topic Re: Songs start not at beginning in Desktop (Windows)

Songs start not at beginning

derstein98 — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 09:01:04 GMT

Plan

Premium

Country

Germany

Device

Desktop Computer

Operating System

Windows 7

My Question or Issue

With the new playlists (with a new look, picture below "newdesign") songs do not start at 0:00.
When a song is over it jumps to second 15 or second 8 or in between.
Activating/deactivating crossfade song does not help.
Neither does a new installation.
Own created and older playlists work normally and the songs start at 0:00.

Re: Songs start not at beginning

Bittencourt — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 12:00:08 GMT

Hi @derstein98, welcome to the community!

Some Spotify playlists (mostly in electronic music section) are curated in a way that the following song beat matches the previous one, like in a DJ mixing. To guarantee a smooth transition, they don't start at 0:00.

Let me know if you have any other questions 🙂

Re: Songs start not at beginning

derstein98 — Thu, 21 Feb 2019 22:46:48 GMT

i will test this tomorrow

Re: Songs start not at beginning

Bittencourt — Fri, 22 Feb 2019 01:55:46 GMT

Ok @derstein98,

You can also check this one. The same thing happens here.

Re: Songs start not at beginning

Bittencourt — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 21:28:22 GMT

Hey @derstein98 ,

So did you test the playlists?

Let me know if you have any other questions 🙂

Re: Songs start not at beginning

wienercat — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 06:17:33 GMT

Is there anyway to turn this off? I feel like it should be an optional thing. I've had many songs where I'm into it and then suddenly changes to a wildly different beat.

I can't listen to pretty much any of the main house or electronic playlists now because of this. Like I understand what they are going for, but there needs to be an optional off switch for it. It didn't always used to be this way.

Re: Songs start not at beginning

Bittencourt — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 15:02:48 GMT

Hey @wienercat,

Currently there's no way to turn this off, but as a workaround you can select all songs/copy and paste into a new playlist. That way they would make a regular transition.

I know it's not ideal but Spotify is always testing new features. You can also suggest an idea for users to have the option of turning it off:

https://community.spotify.com/t5/Ideas/ct-p/newideas

If it gets enough votes it might be implemented.

Let me know if you have any other questions!

Re: Songs start not at beginning

derstein98 — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 07:42:32 GMT

Sorry for answering late.

with some songs a rhythmic transition is supposed to be created, unfortunately, but then sometimes half a song goes on for it!
Hope that Spotify will add this as an additional feature and you can turn it off!

Re: Songs start not at beginning

Bittencourt — Mon, 15 Apr 2019 12:36:27 GMT

That's true, @derstein98.

Sometimes the transitions get a little messed up. But I'm pretty sure they're working on it!

Re: Songs start not at beginning

derstein98 — Thu, 28 Nov 2019 09:43:25 GMT

Thanks Spotify vor Adding the Option to deactivate Automix!!!