Spotify - anyone heard of it?

Lots of Jackson C. Frank today. How did it know?

something going wrong today meant that a couple of queues got shortened as I highlighted things to move them . NOt sure if taht was Spotify, my computer or what but very badly timed. & I kep hoping it will finally have got over difficulty in transfering from the desktop to the phone but no, wiped teh list I'd sorted just before I was heading out. Lovely

right, just had the same thing happen again. I had several titles highlighted cos i was going to move them to the top of the queue I had ctrl pressed down and went to add another title . Instead of highlighting it started playing erasing all of the titles above it on the queue.
So not sure if that is programme or keyboard/computer malfunctioning

This is a minor annoyance but recently when playing Spotify through Bluetooth in my car it’ll display the title of the first song and won’t update the title when the next song plays. I thought it might be my car but did the same when I tried in a friend’s car.

Seems I’m not the only one with this issue https://www.reddit.com/r/spotify/comments/mmkyvu/bluetooth_issue_where_song_name_isnt_updating_on/

Using Android 10.0.1 fwiw.

I've been getting that too the last few days

Have another weird one. I've got a couple of paired Alexa speakers in most rooms which I usually play Spotify through. Have noticed now that first song plays correctly through both speakers but as soon as the next track starts it just plays through only one of the speakers.

Seems to be a weird bug where you might find single releases by a band through playlists though they're not listed under Albums nor Singles/EPs from the band's page. Just noticed this with the Casanova 70 single by Air.

I'm not sure if that's a bug as I've noticed lots like that where a track is on a compilation album that's on Spotify but the single or album it's from isn't.

That said I can see Air's Premiere Symptomes EP listed under their singles 🤷‍♂️

glenn, for that radio page that you linked, is there a way to plug in URIs for other objects like playlists/albums/artists?

xp in this case you can't even get search results for the four track single release (also listed as from 2004 rather than 1996) so the only way to it is through playlists or direct link

You can use artists or tracks in that radio thing, but the public API doesn't support albums or playlists as seeds (although obviously the app itself does).

You can use the same tool to answer these availability questions, too. E.g.:

https://everynoise.com/artistprofile.cgi?id=1P6U1dCeHxPui5pIrGmndZ#0HCq99iUU77YIMOagEgM6L

That Air EP itself is only available in the US, but the first two tracks are also available on the Premiers Symptômes EP, and the two remixes are also on The Remixes - Vol.1. Both of those are available widely. So if you're not in the US, the Casanova 70 EP isn't listed, but if you get to it anyway, all 4 tracks can be played by internal redirection to the other releases.

why am I hearing commercials on my paid account for the first time ever?

Did you have Unlimited instead of Premium?

yes. did they change it?

Yeah, they eliminated Unlimited a couple of years ago on the functionality side and (I think) everyone who had it got bumped up to Premium, meaning you could use the mobile app, but the $5 price stayed the same. The business side caught up this year and eliminated Unlimited as a billing option and bumped everyone who had it back down to the free tier with ads.

wow, OK fuck that, bye

My new releases list on the app is absolutely flooded with cat spam featuring the artist RelaxMyCat - "Piano For Cats", "Cat Music Dreams", "Sleepy Cats (Cheerful)", etc. I'm impressed by the algorithmic shithousery more than anything, I don't even have a cat.

Wait, which list do you mean?

The "What's New" notifications that you get when you click on the bell at the top of the Android app, not the Release Radar. Maybe a cat song came on the radio once when I was playing calming background working music, I clicked on the artist out of curiosity, and now I'm in the pet zone.

Ah, right. I tend to forget about that one, because the format really doesn't work for me at all. I think it observes artists-bans, though, so you ought to be able to get rid of this particular impurrfection.

