Yeah, really sucked seeing Ben Shapiro’s smirking little face front and center last week
― Dan I., Thursday, 18 November 2021 01:45 (two years ago) link
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
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 18 November 2021 18:12 (two years ago) link
this is literally how i listen to music about 60% of the time at home so…. it kinda sucks!
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 18 November 2021 18:13 (two years ago) link
I'm having this crashing problem as well
― husked, tonal wails (irrational), Thursday, 18 November 2021 19:54 (two years ago) link
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.
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 21 November 2021 17:13 (two years ago) link
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, 21 November 2021 19:39 (two years ago) link
guy is scared of vampires
― When Young Sheldon began to rap (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 21 November 2021 19:39 (two years ago) link
Random seems fucked… got a playlist of a hundreds and the same shit comes on
― calstars, Sunday, 21 November 2021 20:05 (two years ago) link
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
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 21 November 2021 20:47 (two years ago) link
Revelatory
― calstars, Sunday, 21 November 2021 20:49 (two years ago) link
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".
― maf you one two (maffew12), Sunday, 21 November 2021 21:59 (two years ago) link
I'm glad it still defaults to shuffle on playlists
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Sunday, 21 November 2021 22:32 (two years ago) link
― mirostones, Sunday, November 21, 2021 2:39 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
so we're gonna just ignore this or
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 21 November 2021 23:19 (two years ago) link
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
― groovypanda, Monday, 22 November 2021 08:12 (two years ago) link
He seems pretty desperate to join the big league of morally bankrupt tech bros.
― namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Monday, 22 November 2021 08:36 (two years ago) link
@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…
― calstars, Monday, 22 November 2021 12:46 (two years ago) link
it's like there are two threads here
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 22 November 2021 12:59 (two years ago) link
xp I have a long playlist I like to shuffle by copypasting urls into something like Notepad++ and back into Spotify, changing the order of the tracks will change the shuffle routines
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 22 November 2021 14:26 (two years ago) link
the adele thing is good news!
I don't think anyone really shuffles albums anyway, do they? I thought that button was really there for playlists. I'm not suggesting people treat the track order as sacrosanct but if they mess about it with it, it's more by jumping in at whatever they point, skipping tracks they hate, no?
― Alba, Monday, 22 November 2021 14:31 (two years ago) link
One where lots of us talk about features and functionality/bugs and one where you continually hate on the company itself? xps
― groovypanda, Monday, 22 November 2021 14:43 (two years ago) link
this is the issue that's currently really bugging me https://community.spotify.com/t5/Other-Podcasts-Partners-etc/Connect-Autoplay-DISABLED-but-still-ACTIVE/td-p/5279608
― corrs unplugged, Monday, 22 November 2021 15:08 (two years ago) link
Much bigger problem than the whole "funding future wars" thing
― Paul Ponzi, Monday, 22 November 2021 15:51 (two years ago) link
the murder AI will teach itself how to fix the autoplay bugs
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Monday, 22 November 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
the issue with the button was that the default "play" button was a "play in shuffle mode" button - has definitely annoyed me many times, so very glad they're changing it!
― I Am Fribbulus (Xax) (Doctor Casino), Monday, 22 November 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
Can we just get back to basics with a million tunes in the room, a simple search and playback. I see “feature” creep all over the place and it’s ugly af
― calstars, Monday, 22 November 2021 18:19 (two years ago) link
Then they'd never have been successful enough to give hundreds of millions of dollars to right wing podcasters and arms companies.
― namaste darkness my old friend (ledge), Monday, 22 November 2021 18:25 (two years ago) link
I have no memory of every experiencing this, either on desktop or mobile, so now I feel like the rest of the world is in on some elaborate prank against me.
― Alba, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 09:53 (two years ago) link
every = ever
Oohh, mystery solved. It was free-tier users who got that. I've been a Premium member for ever.
― Alba, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 09:55 (two years ago) link
Yes never knew about it until yesterday, what an amazingly churlish idea assuming it was just to try and incentivise people to go Premium.
― nashwan, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 10:22 (two years ago) link
They should try just playing a different song to free members.
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 10:38 (two years ago) link
Rickroll every fifth song.
― Alba, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 11:15 (two years ago) link
Really
― A Pile of Ants (Boring, Maryland), Tuesday, 23 November 2021 14:24 (two years ago) link
Yeah that was a confusing button. I just clicked the first track if I'd wanted to hear the album sequentially
― willem, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 14:57 (two years ago) link
Oh I’m probably wrong then. Yeah, I think my instinct would always have been to tap on the first track so maybe I just ignored that button.
― Alba, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 15:36 (two years ago) link
premium here too, had the shuffle as default on play button, overjoyed that it is gone. Thank you Adele! (though very weird - but not bad - for artist requests to drive UI change)
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 16:58 (two years ago) link
i have zero doubt that her request happened to align with a decision they arrived at by other means and this was essentially a (successful) PR stunt
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 18:06 (two years ago) link
Yes, win-win for them all. Adele gets lots of extra publicity and plays for her album, Spotify cone across as good guys who are sympathetic to artists’ needs. Just don’t mention the streaming rate, ok,
― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 18:10 (two years ago) link
or the article linked above about where subscribers' money is going
― Paul Ponzi, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 18:27 (two years ago) link
Just don’t mention the streaming rate, ok,
They never rolled out that HiFi plan that they teased, did they?
― fancy like applebeez (morrisp), Tuesday, 23 November 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link
this is a godsend honestly, the app itself is very clunky. https://www.foobar2000.org/components/view/foo_spotify
― mister floppy, Tuesday, 23 November 2021 20:54 (two years ago) link
wow that's super cool
― corrs unplugged, Wednesday, 24 November 2021 15:20 (two years ago) link
queue I was listening to just reset in the middle fo a podcast i was listening to. Wasn't sure what happened when it did this a couple of weeks ago when i was listening to things on my phone in another room when it just stopped dead. Seems like its done teh same thing again.So this time i just happened to be sitting at the desktop when it did it. So there are no other factors in it that I'm aware of.THought it might be my phone last time. Or something hitting the full capacity of memory being used, can't be with the desktop surely.Pain , has me wondering what is causing that if it is somebody somewhere triggering my machine going off or if it is an automatyic thing somewhere. Annoying anyway.I don't want to go to the bother of sticking a playlist together in a more time consuming way but are queues just open to being switched off somehow. I still don't get how this works so how to avoid it. I tend to listen to a podcast once so not going to be something I'm going to be wanting to revisit like it was a sequence of music.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 25 November 2021 13:32 (two years ago) link
new lyrics feature otm afaic
https://i.imgur.com/scJzlHb.jpg
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Friday, 26 November 2021 23:29 (two years ago) link
Some kind of scat transliteration, maybe?
― Duck and Sally Can't Dance (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 26 November 2021 23:33 (two years ago) link
exactly. idk how they did it!
― please don't refer to me as (Austin), Friday, 26 November 2021 23:39 (two years ago) link
looks like the lyrics to Medzi Medzi by ET Mensah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svkohDSAVy4
― koogs, Saturday, 27 November 2021 06:38 (two years ago) link
So Wrapped this year is just a couple of playlists? I don't see any neato/perplexing stats or anything in the app.
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 23:05 (two years ago) link
There's a button on the Top Tracks playlist (phone app version) that's supposed to take you to a slide show like last year, but it's not working for everybody.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 1 December 2021 23:27 (two years ago) link