If you select the track that's playing on the bottom of the screen you can (de)select shuffle play on the left
― willem, Saturday, 26 January 2019 12:54 (five years ago) link
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 isXpost
― Alba, Saturday, 26 January 2019 12:58 (five years ago) link
Thanks, guys. Still a Scrooge here who uses the free version, but I'll probably upgrade now.
― Jeff W, Saturday, 26 January 2019 13:03 (five years ago) link
Wait what - if you’re not premium you’re forced to isten to everything on shuffle? That seems bizarre and wrong.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Saturday, 26 January 2019 13:36 (five years ago) link
Psych ops.
― Alba, Saturday, 26 January 2019 14:50 (five years ago) link
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.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Saturday, 26 January 2019 18:28 (five years ago) link
xp
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
― Mordy, Sunday, 27 January 2019 18:04 (five years ago) link
it’s a 2014 album right?
― Siegbran, Sunday, 27 January 2019 18:49 (five years ago) link
Lol remember that famous thread?
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 27 January 2019 18:51 (five years ago) link
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!
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 27 January 2019 20:28 (five years ago) link
https://www.discogs.com/Kaitlyn-Aurelia-Smith-Tides/release/7878242
― sans lep (sic), Sunday, 27 January 2019 21:20 (five years ago) link
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.
― musically, Monday, 28 January 2019 17:24 (five years ago) link
yes on ios you can diable what they call "canvases" not sure about android
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 28 January 2019 17:26 (five years ago) link
disable*
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 28 January 2019 17:27 (five years ago) link
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
― musically, Monday, 28 January 2019 17:59 (five years ago) link
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.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 28 January 2019 18:03 (five years ago) link
They just added the ability to turn them off on ios within the last couple of weeks, and thank god for that
― Dan I., Monday, 28 January 2019 19:53 (five years ago) link
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.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 09:38 (five years ago) link
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?
― maffew12, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 12:34 (five years ago) link
still seeing "go to album radio" on albums fwiw
― maffew12, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 12:35 (five years ago) link
"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"
― maffew12, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 13:57 (five years ago) link
The playlist-radio command went away temporarily, but it should be reappearing imminently on desktop (and is already back on mobile)...
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 15:35 (five years ago) link
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....
― maffew12, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:36 (five years ago) link
That command has been there for a couple years, and I'm not aware of any plan to remove it...
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:42 (five years ago) link
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
― maffew12, Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:44 (five years ago) link
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.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 29 January 2019 16:46 (five years ago) link
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?
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 31 January 2019 17:09 (five years ago) link
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.
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 31 January 2019 19:17 (five years ago) link
A lot of disappointed Low fans are being recommended a same-name shitty rapper's new album.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Thursday, 31 January 2019 22:01 (five years ago) link
Coulda sworn I already reported that "Low" album, but it must have been a previous single. Reported it now, at any rate...
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 1 February 2019 02:53 (five years ago) link
Cheers!
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 1 February 2019 03:10 (five years ago) link
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?
― Jeff W, Friday, 1 February 2019 14:51 (five years ago) link
No idea. Sounds like your client maybe thinks you're not online? Get @SpotifyCares to help you...
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 1 February 2019 17:06 (five years ago) link
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.
― Jeff W, Friday, 1 February 2019 19:12 (five years ago) link
Music -> joy -> sedition. Can't really blame them.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 1 February 2019 19:46 (five years ago) link
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?
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Monday, 11 February 2019 15:41 (five years ago) link
If you're following playlists you didn't follow, then somebody has access to your account. Contact @SpotifyCares on Twitter for help resetting it.
(Usually the reason you can't see the follower count is that you've resized your window a little too small.)
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 11 February 2019 20:00 (five years ago) link
why did you guys drop the follower names?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 February 2019 20:34 (five years ago) link
Doesn't scale.
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 11 February 2019 20:36 (five years ago) link
okay, that makes sense.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 11 February 2019 20:37 (five years ago) link
I logged out of all devices a few days ago when these playlists first popped up. The exact same showed up in a batch all at once after the latest update. I think it's a bug and not a hack.
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Monday, 11 February 2019 20:49 (five years ago) link
It sounds like a programmatic abuse of your compromised account. There's no bug or feature that would add random playlists to your account...
― glenn mcdonald, Monday, 11 February 2019 20:59 (five years ago) link
I should note that there's been no perceptible change to my discover weekly and release radar playlists since I first noticed this happening
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Monday, 11 February 2019 21:00 (five years ago) link
i love my release radar playlist. i only wish it were longer.
― Mordy, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 19:21 (five years ago) link
Follow more artists. Release Radar only cuts off at 30 if you run out of Followed artists before then...
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 21:24 (five years ago) link
I tried this service: http://parknarrative.com/labellove
Added a couple labels, but so far, the list hasn't updated. Hard to tell if it's just that the labels haven't had new stuff come out, or if the service is broken/abandoned.
― DJI, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 21:55 (five years ago) link
Is having an artist in a playlist or having listened to an artist once enough to "follow" it for Release Radar or should I be doing so manually?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 21:57 (five years ago) link
Listening to artists is enough to get them in Release Radar normally, but RR only goes past 30 tracks for ones you Follow. It basically has 3 sections: 1) artists you Follow (unlimited), 2) other artists you listen to up to 30 tracks, and 3) Discover-Weekly-style recommended artists to get to 30 tracks if 1 & 2 haven't already gotten you there.
― glenn mcdonald, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 22:23 (five years ago) link