Did they get rid of Car Mode on the Android app?

don't think so, I just updated the app and it's there

I just tweeted the same question to them and this is their reply:

Hey there! Spotify is exploring a variety of new ways to deliver the best in-car listening experience for our users. We're also retiring certain features like our in-car Now Playing View for Android, to make way for innovations coming down the track. We hope you understand.

google assistant driving mode - i.e. maps on your android device while you’re driving - has a spotify integration

so they may feel that covers it

If I'm using Spotify in the car I just want a no clutter screen with big text and buttons, annoying that it's been taken away

there is also Car Thing which may be rolled out beyond its beta group at some point, i dunno, but it is precisely that, with voice controls and a knob

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Android/Car-View-missing/m-p/5280149/highlight/true#M181808

Is it just me or has Spotify generally decided to blank out the titles/thumbnails of every podcast that has been played. I'm just getting blank image box and 2 lines where they should be.
Had previously used the recently played to look for further episodes of things etc.
Now just getting the music track entries displaying properly there. Odd, can it be intentional?

This is a minor annoyance but recently when playing Spotify through Bluetooth in my car it’ll display the title of the first song and won’t update the title when the next song plays. I thought it might be my car but did the same when I tried in a friend’s car.

Anyone find a solution to this? The Developer Options/Bluetooth AVRCP to 1.3 fix doesn't seem to work on my Redmi Note

Would love to never see a podcast on Spotify ever again.

^^

Why limit it to Spotify?

Yeah, really sucked seeing Ben Shapiro’s smirking little face front and center last week

spotify regularly crashes now on ios15 when my phone is connected to airplay 2 speakers. when i start the app again, whatever track i was listening to is now at the 10 second mark, no matter where it had been when it crashed.

I LUV TEKLOLOGY

this is literally how i listen to music about 60% of the time at home so…. it kinda sucks!

I'm having this crashing problem as well

and just like that it doesn’t crash anymore.

it’s still incredibly annoying that spotify “forgets” i’m listening on my airplay speakers literally every time the app is started again. ios is constantly bringing apps in and out of memory. each time i have to find the little icon for output devices, then select “other devices”, then choose my speakers. which is the output device i use 100% of the time when on my home wifi network.

https://www.world-today-news.com/spotify-founder-daniel-ek-is-investing-100-million-euros-in-helsing/

Daniel Ek invests 100 million Euros into arms industry AI tech.

guy is scared of vampires

Random seems fucked… got a playlist of a hundreds and the same shit comes on

Wait, WHAT!?!?!

This was the only request I had in our ever changing industry! We don’t create albums with so much care and thought into our track listing for no reason. Our art tells a story and our stories should be listened to as we intended. Thank you Spotify for listening 🍷♥️ https://t.co/XWlykhqxAy

— Adele (@Adele) November 21, 2021

Revelatory

is this brand new? it's more sensible anyways... you used to have to be aware that to pay in order you had to kinda weirdly tap song 1 and not the big play button. There is still the shuffle toggle on the playing screen... just like every other music player ever. Even when you're playing "30".

I'm glad it still defaults to shuffle on playlists

https://www.world-today-news.com/spotify-founder-daniel-ek-is-investing-100-million-euros-in-helsing/

Daniel Ek invests 100 million Euros into arms industry AI tech.

― mirostones, Sunday, November 21, 2021 2:39 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

so we're gonna just ignore this or

Random seems fucked… got a playlist of a hundreds and the same shit comes on

That seems true for me for any media player I've ever had: WinAmp, iTunes, BlackPlayer etc

Piece about Spotify here:

https://www.businessinsider.com/spotify-made-shuffle-feature-less-random-to-actually-feel-random-2020-3?r=US&IR=T

Also seems a common complaint for the last 20 years or so that if you've got a huge playlist, your media player appears to only shuffle the same 100 songs or so

https://www.world-today-news.com/spotify-founder-daniel-ek-is-investing-100-million-euros-in-helsing/

Daniel Ek invests 100 million Euros into arms industry AI tech.

He seems pretty desperate to join the big league of morally bankrupt tech bros.

@Groovypanda yeah , I know it’s a common problem of the ages… I guess the S algorithm favors songs that have already been played skipped or something. Just odd…