topic Re: Play all songs by artist? in Desktop (Windows)

Play all songs by artist?

norisounds — Fri, 17 May 2013 10:47:50 GMT

According to a thread this feature is implemented

http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/0-8-8-Bring-back-play-all-songs-by-artist/idi-p/292682

but I cant seem to find where to 'play all songs by artist'

is this possible without having to manually add every single song/album to a playlist?

if so, can someone please tell me how as i have searched all over for this and the help is the most useless thing i have ever read.

Re: Play all songs by artist?

Greg — Fri, 17 May 2013 10:59:17 GMT

@norisounds wrote:

According to a thread this feature is implemented

http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/0-8-8-Bring-back-play-all-songs-by-artist/idi-p/292682

but I cant seem to find where to 'play all songs by artist'

is this possible without having to manually add every single song/album to a playlist?

if so, can someone please tell me how as i have searched all over for this and the help is the most useless thing i have ever read.

Hey!

If you're running our latest version, when clicking on a track from an artist page it should automatically queue the rest of the tracks on that page. You don't need to activate anything for this to happen.

What's your Spotify version number?

Re: Play all songs by artist?

norisounds — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:08:51 GMT

My Spotify version number: 0.9.0.133

Thanks for the reply. This works, although it was not obvious to find how to use this feature. I tried to search through the help and online community and there was nothing on this. From the help I get this and I didnt find that overly useful. Sorry for my frustrated comment in my original post.

What I am doing is listening to a radio station and when I hear a song I like, I click on the artist name. What I want to do is then add all the songs from that artist to my playlists (if there are more than 1 album) and continue to listen to the radio station.

As it is now (as you suggested) I need to click on a track by the artists (stops radio), then change to the queue and select all the tracks, add to my playlists, then go back to my radio station I was listening to and restart.

Is there a way to do it the way I would like or should I as for this as an added feature?

Thanks for the help btw 🙂

Re: Play all songs by artist?

Rollo_ — Fri, 17 May 2013 13:33:30 GMT

    Greg wrote:

    If you're running our latest version, when clicking on a track from an artist page it should automatically queue the rest of the tracks on that page. You don't need to activate anything for this to happen.

This works on [high performance] legacy versions as well.

I've heard that the current version has issues playing ALL of the tracks from the artist page. It apparently stops at the end of the album you clicked on, or shuffles from only that album and stops. This may have been fixed, but it was definitely a reported issue at one point.

To confirm, check your queue.

Re: Play all songs by artist?

Peter__ — Fri, 17 May 2013 19:06:02 GMT

@Rollo_ wrote:
    Greg wrote:

    If you're running our latest version, when clicking on a track from an artist page it should automatically queue the rest of the tracks on that page. You don't need to activate anything for this to happen.
This works on [high performance] legacy versions as well.

I've heard that the current version has issues playing ALL of the tracks from the artist page. It apparently stops at the end of the album you clicked on, or shuffles from only that album and stops. This may have been fixed, but it was definitely a reported issue at one point.

To confirm, check your queue.

This was corrected in v0.8.8.450 (or 0.9.0!) 😉

Peter

Re: Play all songs by artist?

ReD-BaRoN — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 15:52:25 GMT

I know this is an old thread, but with my current version (MacOS 0.9.6.81) when I go to an artist's page, and click the play icon shown over the artist thumbail, it only plays the 10 songs in the Popular list.

How do i get it to play ALL the songs on the Artist page?

Re: Play all songs by artist?

Peter__ — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 16:50:20 GMT

Do you have the repeat button on in the bottom right corner of the client? If so try turning it off.

Re: Play all songs by artist?

drfrogsplat — Thu, 03 Apr 2014 01:59:31 GMT

Same problem (Mac OS X v0.9.7.16.g4b197456)

Shuffle and Repeat are off (though doesn't really matter). Pressing the play button on the Artist artwork on their profile page just plays the top 10.

The nearest thing to "play all" is hitting play on a track listed in the albums. It doesn't really queue them all though, just the next 51 tracks, so if you want to shuffle through random songs by the artist this doesn't work (it shuffles through the first ~50 songs).

