Spotify

I've had a premium account for a few years now. It's great. High quality audio options, no ads, offline saving, works abroad. It's almost like "owning"* your music. The weekly recommends playlist is (usually) really fricken good. Zero complaints.

*It took me years to get over the lack of physical product and be comfortable with streaming but once I had, the realization set in that owning a physical copy of anything doesn't constitute "owning the music" either.

cool will look in to the family thing didn't know that existed thanks

Is anyone else having a problem with Spotify deleting their offline albums entirely (every downloaded album), or just random songs from downloaded albums? I've been having problems for a few months across various updates to both iOS and Spotify, raised with Spotify customer care and after they said they sorted it, it just carried on. Since that they've promised me "an update soon" a month or so ago, and nothing since.

It's really frustrating setting off on the commute in the morning to find downloads empty or albums cut down to 4-5 songs.

Interested to know if it's just me.

Can someone confirm this will work?

Organising my wedding in a small village out in the sticks with little-to no data coverage. I have Spotify Premium,so if I create a wedding reception playlist, can I download the playlist (via Wifi) to play offline from an old iPod touch? My phone doesn't have the capacity...

If you can install the app and have Spotify Premium, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to save the playlist for offline use. Just check that the version of iOS on the Touch supports the current version of Spotify, though older versions of the app may still be available.

Best thing is to play your playlist at home while recording it onto a cassette - then you can just pop it in your ghetto blaster.

Premium gets a bit sniffy if you have too many devices connected, so maybe log out elsewhere an all

Test it by downloading a few songs onto the iPod and seeing if they work in aeroplane more?

What is the use of the 'follow' thing on Spotify, for friends etc?

Is it me, or is Spotify being super glitchy at the moment?
Confident it's not my bluetooth cans or wifi.

• Dropping out
  
• Showing offline when connected
  
• Freezing and crashing
  

Yes, been like that for a month or two at very least. Android?

Yup

same, ever since upgrading to android ten

Just been rummaging around my phone connection setting as a result of this. Getting a 'No Internet Connection' message yet I can search "spotify no internet connection" and get results.
Also noticed playback will decide to stop when my phone has been idle with the screen off, but will start again as soon as the screen is activated.

Galaxy S10 - Android 9

Does anyone know how to see your latest released podcast episodes on spotify desktop? This is super easy on the mobile app...

Any way of removing / moving multiple songs on a spotify playlist?

And same for removing multiple albums in library?

r.e. songs - i can just select the songs I wanna delete then press backspace to remove them? Equally you should be able to highlight and drag in to new playlists.

To note, i'm on desktop app on mac os.

Boom thank you.

Not working on the keyboard I’m using so that threw me but direct on the laptop works fine.

Bump!

Is it just me or has Spotify gotten worse lately? In the past few months my algorithm has turned into an increasingly narrower spiral. It has become hard work to figure out how to keep my algo-generated playlists and recommendations fresh. A cluster of 10+ artists and and perhaps less than a hundred tunes come up in every playlist, regardless of genre.
Most noticeably spotify seems to favour not exactly bad, but arguably slightly bland, instrumental stuff like Khruangbin, Mount Kimbie and so on. I had to actively put some of them on the ban list – Badbadnotgood being particularly hard to get rid of. Also it keeps punishing me for once listening to the Arlo Parks album several times in a row, but that was years ago.

Double bump!

I’d agree (although recommendations for me tend to make sense even if frustratingly narrow/similar).

However the new app update for rolling auto play video tiles has riled me up a bit, enough to flirt with Apple Music as an alternative…

My guess is that their algorithms may be favouring material I already have in my downloaded playlists or in my cache. Years ago I read something about Spotify keeping stuff forever in a completely bloated cache. Back when phones had 4 or 8 GB storage people would have to uninstall and re-install the app to free up space on their phones. I am thinking that favouring locally stored material would mean a significant reduction in their server load.

Agreed, starting to think Apple Music is becoming the better alternative.

My Spotify keeps being used by another device, I've uninstalled the app, reinstalled it, changed my password, still happening, any ideas how I can keep the fucker out?

https://support.spotify.com/us/article/how-to-log-out/

Yeah, did that. Gone to the extreme of cancelling Spotify and having a month free on tidal, if I don't get on with it, can always sign back up.