Spotify - anyone heard of it?

new ios update is some bullshit fyi

how they continue to make the stupidest uncalled for changes just baffles me

I’m now trying out YouTube Music (my 3rd consecutive streaming-service trial; guess I’ll have to actually pay sometime, lol) — I like it a lot, especially the iOS app. (There’s no desktop client, you gotta use https://music.youtube.com on yer computer)

So they just added the ability to mute artists, apparently? Though it's supposed to be available on mobile, I don't see the feature in there yet.

Makes you feel kinda sorry now for Dennis Wilson.

Yes! Goodbye Yo La Tengo, I have no idea why Spotify so insistently believed that I would like you!

I had this happen to me too - and the weird artists have all vanished now. This is WTF territory, this
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-46898211

Bergenulo Five could have made about $500 to $600 (about £380 to £460) from 60,000 streams.

Assuming this took more than 40 hours of the l33t haxorz time, that's not even a living wage.

Not if you've created 300 of these artists.

Article suggests it’s about a dozen though.

waze is a virus included in every spotify app on purpose

A new to iPhone-version-of-Spotify user asks: can you only shuffle play everything? Is there no option to listen to albums and playlists in track order? If there is, how?

If you select the track that's playing on the bottom of the screen you can (de)select shuffle play on the left

I think you need to be a premium user to be able to do that.

If you're a premium user tap on the song name at bottom to get the Now Playing view then make sure the shuffle icon at the bottom left is not green. Tap it if it is


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Thanks, guys. Still a Scrooge here who uses the free version, but I'll probably upgrade now.

Wait what - if you’re not premium you’re forced to isten to everything on shuffle? That seems bizarre and wrong.

Psych ops.

Yes that's right, and it seems fair enough to me. The basic Spotify is, well, basic. You can only listen on shuffle and you get ads every so often. I have no problem paying 10 € a month for unlimited streaming and downloading of pretty much everything I could ever want to listen to, and no ads. Seems like a fab deal to me.

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the kaitlyn aurelia smith release "tides" is listed as a 2013 album i assume bc that's the year it was recorded but it was literally just released

it’s a 2014 album right?

Lol remember that famous thread?

Yeah Tides is not a new album. It was on Spotify before because I remember listening to it when Euclid came out. But it disappeared from Spotify some time back. Glad it's back!

https://www.discogs.com/Kaitlyn-Aurelia-Smith-Tides/release/7878242

i thought that the behind the lyrics popups were distracting when i was driving but the weird music video/gifs are a whole different level. i could pretty easily find a way to push the lyrics popups to the background via settings but is there a way to get rid of the videos as well? two examples off the top of my head are "i have a dream" by abba and "move" by little mix.

yes on ios you can diable what they call "canvases" not sure about android

disable*

ah thanks, I had no clue they were called canvases - that option is right next to the "disable behind the lyrics" in ios settings so that was simple

I don't think there's a way to turn them off on android. Beach House, Parquet Courts, LUMP (Laura Marling), and The Beatles all have them.

They just added the ability to turn them off on ios within the last couple of weeks, and thank god for that

I have to say very satisfying effects achieved by combining my top 100 tracks for each of the last 3 years into one playlist, adding in all the saved tracks from my discover weeklies, and then generating a "radio" station from that.

good call! Went to try this, but I'm no longer seeing Radio options for playlist on Windows desktop client. I have the option to "create similar playlist" which saves me a new playlist of 130 songs. I hit it a second time and got the same 130.

I guess I could enable Autoplay, go to the end of my playlist, and hit Next for something like the old endless Radio based on playlist feature?

still seeing "go to album radio" on albums fwiw

"artist radio" still there as well.

and wouldn't you know, when I'm on the Autoplay after going to the end of my playlist, and I click the cover art of what's playing, I'm at "playlist radio"

The playlist-radio command went away temporarily, but it should be reappearing imminently on desktop (and is already back on mobile)...

thanks Glenn. What's with this create a playlist based on this playlist thing? is that sticking around? Going to mess with feeding it back into itself a bunch of times....

That command has been there for a couple years, and I'm not aware of any plan to remove it...

I can only seem to get around 230 unique songs after hitting it a dozen times on reach successive generated playlist.. but they are all different from what I generated a few hours ago. hmmmmmmm

dozen times on *each

Have been using the radio function a lot lately to discover music similar to what I like. Wish it was a bit more randomized, but it's very helpful in general.

So Spotify has done away with the release date info. Only the year of release will be provided from here on end apparently. Well gee, thanks guys. Who cares about those details anyway?

This seems to have gone back to normal, but Spotify is going through some changes here. I think I’ve been presented with five different interfaces just today, and the app keeps crashing on me.

A lot of disappointed Low fans are being recommended a same-name shitty rapper's new album.

Coulda sworn I already reported that "Low" album, but it must have been a previous single. Reported it now, at any rate...

Cheers!

Weird things are going on in my Spotifyworld this week:

*Tracks that are not in a playlist not playing - and not visible when added to one of my playlists (but appear 24 hours later).
*New Music Friday playlist today only showing me one song, i.e. the one I have previously added to one of my playlists.
*Release Radar today only showing me 6 songs - again things I've added or streamed previously.

Any ideas, glenn?

No idea. Sounds like your client maybe thinks you're not online? Get @SpotifyCares to help you...

ah yes, connected now to a different Wifi outside the office and problem solved. Must be some new restrictions introduced to use of media on the work Wifi; they hate fun.

Music -> joy -> sedition. Can't really blame them.

Why is it that whenever I update the desktop client, I'm suddenly following a bunch of huge playlists I've never seen before? And where did the display of how many followers a playlist has go?