Spotify - anyone heard of it?

There are nestable folders for playlists, although now I'm wondering if you can still create new folders, I assume you can. I don't think they have the kind of features you want though.

They exist! You can make new folders! If I couldn't do that, my playlist lists would be a fucking mess and i would move to another service.

Once upon a time, you could shuffle a folder in the mobile app, but I've griped about that countless times ITT.

Oh good!

Better discovery features would still be cool. I miss the Blue Note app. It's just too bad that we have access to all recorded music and we haven't gotten any more creative with the UI for exploring it. I'm thinking of the Chicago post-rock family tree people posted, that would be a cool UI. Or different subgenres being different neighborhoods and you could build a house that magically had window/balconies overlooking different subgenres ... labels could design their own spaces ... you don't know what you feel like listening to but you dial up a beach, wander around until one of the soundsystems draws you in and it's (insert yr Balearic fave)

No longer possible to remove an individual track from an album you’ve saved?

how the hell do you save an album without every song on the album showing up in the "Songs" playlist? Or am I supposed to just memorise every album I want to listen to?

You can organize via folders but I truly miss the ability to shuffle folders. I make a lot of playlists organized by time period and by genre so the ability to shuffle by folders was very efficient. I could shuffle all genres from the 80s or I could go into the folder and only shuffle 80s punk, or go within that folder and only listen to my favorite Black Flag songs.

Once they took away the ability to shuffle folders, I had to make a lot—A LOT—of redundant playlists to capture that same flexibility.

(I think you can still shuffle folders on desktop but if you can’t do it on mobile it’s worthless.)

Ability to have playlists with just the album, not all the songs, is sorely needed.

probably covered above but the New Releases page not actually showing all new releases really bugs me. its obviously algorithm/partner marketing based... because today i listened to and enjoyed new albums from These New Puritans, Lambchop, Andrew Bird and American Football. all of which are on Spotify but not shown as new releases. i mean i would get it if it showed me a limited amount of new releases based on my interests, but when its showing me a limited amount of things and they're not based on my interests...

I got Lambchop and Andrew Bird in my Release Radar today.

I hit that "follow" button on every artist I'm even remotely interested in, and I'm pretty sure it keeps my release radar pretty on point. It feels pretty customized to me every single week.

I stumbled across my list of followed artists on my phone earlier. There weren't many names on it but for some reason The War on Drugs were, which explains the mystery of why that stupid band kept showing up on my Release Radar. Later on I tried to find the list again on my phone and couldn't! Anyway eventually tracked it down on desktop and did a bit more pruning then added some artists I actually like.

BTW, the Google tip someone mentioned upthread of finding other people's playlists that feature a song you like is great (eg site:spotify.com love is deep matthew e. white). Ended up finding a guy who has a load of great playlists I'm plundering. Would be great if this function were built into Spotify.

Is it just me or is the iOS mobile app fucked today? The new releases section in search has disappeared and reappeared twice for me , new song by Becky G and other artists are just not even there when u click it

they’ve just done an update to the ‘browse’ section and it’s still rolling out. my app is wonky as well.

agh wrong thread ignore delete delete

Is this "Hulu free w/Spotify" a limited time thing for people who get it? I don't mean is it being offered for a limited time because I know it is; I'm asking if the free-Hulu part will expire after a certain time for people who sign up for it, or do they allege that it will last for the duration of the Spotify account.

Dear Spotify: please just stop changing the UI. Just stop.

I love the new UI but I prob use the app different than u

So wait- saving a track and liking a track are the same thing now?

Dear Spotify: please just stop changing the UI. Just stop.

― calstars, Saturday, March 23, 2019 6:41 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

for real. my searchbar disappeared? i kind of use that feature often

The thing for searching within a playlist moved up into the "..." menu.

Is this "Hulu free w/Spotify" a limited time thing for people who get it? I don't mean is it being offered for a limited time because I know it is; I'm asking if the free-Hulu part will expire after a certain time for people who sign up for it, or do they allege that it will last for the duration of the Spotify account.

I know this is probably not Glenn's department, but I wonder if my right honorable friend has any insight into this deal. (sorry, under the influence of uk commons fussin')

Nothing with these services is ever permanent beyond a few months - I expect they'll bundle it for a while, see how the uptake pans out, and then either kill it, make it a paid upgrade (ie still cheaper than standalone Hulu) or continue as is.

