No/too few notifications (followers, subscribers, new releases etc)

[tyni]

Hi,

I've been having trouble getting notifications when it comes to new releases from artists. From what I've read, this has something to do with a limit (?) of the number you can get each week. If this is true, it does sound odd and takes away a huge chunk of relevance for Spotify. I want to be able to receive the news, why else follow a certain artist?

Also, I don't get any notification what so ever in regards of new followers, subscribers or even when a new song is added to a playlist I follow. I have chosen to be updated via my phone as well as e-mail. 

What do I do? Everything is running on the latest update too.

Regards

[djmikeystrange]

Hi @tyni, this has always bugged me as well.  As such, I wrote an application using the Spotify SDK that will notify you when there are new releases and when playlists that you follow are updated.  I hope to release this app within the next week.  Stay tuned 🙂

[tyni]

Thanks @djmikeystrange! That sounds brilliant, mate.

[tyni]

I contacted Spotify and their short reply was simply that the coming update will fix this/these problem(s). I really hope so, although he told me that he didn't think there was any limit to updates from new releases. Time will tell, I guess.

[tyni]

OK, so nowadays I get no notifications whatsoever. Too bad the Companion App is only for Windows, as I will definitely use it as soon as it supports iOs.

Does anyone else have this problem? I might add that I follow a lot of artists (around 1500) but I was told this wouldn't have any effect.

[Nandikesha]

I'm having this issue too. I follow 4200 artists and I have received no email notifications and no in-app (desktop/android) notifications since April 4th, 2016. This makes the whole "follow" feature absolutely useless.