Spotify - anyone heard of it?

"The android app no longer let's you add a whole album to a playlist. The option seems to be completely missing. I have to assume this wasn't intentional and it's coming back "

I actually had a chat with one of the the support team members about that this morning and seems and they were completely unaware of it (at least that's what I was told,doubt it), and promised to send it to the developers as it does seem to be an oversight. I did preface the conversation stating the importance of being able to add complete albums to a playlist since best of year and best of decade playlists are on the horizon.

I've been infuriated by Spotify twice today on separate platforms. 1) iOS. I went for a run, and pressed play on my run playlist. After the first song, it starts playing something I had queued up last night. I had to stop running, take off the arm band, take the phone out, unlock the stupid screen, go to the playlist and click on the second song: Thinking that it would dump the queue and play the playlist. I start running again, and ten minutes later the song ends and it goes right back to the fucking queue. I stopped, took out the phone, this time restarted the app, thinking it might clear the queue (I feel like this has worked before, but it certain did not this time. I finally just gave up. I had too many songs queued up to sit there and select and remove each song in the middle of the running track. I ended up just manually skipping by double-tapping my bluetooth thing. I can't for the life of me understand why there isn't a simple "clear queue" function in this app. It's not the first time I've been infuriated by the stupid queue system.

2) Web app (Chrome). Just now, I alt+tabbed from a video game and typed in spotify.com in my browser, logged in, and was taken to some marketing page. No landing page, no link to my own listen page. Tried listen.spotify.com, www.spotify.com/listen... 404s. How is there now a big fucking "LISTEN" link on this landing page? I guess the obvious answer for how shitty the web app is, is that they do not want people to use the web app and instead to download and install their terrible desktop app.

The android app no longer let's you add a whole album to a playlist. The option seems to be completely missing. I have to assume this wasn't intentional and it's coming back

This may be related somehow to the other infuriating change to the Android app whereby it's no longer possible to select individual songs from an album for downloading. It's the whole album or nothing.

I've never seen an app get so consistently slower, less functional and more prone to freezing or failing to load, it's appalling now, so much worse than 2010

It is amazing that with a more than twenty year history of music player UI’s on phones and tons of accumulated experience of what functionality works and doesnt work to build on, they still keep fucking up their front end over and over again as if they’re the proverbial blind men with a description of an elephant.

a more than twenty year history of music player UI’s on phones

tbf every second of that time apart from the ipod clickwheel pretty much sucked

While streaming something just now I got an ad repeatedly from the RNC asking me to speak out against the "Democratic impeachment overreach."

Wouldn't artists and labels working with Spotify want to know that their albums were being interrupted with pro-Trump advertisements? I would think a lot of them might have an issue with that.

Hey @Spotify --- Fuck you for taking these ads. pic.twitter.com/hpY1MYO7SM

— Brian O'Neill (@NYC__Native) October 3, 2019

it’s funny.. as a premium subscriber I would have never known. Tempted to drop the sub in protest.

What would cause half of Underworld's catalog to go missing on Spotify?

which half, in which territory?

huh, just checked (in Canada) and almost all their albums are gone, the only albums after dubnobasswithmyheadman are Everything, Everything and Barbara Barbara. All the Drift Eps are still there.

Too many new releases, they broke Spotify!

I'm in Canada, seeing the same

In UK and all the studio albums between Second Toughest and Barking have gone.

weird inconsistency

given the Drift releasing non-patterns it wld be really cool of them to pull six of their old albums for a few months to drive ppl toward the six new albums they're releasing in November, but this looks more like a fluke of licensing deals expiring?

back now

can't imagine that was intentional... but who knows, given how there's something technically different with seemingly every week of the Drift releases

yeah I'm seeing everything (everything), abysmal deluxe version track titling and all

oh wait yes it's all unplayable

Despicable. TREASON?

working for me. Listening to Beaucoup Fish as I type this.

"New" Scott Walker and The The tracks very much not by who you'd expect

and a new track by The Smiths (but not by The Smiths) came up in my Release Radar today. I thought there used to be a way to report mislabelled tracks?

indeed, about bullfighting; i'm sure Morrissey's delighted.

The option to add an album to a playlist has returned on the android app

it wld be really cool of them to pull six of their old albums for a few months to drive ppl toward the six new albums they're releasing in November

surprised that labels haven't pulled this shit before tbh

eheh yeah that Smiths "new release" is fun : but do artists get paid if everybody stops listening after 5secs ?

artists don't get paid regardless, it's Spotify

touché !

Reluctant as I am to add to the litany of complaints on this thread, why are all the tracks I play pausing briefly after the first nine seconds?

It was actually completely down for me yesterday, I found this page https://downdetector.com/status/spotify/ which had other commenters complaining about the nine second thing.

There was a giant delivery of old 45s this week that had a bunch of artists with the same names as much newer ones, The Smiths among them. We're on it.

Snarkiness notwithstanding, you don't get paid unless the listener plays at least 30 seconds of the song.

Wait, Spotify rips vinyl themselves?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFkGEi0Et08

Ha, no, "delivery" meaning "upload of music". Although I wouldn't bet that nobody has ever mailed a box of vinyl to our offices, I can say with pretty high confidence that we do no ripping of anything ever.

Anyone got an idea why most of the DM catalog is displayed in greyscale right now?

https://i.imgur.com/mpZ5Vev.jpg

^ browser version, btw.

Doesn't that mean not available, but it's showing because you've told it to display non-available tracks?

No, they play as normal.

That's weird. I'll see if I can find out why it is...

Seems to be the work of the band (or label), not a bug, but I don't know why. A little searching turned up a bunch of reddit threads of speculation about it, but no answers.

Yeah, I was informed it was like this on all platforms.

There is a problem on the spotify android app with many artists pages displaying just a shuffle button. This has been mentioned by other premium users on twitter.

Someone probably mentioned this already but it would be really great if when adding a song to a playlist it brought up the last playlist you added to? Sort of like saving a file on a pc .

lol my bad there is an option. don’t know if it was always there but cool

actually no it just filters the last playlist added not the last playlist you added something to

Did you try the Relevance filter?

I've been waiting for this for years: https://gizmodo.com/spotify-is-testing-a-new-social-feature-that-could-add-1840533060

Here's a legit non-existential issue I have with Spotify -- my artwork for my most recent album disappeared. It's bizarre. Still there on other services, so presumably doesn't have anything to do with distro.

i have been screaming for user tastemakers since spotify started; where's my check

I've hung on to my $5/month Spotify Unlimited acct for years, never "upgraded" to Premium. At some point I put the Spotify app on my phone; I don't remember why, since Unlimited is supposed to be desktop-only. But I used the app yesterday to see if I could look stuff up on it even if I couldn't play it, and discovered that I can now use the phone app for playback! I don't know if it's an app bug, account bug or account upgrade, but it's pretty nice. (Glenn, if it's an account bug, don't rat me out.)

Ha, I see the codes for those old accounts in queries sometimes. You've probably outlived the special-cases in the code that were intended to restrict them...

victory through attrition