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
ah, that explains the "wait when did I listen to that" effect
― theorizing your yells (katherine), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 23:00 (five years ago) link
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/spotify-teardown-book-streaming-music-790174/
Much of the book discusses how Spotify is not really Swedish or a music company at all. So why do we all know it as such?Snickars: Spotify has used the label of the “Swedish cool,” which is sort of exotic, at least in the U.S. market. But it resembles any other company who is dependent on financial capital; the investigation we’ve done clearly shows this.Eriksson: Spotify is not very different from any other tech company. It relies on investment capital and attracting sponsors of various different kinds. And even though the headquarters are located in Sweden, much of the key areas of the company are located in New York or various other global cities.Snickars: The old-fashioned music industry was bands producing records and selling them in record stores. Today, because of Spotify and others, it’s just a mess of finance, tech and cultural production. The other day it was announced that Spotify is buying a podcast platform. It’s moving in that direction. When you start looking into it, it starts becoming very apparent that it’s not only about music, even though the company is very keen on branding itself that way.
I would love to read something like this book, but the linked interview makes me think the authors didn't learn very much because this is not groundbreaking stuff.
― say it with sausages (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 19:23 (five years ago) link
Aw, man, didn't even get a specific mention of Boston in that piece. "other global cities"...
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 19:42 (five years ago) link
there's a chapter titled "glenn macdonald". it's about your name not being swedish and how you buy your groceries with money not cool points.
― say it with sausages (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 20:49 (five years ago) link
they also suggest a different spelling for your name which is rude
― say it with sausages (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 20:50 (five years ago) link
Swedes always spell "glenn" right, though.
― glenn mcdonald, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 21:28 (five years ago) link
Why did you monsters change the way artist pages look?
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 14 February 2019 18:22 (five years ago) link
I can’t see the top tracks or the discography, just links to playlists with the artist on it and another link to “merch”
― Trϵϵship, Thursday, 14 February 2019 18:23 (five years ago) link
oh, meant to add, subscriber #s still not visible on my work macbook even when it's maximized
― bhad bundy (Simon H.), Thursday, 14 February 2019 18:25 (five years ago) link
Quit and restart, Treeship. I saw mention of a glitch earlier that was causing parts of the artist page to not appear, sounds like you may be hitting that.
― glenn mcdonald, Thursday, 14 February 2019 21:14 (five years ago) link
this happened to me as well on mobile actually. tried quitting and restarting and nothing changed. i can work around it for now, but it's sticking for me
― austinb, Thursday, 14 February 2019 21:23 (five years ago) link
Woah there's a new Burial album?! Ah wait.
― seandalai, Friday, 1 March 2019 01:06 (five years ago) link
Got me too.
― Mince Pramthwart (James Morrison), Friday, 1 March 2019 02:53 (five years ago) link
Reported...
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 1 March 2019 15:14 (five years ago) link
The shit artwork had me ???? WTF.
― Twee.TV (I M Losted), Friday, 1 March 2019 15:33 (five years ago) link
you'd think new bands would at least check Discogs, but it appears that nobody cares anymore and all names are up for grabs. I blame fake Ghost for this trend (unfairly perhaps, but they deserve it).
― sold out in presale (sleeve), Friday, 1 March 2019 15:34 (five years ago) link
That said, there were already four other Burials (with proper albums out & all) before the London one had his first release, difficult to prevent this from happening.
― Siegbran, Friday, 1 March 2019 15:40 (five years ago) link
yeah I know, it just bugs me more than it should (although that does surprise me about Burial)
― sold out in presale (sleeve), Friday, 1 March 2019 15:45 (five years ago) link
happened to me today with both Burial and Cassie.
― Evans on Hammond (evol j), Friday, 1 March 2019 15:55 (five years ago) link
Release Radar playlists still really plagued by this phenomenon.
― nashwan, Friday, 1 March 2019 15:56 (five years ago) link
That ‘wrong’ Burial album Divinity Through Eradication also has its release date messed up, it’s a 2009 album not 2019.
― Siegbran, Friday, 1 March 2019 16:04 (five years ago) link
fucking different 'Boris' with a new single on my release radar.
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 1 March 2019 22:57 (five years ago) link
same
― Brad C., Friday, 1 March 2019 23:44 (five years ago) link
they even had the cheek to put a pic of Boris (japan) on the email alerting me.if you scroll down the boris albums on Spotify you see an album by the fake Boris who appear to be german
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 1 March 2019 23:55 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I caught and reported that Boris one, too.
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 2 March 2019 02:34 (five years ago) link
Local Files option seems to have just completely disappeared?
― nashwan, Saturday, 9 March 2019 13:52 (five years ago) link
There's a toggle for Local Files in Preferences now...
― glenn mcdonald, Saturday, 9 March 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link
I'm trying not to be reactionary but the new Android update is kinda shonky. My playlists are all over the place. I'm sure I'll get used to it.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Sunday, 10 March 2019 14:42 (five years ago) link
Thanks for pointing it out - guess I will turn it back on then...honestly thought its sudden absence was a bug from the latest update and whether I would've eventually thought to check Prefs for it or found out thru more googling I don't know but guess it goes without saying what I think of this decision (as a user who never ever clicks on half of the other options under Your Library).
― nashwan, Sunday, 10 March 2019 14:50 (five years ago) link
In case anyone else is puzzled by this UI change ... in the iPad version of the app, Browse and Radio no longer appear on the menu bar at the bottom of the screen, but you can find these options on the Search screen if you study it carefully enough.
This was frustrating to me because the majority of my use of Spotify involves the Discover feature, and it took me a long time to discover it again on the Search screen.
Oddly, the UI has stayed the same in the iPhone app, or at least in the version of that app that runs on my antique iPhone.
― Brad C., Sunday, 10 March 2019 15:46 (five years ago) link
They changed the Edit UI in the iPhone app which is really irritating me. Before, if you're listening to a playlist and you decide you want to move or delete a song, you just hit the Edit but and then do it. If you want to delete a song a big red button shows up so you know what you're about to do.
Now, when you hit the Edit button, all the color goes away (for instance the song you're currently listening to, which normally is highlighted in green, is now white like everything else. Deleting a song - all white). Also, but hitting Edit you're taken back to the beginning of the playlist. So now I must scroll back to wherever I was and remember the name of the song I'm deleting because all the little bits of guidance the app was giving me have gone away.
This might be no big deal if I were editing a small playlist but I will often do big song dumps (hundreds of songs) and eventually whittle them down to smaller mixes. And sometimes they are a bunch of weirdly titled tracks by, like, Aphex Twin or Autechre. So all of the above is super irritating when you're a hundred songs deep and the song you want to delete is called something like "monoBIX unical++15 terflx".
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Sunday, 10 March 2019 16:43 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I have the same exact problem with the new playlist-editing method, and have conveyed that feedback to the team. I think the plan is to eventually have a "remove this song from the playlist" command on the inline "..." menu for a song, which would be better than the old way or the new way. Fingers crossed.
― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, 10 March 2019 17:48 (five years ago) link
What about swipe to delete?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 10 March 2019 18:07 (five years ago) link
Would be nice if app users could move playlists around and take them in and out of folders too.
― Alba, Sunday, 10 March 2019 19:12 (five years ago) link
While we're at it, might as well bring back shuffle play for folders.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Sunday, 10 March 2019 19:19 (five years ago) link
On the plus side I recently noticed (not sure when it was brought back) you could drag tracks from the in-browser version of the app directly into playlists on the desktop app again after a few years of this having not been possible). So great to have that back.
― nashwan, Sunday, 10 March 2019 19:19 (five years ago) link