Spotify - anyone heard of it?

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…

it's like there are two threads here

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

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?

One where lots of us talk about features and functionality/bugs and one where you continually hate on the company itself? xps

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

Much bigger problem than the whole "funding future wars" thing

the murder AI will teach itself how to fix the autoplay bugs

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!

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

Then they'd never have been successful enough to give hundreds of millions of dollars to right wing podcasters and arms companies.

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 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.

every = ever

Oohh, mystery solved. It was free-tier users who got that. I've been a Premium member for ever.

Yes never knew about it until yesterday, what an amazingly churlish idea assuming it was just to try and incentivise people to go Premium.

They should try just playing a different song to free members.