Really seems like there ought to be a tab for "all songs" or a separate play all (rather than play popular) button.

Re: Play all songs by artist?

hot4fonzie — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 03:30:25 GMT

YES -- to check if it works, check your PLAY QUEUE to verify that all songs are actually in the queue.... NOT at all obvious, but I guess I'm not a POWER user gettin' my money's worth of SPOTIFY.

Re: Play all songs by artist?

Aresz — Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:19:22 GMT

Still no way to play all songs from one artist? What I can do is klick on the three little dots next to an album from the artists page, and select que. Then I do this on all the albums, but then shuffle and repeat are turned off (Shuffling is not possible in the current playing view) If I instead select "listen to artist radio" Spotify playes music that are similar to the artist, so that doesnt work as I had hoped. Another question, what is the save (next to every album) button for?

Re: Play all songs by artist?

rytoman — Tue, 02 Dec 2014 16:59:34 GMT

This feature doesn't seem to be working as expected. When there's an artist with a significant number of albums (such as Hans Zimmer), playing a song will queue only the following 50 songs, not the rest of the songs on the page. Additionally, when you hit "Play" next to an artist, it only makes sense that you're wanting to play all of that artist's songs, not just the most popular. I really wish it worked that way instead of forcing me to go through each album and adding them to queue.

Re: Play all songs by artist?

uzolmaxrep — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:21:37 GMT

OK my version is 1.0.23.90.g42187855 on Win7. So I got this strange idea hey I just play all discography by one artist should be easy right?

So I go to artist page click play next to artist .... luckily I tryied on web player SO HERE IS HINT AS CLOSEST YOU CAN GET IS WEB PLAYER IT QUEUES 100 SONGS INSTEAD OF 50 on standalone player.

But that for christ sake is all. I tried recommendation here same result. Without any reason you cant queue more than 100 songs by artist on web player or 50 on standalone player (with a simple click, you could workaround this of course by 20 more clicks to create a playlist depending how large discography artist have)

This is not the first stuck with spotify maybe I switch back to google. Apparently is more easy to add 10 000 songs a day to database than to develop a decent player.

OK ONe MORE HINT TRY CLEMENTINE PLAYER AND LOGIN TO SPOTIFY....... dont know if it would work but I am going to try

Re: Play all songs by artist?

uzolmaxrep — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:46:46 GMT

Allright I give up. Using Clementine / Search on Spotify / Enter Artist / have 200 songs. So the number is getting bigger , great , so maybe one day , one day .............

Re: Play all songs by artist?

WolfSpirit — Sat, 09 Apr 2016 09:15:14 GMT

This is pretty ridiculous. I was trying to give spotify a chance but since it seems to have NO decent features compared to any other internet radio, I'll go back to iheart.

Quick playlist with Every song by an artist

rednblu — Sat, 09 Apr 2016 09:53:38 GMT

Would you like to know how to make a quick playlist with Every song by an artist?

@WolfSpirit,

@uzolmaxrep?

Re: Quick playlist with Every song by an artist

uzolmaxrep — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 05:58:55 GMT

yep bring it on, dont mention compile Clementine with differnet values I already try that

Re: Quick playlist with Every song by an artist

rednblu — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 16:35:05 GMT

Which artist seems difficult for getting a "quick playlist" with every song?

Re: Quick playlist with Every song by an artist

ststegemann — Wed, 25 May 2016 14:16:03 GMT

having the same problem, show me!

Eminem.

Re: Play all songs by artist?

deverman — Mon, 29 Aug 2016 08:13:39 GMT

I am using a discounted Spotify trial membership and the only way I listen to songs is by trying to listen to the whole artist discography but I actually can't figure out how to do this now it repeats too many of the same songs and doesn't go deep into the catalog. Hope someone can explain how to fix this so I continue my membership.

Re: Play all songs by artist?

dvmarttel — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 05:34:42 GMT

This is so completely fckeud up that I cant' believe it. ONE friggin artist, every song. What's the problem SPOTIFY. F you if you can't make it easy for us! I'm not going to pay you $10 a month for siht for service request as basic as this.