I'm grandfathered in with the defunct Unlimited at $5/mo, and it's going to take some expression of permanence to get me to step into the Hulu snare.

The thing for searching within a playlist moved up into the "..." menu.

― glenn mcdonald, Sunday, March 24, 2019 7:55 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i was looking around online and saw ppl complaining about this but it's not the issue i'm having -- on desktop (mac) there used to be a bar at the top of the program to search from anywhere, now i seem to have to go to the search page which takes a cpl seconds to load. don't know what happened there but i hate it.

I am tired of managing my library at the 10k limit. generated playlists are worthless if I can't easily save the songs I like to remember them later. The limit has forced me into actively managing a library of songs, which is the fundamental problem streaming solved for me. I will always appreciate spotify for moving streaming forward, but I am going to try and use the amazon prime music I already pay for anyway to save $15/month. lagoon's prophecy etc.

Self-hosted music streaming is the solution for your own library, you can forget about Spotify/Amazon/Apple Music ever doing that well. Plex (that's what I'm using), Emby, Subsonic, Ampache, Funkwhale, take your pick and don't look back.

Ugh. I can understand having a limit but why have it be so low?

xp the limit isn't for my own library of digital music. I don't own any digital music (technically, I spent maybe one hundred dollars on mp3s that are now lost forever). the limit applies to just saving the artist/song/album names to "your library" and not even downloading. It is absurd.

still a huge issue that i have no idea why they havent addressed

I can think of two reasons why they might do it: 1) to bound the amount of number crunching they need to do when finding your library's overlap with other users' libraries and 2) force you to prune your own data so they have a better idea of who you currently are and what you currently like.

but to be clear, it is still bad and dumb. so I am throwing a tantrum and leaving.

Amazon Prime Music seems to have reduced song/artist availability massively to push people into the additional subscription of Amazon Unlimited. Prime has around 2 million songs while unlimited seems to have more than 40 million.

yeah, I will likely end up paying for unlimited or apple music. saving $15/month would be nice, but I ultimately just want something to work.

Sorting Hat is down, anyone know if it’s a temporary break or something more permanent?

i've never heard of Sorting Hat, but Google led me to a new post from Glenn ,it seems? http://everynoise.com/spotify_new_releases.html

That makes sense, thanks for that. Impossible to listen to everything obviously, but handy resource to help spot stuff I’d otherwise miss.

The numbers in that post are nuts. Are more people making music or is this robot stuff? Both?

I’d assume that one important factor is that more and more music from more and more countries is being released/uploaded on Spotify. This has certainly been my experience with African pop music over the past few years - and there is still room for significant growth there. For instance, Tanzania, home to the leading musical scene in East Africa, is seriously underrepresented on Spotify compared to a country like Nigeria.

That as well eh. I need to check more of that. Cheers!

New releases is fun! It’s like going to the record store.

my desktop spotify is now doing this bizarre thing where if i search for something, the letters i'm typing type BACKWARDS into the search box. the letters literally go from right to left, as if i'm typing in arabic or something. so if i search for "Robyn" it types out "nyboR". i have restarted and it still does it! just astounding

If you C&P from a notes or text file, does it paste in correctly?

perhaps you'd enjoy Abba?

i've never heard of Sorting Hat, but Google led me to a new post from Glenn ,it seems? http://everynoise.com/spotify_new_releases.html

wow key thx for the heads up

Finding it a useful tool for listening to Podcasts recently. Also means i can listen to them on my phone while I'm out and about.
& now finally found my remote control for my dvd player so may go back to watching d/lded video files more.
So being able to listen to podcasts while mobile might be very useful.

So far so good on the Everynoise Sorting Hat replacement. I search for new American classical releases every week. Searching by genre is easier to do now.

why must we have to go through 100 steps to add local music to our phones (and then not be able to listen to it on a sonos speaker anyway)

has anyone cooked up a decent alternative method?

This version of "The Sun's Gone Dim and the Sky's Turned Black" from ahem "Cafe Mambo, Music for Dreams: The Sunset Sessions, Vol 1" is credited to Swedish pop star Johan Johansson instead of deceased composer Johann Johannsson. Easy mistake to make.

https://open.spotify.com/track/6XIHgwF5yfOSWI7rb1oS2l?si=HBDIwYd1RQi2_aPVm-3MJQ