Release Notes - Spotify for Android (0.7.9)

[Goodman]

What's new in version 0.7.9

• Fixed: Playback no longer halts for audio notifications.
• Fixed: Smoother switching between wifi and mobile data.
• Fixed: The lock screen is more trustworthy.
• Fictitious: This app is dating a rather attractive vending machine.

Notes

• Known issue: Connect can sometimes stop responding. Simply skip the current track to kick-start it.

[bbeckford]

STILL NO MENTION OF CHROMECAST SUPPORT

Do 3,281 kudos and 739 comments mean nothing?

http://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-Ideas/Add-support-for-Google-ChromeCast/idi-p/482900

[Andrews32]

So, I raised the issue of the bug with the "popular tracks" not going bold in the last update, and no one from Spotify confirmed this was happening. I still don't know if I'm the only one it was happening to. I haven't updated yet, but can you confirm whether this is still happening? And did you bring back search history? 

I've set an alarm February 12, 2015, to come back and check for an answer, hopefully you guys can address it by then. 

[karmamule]

It's been over a week snice I've read about the fantastic new UI for Spotify and having a 'collection' to add songs to.  Any idea when that'll actually be rolled out to android?  I'm excited every time I see Spotify has updated but it keeps being these minor fixes.

[Joe]

@Andrews32 Do you mean when they are playing? If so, seems to be OK now.

[Joe]

@karmamule From the scraps we've been fed by staff, we should all have the Black UI by the end of the month. The new Your Music on android seems to have rolled out to everyone who signed up for the Beta so, hopefully the general release isn't too far off.

[Andrews32]

That's what I meant, yes. I haven't updated the program yet, but that looks promising. Thanks!

[Joe]

No worries 🙂

[jonec429]

Per wrote:

What's new in version 0.7.9

• Fixed: Playback no longer halts for audio notifications

This is not completely true...this only works if the device is playing music through its own speaker. Once you plug it in to auxilary or earphones this feature disappears

[karmamule]

I just got my an update an hour or so after posting this and now see Your Music and the new features, so good timing!
😄

[ThaSnapDragon]

I love love love this new update, not the new UI yet but its okay. My main suggestion is The "Show only fflined content" feature. Its great but there should be a way to show both with an emphasis on the offlined content. Maybe as a sort/filter feature. Other than that so far the app is amazing! Keep up the good work!

[jinkay]

I updated spotify on adroid and now won't let me connect using facebook. Getting error "You appear to be trying to log in to spotify from another country." Thoughts?

[ThaSnapDragon]

Yes restart your phone that should refresh your data connections on both mobile and wifi if that doesn't work update your data profile if possible depending on your carrier but restarting your phone should help

[ronaldo781]

The pretty new Home screen is good/fine. But removing Discover from the burger menu is not!

Takes a needless extra tap and is no longer consistent with the desktop version.

[ThaSnapDragon]

Actually you're wrong the new home screen puts more at our fingertips. New releases, recently listened to, mood, top lists and discover. It's an extra tap bro don't cry over an extra tap drink your coffee you'll be alright. Much love from the Great Dragon

[Andrews32]

The popular tracks bolding was indeed fixed, I checked after updating. Which begs the question, why wasn't the search issue dealt with like this? It should have been just as simple to recognize the error and fix within one update. 

[mikeblessing]

The gapless playback is working half of the time. Please fix this.

[agzg]

Hey there - when will we be able to add complete albums to existing playlists like one can in the iOS or PC interfaces?

[Joe]

@agzg The latest release will allow albums to be saved to Your Music now so I'm not sure this would be a priority.

[earlhathaway]

0.7.9 ruined spotify -- now when using googlemaps + spotify over bluetooth in my car, it drops the volume on google maps to 50% -- so low that I can't hear it.  I presume it's the "Fixed: Playback no longer halts for audio notifications." feature; please fix this asap or give me a way to disable it.  I know you get this a lot, but I'll have to go to an alternate service if I can't use maps (with audio directions over bluetooth) and spotify at the same time; it ruins my ability to listen to music while driving *and* get maps directions.