) link
any plans on Spotify adopting MQA?
― Universal LULU Nation (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 31 July 2017 16:21 (six years ago) link
heh, was just thinking about how glitches (presumably due to updates) in DW results in the same "discovery" turning up again and again
like a deja vu in the Matrix o_O
― niels, Friday, 18 August 2017 08:04 (six years ago) link
It's shocking how many artists have posted public playlists! Most of my recent music discovery has come this way. I think there has been a kind of cultural shift among pop musicians to allow it, though. In the past, a lot of musicians seemed pretty cagey about reporting the music they listened to (in interviews, for example), preferring to make it seem as though their own genius had arisen completely sui generis. I'm happy so many are willing to share nowadays.
btw, am I missing something about how Daily Mixes work? You can "heart or hate" each individual track, which results in the disliked ones being dropped from the list, but since the liked tracks remain in the mix, and there is apparently no shuffle function, you end up listening to the same tracks over and over unless you scroll down the playlist far enough that unfamiliar tracks start appearing. Is the intended user behavior to just "prune" the list of disliked tracks and then listen to the remaining tracks in the same order over and over again?
― Dan I., Thursday, 24 August 2017 16:19 (six years ago) link
artist playlists are often done by the label, same as artists tweeting about tracks
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Thursday, 24 August 2017 16:31 (six years ago) link
(I mean, if it helps you discover music, that's great; it's just not a "cultural shift" so much as cross-promotion moving to a new platform)
― sick, fucking funny, and well tasty (katherine), Thursday, 24 August 2017 16:32 (six years ago) link
Aw, I should have thought of that. Sure seems like some of them have the personal touch, though.
― Dan I., Thursday, 24 August 2017 16:34 (six years ago) link
No interest in Spotify, but the Samuel Jackson ad is funny. (Because it's Samuel Jackson--there's nothing beyond that.)
― clemenza, Thursday, 24 August 2017 20:22 (six years ago) link
Daily Mixes change as you listen to them?
― niels, Thursday, 24 August 2017 20:49 (six years ago) link
That is, all you need for them to change is listen to them
― niels, Thursday, 24 August 2017 20:50 (six years ago) link
But I listen to them and when I go back later it seems to be almost all the same songs (minus the ones that I actively disliked)? Not in exactly the same order though, I was mistaken above. It looks like some new songs are added, but it's mostly all stuff that was in there to begin with. Do they get a big overhaul once per week like discover and radar?
― Dan I., Thursday, 24 August 2017 22:51 (six years ago) link
Just feel like maybe I'm using it wrong or am mistaken about what it's supposed to be
― Dan I., Thursday, 24 August 2017 22:52 (six years ago) link
there seems to be an issue in the android app with the queue. When I select items in the queue and then scroll around, they get un-selected.
― Moodles, Friday, 25 August 2017 00:42 (six years ago) link
In the iPhone app, when I scroll to the bottom of a daily mix list, there's an option to load more songs.
― Brad C., Friday, 25 August 2017 00:42 (six years ago) link
xp re daily mix
― Brad C., Friday, 25 August 2017 00:43 (six years ago) link
Glenn, just noticed that a bunch of Pharoah Sanders' classic albums are listed under Singles instead of Albums
― Moodles, Friday, 25 August 2017 01:09 (six years ago) link
Dan, that sound annoying - I don't rate the songs but ime once you start listening and it loads more songs the list changesalso if my listening habits change I get different kinds of lists
― niels, Friday, 25 August 2017 06:10 (six years ago) link
It's shocking how many artists have posted public playlists!
spotify & artist managers encourage artists to do this - and it's fun and people really enjoy it. easy to fall behind though.
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 25 August 2017 11:23 (six years ago) link
got the wrong KING in my release radar this am
https://open.spotify.com/track/6YvyrLlTVMW7B9vllp11Af
also got the wrong stevie b in there a few weeks ago
https://open.spotify.com/album/7dm56Ix8VsU3wxjGWWYpBf
― maura, Friday, 25 August 2017 13:48 (six years ago) link
there's a weird glitch in the elf kid artist entry too, an (awesome) unrelated malian band's latest record
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Friday, 25 August 2017 14:00 (six years ago) link
xp
Ha, I listened to that King track very briefly, was fairly confused about their new direction.
― Moodles, Friday, 25 August 2017 14:31 (six years ago) link
Ha! Just came here to post the KING fiasco.
but there's this in my Release Radar! Not sure what it is but it sure ain't ABRA:https://open.spotify.com/album/1waSktqN636A1pwqhnuUMZ
― Jeff W, Friday, 25 August 2017 17:53 (six years ago) link
Glenn can you cook up a "here are playlists by artists you dig" feature real quick, thanks
― Uhura Mazda (lukas), Friday, 25 August 2017 18:08 (six years ago) link
Just to say that not being able to 'add to queue' in the web player is a very strange UX decision.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Thursday, 14 September 2017 11:38 (six years ago) link
As is making users watch a spinning circle of dots for 15 minutes when they click on a playlist
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 15 September 2017 02:03 (six years ago) link
That's ok, the roku app just got rid of playlists altogether
― Moodles, Friday, 15 September 2017 02:21 (six years ago) link
Two spinners no less! One over the other but offset slightly. I do have six billion playlists tho.
― nashwan, Friday, 15 September 2017 08:47 (six years ago) link
can't search by label anymore :(
― brimstead, Saturday, 16 September 2017 04:27 (six years ago) link
Rhythm & Sound - S/T
noticed this today as well.
― beard papa, Saturday, 16 September 2017 06:37 (six years ago) link
Worked for me just now...?
― DJI, Saturday, 16 September 2017 15:36 (six years ago) link