All the MBV albums have been gone from Spotify since spring 2019 for me.
― ˈʌglɪɪst preɪ, Thursday, 1 October 2020 19:00 (three years ago) link
if you ever want to check which regions an album is available on Spotify, for making a playlist for people overseas etc, there's this tool:
http://kaaes.github.io/albums-availability/
These are the current limits of Kevin Shields' empire:
https://i.imgur.com/AQsT4Bl.png
― Alba, Thursday, 1 October 2020 19:04 (three years ago) link
I think the tool needs to be updated, as the grey seems to indicate countries where Spotify itself is unavailable, but Ireland and North African countries have been added since then, I think. But good for checking US/UK etc.
― Alba, Thursday, 1 October 2020 19:10 (three years ago) link
Can a VPN get around that or is it based on verified billing address?
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Thursday, 1 October 2020 20:27 (three years ago) link
The latest MBV is not on US Spotify.
― Boring, Maryland, Thursday, 1 October 2020 21:01 (three years ago) link
Onimo - I think it's based on IP address not billing country so yes I guess a VPN woild work in theory
― Alba, Thursday, 1 October 2020 21:31 (three years ago) link
No, it's based on where you pay.
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 2 October 2020 01:17 (three years ago) link
Should have just waited for Glenn – apologies for bad information.
― Alba, Friday, 2 October 2020 01:25 (three years ago) link
What the ....? https://open.spotify.com/show/2Zy2XZMKHDGBSv8ouqwZ0R
― Erdős-szám 69 (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 5 October 2020 17:23 (three years ago) link
get that starred
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Monday, 5 October 2020 19:14 (three years ago) link
android app having many issues with the playbar freezing
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 20:38 (three years ago) link
or maybe not freezing. just displaying the wrong songs and showing |> instead of || while playing. seems to be a real bug related to recent android update. it eventually happens after every reboot. anyone else notice this?
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 20:42 (three years ago) link
I've had this happen a few times recently
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 21:03 (three years ago) link
I usually have to exit and then force stop the app to clear it up
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 21:04 (three years ago) link
yes, me too
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 21:10 (three years ago) link
Oh, me too! I just assumed it was my shitty phone being shitty, glad it's just the Spotify app being vmic.
― closed beta (NotEnough), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 21:38 (three years ago) link
this happens to me constantly
― it bangs for thee (Simon H.), Tuesday, 6 October 2020 21:43 (three years ago) link
app is borderline unusable now
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 October 2020 02:04 (three years ago) link
Is this the latest Android update?
Not had any problems with it at all myself (on Moto G7)
― groovypanda, Thursday, 8 October 2020 07:07 (three years ago) link
https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Spotify-displaying-incorrect-track/td-p/4632956
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 October 2020 18:30 (three years ago) link
a master class in shit support
i'm not anyone in that thread. i just hate when the response is restart your app/phone/reinstall, when clearly everyone has already done that.
― bogo jumbo boba (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 8 October 2020 18:31 (three years ago) link
Yup. Check your power supply!
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 October 2020 18:35 (three years ago) link
I never used playlists on shuffle until recently and have had the pleasure of discovering how shit the shuffle algorithm (or whatever) is. 207 song playlist, same ~40 songs play. It does a great job of shuffling those 40, though. #FFS
― (show hidden tics) (WmC), Thursday, 8 October 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link
#GREATREVIVE
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 8 October 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link
I find that shuffle works better or worse depending on the device.
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Friday, 9 October 2020 01:59 (three years ago) link
If Spotify follow the standard tech company playbook for bugs, they'll do this "restart your phone/clean install/probably another app on your phone/manufacturer fault" gaslighting bullshit for a month or so then a new version will drop that fixes the bug and they'll act dumb about it. Their inability to just say"yes, there's a bug, we're working on it" is maddening.
― closed beta (NotEnough), Friday, 9 October 2020 06:09 (three years ago) link
That example was one of the worst though- user shares screenshot showing full bar wifi and 4G- "I see you are using 4G try using it with a strong wifi"- user explains what wifi symbol means- "try using it with 4G!"
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Friday, 9 October 2020 15:57 (three years ago) link
In the absence of comprehensive year of release data on Spotify, I've started the epic task of putting every one of my Liked Songs into a playlist for its respective year. Am I crazy? I'll just do a few a day. It's then relatively portable, given the tools available for exporting playlists.
― Alba, Friday, 9 October 2020 19:34 (three years ago) link
both the web player and the android app are a bit shit for me, constantly
― here comes the hotstamper (jim in vancouver), Friday, 9 October 2020 20:22 (three years ago) link
specifically the android app just pauses playing for a few seconds every x minutes and on the web player I get "something went wrong, try reloading the page" if I try to look at an artist, album etc.
I most often listen to Spotify on my Roku, which has all sorts of limitations - can't make playlists or adjust queues, etc. You have to use the (very simple) Roku remote for everything.
