Spotify - anyone heard of it?

holy hell, that post makes no sense. the crux is: i want more easily accessible and fully detailed credits, dammit.

one more sunday morning gripe—
the new "add to playlist" implementation has broken the ability to add offline or local files to playlists. as of now, i have to "like" the song, "add it to my library", go to the playlist i want to add it to, click the add songs button, and then browse to the local file. i used to be able to just click the three dots next to the song and "add to playlist." i know spotify doesn't give a fuck about offline files, but c'mon. it's objectively worse and a frustrating downgrade.

hmm, the ... method still works for me on iOS, at least.

yeah, sorry to come off like a jerk but it's doing it on both of my main devices and i use offline files a lot, so it's pure frustration. it seems like the ones that were already there on various playlists are grandfathered in. and it still works the way i outlined, just huh. it's doing it on both my ipod (ios) and smartphone (android) and seems to have started either with the new "add playlist" implementation or immediately after. as it stands now, when i hit the three dots ("song menu") the only option i have for offline files is "add to queue" (and it will play the track just fine if i choose that, so it knows those offline files are there). just... i can still do it technically. with a lot more unnecessary steps though.

was reminiscing with my partner about watching mtv as a kid in the 90s, watching the videos flow for hours in hope of your favorite video coming on

or listening to the radio at night with the cassette deck ready to record if that great new single came on

and now it's at my fingertips any time I want

unbelievable

I miss those days

Maybe the real treasure was the cassette recording we did along the way

kids today will never understand the sublime annoyance of having to not being able to edit out Casey Kasem's voice from the opening of "Safety Dance"

sure, guys.

another thing with this new version is that it takes ages to load (several minutes in some cases) - something I’ve seen people complain about through the years, but which had never happened to me before

yeah very long load times on mobile now

Yeah, I had some load-time issues, too, and they should get better shortly...

Once again sparing you all my Spotify doomsaying and confining it to Thread For Chatter About The Streaming Music Economy

Yeah, the app just opens into blackness for ages before finally getting its shit together.

wow the whole app has gone completely buggy over the past couple hours.

on iOS there's something called DJ where the queue button used to be and, as of now, it's an error generating button. the queue button on my android is now a generic "share" icon.

IT'S TALKING TO ME NOW?

okay. i'll stop using spotify jfc.

It only talks to you if you ask it to, dude.

It's always listening, though. Like a good friend

(It only listens if you ask it to, too...)

i pressed the button that i thought was the queue. it started talking.

everything's gone now and the queue is back to normal across the board. no "DJ" anyway. "add to playlist" has returned for local files on android only.

anyway=anywhere

Kind of interesting, from a business perspective, how they got snaked on HiFi audio (and still haven’t launched it).

I got the new mobile version with an update today. Haha - it's laughably shit. Huge videos on the home screen for 'new' playlists or albums I might like, that autoplay as you scroll down. And no way to turn them off as yet. Utter wank.

They're probably waiting to offer Joe Rogan in quadrophonic.

The mobile version is utter shit now, nearly unusable.

There are other options.

Spotify sent me an e-mail about this new release and I can't imagine what I've listened to that's even remotely similar

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zcM9ziaNOg

I got the same email and wondered the same thing. I'm guessing these guys have a ton of promotional cash out there to push this to as many people as possible.

Also took the chance to unsubscribe to marketing e-mails I certainly never asked for and probably should have flagged as spam on Gmail.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/4/23670193/spotify-live-shut-down-obamas-audible-amazon-jay-shetty-iheart

Use Spotify most days. Never heard of Spotify Live. It was another app? Hey how about throwing podcasts into another app?

I see they are still semi arbitrarily messing around with the interface. They cut off the queue at 80 which wasn't true a couple of days back I think and certainly not a couple of weeks back. Had the queue I was listening through disappear on me afew days ago and only built up over last few days so not sure exactly when it changed.
But now won't add titles beyond position 81. So is this another temporary move or what.

THink it has been changing a bit over the last few weeks but is it still semi random or is there some hierarchy of permissions to set controls

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— Daniel Ek (@eldsjal) April 13, 2023

Something I really appreciate on Spotify is old singles appearing on it (often with photos of the original label) and the correct date of original release in the metadata. I'm surprised it happens, as it seems far from the usual ebb and flow of catalogues getting dumped on and off there. I can't imagine what the commercial context is for things like Mark A Mitchell's 1983 single 'How Can I?' suddenly appearing, for example.

https://open.spotify.com/track/643ojjjenyR15q32CkaQmg?si=d7c751ad90234428

i've officially stumbled upon the weirdest thing i've ever seen.

on a spotify radio this week, 1 song annoyingly kept playing. except every time I looked, it was a different song name and artist entirely.

so I started keeping track. here's 49 of them.https://t.co/VrmYPyQQqg pic.twitter.com/ejrwf11Oc6

— ADAM FAZE (@adamfaze) April 18, 2023

spotify down for anyone else?

everything seems okay on my end?

There were issues, but they've been fixed.

The crapfest that Adam Faze stepped in is far from the only weird cluster of stuff people deliver to Spotify. Not our doing, but I agree that we attract blame for it if it finds its way into radio...

I wonder if that's really the weirdest thing he's ever seen. If so, charmed life

^ this, yeah

Feel like having utterly shit taste is the only way you’d ever stumble on that.

I’ve never listened to “Spotify Radio” but I’m sure they stream all kinds of crap

i'm sorry if this has been addressed either in this huge thread or elsewhere—

why are there so many instances of multiple listings for the same album? i'm looking at the eurythmics catalogue right now and there's three listings for their first album: one specifies that's a 2018 remaster and has ten tracks, one has no extra indicators and poorly cropped cover art, and the third also has no extra indicators but bonus tracks. their whole spotify is like this and it's ridiculous. WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS????

yep I hate it

Licensing is complicated. There are actually 7 versions of In the Garden, but only 5 of them are available in the US, and we manage to group two pairs of those to whittle the visible list down to 3.

https://everynoise.com/artistprofile.cgi?id=0NKDgy9j66h3DLnN8qu1bB

Yeah complaining that “too many things are available via streaming” makes it seem a bit like a no-win situation (and you’ll run into the same issue if you’re trying to buy the CD or whatever).

Also, can’t you figure out the one you want and save it to your library or whatever?

thanks for the link and for your time glenn.

also sorry if my earlier post came off angry. should have added a lol or two because it wasn't meant in an irritated way.

I don't mind too much about the duplicates, except that, as I moaned upthread, sometimes you find you've liked a track twice from two versions of the same album and you unlike one for tidiness and then both get unliked.

It can be equally annoying if an album is ONLY available in a deluxe 72 track version

I've had an update today - desktop & web player - with a total redesign of how the Your Library section functions. Essentially, all the functionality of the library is now managed in an expanded/expandable left-hand column, with buttons across the top for Playlists, Albums, Artists & Podcasts (FFS). Each element of the library opens within that left-hand column; there's also a 'search library' function, separate from the usual Search function, that works within the left column, too. You can organise by recent/recently added/alphabetical/creator. There's a fair amount of autonomy with real estate, as in you can stretch the library as far as you might want to.

Individual albums/playlists then open in the right-hand column. Home and Search buttons are in the left column but once clicked functionality is managed in the right-hand column.

I don't hate it actually.