Anyway, was thrilled to find Brooks' Red Tape is back on Spotify (one of my fav albums from the 2000s)...if only they would add the ep's and You, Me and Us as well. Brooks should not be forgotten.
― Alpha 666, The Number of the Beast (I M Losted), Sunday, 11 October 2020 11:22 (three years ago) link
What is this Time Capsule you speak of, my Spotify Hipster Friend?
― She Thinks I Will Dare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 12 October 2020 22:53 (three years ago) link
Today I was offered a daily drive/daily commute playlist - your favourite songs interspersed with news and sports updates. Turns out you get to hear adverts you've paid to avoid as they're embedded in the bulletins. Ads aside though, I kind of like the idea for early morning listening.
(my daily commute is from my bedroom to my bathroom to the kitchen to the dining table)
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Monday, 12 October 2020 23:36 (three years ago) link
I'm very confused by this song that showed up on my Release Radar today, mostly for the third artist listed on the track. https://open.spotify.com/track/2DztFyWY3hyCArDb9VINk2?si=5iQU6VydSoiSIyl8nR8Hjg
That's gotta be some sort of glitch, right? It seems highly unlikely that there is another group with that name...
― MarkoP, Friday, 16 October 2020 04:23 (three years ago) link
I don’t even need to click on that link to know that I was served the same track.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Friday, 16 October 2020 06:57 (three years ago) link
^^ thirded.
― Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 16 October 2020 09:03 (three years ago) link
Ah Moveek! I’m familiar with Moveek. He’s a Nigerian artist who sometimes tries to boost his streaming numbers by tagging a famous Afropop artist’s name (like Starboy/Wizkid, Tiwa Savage or Tekno) to his songs, without them actually being on the track (but he’s also done this with Major Lazer, for instance). In the years I’ve been following Nigerian pop there’s always been a few of these types around. Many of these tracks are taken down from Spotify eventually, but some of them remain.So why have he and this “Caravan” type now gone for Stars of the Lid, an act in a totally different genre, not particularly well-known or popular, and also not a name with other connotations that I’m aware of? I’m guessing for the same reason he’s also been tagging artist names like “Feist”, “The Cab” and “Regard” (and of course “Caravan” is an established artist name in its own right as well).Maybe picking artists outside of his own genre that have a popularity of some significance, but not so much that they might have people actively looking out for activity like this (like I imagine a Major Lazer might), is his way of laying low while still picking up the extra streams he wants from fans of those acts that make it 30 seconds into his track.Gotta respect the hustle!
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Friday, 16 October 2020 10:12 (three years ago) link
Gotta respect the hustle!
Do we? Don't think SotL fans - nor people who like Feist or whoever he tags - will particularly appreciate this hustle tbf.
― Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 16 October 2020 11:05 (three years ago) link
I was being sarcastic. It’s a pathetic business model, but nothing to get worked up about imo. It’s just annoying, that’s all, unless I’m missing something?
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Friday, 16 October 2020 11:49 (three years ago) link
Nah, that's pretty much where I'm at tbh
― Ilxor in the streets, Scampo in the sheets (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 16 October 2020 11:58 (three years ago) link
I saw that Moveek thing go past in internal error-reports right before seeing it mentioned here, so it's already being fixed...
― glenn mcdonald, Friday, 16 October 2020 14:01 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1215518235921133568/FA0hOBLt.jpgMoveek says “cool”
― Welcome to Nonrock (breastcrawl), Friday, 16 October 2020 14:33 (three years ago) link
Moveek holds a playlist in his quivering handsMoveek sends the playlist to the American man
― seven day permanence (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 16 October 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
along those lines, I was perplexed by TR/ST's new direction until I heard the track.
― beard papa, Friday, 16 October 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
Move... Ek, you say? </tinfoil>
― anatol_merklich, Saturday, 17 October 2020 20:00 (three years ago) link
jesus fuck why does the Spotify UI suck SO FUCKING BAD.
I accidentally added a whole album to a playlist, and the songs I did't want JUST WON'T FUCK OFF. I've had to click Remove from Playlist about 5 times for every fucking song. can they not hire developers who can make this actually function? wankers
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 17 October 2020 22:26 (three years ago) link
the ajax requests are failing when i click it. 400 errors. fuck's sake your website is fucking terrible
― CP Radio Gorgeous (Colonel Poo), Saturday, 17 October 2020 22:28 (three years ago) link
our app was throwing 400 errors the other day and it was a google cloud server misconfiguring itself somehow. so y'know it might not be actual unforced human error. still it does hang an awful lot for me too - songs don't play, search results don't appear, 'add to playlist' doesn't work.
― neith moon (ledge), Sunday, 18 October 2020 08:15 (three years ago) link
I find connecting to speakers at home really unreliable. Usually involves restarting the app or reconnecting the wifi. Sometimes halfway through a song it will start playing through my phone or tablet again. This often ends up with me abandoning all of that and connecting via Bluetooth.
By which time my sandwich is made and I'm going to another room...
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Sunday, 18 October 2020 09:25 (three years ago) link